Research Group

Kinship Inequalities

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Publications

Acosta, E.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Gargiulo, M.; Torres, C.:

Weaponizing kinship: a demographic analysis of bereavement in the Colombian conflict

Population and Development Review, 1–38. (2026)

Adhikari, S.; Goli, S.; KC, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

India’s ageing population faces unequal future kin-based support

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-040. (2026)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Caracterización demográfica del genocidio asociado al Proyecto Hidroeléctrico Chixoy en Guatemala (1982-2015)

Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos 41:e2495, 1–31. (2026)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.:

Measuring bereavement as a consequence of war

In: De Gruyter handbook on conflict and health, 445–458. Berlin: De Gruyter. (2026)

Becca, F.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Esteve, A.:

The living arrangements of single mothers in Latin America: stratification by education and partnership status

Population and Development Review, 1–32. (2026)

Colasurdo, A.; Mulder, C. H.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The role of migration history and household structure in internal migration: evidence from the Netherlands, 1850-1940

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2026)

Colasurdo, A.; Mulder, C. H.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The role of migration history and household structure in internal migration: evidence from the Netherlands, 1850-1940

Comparative Population Studies 51, 441–470. (2026)

Fernández Soto, M.; Escoto, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.:

The role of kinship networks in childcare at birth: evidence from three Latin American countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-012. (2026)

Hünteler, B. M.; Hank, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Leopold, T.:

A typology of young adults' nuclear and extended family relations in the United States

Journal of Marriage and Family 88:1, 284–298. (2026)

Pojman, E.; Hong, C.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Queer family matters: estimates of queer kinship in the United States

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-014. (2026)

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

Vertical kinship distribution at the population level: a Mamushka approximation

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2026)

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

Towards a demographic analysis of kinship bereavement

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2026)

Abrams, L. R.; Jiang, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.:

Adverse mortality trends have increased the number bereaved in the United States

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2025)

Adhikari, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The future of grandparenthood in South Asia: the role of population aging and educational expansion

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-003. (2025)

Adhikari, S.; Lutz, W.; KC, S.:

Rural/urban fertility differentials and the role of female education in declining birth rates: comparative analysis in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

Asian Population Studies 21:3, 257–281. (2025)

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

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

Population Studies 79:1, 45–57. (2025)

Colasurdo, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mulder, C. H.:

Geographical dispersal of kin in Europe and the United States: 1700-1900

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2025)

Gómez Ugarte Valerio, A. C.; Chen, I.; Acosta, E.; Basellini, U.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Accounting for uncertainty in conflict mortality estimation: an application to the Gaza War in 2023-2024

Population Health Metrics 23:55, 1–15. (2025)

Hünteler, B. M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Projecting generational placement trajectories: empirical and simulated populations in Norway

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2025)

Hünteler, B. M.; Hank, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Leopold, T.:

A typology of nuclear and extended family relations in the United States

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2025)

Hünteler, B. M.; Hank, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Leopold, T.:

Younger adults' nuclear and extended family relationships in Europe: a latent class analysis

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2025)

Hünteler, B. M.; Nutz, T.; Wörn, J.:

Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway

Social Forces 103:4, 1307–1328. (2025)

Jessee, L.; Hünteler, B. M.; Hank, K.:

Familie als generationaler Kontext sozialer Ungleichheiten

In: Handbuch Sozialstrukturanalyse, 1–21. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. (2025)

Jiang, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Chung, P. H.; Alexander, M. J.:

Measuring kinship dependency: a cross-national comparison across care regimes

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-024. (2025)

Jiang, S.; Liang, H.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Human capital investment helps mitigate family caregiving challenges in aging China

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-021. (2025)

Jiang, S.; Zuo, W.; Guo, Z.; Tuljapurkar, S.:

When to claim a pension: the effect of uncertainty in ages at death

Genus 81:5, 1–27. (2025)

Jiang, S.; Zuo, W.; Guo, Z.; Tuljapurkar, S.:

Changing demographic rates reshape kinship networks

Demography 62:3, 899–922. (2025)

Leopold, T.; Raab, M.; Becker, C. C.; Büyükkeçeci, Z.; Çineli, B.:

