Albert Esteves
Biographic Data
| ID | 259201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Esteves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Esteves |
| SIGNATURE | ESTEVES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Demographic Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9916-386X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 728 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Living Arrangements of Single Mothers in Latin America
One in four young mothers in Latin America raises her children without a partner, yet more than two‐thirds do so within extended households, typically with their own parents. Despite the social implications of single‐parent families, it remains unclear to what extent the prevalence and living arrangements of single mothers have evolved over recent decades or how they vary by education and partnership status. Using Integrated Public Use of Microda…
Years of Change in Living Arrangements in the United States Using Expected Years of Life
Over the past 170 years, the United States has undergone demographic, structural, and cultural changes that are reflected in—and a reflection of—changes in living arrangements. In this research note, we link living arrangements and life expectancy to calculate expected life years spent across different living arrangements by sex for the U.S. population for the period 1850–2021. We decompose changes in this measure by age group and describe change…
Family-Anchored” transitions to adult life in Mexico
BACKGROUNDIt is common for young adults in Mexico to coreside with own parents or other extended family members when forming the first partnership or becoming a parent/single parent.This practice has scarcely been studied in the literature and yet plays a very relevant role in understanding transitions to adulthood in the Latin American context. OBJECTIVEThis study explores whether young Mexicans realize family transitions (first partnership, par…
School Enrollment and Living Arrangements of Children in Sub‐Saharan Africa
School enrollment has increased in many sub‐Saharan African countries over recent decades, alongside substantial socioeconomic and demographic transitions. However, gains in educational enrollment have not been equal, raising questions about the determinants of access to and variability in school enrollment. The living arrangements of children constitute one possible factor associated with this variability. We leverage 60 census samples, provided…
Determinants of Regional Disparities in Older Adult – Child Coresidence in China
As population aging accelerates, understanding the living arrangements of older adults – particularly their coresidence with children – is crucial to addressing their diverse needs. While intergenerational coresidence has been widely studied across countries and over time, regional differences within countries remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by examining regional variations in intergenerational coresidence among older adults i…
Neighbor change and social connectedness for older adults in Barcelona
This study examines the interaction between aging and urban change to identify urban areas where older adults may experience low social connectedness, based on the principles of propinquity and homophily in the formation of social ties. We develop an indicator that operationalizes previous findings on the impact of urban change on older adults' social connectedness, a predictor of health and well-being. Using comprehensive administrative from the…
Quantifying the Role of Self-Declared Obstacles to Unachieved Fertility
The discrepancies between desired and actual fertility rates are one of the key topics in fertility studies. This paper aims to explore the fertility gap—the difference between desired fertility size and actual fertility outcomes, and how this gap can be decomposed according to the importance of various perceived barriers to fertility. This article introduces an innovative approach to quantify the impact of removing obstacles that individuals rep…
Changes in Latin American and Caribbean Household Structure Amidst Fertility Decline, 1960–2020
Over the past six decades, significant demographic and familial changes, including rapid fertility decline, have occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), impacting household structure and formation. We document trends in and changes to household size and composition in the region, leveraging 144 country‐year samples from census and survey microdata across 27 LAC countries. We measure changes in average household size, household composit…
The Stability of Child Fostering in Sub‐Saharan Africa
In sub‐Saharan Africa, child out‐fostering is a traditional social practice, and research suggests stable levels of out‐fostering over time, yet the underlying demographic and socioeconomic factors driving this stability have remained largely unexplored. To gain insight into the prevalence and associations of child out‐fostering and mothers’ individual and household characteristics, we analyzed nine rounds of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) d…
El cuidado infantil y sus efectos en la intención de tener más hijos en España
España es uno de los países con las tasas de fecundidad más bajas de Europa. La escasez de servicios de apoyo a las familias con hijos se ha esgrimido como una de las causas estructurales de su reducida fertilidad. En este contexto, la ayuda al cuidado infantil formal, especialmente en la etapa de 0 a 3 años, es considerada un recurso crucial para mejorar el escenario existente. Utilizando datos de la Encuesta de Fecundidad de España de 2018 (INE…
African households
