Demography Journal

“The Role of Infertility & Medically Assisted Reproduction on the Realization of Ideal Family Size”: @LazzariEster, Shohei Yoda, @FukudaSetsuya & @JimRaymo find that for MAR-conceived births, the gap btw ideal & achieved was reduced by roughly one third. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

Trending in #Demography: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Wildfires & Birth (@ReadDemography) 2) Multiculturalism & Middle-Class (@IMRjournal) 3) Great Recession & US Fertility 4) Educational Gradient in Nontraditional Family Attitudes 5) Transit migration entrepreneurship

This issue of Demography includes notes on 1st births & women’s employment and the role of chronic disease in disability/mortality gaps, plus articles on the Great Recession and fertility, wildfires & birth outcomes, heat waves & urban mortality, & more. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/iss…

Check out the research brief based on research published in @ReadDemography and featured in the @nytimes on usmigrationmetrics.org to read more about the impacts that ending birthright citizenship would have.

Extreme Weather & Mortality”: @FrankHeiland, Selen Ozdogan, D. Balk, J. Brite & P. Marcotullio examine high temperatures & unclaimed deaths, showing an association with ↑ risk of interment unclaimed on Hart Island, NYC. @BaruchMarxe @GC_CUNY @CIDR_NYC read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

“Decomposing Differences in Cohort Health Expectancy by Cause & Age”: Tao Sun, Huiping Zheng & Xiaojun Wang offer new methods for decomposing cohort HE to “promote a better understanding of how age patterns & disease burdens contribute" w/in & across pops. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

“Effect of First Births on Women’s Employment”: Using CVFS data, @sarahotto417 & @lymanstoneky show how becoming a mother was assoc. with a “40% decline in employment in the short term & an 8-10% decline in the long" (↑ wage labor & self-employ). @mcgillu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

In “Wildfires & Birth Outcomes,” @ConteRisto & @MariaRubioCab assess how exposure to wildfire & PM2.5 during pregnancy is associated with lower birth weight & increased risk of low birth weight & preterm birth outcomes, with differences by trimester. @MPIDRnews @CEDemografia

“Childcare Services & Ukrainian Refugee Mothers in Germany”: L Gambaro, @MathiasHuebener et al explore whether refugee mothers benefit from universal childcare, finding that it leads to ↑ employment & ↑ German language skills & social contact. @bib_bund read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

“Effect of the Great Recession on U.S. Fertility”: Using a cohort discontinuity design, Wu, @NicholasDEMark & Hill show “credibly causal evidence” that the GR altered fertility behavior, esp for the youngest cohorts (relative drops of 7-30%). @NYUSociology read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

“Parental Separation & Children’s Peer Relations”: Using data from pairfam, Pollmann-Schult shows that children experienced a temporary rise in peer rejection following parental separation, largely related to increased socioemotional problems. @UniSiegen read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

In “Dynamic Contributions of Chronic Diseases,” Hui Zheng found half of the ↑ gap in activity limitations assoc. w/ ↑ disability probabilities “linked to mental illness, lung diseases & musculoskeletal conditions” among those w/o a college degree. @UofT read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

“Mobility Framing Effects”: N Murken, K Schewel & @JasperTjaden show that elicitation of migration aspirations can have a dramatic effect, finding a 12-ppt drop in migration intention when asked instead abt the intention to stay. @RWI_Leibniz @unipotsdam read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

In “Gender Differences in Health Reporting,” @AnnaOksuzyan @MineKuehn @y_vierboom et al. report little evidence of gender differences, finding that folks tend to evaluate health more optimistically as they age. @unibielefeld @MPIDRnews @westat @TilburgU read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

In “Cohort Fertility & Couple Educational Pairing,” L. Andersson @MarikaJalovaara et al. show for the 1st time that the majority of births occur in homogamous or hypogamous unions & in those w/ a tertiary-educated partner. @SOFI_su_se read.dukeupress.edu/demography/art…

This issue offers 12 articles & 4 notes, covering varieties of capitalism & fertility, income growth over generations, net worth poverty in childhood, contemporary patterns of multiracial marriage & the persistent relevance of marriage for childbearing. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/iss…

Booth 303 called—it wants you to visit and learn more about Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) at #PAA2026 populationassociation.org/paa2026/sponso…

See you in the Ferrara Theater tonight at 4:30pm for the #PAA2026 Annual Awards Ceremony + Irma Elo's Presidential Address: "Stalled Progress and Enduring Inequalities: US Mortality in the 21st Century" buff.ly/5bw90j4

Big news: Demography met its 2026 funding goal! 🎉 Thanks to institutional subscriptions, all articles published in @ReadDemography this year will be Open Access—free for everyone. buff.ly/VkahO1e #OpenAccess #Demography

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