Pleasure and fidelity: Italian millennials and sex
Plaisir et fidélité : la sexualité de la génération du millénaire en Italie
Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Daniele Vignoli
Sexual intercourse is starting earlier than before among Italian adolescents, whose behaviour is converging towards the norms of their European peers. As noted by Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna and Daniele Vignoli, this precocity and the growing importance attached to romantic love
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Accelerating fertility decline through education and family planning
Accélérer la baisse de la fécondité grâce à l’éducation et la planification familiale
Daphne H. Liu, Adrian E. Raftery
Daphne H. Liu and Adrian E. Raftery find that increasing women’s educational attainment and contraceptive prevalence can have an accelerating effect on fertility decline in high-fertility countries, with a larger effect for the latter.
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COVID-19 pandemic: demographic highlights
Impact démographique de la pandémie de COVID-19
Joseph Chamie
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has resulted in enormous consequences worldwide. Joseph Chamie highlights the pandemic’s impact on the components of population change: mortality, fertility and migration.
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Grandparents looking after grandchildren in England
Le rôle des grands-parents dans la garde des petits-enfants en Angleterre
Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto, Karen Glaser
Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto and Karen Glaser find that, in England, most grandmothers and grandfathers provide grandchild care throughout the year to allow parents to undertake paid work.
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Are demographic indicators really converging in post transitional countries?
Les indicateurs démographiques convergent-ils vraiment dans les pays post-transition ?
Maria Castiglioni, Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Letizia Tanturri
After the demographic transition, convergence in all demographic behaviours (moderate fertility, low mortality and very low migration) is the guiding assumption of the UN World Population Prospects Revisions.
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Trends in age at menarche in low- and middle-income countries
Évolution de l’âge aux premières règles dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire
Tiziana Leone, Laura Brown
Understanding the timing and determinants of age at menarche is key to determining potential linkages between onset of puberty and health outcomes from a lifecourse perspective.
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From deprivation to neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in Bolivia
Le lien entre pauvreté et mortalité néonatale et post-néonatale en Bolivie
Filippo Temporin
Filippo Temporin identifies three possible mechanisms whereby deprivation can affect neonatal and post-neonatal mortality. Using data from the 2008 Bolivia Demographic and Health Survey, however, he concludes that in a context of widespread poverty,
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Religion as a moderating factor in the education-fertility relationship
La religion comme modérateur de la relation entre niveau d’instruction et fécondité
Nitzan Peri-Rotem
Female education is often linked to lower fertility levels and higher rates of childlessness. However, this relationship does not necessarily hold for all population groups.
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