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Recent Articles

  

29 October 2025 | descriptive finding

Early unintended childbearing and unsecured debt in the United States

Clifford Ross, Mieke Thomeer, Joseph Wolfe, Shantay Williams

Volume: 53 Article ID: 27
Pages: 897–914

28 October 2025 | research article

A parametric survival model for child mortality using complex survey data

Taylor Okonek, Katie Wilson, Jon Wakefield

Volume: 53 Article ID: 26
Pages: 821–896

 

Open Call for Papers

23 October 2025

We are inviting you to submit contributions to the Special Collection on the De/Re-institutionalization of Asian Families, organized by Lake Lui, Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan, and Adam Ka-lok Cheung. Submissions to this collection are possible from November 1, 2025 until February 28, 2026.
Please find more information on the collection’s description and goals as well as on submission procedures here.

Editorial on p-values

23 October 2022

In the last few years, the American Statistical Association has published position statements on the correct use and interpretation of p-values and on avoiding possible traps in applied statistical work. As much of empirical research in demography relies on statistical methods, in order to meet the challenge, Demographic Research has now also issued editorial guidance on our expectations regarding statistical rigour and replicability in empirical work. Please find the full editorial here:
demographic-research.org/…/vol41/32