Paper on estimating the causes of maternal death, led by Michael Chong, with Marija Pejchinovska and me: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Estimating causes of maternal death in data‐sparse contexts

Understanding the underlying causes of maternal death across all regions of the world is essential to inform policies and resource allocation to reduce the mortality burden. However, in many countrie....

Hi friends who study fertility! Excited to share that I'm part of a team that received NSF funding to create a US Human Fertility Database. We'll be generating state-specific (since 1959) and county-specific (since 1982) period and cohort fertility indicators that will be easy to access.

I’ve been neglecting this account! But here’s a few recent demography papers that I’ve enjoyed reading (plus one of ours 😊):

Ohhhh I was wondering what was going on

My first try at a Demography "Starter Pack". There's a limit of 50 contacts, so this is definitely partial. go.bsky.app/FqXNjEh

On the WPP methodology, there is a really recent paper by @monjalexander.bsky.socialwww.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Thanks! I’m already organizing a session but @audreydorelien.bsky.social maybe get in touch with Jon Wakefield?

I got tenure! Here are a few short reflections: www.monicaalexander.com/posts/2024-0...

Gotta keep the faith

Ben (not on bsky) lead the work, which was co-supervised with @monjalexander.bsky.social@uoft.bsky.social@demography.bsky.social@mpidr.bsky.social@kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social@ucsfhealth.bsky.socialjamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Youth Parental Death Due to Drug Poisoning and Firearm Violence in the US

This cross-sectional study uses a demographic projection model and publicly available vital statistics data to estimate the national incidence of parental