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{"title":"Managing ever-rising ages at childbearing in low fertility Asia","authors":"Poh Lin Tan","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2233781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2233781","url":null,"abstract":"Alarm bells are sounding across East Asia as the long-expected post-pandemic baby bust has become more apparent from national statistics under the shadow of a slowing world economy. Part of the challenge for low-fertility Asia is high and rising ages at childbearing, coupled with relatively small tempo effects that fail to make up for declining birth rates among younger women at older ages. In response, governments in China, Japan, Korea and Singapore have all recently pledged to step up support for parents-to-be, ranging from increased monthly allowances to enhanced paternity leave and more flexible working arrangements. Yet growing evidence of underlying causes, including economic-related pressures and gendered divisions of household labour (Lee et al., 2021; McDonald, 2000), leaves a sense that these issues are simply so wide in scoop and deeply rooted in social and economic institutions that any upticks in fertility will not come at the pace and scale required to avoid demographic crisis. Beyond the implications for workforce numbers, labour productivity and social dynamics, rising ages at childbearing also result in serious negative biomedical consequences. Singapore provides a useful example. In 2021, the city state reached a littlenoticed milestone: for the first time, birth rates among women aged 35–39 exceeded those of women aged 25–29; just two decades ago in 2001, the proportions were around one to 2.5. This statistical crossover is not only striking because of the compressed timespan but also because of the specific age thresholds, since births above age 35 are widely categorised as high-risk in clinical settings, due to negative associations with maternal and child outcomes, including pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, low birth weight, chromosomal disorders, miscarriage and stillbirth, and hence elevated risks of involuntary childlessness and secondary infertility. Hence, delayed childbearing is a public health problem, in addition to being a demographic challenge. In light of the twin policy imperatives and the seemingly intractable and urgent nature of extremely low fertility rates, assisted reproductive technologies (ART) will likely play an increasingly important role. In vitro fertilisation, together with social egg freezing and embryo transfer, addresses both sides of the issue: it offers the opportunity of boosting reproductive longevity, which helps to reduce the costs of the tension between family formation and career success for women, and simultaneously, mitigates some of the biomedical risks, including chromosomal disorders. Although conceptions from medically assisted technological procedures still account for well under ten percent of births in developed countries, the numbers are projected to go up over successive cohorts. In","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"229 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44651115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deterioration in youth employment, social contexts, and marriage decline in Japan and South Korea","authors":"Shigeki Matsuda, Takayuki Sasaki, Jaeyoul Shin, Jihey Bae","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2211402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2211402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48336372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 on mortality in Asia","authors":"Gavin W. Jones","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2193476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2193476","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The SARS-CoV-2 virus (termed COVID-19) has raised the mortality trends and diminished life expectancy globally. The impact of COVID-19 on mortality. however, differs across population groups, times, and locations. The current study examines some aspects of COVID-19’s impact on mortality in Asia using published estimates of excess mortality. The estimates of excess mortality all showed higher death rates than officially reported for Asian countries. Excess mortality in India and Indonesia was about 7 and 10 times higher than the reported mortality rates. In both these countries, COVID-19 was probably the leading cause of death. COVID-19 deaths were higher among men and older people. People with multiple comorbidities had a significantly higher risk of infection severity and fatality from COVID-19. There were significant inequalities in mortality rates across different socioeconomic groups, with poor households and low-paid workers disproportionately affected by COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"131 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48738780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Moving in the time of COVID-19: how did the pandemic situations affect the migration decisions of Hong Kong people?","authors":"Muzhi Zhou, Wei Wang, See Pok Loa, M. Kan","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2193481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2193481","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Following mass social protests in 2019 and the enactment of a national security law in 2020 in Hong Kong, a significant proportion of Hong Kong people considered migrating to another country. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic had spread rapidly around the world. This study examines investigate whether the migration intention and the planned timing of migration of Hong Kong people have changed with the COVID-19 pandemic situations both locally and abroad. We also examine if the impact of the pandemic might have varied with people’s age, gender, education, and parental status. Data are from a random-sampled survey (N = 2,492) conducted in 2021–2022. We find that a more severe COVID-19 situation in Hong Kong is positively associated with one’s migration intention. The migration intention of younger and more educated people is more strongly associated with the COVID-19 situation in Hong Kong. However, the COVID-19 situation in the UK is not significantly associated with one’s migration intention. Among people who intend to emigrate, a more severe local COVID-19 situation is positively associated with uncertainty about the timing of migration. We conclude by highlighting the significance of global pandemics in shaping migration decisions.