Laboratory

Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

From Ancestors to Descendants: Modeling Kinship Networks Across Centuries, 1751–2100 (Dissertation)

Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal, Martin Kolk (Stockholm University, Sweden), Emilio Zagheni; in Collaboration with Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Sha Jiang (both: MPIDR)

This project reconstructs and analyzes the structure and transformation of kin networks across centuries using the SOCSIM demographic microsimulation program, compares microsimulation estimates with estimates from population registers and formal demographic models, and assesses biases in genealogical and register data.  Detailed Description

Publications

Calderón-Bernal, L. P.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Kolk, M.; Zagheni, E.:

Assessing the agreement between microsimulated and register-based kin counts in Sweden

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-020. (2025)    

Calderón-Bernal, L. P.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation

European Journal of Population 41:34, 1–30. (2025)    

Calderón-Bernal, L. P.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-034. (2023)