Women in Demography

An ever-growing list of active scholars in demography who identify as women or as a gender minority, listed by broad sub-discipline, and with two notable papers.1 2

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Sub-disciplines are:3

  • Family, social demography
  • Fertility
  • Mathematical, statistical, digital demography, population projection
  • Migration, environment, economic demography
  • Mortality, health, aging, biodemography

For related info and activities, please check out the website of the feminist demography collective!


Name
Sub-discipline
Paper 1
Paper 2
Ackert, Elizabeth
Family, social demography
New Destinations and the Early Childhood Education of Mexican-Origin Children
Maternal Employment, Community Contexts, and the Child_Care Arrangements of Diverse Groups
Airlshire, Jennifer
Migration, environment, economic demography
Fine particulate matter air pollution and cognitive function among older US adults
Family relationships and troubled sleep among US adults: examining the influences of contact frequency and relationship quality
Akokuwebe, Monica Ewomazino
Family, social demography
Prevalence, risk-inducing lifestyle, and perceived susceptibility to kidney diseases by gender among Nigerians residents in South Western Nigeria
Socio-economic determinants of kidney disease among residents in Nigerian communities in Lagos State, Nigeria
Alkema, Leontine
Mathematical, statistical, digital demography, population projection
perceived susceptibility to kidney diseases by gender among Nigerians residents in South
Global estimation of child mortality using a Bayesian B-spline bias-reduction model
Allen, Liz
Mortality, health, aging, biodemography
The Future of Us
Post-separation patterns of children's overnight stays with each parent: A detailed snapshot
Allendorf, Keera
Family, social demography
Another Gendered Demographic Dividend: Adjusting to a Future without Sons
Caste and Choice: The Influence of Developmental Idealism on Marriage Behavior
Alves, Luciana
Mortality, health, aging, biodemography
Health profile of the elderly in Brazil: analysis of the 2003 National Household Sample Survey using the grade of Membership method
Determinantes da autopercepcao de saude entre idosos do Municipio de Sao Paulo, Brasil
Amaral, Luciana Luz do
Fertility
Bridging user and provider perspectives: Family planning access and utilization in rural Mozambique
Women’s decision-making autonomy and children’s schooling in rural Mozambique
Augustine, Jennifer
Family, social demography
Doing it All? Mothers’ College Enrollment, Time Use, and Affective Well-Being
Can Increased Educational Attainment among Lower Educated Mothers Reduce Inequalities in the Skill Development of Children?
Bachrach, Christine
Family, social demography
A Cognitive-Social Model of Fertility Intentions
Culture and Demography: From Reluctant Bedfellows to Committed Partners
Baker, Elizabeth
Mortality, health, aging, biodemography
Epidemiological Paradox or Immigrant Vulnerability? Obesity among Young Children of Immigrants
Maternal Ratings of Child Health and Child Obesity, Variations by Mother's Race/Ethnicity and Nativity.
Balbo, Nicoletta
Fertility
Fertility in Advanced Societies: A Review of Research
Does Fertility Behavior Spread among Friends?
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna
Family, social demography
Does parenthood increase happiness? Evidence for Poland
The effect of number of siblings on adult mortality: Evidence from Swedish registers for cohorts born between 1938 and 1972
Barber, Jennifer
Family, social demography
The Dynamics of Intimate Relationships and Contraceptive Use during Emergent Adulthood
Black-White Differences in Attitudes Related to Pregnancy Among Young Women
Barbi, Elisabetta
Mortality, health, aging, biodemography
The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers
Response to Comment on “The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers”
Barbieri, Magali
Mortality, health, aging, biodemography
The contribution of drug-related deaths to the US disadvantage in mortality
Data Resource Profile: The Human Mortality Database (HMD)
Basu, Alaka
Family, social demography
The Sociocultural and Political Aspects of Abortion: Global Perspectives
Conditioning Factors for Fertility Decline in Bengal: History, Language Identity, and Openness to Innovations
Baudisch, Annette
Mortality, health, aging, biodemography
Hamilton's indicators of the force of selection
Getting to the Root of Aging
Beaujouan, Eva
Fertility
Latest-Late Fertility? Decline and Resurgence of Late Parenthood Across the Low-Fertility Countries
Declining realisation of reproductive intentions with age
Behrman, Julia
Family, social demography
Do Targeted Stipend Programs Reduce Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Schooling Attainment? Insights From Rural Bangladesh
Contextual Declines in Educational Hypergamy and Intimate Partner Violence
Bernard, Aude
Migration, environment, economic demography
Life‐course transitions and the age profile of internal migration
Improved measures for the cross-national comparison of age profiles of internal migration
Berrington, Ann
Family, social demography
Perpetual postponers? Women's, men's and couple's fertility intentions and subsequent fertility behaviour
Marital dissolution among the 1958 British birth cohort: The role of cohabitation
Biddlecom, Ann E
Fertility
Absent and problematic men: Demographic accounts of male reproductive roles
Health care utilization, family context, and adaptation among immigrants to the United States
Bietsch, Kristin
Fertility
Family Planning During and After the West African Ebola Crisis
The Maximum CPR Model: a demographic tool for family planning policy
Billingsley, Sunnee
Fertility
The post-communist fertility puzzle
Family policy and fertility intentions in 21 European countries
Bloemraad, Irene
Migration, environment, economic demography
Who Claims Dual Citizenship? The Limits of Postnationalism, the Possibilities of Transnationalism, and the Persistence of Traditional Citizenship
The promise and pitfalls of comparative research design in the study of migration
Boen, Courtney
Mortality, health, aging, biodemography
The role of socioeconomic factors in Black-White health inequities across the life course: Point-in-time measures, long-term exposures, and differential health returns
The physiological impacts of wealth shocks in late life: Evidence from the Great Recession
Bohk-Ewald, Christiana
Mathematical, statistical, digital demography, population projection
Forecast accuracy hardly improves with method complexity when completing cohort fertility
Lifespan disparity as an additional indicator for evaluating mortality forecasts
Booth, Heather
Mathematical, statistical, digital demography, population projection
Demographic forecasting: 1980 to 2005 in review
Applying Lee-Carter under conditions of variable mortality decline
Bordone, Valeria
Family, social demography
Contact and proximity of older people to their adult children: A comparison between Italy and Sweden
Patterns of grandparental child care across Europe: the role of the policy context and working mothers' need
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  1. Thanks to Rohan Alexander, Paul Chung, Robert Pickett and Leslie Root for their help in compiling the initial list.↩︎

  2. To dos: add social media handles, institution/country info. And do some data visualization!↩︎

  3. At some point I want to change these to actually be more informative.↩︎