DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12674386
Saverio Minardi, Paul Puschmann, Nicola Barban
{"title":"Within Families, Across Borders: Lifespans of U.S. Immigrants Born in 1850-1890 Relative to Origin, Destination, and Siblings.","authors":"Saverio Minardi, Paul Puschmann, Nicola Barban","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12674386","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12674386","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>U.S. immigrants born in 1850-1890 had shorter lifespans than U.S.-born Whites. This mortality penalty was concentrated among specific origin groups. Migrants generally outlived origin populations and nonmigrant siblings. Migration-mortality patterns varied by origin, reflecting both origin and destination contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1097-1121"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148686464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12772821
Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Gabrielle Juteau, Anna Belykh, Wendy D Manning
{"title":"The Reliability of Repeated Measures of Retrospective Parity and Birth Dates in U.S. Survey Data: A Research Note.","authors":"Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Gabrielle Juteau, Anna Belykh, Wendy D Manning","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12772821","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12772821","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a longitudinal survey, most people consistently report parity and birth date information. One in 10 respondents, and one in five parents, report parity inconsistently across waves. Among those who reported children at an earlier wave, 11% report different dates of first birth. Inconsistency in parity and first birth dates was higher among males and less advantaged people.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1081-1095"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13454961/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148686513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12791507
Gioia Geremia
{"title":"Does Context Matter for Parenthood Aspirations and Realized Fertility of LGB Individuals? A Comparison Across Two Cohorts.","authors":"Gioia Geremia","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12791507","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12791507","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is the first study of parenthood desires among LGB people across cohorts using a nationally representative sample. The prevalence of child-free desires among lesbian women has decreased across cohorts. Parenthood desires among gay and bisexual men have increased or remained stable across cohorts. Bisexual women show little cohort variation. Overall, desires for parenthood are higher when obstacles to accessing it are lower.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1253-1276"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12785170
Diana L Magnuson, Steven Ruggles
{"title":"\"Equally Available to Anyone\": The Invention of Public Use Microdata at the U.S. Census Bureau.","authors":"Diana L Magnuson, Steven Ruggles","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12785170","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12785170","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Census Bureau invented microdata as a product of the 1960 U.S. Census. The 1960 public use sample revolutionized analysis of the U.S. population and led to an outpouring of new census-based research. Interactions between academics and the Census Bureau at the Population Association of America played a central role in development of the first microdata. Continued collaboration between academics and the Census Bureau is needed to ensure broad accessibility and usability of microdata.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1333-1346"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148727807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12745916
Yifan Shen, Tim F Liao
{"title":"To See or Not to See: Another Look at the Mechanisms Behind Growing Earnings Homogamy in the United States.","authors":"Yifan Shen, Tim F Liao","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12745916","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12745916","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Changes in assortative mating matter more for earnings homogamy than prior work had reported. The prior 10.8% estimate was unstable owing to random noise in the samples. Reducing noise in the samples yields a larger estimated contribution of assortative mating. Cohorts with higher earnings homogamy following marriage were already characterized by higher homogamy at marriage entry. Earnings assortative mating changed in a nonlinear trajectory after 1970.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1007-1017"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148632384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12792522
Lucas Finamor
{"title":"Youth Subjective Life Expectancy and Early Labor Market Choices.","authors":"Lucas Finamor","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12792522","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12792522","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Survival beliefs elicited at ages 18-26 predict later pension contributions. A 1-SD-higher life expectancy is linked to 5% more pension wealth 15 years later. Job formality, not labor force participation, drives most of the pension gap. This SLE-pension link grows over the life cycle, from 2.5-5% at ages 18-26 to 9-11% at ages 48-52.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1277-1304"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12788356
Katherine A Thomas
{"title":"Countering the Current: Flood Risk and Uneven Patterns of Immobility.","authors":"Katherine A Thomas","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12788356","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12788356","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increased neighborhood flood risk predicts lower odds of households moving out of their neighborhood. This association is largest for renters, low-income homeowners, and Black homeowners. This pattern may reflect housing insecurity, which can manifest as both immobility and instability. Studies of climate and population should disaggregate by race and ethnicity, income, and housing tenure.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1305-1332"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148764838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12795529
Anushé Hassan, David W Lawson, Susan B Schaffnit, Mark Urassa, Rebecca Sear
{"title":"Childcare in Transition: Evidence That Patterns of Childcare Differ by Degree of Market Integration in Northwestern Tanzania.","authors":"Anushé Hassan, David W Lawson, Susan B Schaffnit, Mark Urassa, Rebecca Sear","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12795529","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12795529","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study uses novel data on multiple childcare types from both kin and nonkin in two culturally similar communities with varying market integration. It tests the hypothesis that market integration is associated with reduced kin support. Who provides support and the type of support vary by level of market integration. Market integration disrupts childcare support from paternal but not maternal kin. Distant kin and nonkin substitute for reduced support from close kin in the study's town.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1375-1396"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12785315
Yunyi Kuang, Liqiu Zhao
{"title":"Rising Sex Ratio and Labor Supply of the Urban Elderly in China.","authors":"Yunyi Kuang, Liqiu Zhao","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12785315","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12785315","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High sex ratios increase employment among elderly fathers of sons relative to fathers of daughters. Higher marriage costs and reduced old-age support drive the increase in elderly labor supply. High sex ratios reduce consumption and well-being among fathers of sons.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1231-1251"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148713988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DemographyPub Date : 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12777411
Jia Wang, James M Raymo
{"title":"Maternal Employment and Children's Cognitive Ability in a Gender-Inegalitarian Society.","authors":"Jia Wang, James M Raymo","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12777411","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12777411","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Maternal employment in regular full-time work is negatively associated with children's cognitive performance in Japan. The negative association is limited to the employment of mothers with a high school education or less. Mothers' nonstandard employment is unrelated to children's cognitive performance. Analyses examine children's cumulative exposure to mothers' employment. The estimation of marginal structural models facilitates causal inference.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1179-1209"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148686459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}