Demography authors Kolk et al. ("Sweden's Transgender Population") & Myrskyla et al. ("Declining Fertility...") serve up their usual excellent research.

House and Senate Pass Budget Resolution Blueprint, Share Your Story with COSSA, and More in this week's Washington Update. 📰 Read more ➡️ cossa.org/category/volum…

April has posted—5 research notes and 13 articles—research on a deportation boomerang, length of widowhood, schooling & old-age cognition, contraceptive use & discontinuation, social fathering & childlessness, self-assessed health & fertility … and more. ow.ly/r8YX50VBTXm

👓Recommended Reading📚Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys In a paper recently published in Demography Journal, D. Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR) and his colleagues, M. van Damme and A. Castro Torres (CED) compared ... 🧵1/5

“Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults": Maike van damme, Diego Alburez & @andres9986 use survey data & demog models to calculate sizes of kinship types--"downward, lateral, upward & total"-- and compare the strengths of each approach. CED Barcelona MPIDR ow.ly/YomA50W0tEC

Youjin Choi, Rachel Margolis & Anders Holm explore “The Effects of Extended Parental Benefits on Parents’ Employment & Earnings in Canada” & find that fathers’ use “had positive impacts" on both mothers’ & fathers’ earnings in the longer run. Statistics Canada ow.ly/JnAC50W0v3L

“The Mediating Role of Intergenerational Stratification in the Long Arm of Childhood Income”: Using PSID & mediation techniques, D. Brady et al. find “adult income is a key mediator in the...r’ship btw childhood income & mature adult health.” USC Price School ow.ly/SWOn50W0vZf

In “An Experimental Approach to Assessing Young Women’s Childbearing Preferences,” Behrman et al. find that “the strength of the preference for 2 children is relatively weak compared w/ prefs about other dimensions of family life.” Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern Franklin & Marshall ow.ly/8Qh050W6Yxs

“SES, Genes & Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment”: F. Bernardi & G. Ghirardi employ genotype data & find the largest penalty for “high-SES students whose parents separate is…concentrated among those with a low PGI EA.” ow.ly/yQF550W79Ia

In “Modeling & Forecasting Healthy Life Expectancy,” Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher, Cosmo Strozza et al. “forecast health & mortality simultaneously in a coherent & simple manner...accounting for changes in prevalence & transition probabilities over time.” Uni Southern Denmark ow.ly/HXTt50W7c3t

“Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules in the United States, 1988-2019”: Alejandra Ros Pilarz & Anna Walther find "growing gaps in the propensity to work nonstandard schedules by mothers’ education, family structure, and race & ethnicity.” UW-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work UW-Madison CDE ow.ly/YRs550W7gZx

M. Weden, M. Rendall & J. Brown examine “Gender Asymmetry in the Fertility of Racially & Ethnically Exogamous US Couples,” finding “strong support for the gender-asymmetric male predominance hypothesis of exogamous fertility.” RAND Maryland Population Research Center ow.ly/rr4O50W7ie1

Love across the ballot box? It's complicated!💔A 30-yr UK study shows that couples with opposing political views are 38% more likely to break up - w/ Brexit disagreements being especially divisive!😬mpg.de/24863744/coupl… MPIDR Alessandro Di Nallo bruno arpino Demography Journal

From Park, Pebley, Goldman, Pratt & Mara Getz Sheftel (she/her): “Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Functional Limitations Among US-born Older Adults” uses HRS data to assess the cumulative effect of physically demanding work over the life course. UMass Gerontology UCLA Fielding School of Public Health ow.ly/6m7H50W7Qal

“The Emergent Motherhood Mental Health Advantage: Did Pandemic Times Make a Difference?”: Kei Nomaguchi Melissa Milkie & F. Marino show that “partnered mothers were less likely to experience anxiety & depression” than single mothers or nonmothers. Bowling Green State University ow.ly/mKBr50W7R4a

In “Legalization & Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers,” Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua & Roberto Nisticò show how restrictions on undocumented workers "can be detrimental to the overall welfare of the host country." CRENoS CESifo ow.ly/ybza50W7SMU

“Sleeping With the Enemy: Partners' Heterogamy…”: Alessandro Di Nallo & bruno arpino examined data on nearly 30K British couples & found that couples holding divergent political party and Brexit preferences were at increased risk of union dissolution. MPIDR ow.ly/a7k450W7Uq9

New Dafna Gelbgiser & Sigal Alon study, “Segregation, Choices & Inequality in Educational Outcomes”: The authors analyze college admin data on Jewish & Arab applicants & reveal how they weigh program characteristics, sometimes leading to academic mismatch. ow.ly/3JEQ50W7V8c

“Effects of Communal Violence on Women’s Marital Outcomes”: Devaki & Divya Pandey show that following the 2002 Gujarat riots, the prob. of child marriage rose relative to the rest of India while women’s age at marriage, employment & autonomy fell. ow.ly/SwKv50W7Yxx

In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” Sha Jiang, W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number and age of kin” & change in kin networks. Stanford University MPIDR ow.ly/EuKb50W8nTN