Cohabitation and mortality in Sweden: does living with a non-marital partner extend life?
Married individuals tend to live longer, but what about cohabiters? Using data from the Swedish registry, Jesper Lindmarker, Martin Kolk and Sven Drefahl find that cohabitation reduces the risk of ... Read more
Young immigrants adapt to Swedish childbearing norms
Do immigrants have more children than people who were born in their destination country? Does immigrant childbearing behaviour adapt towards destination childbearing norms? In a new case study, Ben Wilson ... Read more
Prevalence of young children in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa
Polygynous unions are on the decline in sub-Saharan Africa, although uncertainty surrounding the prevalence and characteristics of children in these households remains. Emily Treleaven and Emma Banchoff find that the ... Read more
Marriage market restrictions and immigrant family change in Denmark
Denmark’s 2002 family reunification policy required foreign spouses to be 24+ and have stronger ties to Denmark than elsewhere. This reshaped union formation and fertility among immigrants, further increasing educational ... Read more
Increasing health expectancies in China
The gradual increase in life expectancy and the accelerating pace of population aging pose significant challenges to economies, health systems, and healthcare infrastructure all over the world and, as Yu ... Read more
Women’s empowerment and contraception in low- and middle-income countries
Comprehensive contraceptive transition theory, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy and Zeba Sathar argue, must prioritize women’s agency and gender roles, particularly the ability of women and girls to make independent contraceptive choices, ... Read more
Did you know?
Deaths from cancer by age, World. 1980-2021
The graph shows the estimated annual number of cancer deaths, in each age group.
The world has seen a rise in cancer deaths over time. This comes largely from more deaths in the
oldest age groups as populations have been growing and aging.
Source: OurWorldinData.org/cancer; data IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2024).
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