Population Studies

1988 - 2024

Current editor(s): John Simons, Francesco Billari, James J. Brown, John Cleland, Andrew Foster, John McDonald, Tom Moultrie, Mikko Myrsklä, Alice Reid, Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Ronald Skeldon and Frans Willekens

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2024, volume 78, articles 3

Kinship and socio-economic status: Social gradients in frequencies of kin across the life course in Sweden pp. 371-392

Linus Andersson and Martin Kolk

The selectivity of internal movers: An analysis of the relationship between education, social origin, and geographical mobility in Europe pp. 393-411

Nazareno Panichella and Roberto Impicciatore

Flexible transition timing in discrete-time multistate life tables using Markov chains with rewards pp. 413-427

Daniel C. Schneider, Mikko Myrskylä and Alyson van Raalte

Estimating age-specific mortality using calibrated splines pp. 429-446

Sigurd Dyrting and Andrew Taylor

Experiences of victimization before resettlement and chronic disease among foreign-born people in the United States pp. 447-466

Solveig A. Cunningham, Marie Sugihara and Rebecca E. Jones-Antwi

Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780–1839 pp. 467-482

Eric B. Schneider, Sören Edvinsson and Kota Ogasawara

Infant and child mortality in the Netherlands 1935–47 and changes related to the Dutch famine of 1944–45: A population-based analysis pp. 483-501

Ingrid J. J. de Zwarte, Peter Ekamper and L. H. Lumey

Grandparental support and maternal depression: Do grandparents’ characteristics matter more for separating mothers? pp. 503-523

Niina Metsä-Simola, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Hanna Remes, Mine Kühn and Pekka Martikainen

Home-based work and childbearing pp. 525-545

Beata Osiewalska, Anna Matysiak and Anna Kurowska

No place for young women? The impact of internal migration on adult sex ratios in rural East Germany pp. 547-562

Nico Stawarz, Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Uta Brehm and Nikola Sander

2024, volume 78, articles 2

In memoriam pp. 179-179

The Editors

Has it always paid to be rich? Income and cause-specific mortality in southern Sweden 1905–2014 pp. 181-201

Enrico Debiasi, Martin Dribe and Gabriel Brea Martinez

Unequal before death: The effect of paternal education on children’s old-age mortality in the United States pp. 203-229

Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher

A growing divide: Trends in social inequalities in healthy longevity in Australia, 2001–20 pp. 231-250

Kim Qinzi Xu and Collin F. Payne

A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a rural population in Senegal pp. 251-268

Véronique Deslauriers, Simona Bignami and John Sandberg

Did the 1918 influenza pandemic cause a 1920 baby boom? Demographic evidence from neutral Europe pp. 269-287

Hampton Gaddy and Mathias Mølbak Ingholt

Fertility patterns and sex composition preferences in immigrant–native unions in Sweden pp. 289-304

Annika Elwert

How genuine are sub-replacement ideal family sizes in urban China? pp. 305-324

Shuang Chen and Stuart Gietel-Basten

The recent decline in period fertility in England and Wales: Differences associated with family background and intergenerational educational mobility pp. 325-339

John Ermisch

Partnership trajectories preceding medically assisted reproduction pp. 341-360

Alina Pelikh, Hanna Remes, Niina Metsä-Simola and Alice Goisis

Educational composition effect on the sex gap in life expectancy: A research note based on evidence from Australia pp. 361-369

Wen Su, Jennifer Welsh, Rosemary J. Korda and Vladimir Canudas-Romo

2024, volume 78, articles 1

Anne Shepherd: An appreciation pp. 1-1

The Editors

Social cartography and satellite-derived building coverage for post-census population estimates in difficult-to-access regions of Colombia pp. 3-20

Lina Maria Sanchez-Cespedes, Douglas Ryan Leasure, Natalia Tejedor-Garavito, Glenn Harry Amaya Cruz, Gustavo Adolfo Garcia Velez, Andryu Enrique Mendoza, Yenny Andrea Marín Salazar, Thomas Esch, Andrew J. Tatem and Mariana Ospina Bohórquez

Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy pp. 21-42

Guido Alfani, Marco Bonetti and Mattia Fochesato

Trends in chronic childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh for small domains pp. 43-61

Sumonkanti Das, Bernard Baffour and Alice Richardson

Who eats last? Intra-household gender inequality in food allocation among children in educationally backward areas of India pp. 63-77

Dipanwita Ghatak, Soham Sahoo, Sudipa Sarkar and Varun Sharma

Cameroon’s slow fertility transition: A gender perspective pp. 79-91

Jean Christophe Fotso, John G. Cleland and Elihou O. Adje

Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: ‘Reverse policies’ or data quality issues? pp. 93-111

Ewa Batyra and Luca Maria Pesando

The (temporary) Covid-19 baby bust in Mexico pp. 113-126

Adan Silverio-Murillo, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Jose Roberto Balmori de la Miyar and Judith Senyancen Méndez Méndez

Women’s fertility and allostatic load in the post-reproductive years: An analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey pp. 127-149