Using census and survey microdata from 49 African countries across 415 subnational areas, we offer a comprehensive overview of household size and composition in Africa. The study emphasizes the potential of these data for understanding family dynamics through co-residential units. Clear regional patterns emerge, showcasing a wide range of household sizes across the continent. We find that household size is linked primarily to the number of childr…
Rising Female-Headed Households
Censuses and surveys predominantly report men as heads of households or reference persons despite women carrying out most domestic and care work. Recent evidence, however, suggests that an increasing number of households are headed by women. Using data from the newly released CORESIDENCE database, which includes over 770 data points from 156 countries worldwide spanning from 1960 to 2021, this study presents the first global map of female headshi…
Five decades of household change across Asian societies
Non-family Living Arrangements Among Young Adults in the United States
The share of young adults living in married-couple family households in the USA has declined in recent decades. Research on alternative living arrangements focuses on cohabitation among unmarried couples and parent–adult child coresidence. Less is known about trends in non-family living arrangements and the characteristics of young adults living with non-relatives. This study documents trends over time in non-family living arrangements among youn…
Estrategias de cuidado infantil de 0 a 3 años en España
Utilizando datos de la Encuesta Española de Fecundidad 2018 este estudio analiza las estrategias de cuidado infantil de las madres con hijos de 0 a 3 años y sus perfiles sociodemográficos. Se distinguen cuatro grupos de mujeres en función de los recursos disponibles: madres españolas con empleo y en pareja, sin empleo y en pareja, sin pareja y madres extranjeras. Los resultados muestran que la mayoría combinan alternativas para el cuidado, aunque…
Trends in Living Arrangements Around the World
Most people coreside with other kin in private households while others live alone. The incidence of coresidence with kin and solo living varies noticeably across societies. Scholars have long theorized about the role of modernization and cultural change for living arrangements, suggesting a trend toward the nuclearization of households (coresidence only with primary kin) or solo living as societies attain higher levels of development. There is li…
Lowest low fertility in Spain
BACKGROUNDSpain has one of the most enduring low levels of fertility in the world, but desired fertility there is still close to two children. OBJECTIVESWe document recent fertility trends and examine the reasons that women and men provide for not achieving their desired fertility. METHODWe use data from the 2018 Spanish Fertility Survey (14,556 women and 2,619 men).We provide a cohort and age perspective and compare women and men.We use retrospe…
Gender Asymmetries in Cross-National Couples
We use census microdata for Spain and the United States to examine gender differences in cross-national heterosexual couples (marriages and cohabitating unions involving natives and immigrant spouses). We examine whether native men and native women in cross-national couples exhibit similar patterns regarding the country of birth, age, and educational attainment of their international partners. Countries are ranked by their level of the human deve…
Black-white intermarriage in global perspective
BACKGROUND: Intermarriage is a leading indicator of racialized relations. Scholarly literature has focused on the United States. We show that, in world perspective, black–white intermarriage is especially low in that country. Surprisingly, there are no studies that compare black–white intermarriage across a broad range of countries around the world. OBJECTIVE: How does black–white intermarriage compare in Brazil, Cuba, France, South Africa, the U…
The Decline of Spanish Fertility
Interregional migration of human capital in Spain
While levels of internal mobility have been trending down in many advanced economies, the interregional migration rates of Spanish young adults have increased. This paper analyses the internal movements of the Spanish-born population aged 25–39 between NUTS-2 regions from 1992 to 2018, including sub-periods linked to the Spanish economic context. The analysis incorporates the urban–rural dimension within each region and the educational level of m…
Trends in Female Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Educational expansion and the closing of gender gaps in education are key objectives in national and international policy agendas. Monitoring progress towards these goals requires comparable data across countries and over time. The availability of international census and survey microdata allows for cross-national comparisons of education participation and completion. However, we lack systematic analyses of how trends vary across data sources and…
Families in Latin America
We review demographic and sociological literature on family dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and systematize major trends in union formation and fertility in recent decades. We also highlight the singularities that distinguish family patterns and trends in LAC from those in other world regions and discuss the contextual factors underlying these singularities. Latin American families have undergone substantial changes in their con…
La estructura de los hogares de las personas mayores en América Latina y el Caribe
In the Region, it is common for older persons to live with children and other family members. The differences between countries and by educational level show that the family plays an important role in social protection of the elderly in less developed countries and in the least educated groups
