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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
In "Gender Differences in Health Reporting,” @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social @minekuhn.bsky.social et al. report little evidence of gender diffs, finding that folks tend to evaluate health more optimistically as they age. @mpidr.bsky.social @sociologytiu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Big news: Demography met its 2026 funding goal! 🎉 Thanks to institutional subscriptions, all articles published this year will be Open Access—free for everyone. buff.ly/VkahO1e @readdemography.bsky.social
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In “Accounting for Population Age Distribution in Forecasting Migration,” Nathan Welch, Hana Ĺ evÄŤĂková & @adrianraftery.bsky.social propose a new approach “that incorporates population age structure changes into net migration forecasts." @uwcsde.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Cohort Fertility & Couple Educational Pairing”: @linusandersson.bsky.social @marikajalovaara.bsky.social et al. show for the 1st time that the majority of births occur in homogamous or hypogamous unions & those w/ a tertiary-educated partner. @sofi.su.se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Mobility Framing Effects”: @nmurken.bsky.social @jaspertjaden.bsky.social & Schewel show that elicitation of migration aspirations has a dramatic effect, finding a 12-ppt drop in intention when asked abt intention to stay. @rwi.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
This issue offers 12 articles & 4 notes, covering the varieties of capitalism & fertility, income growth over the generations, net worth poverty in childhood, contemporary patterns of multiracial marriage & the persistent relevance of marriage for childbearing. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...
“Ryder’s Lost Legacy? Cohort Analysis in Social Research”: In exploring Norman Ryder’s influential work (including unpublished papers), Ethan Fosse finds that his approach “is unabashedly cohort-centric, diachronic & straightforwardly descriptive.” @utoronto.ca read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Estimates of Under-Five Mortality From a Mobile Phone Survey”: This study by Julio Romero-Prieto et al. represents “one of the first attempts to collect survival data via mobile phones and to randomize different survey instruments.” @lshtm.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Varieties of Capitalism & Cross-national Variation in Fertility Rates”: M Movahed & E Parrado examine “differences in the institutional characteristics of national economies” & variation in TFR in the Global North. @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @pennpsc.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
Population Association of America
Demography - the flagship journal of PAA
In “Net Worth Poverty in Childhood,” Gibson-Davis, @lisagennetian.bsky.social et al. use @umpsid.bsky.social data to examine the “role of wealth deprivation across a child’s life course” & assoc. w/ HS graduation & college attendance. @duke-university.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
