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Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being

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Project

Demographic Perspectives on Kin Availability and Kin Loss

Ugofilippo Basellini, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Emilio Zagheni, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal, Mallika Snyder (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Ivan Williams (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

In this project, we use different demographic methods and data sources to quantify the ways in which individuals acquire and lose kin throughout their lives and what this means for the availability of family resources over the life course.  Detailed Description

Expected number of offspring deaths over the maternal life course for women born in 1950 in three selected countries

Expected number of offspring deaths over the maternal life course for women born in 1950 in three selected countries (black dots, population-level non-cumulative counts). The colored areas show the offspring´s age at death. Offspring loss is concentrated at older ages in Sweden but affects younger mothers in Guatemala and Angola (note the different y-axes in each panel). © Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.: When do parents bury a child? Quantifying uncertainty in the parental age at offspring loss MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-016. (2022)

Publications

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss

Population Studies, 1–13. (2024)    

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

Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation

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

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

When do parents bury a child? Quantifying uncertainty in the parental age at offspring loss

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-016. (2022)    

Chong, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Alexander, M. J.; Zagheni, E.:

Correcting historical mortality rate bias in big crowd-sourced online genealogies

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-005. (2022)    

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Theile, T.:

Desaparecidxs: characterizing the population of missing children using Twitter

In: WebSci '22: proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 26-29 June 2022, 185–190. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (2022)    

Snyder, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Zagheni, E.:

Estimates from 31 countries show the significant impact of COVID-19 excess mortality on the incidence of family bereavement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:26, e2202686119–e2202686119. (2022)    

Stelter, R.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Representativeness is crucial for inferring demographic processes from online genealogies: evidence from lifespan dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:10, e2120455119–e2120455119. (2022)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Kolk, M.; Zagheni, E.:

Women's experience of child death: a global demographic perspective

Demography 58:5, 1715–1735. (2021)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mason, C.; Zagheni, E.:

The “Sandwich Generation” revisited: global demographic drivers of care time demands

Population and Development Review 47:4, 997–1023. (2021)    

Smith-Greenaway, E.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Trinitapoli, J.; Zagheni, E.:

Global burden of maternal bereavement: indicators of the cumulative prevalence of child loss

BMJ Global Health 6:4, e004837–e004837. (2021)    

Williams, I.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Mortality change and its impact on child survival

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-001. (2021)