Rising Global Levels of Intergenerational Coresidence Among Young Adults
Using census and survey microdata from 69 countries worldwide, in this paper we document levels of intergenerational coresidence over the life course and examine changes in recent decades. We present evidence of a generalized pattern of increase in intergenerational coresidence during the initial decade of this century. This is most evident among people aged 20-30 and, at least in regions such as Europe and North America and in Latin America and …
The End of Hypergamy
The gender gap in education that has long favored men has reversed for young adults in almost all high and middle-income countries. In 2010, the proportion of women aged 25-29 with a college education was higher than that of men in more than 139 countries which altogether represent 86% of the world's population. According to recent population forecasts, women will have more education than men in nearly every country in the world by 2050, with the…
The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Its Consequences for Family Life
Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past, the gender gap in education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western countries. We review the literature about the implications for union formation, assortative mating, the division of paid and unpaid work, and union stability in Western countries. The bulk of the evidence points to a narrowing of gender differences in mate preferences and declining a…
The Gender-Gap Reversal in Education and Its Effect on Union Formation
Newly released census microdata reveal the nearly worldwide and substantial decline in educational hypergamy (women marrying men with higher educational attainment) across 56 countries from the 1970s to the 2000s. We examine the extent to which the observed decrease in hypergamy is connected to the worldwide rise in female educational attainment. Our results show that educational hypergamy is an enduring form of gender inequality in union formati…
The Latin American Cohabitation Boom, 1970-2007
The article describes the rise of unmarried cohabitation in Latin American countries during the last 30 years of the twentieth century, both at the national and regional levels. It documents that this major increase occurred in regions with and without traditional forms of cohabitation alike. In addition, the striking degree of catching up of cohabitation among the better-educated population segments is illustrated. The connections between these …
Living Alone over the Life Course
The increasing proportion of persons living alone has come to be emblematic in many ways of modern Western societies because it represents the importance conceded to the individual and to individual goals at the expense, basically, of the family. Solo living has been interpreted within the context of changing values and preferences, changing personal and conjugal realities, and the changing work contexts so often associated with the Second Demogr…
Female-Headed Households and Living Conditions in Latin America
The Family Context of Cohabitation and Single Motherhood in Latin America
The dramatic shift from marriage to cohabitation during the last four decades in most Latin American countries, even among the upper social strata, begs the question as to the living arrangements of cohabiting couples and single mothers. The new "Family Interrelationships Variables" in the IPUMS samples of Latin American censuses facilitated the construction of an enlarged LIPRO typology. LIPRO classifies individuals with respect to the types of …
Long Term Trends in Marital Age Homogamy Patterns
This paper uses marriage registration statistics to carry out a long-term descriptive analysis of age homogamy patterns in Spain, from 1922 to 2006. We first examine the relationships between marital age homogamy patterns, trends in second order marriages and age at marriage of men and women. Second, we apply a standardization method to decompose the changes of age homogamy among first marriages into the effects produced by changes in age-sex com…
Rising Global Levels of Intergenerational Coresidence Among Young Adults
Using census and survey microdata from 69 countries worldwide, in this paper we document levels of intergenerational coresidence over the life course and examine changes in recent decades. We present evidence of a generalized pattern of increase in intergenerational coresidence during the initial decade of this century. This is most evident among people aged 20-30 and, at least in regions such as Europe and North America and in Latin America and …
Marriage Patterns of the Foreign-Born Population in a New Country of Immigration
We use 2001 Spanish census microdata and multivariate logistic regression analysis to explore differences in marriage patterns between the foreign-born population in Spain, a country that has experienced a dramatic increase in international migration rates in the last decade. In particular, we examine separately the prevalence of being in a consensual and in an endogamous union for a selected and representative group of origins. Results show that…
Interregional migration of human capital in Spain
While levels of internal mobility have been trending down in many advanced economies, the interregional migration rates of Spanish young adults have increased. This paper analyses the internal movements of the Spanish-born population aged 25–39 between NUTS-2 regions from 1992 to 2018, including sub-periods linked to the Spanish economic context. The analysis incorporates the urban–rural dimension within each region and the educational level of m…
