DemographyPub Date : 2026-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12472371
Jan Einhoff
{"title":"Cohorts' Working Life Expectancies and Working Years Lost in 21 European Countries.","authors":"Jan Einhoff","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12472371","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12472371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Across Europe, the extension of working lives has been a central policy goal for more than three decades. Working life expectancy (WLE) and working years lost (WYL) are well-suited demographic indicators for assessing a country's progress toward achieving this goal. This article reviews all previous estimates of WLE and WYL for European countries and then uses the largest available micro-level dataset to estimate and project WLE and WYL for cohorts of men and women aged 55-64 and 65-74 in 21 European countries. The findings indicate that WLE has generally increased, most rapidly in Central and Eastern Europe and in Western Europe. Northern European countries reach the highest levels of WLE. However, country and gender differences remain large, especially when WLE is adjusted for working hours. Correlational analyses suggest that higher WLE has been gained primarily from successive birth cohorts losing fewer working years to retirement. Over the coming years, the remaining WYL to retirement and to inactivity among women will constitute the main barriers to the extension of working lives in Europe.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"241-262"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146208327","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 : 2026-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12479730
Molly Rosenberg, Erika Beidelman, Xiwei Chen, Kathleen Kahn, Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula, Lindsay C Kobayashi
{"title":"Cohort Prevalence Estimates Are Sensitive to Prebaseline Mortality: A Research Note Using Cognitive Impairment Data From the HAALSI Cohort in Rural South Africa.","authors":"Molly Rosenberg, Erika Beidelman, Xiwei Chen, Kathleen Kahn, Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula, Lindsay C Kobayashi","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12479730","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12479730","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>All cohorts are conditioned on survival to a study's baseline. The validity of estimates drawn from these cohorts of survivors may be compromised if those who die prior to enrollment have different covariate structures than survivors. In this research note, we used data from the \"HAALSI Cohort\" (Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa) of older adults in rural South Africa and a \"Mortality Cohort\" of individuals who would have been eligible for HAALSI but died before they had the opportunity to enroll, drawing on complete population mortality data from the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System. We simulated the prevalence of cognitive impairment under different assumptions about the prevalence of such impairment in the Mortality Cohort. We constructed a random forest classification model to predict cognitive impairment in the Mortality Cohort and compared it with observed estimates in the HAALSI Cohort. The prevalence of cognitive impairment was sensitive to assumptions about the prevalence in the Mortality Cohort. The predictive model revealed meaningfully higher predicted probability of cognitive impairment in a counterfactual scenario with no prebaseline deaths. Researchers should consider prebaseline mortality in the interpretation of prevalence estimates, especially when the magnitude of prebaseline deaths is likely large.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"79-95"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146221977","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 : 2026-02-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12487209
Silvia Palmaccio, Deni Mazrekaj, Kristof De Witte
{"title":"Fertility Outcomes of Adult Children With Divorced Parents: Evidence From Population Data.","authors":"Silvia Palmaccio, Deni Mazrekaj, Kristof De Witte","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12487209","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12487209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Each year, a substantial proportion of children experience the divorce of their parents. Despite numerous studies examining the consequences of parental divorce across various aspects of children's well-being in childhood, evidence of their family prospects in adulthood is scarce. Using administrative data from the Netherlands that spans three generations, we provide the first evidence based on population data of completed fertility and childlessness of children whose parents divorced. Our results suggest that adult children from divorced families have lower completed fertility and more frequently remain childless than adult children from continuously married families. Our findings support the hypothesis that adult children from divorced families exit marital or cohabiting relationships earlier than adult children from continuously married families, and the shorter duration of these unions contributes to explaining their lower likelihood of having first-order or higher order births. These results are robust to treatment effect bounds, using parental death as a source of parental loss, and cousin fixed effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"291-322"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147345452","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 : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12344725
Lutfunnahar Begum, Philip J Grossman, Asad Islam
{"title":"Response to \"A Commentary on 'Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach' by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018)\".","authors":"Lutfunnahar Begum, Philip J Grossman, Asad Islam","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12344725","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12344725","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1801-1807"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145679116","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 : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12347377
Benjamin F Jarvis, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya, Eduardo Tapia
{"title":"Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility, and the Persistence of Segregation.","authors":"Benjamin F Jarvis, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya, Eduardo Tapia","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12347377","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12347377","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents an analysis of the relationship between kin propinquity, residential mobility, and the persistence of segregation among ancestry groups living in Stockholm, Sweden. Residential segregation between Swedish and non-Swedish ancestry groups is established when immigrants first settle in Stockholm, which creates disparities in the spatial distribution of kin for the children of immigrants compared with their Swedish counterparts. Using agent-based models, we show how preferences to live near kin are sufficient to maintain existing segregation but are not sufficient to generate it. We then apply discrete choice models of residential mobility to longitudinal residential history data from Swedish population registers to estimate the effects of kin on the neighborhood choices of movers, ages 18‒30, during the 1998‒2017 period. We find that people are more likely to move to neighborhoods that are near to kin, net of controls for sorting by ancestry, socioeconomic status, and life course characteristics. Counterfactual simulations of residential mobility show that kin propinquity contributes to higher levels of segregation between Swedish and non-Swedish ancestry groups. These effects are larger for groups already experiencing high levels of segregation from the Swedish majority. We situate these findings in the emerging literature on social structural sorting.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1873-1898"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145764162","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 : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12354082
Nicholas Mark, Ethan J Raker, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
