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In “Fertility Outcomes of Adult Children With Divorced Parents,” S. Palmaccio, @denimazrekaj.bsky.social & @kristofdewitte.bsky.social find that inds. from divorced families have kids earlier but have lower completed fertility. @ox.ac.uk @ununiversity.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Cumulative Exposure to Exclusionary Zoning in Impoverished Neighborhoods”: Matt Mleczko uses NZLUD data & land use/zoning data to assess, via MSMs, the impact of exclusionary zoning, finding that it is associated with ↑ material hardship for renting households. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “Social Context of Spatial Choice: Activity Locations & Residential Segregation,” @ashitakarl.bsky.social et al. use transportation surveys, admin data & big data to examine “the role of segregation clusters as an important social context in mobility patterns.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“More Education & Fewer Children?”: Beck @juliahellstrand.bsky.social & Myrskyla assess how educ. enrollment/attainment contributed to fertility in Norway, finding that fertility decline is mainly linked to behavioral change. @pophel.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “Cohort Prevalence Estimates Are Sensitive to Prebaseline Mortality,” Molly Rosenberg et al. show that “prebaseline mortality patterns can meaningfully impact health outcome measures in cohort studies” & so represent a potential source of bias. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
@jeinhoff.bsky.social estimates working life expectancy & working years lost to retirement, unemployment & inactivity for cohorts aged 55-64 & 65-74 across 21 European countries, finding that WLE has risen & WYL has fallen in most nations. @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Andres Villarreal & Christopher Tamborini, in “Earnings Assimilation of Unauthorized Immigrants,” present a new method that links CPS/ASEC data & Social Security records to compare the earnings trajectories of unauthorized and authorized Hispanic immigrants. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “Limits of Predicting Individual-Level Longevity,” Badolato et al. assess a range of classic statistical & machine learning survival analysis models. @nickirons.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Cumulative Risk of Criminalization”: Using 25 yrs of criminal records, @lbing.bsky.social looks at risk to age 24 across 1971-1995 cohorts, finding subfelony criminalization to be far more prevalent than felony involvement, esp. for women. @ualberta.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “Late-Life Family & Living Arrangements,” Wang, Zhang & @dremmazang.bsky.social employ a Bayesian multistate life table approach to examine racial/ethnic diffs in marital status & living arrangements in later life. @yalejackson.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Chin & Miller, in “Health, Wealth & Racial Welfare Gaps Among Older Americans,” find that much of the gap is determined by age 60 initial conditions & suggest that policies to close “gaps in late life may be more efficient if targeted earlier in the life cycle." read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “Antibiotic Pollution & Infant Mortality in India,” Christelle Dumas et al. report a 16% increase in mean infant mortality within the 1st year among infants born in a rural area with a river—or about 17,000 additional deaths per year. @unifr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “The Demographic Potential of Polygyny,” Pesando evaluates “the suitability of a simple indicator—gamma—to measure the demographic potential of polygyny in the context of sub-Saharan Africa” & considers related applications & directions in demographic research. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Mothers & Maternal Grandmothers Kept Children Alive During Slavery”: Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge et al find that mothers’ presence was most imp. determinant of survival, esp. before 18 months--bringing needed research attention to the demography of enslaved populations. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “A Profile of Great-Grandparenthood in the U.S.,” R. Margolis & A. Verdery find that rates of great-grandparenthood for older cohorts are stable bc of ↑ life expectancy & postponed fertility, but rates for younger cohorts are lower. @westernu.ca @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Texas’s Operation Lone Star Migrant Busing Program Increased Hispanic Homelessness in Destination Cities”: The title tells the tale— @wjscarborough.bsky.social @amandalewisphd.bsky.social et al. demonstrate a 36% rise in Hispanic homelessness. @irrpp.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Loneliness as a Driver of International Migration”: T. van den Broek assesses “the lonely migrant effect,” finding that “lonely individuals were ~1.27 times as likely to emigrate” as nonlonely peers, suggesting loneliness may be assoc. w/ the decision to migrate. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In the Dec issue: commentaries, 3 notes, 15 articles & an acknowledgment of reviewers. Includes research on deportation & Latino segregation, dementia burden in China, racial disparities in obesity, union formation & religious boundaries, LARCs & FP goals & more. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...
The editors & staff of Demography thank the 100s of individuals who served as reviewers over the past year. Assessing ~650 submissions annually is a monumental task that is possible only with your dedicated and expert assistance. @popassocamerica.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Divorce Effects on Teenagers’ Higher Education”: Yen-Chien Chen et al. study whether divorce affects Taiwanese teens’ university admission, w/ younger individuals having worse outcomes; they determined that income disadvantage is unlikely to play a role. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In their study of LARC use & “Right Time Births,” @miekeeeckhaut.bsky.social et al. found 68-69% of both privately insured & Medicaid-insured women reported a birth following LARC discontinuation as “at the right time.” @udelaware.bsky.social @umd-mprc.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “The Influence of Developmental Idealism on Fertility,” @keeraallendorf.bsky.social, A Thornton, L Young-DeMarco & @colterm.bsky.social examine whether Nepali women's endorsement of DI beliefs influences their fertility (by # of children). @umisr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Deportations & Latino Segregation”: @fertmortmig.bsky.social @jakerugh.bsky.social & Hao Liang examine how 287(g) enforcement slowed drops in local segregation by 1/3rd, esp. in New South states, entrenching “patterns of residential stratification & inequality.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “Worker-Driven Social Responsibility & Infant Health,” Joaquin Rubalcaba & Alberto Ortega find that county-level participation in the Fair Food Program “helped reduce low-weight births among foreign-born mothers from Latin America” by 9%. @iuoneill.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies?”: @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & @frankvantubergen.bsky.social use NL register data & find “Muslim groups maintain boundaries for union formation to other national origin groups." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @rug.nl read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Severe Tornadoes & Infant Birth Weight”: In considering “environmental hazards as drivers of inequality & stratification,” @nickdemark.bsky.social et al. show how severe tornadoes led to ↓ in birth weight for the infants of Black mothers, esp. early in pregnancy. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Now published #openaccess: my sole-authored article
@readdemography.bsky.social investigates how circular parental labor migration affects children who experience frequently changing family living arrangements.
“Does Changing Late-Life Activity Impact Older Adults’ Help to Their Adult Children?”: Siren & Amilon used Danish Longitudinal Study of Ageing data & found that a shift to more active aging & extended working “does not weaken social connectedness btw generations.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
In “Why Do Black Women Have a Higher Obesity Prevalence Than White Women?” Frisco et al. find that living in disadvantaged n'hoods & single-parent HHs as adolescents & having ↓ adult incomes explain much of the difference. @ssripennstate.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Duration & Timing of Parental Out-migration & Early Childhood Development”: Using CFPS data, @sukieyang.bsky.social accounts for longitudinal exposure to parents’ migration & the dynamic selection process to examine the effects on c'hood development. @upenn.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...