The Stability Paradox
Despite substantial improvements in women's education, the age at which Latin American women marry (cohabit) or become mothers for the first time has barely decreased over the past four decades. We refer to this as the “stability paradox.” We examine the relationship between years of schooling and transitions to first union or child, analyzing retrospective information from 50 cohorts of women born between 1940 and 1989 in 12 Latin American count…
Families in Latin America
We review demographic and sociological literature on family dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and systematize major trends in union formation and fertility in recent decades. We also highlight the singularities that distinguish family patterns and trends in LAC from those in other world regions and discuss the contextual factors underlying these singularities. Latin American families have undergone substantial changes in their con…
Disentangling how educational expansion did not increase women's age at union formation in Latin America from 1970 to 2000
One of the most salient features of Latin American marriages over the last few decades is the stable timing of their union formation, despite educational expansion, the postponement of and retreat from marriage, and the increase in non-marital cohabitation
Potential (Mis)match? Marriage Markets Amidst Sociodemographic Change in India, 2005–2050
We explore the impact of sociodemographic change on marriage patterns in India by examining the hypothetical consequences of applying three sets of marriage pairing propensities—contemporary patterns by age, contemporary patterns by age and education, and changing propensities that allow for greater educational homogamy and reduced educational asymmetries—to future population projections. Future population prospects for India indicate three trend…
The Educational Homogamy Gap Between Married and Cohabiting Couples in Latin America
Homogamia educacional en México y Brasil, 1970-2000
En un contexto histórico de expansión educativa, mejora de los rendimientos de la educación y aumento de la participación de la mujer en la actividad económica, este artículo examina y compara las pautas y tendencias en homogamia educativa en México y Brasil entre 1970 y 2000. Concretamente, tratamos en perspectiva temporal y comparada las siguientes cuestiones: grado y alcance de la homogamia educativa y simetría en las relaciones de género. Par…
Changes in educational assortative mating in contemporary Spain
This article analyses patterns and trends in educational assortative mating of the Spanish women born between 1920 and 1969 using data from the 2001 Spanish Census. By means of loglinear models we examine the following issues: i) intensity and changes
Human Development Index-like Small Area Estimates for Africa Computed from Ipums-International Integrated Census Microdata
This paper analyzes 24 African census samples from 13 countries available via the African Integrated Census MicroData website to illustrate how microdata may be used to assess development and pinpoint basic human needs at local administrative levels over time. We calculate a Human Development Index-like measure for small administrative areas, where much of the responsibility lies for executing policies related to health, education and general wel…
Trends in Living Arrangements Around the World
Most people coreside with other kin in private households while others live alone. The incidence of coresidence with kin and solo living varies noticeably across societies. Scholars have long theorized about the role of modernization and cultural change for living arrangements, suggesting a trend toward the nuclearization of households (coresidence only with primary kin) or solo living as societies attain higher levels of development. There is li…
Challenges and Methods of International Census Harmonization
The development of IPUMS-International involves harmonizing data from different national statistical offices created over several decades. The original samples vary in quality and have different data formats and variable coding schemes. The authors describe the methods developed to deal with the challenges posed by such diversity and unevenness. The first stage of harmonization involves standardizing the data formats and correcting errors. Diagno…
Racial Intermarriage in the Americas
We compare intermarriage in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States among the black, white, and mixed-race population using log-linear models with data from newly available anonymized and harmonized individual census microdata for the 2000 round of censuses. We find that black–white intermarriage is 105 times as likely in Brazil and 28 times as likely in Cuba compared to the United States; that Brazilian mulatos are four times as likely to marry whit…
Towards a Geography of Unmarried Cohabitation in the Americas
BACKGROUND: In the context of increasing cohabitation and growing demand for understanding the driving forces behind the cohabitation boom, most analyses have been carried out at a national level, not accounting for regional heterogeneity within countries. OBJECTIVE: This paper presents the geography of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas. We offer a large-scale, cross-national perspective together with small-area estimates of cohabitation. We…
Decomposing patterns of college marital sorting in 118 countries
Demographic change and increasing late singlehood in East Asia, 2010-2050
Marriage is a central institution for social reproduction in East Asia. Until the 1970s and 1980s, marriage across much of East Asia was early and universal. In recent decades, though, this pattern has begun shifting to one of later and less marriage
