'Lessons from the pandemic': Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social and Mine Kühn find that gender #inequality in #childcare is a risk factor for women’s #health, particularly during times of shifting patterns in employment and childcare arrangements. demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

📢Thrilled to share our latest pub w/Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social! Using German Family Panel data, we find that gender inequality in childcare risks women’s mental health. Policymakers must address the disprop. burden on mothers when childcare is unreliable #ChildcareCrisis #GenderEquality Tilburg University MPIDR

New paper on Sudan’s first nationally representative data since 2014: “Introducing the Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2022” by Dr. Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad & Ruby Cheung. Figure shows sampling frame; data over-sampled refugees and IDPs. demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

🆕Paper MPIDR: Diego Alburez Enrique Acosta Emilio Zagheni & Nathalie E. Williams studied the extent & duration of bereavement among those left behind in armed conflict and predict how long & intensely this grief is likely to last. University of Washington Sociology CED Barcelona demogr.mpg.de/go/conflictber…

Using data from a low fertility province in Iran, this paper introduces a multi-agent model aiding in computer simulations to evaluate long-term impacts of population policies and to forecast future outcomes based on pronatalist policies and programs. demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

In the 1st multidecade #climate mortality study of a non-South African sub-Saharan African city, the authors find an increasing risk of enteric #infectiousdisease mortality in Antananarivo, Madagascar following heavy rainfall events. Jordan Klein 📰 demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

Declines in smoking and increases in education were principal factors driving reductions in adult mortality in the US from 1997-2019. Rising levels of psychological distress increased mortality levels during later stages of the period. 📰👉demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

In this research note, Jose H C Monteiro da Silva and Helena C Castanheira show that the household deaths' inquiry of the ENDES survey in Peru is a valuable tool for estimating adult mortality even in the context of a health crisis. demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

Combining an explicit analytical structure with empirical examples allows improved understanding of the consequences of data errors for mortality estimates in a wide variety of settings. demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

“We provide the first comprehensive analysis of fertility at different reproductive stages in Uruguay. Using data from 1968-2021, finds education and income significantly impact fertility, especially among teenagers.” demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

The paper analyzes data errors and their interactions in a single, coherent framework in which all of the major data problems coexist and interact.

Introducing a global model for projecting migration until 2050, Kluge et al. factor in age, education, and gender, revealing that socioeconomic scenarios significantly impact migration flows. Explore the new future migration projections with us! demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

In this paper, Richard Petts & Daniel L. Carlson @[email protected] identify patterns of divisions of domestic labor during the pandemic. Divisions of labor were stable for most, but more couples shifted to nontraditional divisions of childcare vs. traditional. demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

Future of obesity in the US: Increase in prevalence may come to an end, but earlier onset and more years lived with obesity are likely to increase the population burden of this disease. 📰demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

A multi-channel sequence analysis using Health and Demographic Surveillance Site data from rural Malawi finds that many young people experience an early and rapid transition to adulthood, but a sizable proportion experience later marriage. 📄 demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

📣Call for Papers‼️ "Measuring Migration in Latin America: Leveraging digital traces, registers, censuses, and surveys" 🗺️ Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) 📅 February 25–26, 2025 Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024 demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… #poptwitter #migration

When schools closed during the pandemic in MENA, married women with children reported performing more care work than usual (see figure). However, exits from employment during the pandemic were not increased by women’s care responsibilities. demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

Analytical and graphical tools to facilitate the use of fuzzy-clustering algorithms to address research questions concerning the link between the unfolding of multiple trajectories in sequence analysis, for demographic research and beyond: demographic-research.org/articles/volum…

Seasonality of deaths in Poland by sex & age + replication of Danish study by Rau & Doblhammer (2003). Seasonality increased w/ #age, affected elderly men more than elderly women. Decade of birth had an impact on #mortalityrisk. demographic-research.org/articles/volum… Uniwersytet Szczeciński Ruralia-instituutti

Representing Makeham mortality models as mixtures within a competing risks framework shows a significant shift: the onset of age-related mortality is being postponed due to global health improvements. demographic-research.org/articles/volum…