“Net Migration by Age: The Flow-Difference Approach”: @hanasbc, Raymer & @AdrianRaftery1 demonstrate how “historical information on age-specific net migration” can be used to improve age disaggregation for population estimation & forecasting. @UW read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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In “The Early Origins of Biological Aging,” Beza Taddess demonstrates that maternal SES “becomes biologically embedded in children through epigenetic aging processes," as seen in children's early menarche & height growth by ages 9 and 15. @Princeton read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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“Short-Term Fertility Impact of Abortion Restrictions”: Anna Matysiak & @LvanderVelde4 show a 6% decline in births 37 weeks after the Poland court ruling, suggesting that "coercive or rights-restricting approaches to increasing fertility" may backfire. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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In “Childlessness by Age, Race & Ethnicity and Education in the US,” @Bensam_Schluter, Leslie Root & @monjalexander find substantial changes in childbearing trajectories in recent cohorts, benchmarking these shifts at the key ages of 30 & 45. @MPIDRnews read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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“Social Relationships & Mortality”: Using 19 waves of HILDA, R. Freak-Poli, @StephenPJenkin1 et al. assess the risks assoc. w/ social r’ships, finding a strong link btw chronic loneliness & mortality (HR=1.413), greater among males. @LSEnews @CHE_Monash read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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“Marriage & Premarital Cohabitation Timing for LGB Adults”: Noblitt, Taylor, @wmannin & Kamp-Dush consider same-sex vs. different-sex partners, finding bisexual women w/ a same-sex spouse to marry older than hetero women. @cfdr_bgsu @NCFMRBGSU @minnpop read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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“Relational Structure of Families Through Large-Scale Network Data”: @nicoslr T. Emery & A. Kanas describe how “family networks become larger & more dissimilar in size" as one considers ↑ distant kin, & also less interconnection w/in networks. @erasmusuni read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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In “Is There a Democratization of Joint Physical Custody?” Anne Solaz et al. show that low-education or low-income parents tend not to use JPC; in nations where JPC is more prevalent, high-education parents are more likely to use JPC. @InedFr @INEDEng read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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"Parental Separation & the Quality of Ties to Extended Kin”: @KSytkina & Thomas Leopold show that “children of separated parents have weaker kinship networks than those of nonseparated parents,” especially with extended kin and on the paternal side. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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#Vermögensungleichheit in deutschen Familienhaushalten ist heute ähnlich hoch wie 1988, so Studie in @ReadDemography. Dahinter verbergen sich gegenläufige Trends. Forschende sehen politische Implikationen in Vermögensunterschieden zwischen Familienformen. sciencemediacenter.de/angebote/vermo…
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In “Transforming Manhood,” Andrew Francis-Tan (of NUS) shows how “men’s exposure to women in the workplace is inversely associated with their level of testosterone.” He offers causal & noncausal explanations & sheds light on population-level declines. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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“Wealth Inequality Among Families in a Changing Demographic Landscape”: L. Klein @Smaexie & P. Lersch find that overall net wealth inequality was stable for 1988-2017 but inequality varied by hhold type; demog. change plays an important role. @HumboldtUni read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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In “U.S. State Policy Contexts,” I. Gutin @jennkarasmontez @smonnat et al. find that policy & economic contexts are usually synergistic, w/ conservative states having ↑ mortality regardless of economics & labor force participation. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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The new issue of Demography includes commentaries & pieces on immigrant lifespans, LGB parenthood aspirations, flood risk & immobility, the safety net around childbirth, parental time & kids’ development, sex ratio & elderly employment in China … & more. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/iss…
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In “Childcare in Transition,” @anushehassan, @RebeccaSear et al. show children were less likely to get “low- and high-intensity care from their fathers & paternal kin” in the town vs. the village; maternal kin gave similar care in either locality. @LSHTM read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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“Youth Subjective Life Expectancy & Early Labor Market Choices”: @finamor_lucas investigates SLE among young workers, finding that it correlates well w/ future pension contributions and formal work engagement. @EconFGVSP @TheIFS read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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In “Does Context Matter for Parenthood Aspirations and Realized Fertility of LGB Individuals?” Gioia Geremia uses HILDA data to assess whether aspirations have changed across cohorts and if there are differences by sexual identity & gender. @CEDemografia read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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“Is All Parental Time Equally Effective?” Using LSAC data, @HLeForner shows that “mothers’ monitoring behavior has a more beneficial effect on children's socioemotional skills” & fathers’ monitoring has more impact on verbal skills. @RennesUniv @CNRS read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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In “Flood Risk & Uneven Patterns of Immobility,” @katherineathom uses PSID & flood data to assess n'hood risk & prob. of moving: h'holds in risk areas are ↓ likely to move than those w/o risk, esp renters & Black and low-income homeowners. @NYUSociology read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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“The Glass Is Half Full”: Heflin, Morrissey & Kim, assuming full uptake of safety net benefits, find “inadequate support to low-income families at childbirth” & recommend more research on the long-term health of mothers & newborns. @SyracuseU @AmericanU read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…
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