Health around the time of first birth matters for future fertility
Evidence from Norway indicates that chronic health problems are just one of the factors liable to influence individual fertility. Øystein Kravdal, Emily Grundy, and Rannveig K. Hart argue that health ... Read more
Estimating years lived across racial categories in Brazil*
Using multistate life tables techniques, Jerônimo Muniz, Aliya Saperstein, and Bernardo Queiroz estimate that about one out of two Brazilians initially classified as Black will be reclassified as Brown, as ... Read more
Violence begets violence. Evidence from the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)
Women exposed to war are known to be at higher risk of intimate partner violence, but is this simply because their husbands, too, endured war? Studying the Nigerian Civil War ... Read more
Reproductive life concentrated into ever-shorter windows*
Demographers have long tracked how many children women have and when. But how widely fertility is spread across reproductive ages has received comparatively little attention. Thomas Spoorenberg introduces a simple ... Read more
Can we really predict individual-level longevity?
Disparities in life expectancy across sociodemographic groups are large in the U.S. Still, using linked Census and mortality records for men born in 1910, Casey Breen and Nathan Seltzer find ... Read more
Son preference and reproductive behaviour in Uzbekistan
Using data from the 2021–2022 Uzbekistan Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, Khilola Dushamova, Rashid Javed, Gayrat Suyunov and Munira Zakirova find that son preference shapes reproductive behaviour among Uzbek women. Women ... Read more
Did you know?
In 2024, nearly 78 per cent of women aged 15–49 who wanted to avoid pregnancy used modern contraceptive methods. Despite this progress, more than 250 million women of reproductive age still do not use modern contraception.
Source: United Nations (2024), Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2024. Available at: www.un.org/development/desa/pd/ data/family-planning-indicators.
Note: Oceania excludes Australia and New Zealand.
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