Challenges and Methods of International Census Harmonization
The development of IPUMS-International involves harmonizing data from different national statistical offices created over several decades. The original samples vary in quality and have different data formats and variable coding schemes. The authors describe the methods developed to deal with the challenges posed by such diversity and unevenness. The first stage of harmonization involves standardizing the data formats and correcting errors. Diagno…
La integración de los microdatos censales de América Latina
Gracias al pionero esfuerzo del doctor Gustavo Cabrera y de otros grandes próceres de la demografía, en América Latina sobrevive un vasto archivo de microdatos censales; sin embargo la mayor parte de ellos se mantiene inaccesible a los investigadores.En la trayectoria académica y científica del profesor Cabrera ha sido constante su preocupación por las fuentes de información. Hoy el proyecto Integrated Public Use of Microdata Series para América …
Changes in educational assortative mating in contemporary Spain
This article analyses patterns and trends in educational assortative mating of the Spanish women born between 1920 and 1969 using data from the 2001 Spanish Census. By means of loglinear models we examine the following issues: i) intensity and changes
Homogamia educacional en México y Brasil, 1970-2000
En un contexto histórico de expansión educativa, mejora de los rendimientos de la educación y aumento de la participación de la mujer en la actividad económica, este artículo examina y compara las pautas y tendencias en homogamia educativa en México y Brasil entre 1970 y 2000. Concretamente, tratamos en perspectiva temporal y comparada las siguientes cuestiones: grado y alcance de la homogamia educativa y simetría en las relaciones de género. Par…
Marriage Patterns of the Foreign-Born Population in a New Country of Immigration
We use 2001 Spanish census microdata and multivariate logistic regression analysis to explore differences in marriage patterns between the foreign-born population in Spain, a country that has experienced a dramatic increase in international migration rates in the last decade. In particular, we examine separately the prevalence of being in a consensual and in an endogamous union for a selected and representative group of origins. Results show that…
Long Term Trends in Marital Age Homogamy Patterns
This paper uses marriage registration statistics to carry out a long-term descriptive analysis of age homogamy patterns in Spain, from 1922 to 2006. We first examine the relationships between marital age homogamy patterns, trends in second order marriages and age at marriage of men and women. Second, we apply a standardization method to decompose the changes of age homogamy among first marriages into the effects produced by changes in age-sex com…
Migración, ocupación y matrimonio
En este artículo se analiza la condición de doble ingreso de las parejas como una manera de observar las relaciones de género en el caso particular de las uniones mixtas en el contexto de la creciente presencia de inmigrantes internacionales en España. Para ello se ha considerado simultáneamente la posición de esos hombres y mujeres inmigrantes en los mercados laboral y matrimonial. Con datos de la Encuesta de Población Activa de España para el s…
L'écart d'âge entre époux en Espagne
Cette étude s'appuie sur les statistiques des registres de mariages pour proposer une analyse descriptive à long terme de l'écart d'âge entre époux en Espagne, de 1922 à 2006. Nous examinons tout d'abord les relations entre l'écart d'âge des conjoints, les tendances des mariages de second rang et l'âge au mariage des hommes et des femmes. Ensuite, par une méthode de standardisation, nous décomposons l'évolution de l'écart d'âge au premier mariage…
Union Formation Implications of Race and Gender Gaps in Educational Attainment
Género, ocupación y estructuras del hogar de la migración dominicana y ecuatoriana en España y Estados Unidos
Con datos censales de Estados Unidos de América y España, en este artículo se comparan las estructuras ocupacionales y de los hogares de la población dominicana y ecuatoriana en los dos países. La finalidad principal del trabajo es investigar (I) si las diferencias en el grado de feminización de los flujos migratorios hacia ambos países responden a una cuestión de la demanda del mercado laboral y (II) si ha tenido implicaciones en la estructura d…
Expansión educativa e inmigración internacional en España
En aquest article estudiem la composició de les parelles espanyoles segons el nivell d'instrucció i l'origen dels cònjuges, en un context caracteritzat per l'expansió educativa de la població espanyola i l'increment de la població estrangera. L'estudi de les generacions nascudes entre 1920 i 1969 realitzat a partir del cens de població de 2001 revela una reducció dels nivells generals d’homogàmia educativa de generació en generació, una intensifi…
Changing household patterns of young couples in low- and middle-income countries
While young couples in Western societies generally form a new household, in low-income societies new unions are often incorporated into existing households. However, there is a growing tendency in the nuclearization of households as intergenerational co-residence is undermined by growing wage labour opportunities that provide incentives for rural–urban migration and because small nuclear families adapt better to urban societies characterized by h…
Y en qué lugar se enamoró de ti? Inmigración internacional y endogamia conyugal