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"204 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48903595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Care arrangements of older persons in rural Indonesia: a study of six villages","authors":"M. Absor, P. McDonald, Ariane J. Utomo, B. Houle","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2193520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2193520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46228622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating demographic outcomes in the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives from Asia","authors":"P. Dommaraju, Stephanie C. Heng Shu Hui, B. Yeoh","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2194073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2194073","url":null,"abstract":"Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will continue to have a profound influence on human society for many years to come. By now, it has resulted in an unmistakable impact on core demographic processes—mortality, fertility, migration, family and marriage, and health—all around the world. Its impact on the core components of demographic change undergirds many other changes that have transformed society, be it in the arena of healthcare, geopolitics, macro-economies, or the environment. As Dommaraju (2020) observes, demographic analysis is useful in understanding the social aspects of population dynamics. This includes significant themes such as inequality, inequity, as well as differentials in demographic outcomes. Employing a social demographic lens towards analysing the pandemic can and has resulted in unique insights relating its effect on population dynamics. Preliminary studies have already produced interesting findings—Soneji et al. (2021) and Vanella et al. (2021) evaluate populationlevel mortality burden and excess mortality in light of the pandemic; Giorgi and Boertien (2021) and Bernardi et al. (2021) investigate the impact of pandemic confinement measures on socio-demographic inequality; and Furfaro et al. (2021) and Luppi et al. (2021) dive into the mobility strategies of individuals in light of containment measures. Desai (2021) highlights the challenges of demographic data collection during the pandemic, and Dommaraju (2020) notes that the pandemic has severely limited the collection of quantitative data, and calls for the increased need to focus attention on digital data and other innovative data collection methods and analyses. While research on demographic processes in the time of COVID-19 is gaining momentum, work on the Asian context is still by far more limited compared to the west. Emerging work published in this journal including questions around the impact of the pandemic on repatriation of migrant workers (Liao, 2020), mental health (Liu & Yin, 2023) and the migration regime (Yeoh, 2022) have only begun to make a contribution to understanding a wide spectrum of demographic issues in the long tail of the pandemic. In this light, this special section brings together population scholars working in and on Asia to discuss the following key questions:","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"125 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47154326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationship between children’s educational attainment and parental depression among Indian elderly parents","authors":"Akif Mustafa, Suresh Jungari, C. Shekhar","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2193515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2193515","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48635056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the age-sex pattern of COVID-19 deaths in India","authors":"S. Kc, Moradhvaj Dhakad","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2193077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2193077","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The SARS-CoV-2 virus (termed COVID-19) raised the mortality trends and diminished life expectancy globally. This study analyzes the age-sex patterns of COVID-19 deaths in India during 2020–2021 and how the age-sex patterns have changed between 2020 and 2021. We calculated the losses in the male-female life expectancy at birth (LEB) induced due to the pandemic by projecting pre-pandemic mortality trends into 2020 and 2021. The finding suggested that mortality rates have increased substantially due to COVID-19 in India, implying almost four years of losses of LEB in 2021. The age pattern of mortality differs by the years of the pandemic. In 2020, the disease disproportionately killed older people. In 2021, with the outbreak of COVID-19 delta variant infection, mortality also rose among younger adults. Moreover, in 2020, COVID-19 deaths were higher among males, whereas in 2021, mortality increased for both sexes. In conclusion, COVID-19 triggered a significant increase in mortality in India between 2020 and 2021, dragging the country to a lower LEB level in 2010–2011. The future impact of the pandemic is yet to be seen. Also, distinct age and sex differential COVID-19 health and socioeconomic impacts compel future researchers to include demographic heterogeneity in their study.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"148 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42897717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From protests into pandemic: demographic change in Hong Kong, 2019–2021","authors":"Stuart A. Gietel-Basten, Shuang Chen","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2193082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2193082","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Compared to other settings, COVID-19 infection and death rates in Hong Kong were very low until 2022, due to top-down interventions (e.g. quarantines, ‘mask mandates’) and community activation. However, in addition to these epidemiological circumstances, Hong Kong has also undergone significant social and political change stemming from the social movement beginning in 2019 through the enacting, and aftermath, of the National Security Law. We draw on registered birth and marriage data from 2015 through 2021 to explore how fertility and nuptiality changed after the social movement followed by the first four waves of the COVID pandemic. We describe how fertility and marriage rates have changed in Hong Kong and to what extent the changes are associated with the social movement and the COVID pandemic. We further disaggregate the fertility and nuptiality trends by Hong Kong-born and non-Hong Kong-born population, with a specific focus on migrants from the Mainland.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"184 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44981254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Going against global marriage trends: the declining age at first marriage in Indonesia","authors":"P. Dommaraju, Jooean Tan","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2023.2193488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2023.2193488","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47207761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}