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Adolescent Migration Goals: An Application of the Aspirations-capabilities Framework. 青少年移民目标：愿望-能力框架的应用。

IF 1.5 3区社会学

Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-026-09993-3

Melissa Alcaraz, Erick Axxe, Jennifer E Glick

{"title":"Adolescent Migration Goals: An Application of the Aspirations-capabilities Framework.","authors":"Melissa Alcaraz, Erick Axxe, Jennifer E Glick","doi":"10.1007/s11113-026-09993-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11113-026-09993-3","url":null,"abstract":"Migration often requires significant monetary and physiological resources. Drawing on the aspirations-capabilities framework, we ask whether these resources are also important in the formation of adolescents' own migration goals and aspirations. Access to resources could be a means for young people to form ambitions to migrate because they expect to have the capability to follow through on these goals. Resources could also allow youth to withstand pressures to migrate so that those with fewer resources face greater needs and are the most likely to form migration aspirations. Using data from the Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes (FAMELO) project, we assess three indicators of the capability to migrate - health, education, and household resources - and the permanent migration aspirations among adolescents in three distinct migration contexts: Jalisco, Mexico; Gaza province, Mozambique; and Chitwan Valley, Nepal. In general, those with greater capability to migrate have higher migration aspirations, but this varies across contexts. Higher educational aspirations and household wealth are less predictive of migration aspirations in Mozambique (i.e., the lowest resourced setting) whereas higher educational aspirations are positively associated with adolescents' desire to permanently settle outside of their home communities - internationally or internally - in the Mexico and Nepal contexts. Self-rated health is not significantly associated with permanent migration aspirations in any of the study contexts. Household resources are most predictive of aspirations to move internationally rather than internally or remaining in the home community. Collectively, these results suggest important variations in the way migration becomes incorporated into adolescents' life goals.","PeriodicalId":47633,"journal":{"name":"Population Research and Policy Review","volume":"45 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13089907/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Women's Reproductive Health Conditions and Fertility Goals. 妇女生殖健康状况和生育目标。

IF 1.5 3区社会学

Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-25 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-026-09996-0

Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Kathleen Broussard

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The Impact of Precise Geographic Adjustments on the Supplemental Poverty Measure. 精确地理调整对补充贫困指标的影响。

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Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-026-09995-1

J Tom Mueller, Darcy L Sullivan, Matthew M Brooks, Regina S Baker

{"title":"The Impact of Precise Geographic Adjustments on the Supplemental Poverty Measure.","authors":"J Tom Mueller, Darcy L Sullivan, Matthew M Brooks, Regina S Baker","doi":"10.1007/s11113-026-09995-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-026-09995-1","url":null,"abstract":"The official poverty measure of the United States remains unequipped to appropriately capture poverty across America. As a result, the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) has increasingly supplanted the official measure in policy analysis and statistics. A primary point of conflict among poverty-focused scholars regarding the SPM is its current geographic adjustment, which adjusts poverty thresholds at three spatial scales: identified metropolitan areas, unidentified metropolitan areas by state, and nonmetropolitan areas by state. Pooling all nonmetropolitan counties within each state into a single adjustment is believed to be responsible for the 'flip' in the rural-urban poverty differential between the official measure and the SPM. Using federally restricted data, we address this conflict and generate novel estimates of the SPM using county-specific, hybrid, and commuting-zone geographic adjustments. Our estimates illustrate the role of the current adjustment in our understanding of rural-urban poverty, while also demonstrating the utility of our preferred commuting-zone-level adjustment.Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11113-026-09995-1.","PeriodicalId":47633,"journal":{"name":"Population Research and Policy Review","volume":"45 2","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12948913/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147327767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Changes in Fertility Trends and Women's Fertility Desires in the Wake of the Homicide Surge in Mexico. 墨西哥凶杀案激增后生育趋势和妇女生育欲望的变化。

IF 1.5 3区社会学

Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-026-09999-x

Ginevra Floridi, Maria Gargiulo, José Manuel Aburto

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An Ongoing Gender Revolution in Europe: Women's Stable Employment as a Precondition for Partnered First Births. 欧洲正在进行的性别革命：女性稳定就业是有伴侣生育第一胎的先决条件。

IF 1.5 3区社会学

Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-026-09990-6

Angela Greulich, Michael S Rendall

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Do Larger Earned Income Tax Credit and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits Create Complementary Effects on Child Development? 更大的劳动所得税抵免和补充营养援助计划福利对儿童发展产生互补效应吗？

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Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-025-09985-9