Fent servir les dades de l’Enquesta Nacional d’Immigrants de 2007, aquest article té dos objectius: a) examinar els nivells d’endogàmia de la població immigrada a Espanya que va formar parella després de la migració, b) analitzar la variació dels nivells d’endogàmia segons la situació de la parella i l’edat en el moment de l’arribada. Els resultats mostren diferències importants en funció del col·lectiu d’immigrants. Els africans són els més endò…
The Family Context of Cohabitation and Single Motherhood in Latin America
The dramatic shift from marriage to cohabitation during the last four decades in most Latin American countries, even among the upper social strata, begs the question as to the living arrangements of cohabiting couples and single mothers. The new "Family Interrelationships Variables" in the IPUMS samples of Latin American censuses facilitated the construction of an enlarged LIPRO typology. LIPRO classifies individuals with respect to the types of …
The Gender-Gap Reversal in Education and Its Effect on Union Formation
Newly released census microdata reveal the nearly worldwide and substantial decline in educational hypergamy (women marrying men with higher educational attainment) across 56 countries from the 1970s to the 2000s. We examine the extent to which the observed decrease in hypergamy is connected to the worldwide rise in female educational attainment. Our results show that educational hypergamy is an enduring form of gender inequality in union formati…
The Latin American Cohabitation Boom, 1970-2007
The article describes the rise of unmarried cohabitation in Latin American countries during the last 30 years of the twentieth century, both at the national and regional levels. It documents that this major increase occurred in regions with and without traditional forms of cohabitation alike. In addition, the striking degree of catching up of cohabitation among the better-educated population segments is illustrated. The connections between these …
The Educational Homogamy Gap Between Married and Cohabiting Couples in Latin America
The Impact of Educational Homogamy on Isolated Illiteracy Levels
In this article, we explore the impacts that education expansion and increased levels in educational homogamy have had on couples’ isolated illiteracy rates, defined as the proportion of illiterates in union that are married to an illiterate partner. First, we develop the methodology to decompose isolated illiteracy rates into two main components: one related to level of homogamy among illiterates, and the other related to the educational distrib…
Disentangling how educational expansion did not increase women's age at union formation in Latin America from 1970 to 2000
One of the most salient features of Latin American marriages over the last few decades is the stable timing of their union formation, despite educational expansion, the postponement of and retreat from marriage, and the increase in non-marital cohabitation
Towards a Geography of Unmarried Cohabitation in the Americas
BACKGROUND: In the context of increasing cohabitation and growing demand for understanding the driving forces behind the cohabitation boom, most analyses have been carried out at a national level, not accounting for regional heterogeneity within countries. OBJECTIVE: This paper presents the geography of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas. We offer a large-scale, cross-national perspective together with small-area estimates of cohabitation. We…
Potential (Mis)match? Marriage Markets Amidst Sociodemographic Change in India, 2005–2050
We explore the impact of sociodemographic change on marriage patterns in India by examining the hypothetical consequences of applying three sets of marriage pairing propensities—contemporary patterns by age, contemporary patterns by age and education, and changing propensities that allow for greater educational homogamy and reduced educational asymmetries—to future population projections. Future population prospects for India indicate three trend…
Human Development Index-like Small Area Estimates for Africa Computed from Ipums-International Integrated Census Microdata
This paper analyzes 24 African census samples from 13 countries available via the African Integrated Census MicroData website to illustrate how microdata may be used to assess development and pinpoint basic human needs at local administrative levels over time. We calculate a Human Development Index-like measure for small administrative areas, where much of the responsibility lies for executing policies related to health, education and general wel…
Female-Headed Households and Living Conditions in Latin America
The End of Hypergamy
The gender gap in education that has long favored men has reversed for young adults in almost all high and middle-income countries. In 2010, the proportion of women aged 25-29 with a college education was higher than that of men in more than 139 countries which altogether represent 86% of the world's population. According to recent population forecasts, women will have more education than men in nearly every country in the world by 2050, with the…
Patterns of Population and Urban Growth in Southwest Europe
This work seeks to measure, locate, and explain changes in the distribution of population and urban growth in the territory formed by France, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula between 1920 and 2010. This is based on population data of more than fifty-six thousand local units obtained from population censuses: the Geokhoris database that we built. Our starting viewpoint is that it is only possible to understand the extent of the urbanization proces…
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