Mapping modern kinship networks: first results from the KINMATRIX survey

Journal of Marriage and Family 87:2, 478–504. (2025)

Martins de Almeida, A.; Strozza, C.; Rentería, E.:

Using the orphanhood method to explore the association between children’s education and maternal survival in Chile

OSF preprints. unpublished. (2025)

Maskileyson, D.; Hünteler, B. M.:

Unequal returns? Wealth and debt gradients in health among immigrants and natives in Norway

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2025)

Matos-Moreno, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Verdery, A. M.; Fernández Soto, M.; Santos-Lozada, A.:

Kinship structures for left behind older adults in high outmigration contexts: evidence from Puerto Rico

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 80:6, 1–9. (2025)

van Damme, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Castro Torres, A. F.:

Research note: estimating kinship size of older adults in Europe with models and surveys

Demography 62:3, 763–772. (2025)

Adhikari, S.; Lutz, W.; Kebede, E. B.:

Forecasting Africa’s fertility decline by female education groups

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121:46, e2320247121–e2320247121. (2024)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.; Williams, N. E.:

The long-lasting effect of armed conflicts deaths on the living: quantifying family bereavement

Science Advances 10:30, 1–12. (2024)

Colasurdo, A.; Omenti, R.:

Using online genealogical data for demographic research: an empirical examination of the FamiLinx database

Demographic Research 51:41, 1299–1350. (2024)

Hünteler, B. M.; Cass, A.; Wetzel, M.:

Flexible work policies and the division of housework and childcare in German cohabiting couples

Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 897–932. (2024)

Hünteler, B. M.; Hank, K.:

Life-course generational placements and health and wellbeing in later life

Ageing and Society 45:1, 145–163. (2024)

Hünteler, B. M.; Polizzi, A.; van Raalte, A. A.:

Changing kinship structures in East and West Germany before and after reunification

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2024)

Leopold, T.; Becker, C. C.; Büyükkeçeci, Z.; Çineli, B.; Raab, M.:

KINMATRIX: a new data resource for studies of families and kinship

Demographic Research 51:25, 789–808. (2024)

Schlueter, B.-S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Bibbins-Domingo, K.; Alexander, M. J.; Kiang, M. V.:

Youth experiencing parental death due to drug poisoning and firearm violence in the US, 1999-2020

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 331:20, 1741–1747. (2024)

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

Projections of human kinship for all countries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:52, e2315722120–e2315722120. (2023)

Pojman, E.; Mwedzi, D. E.; Olaya Bucaro, O.; Zhang, S.; Chong, M.; Alexander, M. J.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Leaving for life: using online crowd-sourced genealogies to estimate the migrant mortality advantage for the United Kingdom and Ireland between the 18^th and 20^th centuries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-050. (2023)

Theile, T.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Calderón-Bernal, L. P.; Snyder, M.; Zagheni, E.:

rsocsim - Socsim microsimulation R package

Software. https://github.com/MPIDR/rsocsim: GitHub. (2023)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The demographic drivers of grief and memory after genocide in Guatemala

Demography 59:3, 1173–1194. (2022)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The demographic drivers of grief and memory after genocide in Guatemala

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-003. (2021)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Vivir para contarla: un análisis demográfico de las masacres de Río Negro en Guatemala (1980-1982)

Revista Análisis de la Realidad Nacional 10:208, 91–104. (2021)

Williams, I.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Song, X.; Caswell, H.:

DemoKin: an R package to implement demographic matrix kinship models

Software. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DemoKin/: CRAN. unpublished. (2021)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Blood is thicker than bloodshed: a genealogical approach to reconstruct populations after armed conflicts

Demographic Research 40:23, 627–656. (2019)

Leone, T.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Ghandour, R.; Coast, E.; Giacaman, R.:

Maternal and child access to care and intensity of conflict in the occupied Palestinian territory: a pseudo longitudinal analysis (2000–2014)

Conflict and Health 13:36, 1–15. (2019)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Beyond excess mortality: the demographic life of a Mayan community after a war of massacres

London: London School of Economics and Political Science. (2018)

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