Implementing Transparency Standards: The ECHILD Project in Action
International Journal of Population Data ScienceBackground The Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) research database joins health, education and social care information for approximately 20 million children in England, to understand the interrelationships between health and ...
Katie Harron +2 more
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Impact of family policies and economic situation on low fertility in Tehran, Iran: A multi-agent-based modeling [PDF]
Demographic ResearchOBJECTIVE: This paper investigates and predicts the impact of family policies and the economic situation on women’s reproductive behavior in Tehran Province, Iran.
Nasibeh Esmaeili +1 more
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Lessons from the pandemic: Gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: The gender gap in mental health that emerged in Germany during the pandemic grew disproportionally among partnered parents. The question arises as to why mothers – compared to fathers – experienced greater declines in mental health when ...
Nicole Hiekel, Mine Kühn
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Developing and implementing the UN's probabilistic population projections as a milestone for Bayesian demography: An interview with Adrian Raftery [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: Population projections for all countries are published by the United Nations Population Division (UNPD) every two years as part of the World Population Prospects (WPP).
Monica Alexander, Adrian E. Raftery
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Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: Data from social media have emerged as an auxiliary source for real-time information on migrant populations. Facebook users’ tagged ‘expat’ data – an ‘expat’ being someone who lived in country x but now lives in country y – has been used to ...
Tania Varona +3 more
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The effect of migration and time spent abroad on migrants’ health: A home/host country perspective [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: It is widely recognized that migrants are generally healthy upon arrival, but for several reasons, a longer length of stay abroad can have detrimental effects on health.
Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso +2 more
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The intergenerational transmission of migration capital: The role of family migration history and lived migration experiences [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: Growing empirical evidence shows that the decision to migrate is influenced by parents’ international migration experiences, with the second generation being more likely to migrate than individuals with no migration background.
Aude Bernard, Francisco Perales
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Mortality modelling with arrival of additional year of mortality data: Calibration and forecasting [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: For commonly used mortality models, the existing estimates change with the recalibration of new data. This issue is also known as the lack of the new-data-invariant property.
Kenny Kam Kuen Mok +3 more
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The influence of parental cancer on the mental health of children and young adults: Evidence from Norwegian register data on healthcare consultations [PDF]
Demographic ResearchOBJECTIVE: The aim was to examine how parental cancer affects the mental health of offspring aged 6–30, and age variations in this effect. METHODS: Individual fixed-effects models were estimated from register data covering the entire Norwegian population
Øystein Kravdal +3 more
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The importance of education for understanding variability of dementia onset in the United States [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: Greater levels of education are associated with lower risk of dementia, but less is known about how education is also associated with the compression of dementia incidence.
Hyungmin Cha +3 more
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