Tiziana Leone, Heini Väisänen and Firman Witoelar

Is there an association between family members’ season of birth that could influence birth seasonality? Evidence from Spain and France pp. 151-166

Adela Recio Alcaide, César Pérez López, Miguel Ángel Ortega, Luisa N. Borrell and Francisco Bolúmar

Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998–2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education pp. 167-177

Shubhankar Sharma, Jo Mhairi Hale, Mikko Myrskylä and Hill Kulu

2023, volume 77, articles 3

Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and descendants in the United Kingdom: A multilevel multistate event history approach pp. 359-378

Júlia Mikolai and Hill Kulu

Childbearing across partnerships in Italy: Prevalence, demographic correlates, and social gradient pp. 379-398

Elena Pirani and Daniele Vignoli

Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status pp. 399-416

Alessandro Di Nallo, Katya Ivanova and Nicoletta Balbo

Socio-economic status and the rise of divorce in Sweden: The case of the 1880–1954 marriage cohorts in Västerbotten pp. 417-435

Glenn Sandström and Maria Stanfors

Climate and fertility amid a public health crisis pp. 437-458

Letícia J. Marteleto, Alexandre Gori Maia and Cristina Guimarães Rodrigues

Preterm birth and educational disadvantage: Heterogeneous effects pp. 459-474

Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Kieron Barclay, Joan Costa-Font, Mikko Myrskylä and Berkay Özcan

Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe pp. 475-496

Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, José Manuel Aburto, Iñaki Permanyer, Virginia Zarulli and Fanny Janssen

The impact of Covid-19 on demographic components in Spain, 2020–31: A scenario approach pp. 497-513

Miguel González-Leonardo and Jeroen Spijker

Linking internal and international migration over the life course: A sequence analysis of individual migration trajectories in Europe pp. 515-537

Aude Bernard and Sergi Vidal

Age-specific sex ratios: Examining rural–urban variation within low- and middle-income countries pp. 539-558

Ashira Menashe-Oren and Guy Stecklov

2023, volume 77, articles 2

Correction pp. i-i

The Editors

The contribution of survival to changes in the net reproduction rate pp. 163-178

Tianyu Shen, Ester Lazzari and Vladimir Canudas-Romo

Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: The case of Brazil pp. 179-195

Ewa Batyra, Tiziana Leone and Mikko Myrskylä

The relationship between life-course accumulated income and childbearing of Swedish men and women born 1940–70 pp. 197-215

Martin Kolk

Polarized adult fertility patterns following early parental death pp. 217-239

Éva Beaujouan and Anne Solaz

Body mass index in early adulthood and transition to first birth: Racial/ethnic and sex differences in the United States NLSY79 Cohort pp. 241-261

D. Susie Lee, Natalie Nitsche and Kieron Barclay

Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK? pp. 263-289

Lydia Palumbo, Ann Berrington, Peter Eibich and Agnese Vitali

Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood pp. 291-309

Maurice Anyawie and Daniel T. Lichter

Parental age gaps among immigrants and their descendants: Adaptation across time and generations? pp. 311-333

Caroline Uggla and Ben Wilson

Number of children and disability pension due to mental and musculoskeletal disorders: A longitudinal register-based study in Norway pp. 335-346

Solveig Glestad Christiansen and Øystein Kravdal

Demographic risk factors, healthcare utilization, and mortality during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Austria, Germany, and Italy pp. 347-358

Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Daniela Ghio and Nikolaos I. Stilianakis

2023, volume 77, articles 1

Thanks to the 2021 and 2022 reviewers pp. iii-iv

The Editors

Cross-sectional average length of life by parity: Country comparisons pp. 1-14

Ryohei Mogi, Ester Lazzari, Jessica Nisén and Vladimir Canudas-Romo

A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification pp. 15-33

Jiaxin Shi, José Manuel Aburto, Pekka Martikainen, Lasse Tarkiainen and Alyson van Raalte

Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association pp. 35-53

Ryan K. Masters

Interaction between childbearing and partnership trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in France: An application of multichannel sequence analysis pp. 55-70

Isaure Delaporte and Hill Kulu

Health outcomes of only children across the life course: An investigation using Swedish register data pp. 71-90

Katherine Keenan, Kieron Barclay and Alice Goisis

Mental health benefits of cohabitation and marriage: A longitudinal analysis of Norwegian register data pp. 91-110

Øystein Kravdal, Jonathan Wörn and Bjørn-Atle Reme

Cultural differences, intergenerational contacts, and the spread of Covid-19: Evidence from Swiss language regions pp. 111-121

Fabrizio Mazzonna and Nicolò Gatti

Sooner, later, or never: Changing fertility intentions due to Covid-19 in China’s Covid-19 epicentre pp. 123-140

Min Zhou and Wei Guo

Is the mortality–fertility nexus gendered? A research note on sex differences in the impact of sibling mortality on fertility preferences pp. 141-151

Emily Smith-Greenaway and Yingyi Lin

Fertility and contraception: The experience of Spanish women born in the first half of the twentieth century pp. 153-162

Miguel Requena, David Reher and Alberto Sanz-Gimeno