Paper on estimating the causes of maternal death, led by Michael Chong, with Marija Pejchinovska and me: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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 😊):
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...
I got tenure! Here are a few short reflections: www.monicaalexander.com/posts/2024-0...
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...
This cross-sectional study uses a demographic projection model and publicly available vital statistics data to estimate the national incidence of parental
In a new paper lead by Ben Schlüter, we estimated about *1.2 million* youth (<18y) in the US have lost a parent due to drugs or guns since 1999. In 2020, drugs and guns accounted for about one in four parental deaths — about double the proportion in 1999. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