{"title":"Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States.","authors":"Nicholas Mark, Ethan J Raker, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12354082","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12354082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increasing evidence links exposure to extreme weather events in utero with adverse health outcomes at birth, including lower birth weight. This research, however, often faces data limitations because natural disasters may be localized, often affecting some neighborhoods but not others, whereas outcome data are often available only at higher geographic levels, such as counties. In this article, we introduce a novel strategy for estimating the effects of geographically bounded disasters when localized outcome data are unavailable. We employ this strategy to estimate the effect of exposure to severe tornadoes on infant birth weight in the United States from 1991 to 2017. We merge county-month data on singleton births with block-group-level monthly data on the paths of severe tornadoes and block-group data on the distribution of the population at risk of a birth. We then estimate difference-in-differences models in which the treatment variable is equal to the percentage of the population at risk of a birth affected by the tornado. This strategy results in an estimand that is both more interpretable and more policy-relevant than estimands from traditional models. Our findings demonstrate that exposure to a tornado during pregnancy reduced birth weight for Black mothers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"2047-2073"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145775799","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 : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12359281
Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Jin-Tan Liu
{"title":"Divorce Effects on Teenagers' Higher Education: Evidence From One Million Siblings in Taiwan.","authors":"Yen-Chien Chen, Elliott Fan, Jin-Tan Liu","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12359281","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12359281","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We construct a unique sibling dataset by linking multiple comprehensive administrative data sources in Taiwan. Using data on one million siblings, we estimate the effect of parental divorce occurring at ages 13‒18 on children's university admission. Our approach leverages differences in admission outcomes between siblings who experienced parental divorce before the national college entrance test at age 18 and those who experienced it afterward. The mother fixed-effects estimates reveal a significantly negative impact of parental divorce on children's university admission. Adolescents who experienced parental divorce faced a 10.8% reduction in the likelihood of entering any university and a 15.9% reduction in the likelihood of being admitted to a first-tier university. Additional analyses show that younger adolescents are more vulnerable to the negative effects of parental divorce than their older counterparts. Furthermore, the study finds nonnegative effects of parental job loss on university admission, suggesting that the adverse impacts of parental divorce are unlikely to operate through income disadvantage.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"2075-2097"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145811643","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 : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12321371
Hyunjoon Park, Andrew Taeho Kim
{"title":"Six Decades of Educational Assortative Mating in South Korea: A Research Note.","authors":"Hyunjoon Park, Andrew Taeho Kim","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12321371","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12321371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research note focuses on accurately documenting the trends in educational resemblance between husbands and wives in South Korea over six decades, from 1960 to 2020. Having undergone rapid social changes in recent history, including industrialization, economic development, and educational expansion, Korea offers a compelling context for studying long-term changes in educational assortative mating across different stages of development. Using 2% microsamples from 13 census datasets collected between 1960 and 2020, we construct marriage tables cross-classifying six educational levels of husbands and wives, both aged 25 to 45. Log-multiplicative layer effect models are applied to assess the husband‒wife association, controlling for changing marginal distributions of both spouses' educational levels. Our analysis of 843,527 married couples shows that the association between husbands' and wives' education increases to a peak around 1995, after which it continuously declines. The inverted U-shape trend remains robust whether analyzing current or first marriages of varying duration and across different types of log-linear models. We provide theoretical and empirical discussions of major macro-level trends, especially the timing and gendered patterns of educational expansion, in Korea to contextualize the observed patterns of educational assortative mating.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1809-1820"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12884698/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558285","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 : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12319849
Signe Svallfors, Mónica L Caudillo, Orsola Torrisi
{"title":"The Consequences of Community Violence for Contraceptive Use and Provision in Mexico.","authors":"Signe Svallfors, Mónica L Caudillo, Orsola Torrisi","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12319849","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12319849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the relationship between community violence and the use and provision of contraception in Mexico, where family planning is a long-standing policy priority and the \"war on drugs\" has led to chronically high levels of violence. We adopt a two-step approach. First, we investigate the association between women's exposure to violence and first contraceptive use. Combining individual-level data (n = 86,219) from two waves of the National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID) with information on monthly municipality-level homicides in event-history models, we analyze the timing and method of women's first contraceptive use and the source of first contraception. Second, leveraging rare data from Mexico's Ministry of Health in clinic fixed-effects models, we study the association between homicides and contraceptive provision from public clinics. Results show strong positive associations between community violence and both the transition to first contraceptive use and the contraceptive provision of reversible methods. These relationships are stronger in the long term; one more homicide per 10,000 population during the past five years is associated with triple the risk of initiating contraceptive use and two to three more reversible contraception users served in each public clinic per month. The findings suggest increasing contraceptive vigilance and fertility regulation preferences-but also healthcare system resilience-in times of insecurity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1945-1972"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558283","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 : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1215/00703370-12344620
Olle Hammar, Carl Bonander, Gunther Bensch, Niklas Jakobsson, Abel Brodeur
{"title":"A Commentary on \"Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach\" by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018).","authors":"Olle Hammar, Carl Bonander, Gunther Bensch, Niklas Jakobsson, Abel Brodeur","doi":"10.1215/00703370-12344620","DOIUrl":"10.1215/00703370-12344620","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Begum et al. (2018) examined gender bias in parental attitudes using an experimental approach in rural Bangladesh. Households were reported as randomly assigned to treatment conditions in a lab-in-the-field allocation task. We show that the group assignment was inherited from Islam (2019), a previous, nonrandomized experiment conducted in the same region. The lack of randomization contradicts the design descriptions provided by the authors in Begum et al. (2018) and elsewhere and raises concerns about the validity of comparisons across treatment groups. This also points to serious shortcomings in the reporting and transparency of the study design-issues that mirror those that led to the retraction of Islam (2019) from the European Economic Review.</p>","PeriodicalId":48394,"journal":{"name":"Demography","volume":" ","pages":"1791-1799"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145679070","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}