Youngjin Stephanie Hong

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Consistent Reports of Pregnancy/Birth Contexts and Links to Parental Experiences. 怀孕/分娩背景的一致报告以及与父母经验的联系。

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Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-31 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-026-10005-7

Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Gabrielle Juteau, Wendy D Manning, Monica A Longmore, Peggy C Giordano, Alyssa G Sherman

{"title":"Consistent Reports of Pregnancy/Birth Contexts and Links to Parental Experiences.","authors":"Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Gabrielle Juteau, Wendy D Manning, Monica A Longmore, Peggy C Giordano, Alyssa G Sherman","doi":"10.1007/s11113-026-10005-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-026-10005-7","url":null,"abstract":"The link between pregnancy/birth contexts and subsequent maternal, family, and child well-being is the subject of extensive research. Much of this work uses retrospectively reported survey data on birth contexts, particularly for birth intendedness and relationship status at birth, but rarely has research considered whether or how people might report birth contexts differently over time. In this paper, we used Waves III, IV, and V of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), the only nationally representative longitudinal dataset with repeated measures of pregnancy/birth contexts for the same live birth. Focusing on first births, we (a) examined if, and to what extent, individuals changed their retrospective reports of pregnancy wantedness and relationship status at birth, (b) identified if there are sociodemographic correlates of inconsistent reports, and (c) explored whether inconsistent reports are associated with parental experiences. Results showed that consistency ranges from 49 to 65% when comparing first birth wantedness and relationship status reports across all three waves among births first reported in Wave III ([Formula: see text] = 1083) and rises to 73-80% across the latter two waves when comparing births first reported in Wave IV ([Formula: see text] = 3766). We found weak evidence of social patterning of inconsistency, with only age emerging as a predictor for both indicators across the analytical samples, and we did not find evidence that inconsistency biased the association between birth context and parental experiences.Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11113-026-10005-7.","PeriodicalId":47633,"journal":{"name":"Population Research and Policy Review","volume":"45 2","pages":"22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13038467/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147610466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Trends and Levels in Men's and Women's Fertility Goals in the United States. 美国男性和女性生育目标的趋势和水平。

IF 1.5 3区社会学

Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-025-09989-5

Luca Badolato, Sarah R Hayford

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Partisan Divergence in Fertility Change Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Florida. 佛罗里达州COVID-19大流行之前和期间生育率变化的党派分歧。

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Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-025-09972-0

Heather M Rackin, Christina M Gibson-Davis, Courtney E Williams, Dustin Hughes, Seunghwan Yoo

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Defining and Characterizing Temporary Childbirth Migration in India. 印度临时生育迁移的定义和特征。

IF 2.6 3区社会学

Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1007/s11113-025-09947-1

Nadia G Diamond-Smith, Rutuja Patil, Dhiraj Agarwal, Rachel Murro, Shrish Raut, Sanjay Juvekar, Alison M El Ayadi

{"title":"Defining and Characterizing Temporary Childbirth Migration in India.","authors":"Nadia G Diamond-Smith, Rutuja Patil, Dhiraj Agarwal, Rachel Murro, Shrish Raut, Sanjay Juvekar, Alison M El Ayadi","doi":"10.1007/s11113-025-09947-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11113-025-09947-1","url":null,"abstract":"Women returning to their natal homes for pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum is common and understudied in South Asia, with important implications for maternal and newborn health policies, as well as data quality and interpretation. Using data from 1252 women residing in a Health and Demographic Surveillance Site in Maharashtra, India we explore timing, duration and associated socio-economic factors with Temporary Childbirth Migration (TCM). Our overall goal is to develop a definition of temporary childbirth migration and situate it within demographic migration theory. Most (80%) of women migrated for over 1 month in the last trimester of pregnancy, with a sizeable proportion (22%) departing immediately after delivery. Socio-demographic factors were not associated with migrating during pregnancy; migrating postpartum was associated with younger age and higher education. Based on these findings, we propose a definition of Temporary childbirth Migration as a form of migration from husbands to natal homes and back, for at least one month duration, with departure and return at any time in the perinatal period. Given the potentially large number of women moving location for an extended duration in every pregnancy (in a country of over 1.4 billion), programs providing services to pregnant women and newborns should take this phenomenon into consideration. Additionally, data collection efforts at the clinical and household level should understand that women's place of delivery or receipt of prenatal or postnatal services may differ from her normal place of residence.","PeriodicalId":47633,"journal":{"name":"Population Research and Policy Review","volume":"44 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12173446/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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