Patrick Heuveline
Biographic Data
| ID | 100580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Heuveline |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Heuveline |
| SIGNATURE | HEUVELINE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9503-901X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 677 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
How Political Events Become Demographic
Political conflict and violence shape the core demographic processes of mortality, migration, and fertility, while also influencing union formation, health, and kinship networks. Existing studies have often asked whether conflict is positively or negatively associated with demographic outcomes, yet findings remain strikingly mixed. This reflects the heterogeneous nature of conflict and violence themselves, the institutional and social contexts in…
Parental Loss and Mental Health in Post-Khmer-Rouge Cambodia
Adverse childhood events (ACE) may have lasting consequences throughout the life course. We focus on one particular type of ACE, parental loss in Cambodia—a country that lost nearly 25% of its population during the 1975-79 Khmer-Rouge regime—and on mental health disorders, one of the potential mechanisms through which ACE may have long-term consequences. Self-reports of symptoms that map on to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Healt…
Contemporary Marriage in Cambodia
Previous work has suggested that the drastic Khmer-Rouge-era changes to the family institution have not endured. Potentially more influential in the long term were the rapid socio-economic changes Cambodia underwent starting in the 1990s. We use four waves of the Cambodian Demographic and Health Surveys from 2000 to 2014 to document contemporary trends in marriage formation and dissolution. We find little change in the centrality of marriage, as …
Interpreting changes in life expectancy during temporary mortality shocks
BACKGROUND: Life expectancy is a pure measure of the mortality conditions faced by a population, unaffected by that population's age structure. The numerical value of life expectancy also has an intuitive interpretation, conditional on some assumptions, as the expected age at death of an average newborn. This intuitive interpretation gives life expectancy a broad appeal. Changes in life expectancy are also routinely used to assess mortality trend…
Physical intimate partner violence in India
While a large number of studies assumed gendered socialisation leads to partner abuse, little evidence exists for India. We bridge this crucial gap by exploring the pathways between childhood socialisation and intimate partner violence, using data 'Youth in India: Situation and Need Study (2006-2007)' for 5573 young married men (15-29 years). Nearly 17 per cent of men inflicted physical IPV in the past 12 months. Seventy-seven per cent recognized…
Global and National Declines in Life Expectancy
Timely, high-quality mortality data have allowed for assessments of the impact of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on life expectancies in upper-middle- and high-income countries. Extant data, though imperfect, suggest that the bulk of the pandemic-induced mortality might have occurred elsewhere. This article reports on changes in life expectancies around the world as far as they can be estimated from the evidence available at the en…
Household structure and child education in Cambodia
We analyze the effects of household structure on education in Cambodia. Consistent evidence documents that residence with both biological parents benefits children’s education in Western countries. Elsewhere, the issue is gaining more attention with the growing number of “left-behind children” due to adult migration and, possibly, changes in family behavior. The extant record is both thinner and more contrasted, however. Controlling for the prese…
One-Parent Families in Contemporary Cambodia
Non-marital births and divorce remain rare in Cambodia. Due to dramatic levels of adult mortality reached during the late 1970s, growing up with a single parent is not. Using nationally representative, cross-sectional data, we estimate that about 12% of children under age 18 co-reside with only one of their biological parents. Using longitudinal data representative of the Mekong River Valley, we find this proportion to be declining. Nearly half o…
Fertility Transition
The boundaries of genocide
The range of estimates of excess deaths under Pol Pot's rule of Cambodia (1975-79) is too wide to be useful: they range from under 1 to over 3 million, with the more plausible estimates still varying from 1 to 2 million. By stochastically reconstructing population dynamics in Cambodia from extant historical and demographic data, we produced interpretable distributions of the death toll and other demographic indicators. The resulting 95 per cent s…
It Takes a Village (Perhaps a Nation)
Research in the United States has shown that children growing up in 2-parent households do better in school than children from single-parent households. We used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data to test whether this finding applied to other countries as well (N = 100,307). We found that it did, but that the educational gap was greater in the United States than in the other 13 countries considered. Results from…
Diversity and change in Cambodian households, 1998–2006
The international child poverty gap
According to the Luxembourg Income Study data, the U.S. child poverty rate is the second highest among 15 high-income nations. The present work reveals that 55% of all American children living in a household headed by a single female with no other adult present live in poverty—the highest rate for any of the five living arrangements in the 15 countries examined in this study. While previous analyses have focused on market forces and governmental …
The phoenix population
The study of mortality crises provides an unusual and valuable perspective on the relationship between mortality and fertility changes, a relationship that has puzzled demographers for decades. In this article, we combine nationally representative survey and demographic-surveillance system data to study fertility trends around the time of the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime, under which 25% of the Cambodian population died. We present the first quantitat…
Do marriages forget their past? Marital stability in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia
This paper assesses the impact of three main destabilizing factors on marital stability in Cambodia: the radical reformation of marriage under the Khmers Rouges (KR); the imbalanced gender ratio among marriageable adults resulting from gendered mortality during the KR regime; and, after decades of isolation from the West, a period of rapid social change. Although there is evidence of declining marital stability in the most recent period, marriage…
A cross-over in Mexican and Mexican-American fertility rates
Against a backdrop of two new developments in the fertility behavior of the Mexican-Origin population in the U.S., the present discussion will update contemporary Mexican-Origin fertility patterns and address several theoretical weaknesses in the current approach to immigrant group fertility. Data come from six national surveys (three from Mexico and three from the U.S.) that cover a twenty-five year period (1975- 2000). The findings demonstrate …
The role of cohabitation in family formation
The prevalence of nonmarital cohabitation is steadily increasing in the United States. In evaluating the contribution of this new living arrangement to family formation, analysts have relied primarily on comparisons between individuals who cohabit and those who do not. We complement this line of inquiry by comparing the United States and 16 industrialized nations. We first identify six conceptually distinct ideal types of cohabitation with respec…
HIV and population dynamics
In high-prevalence populations, the HIV epidemic undermines the validity of past empirical models and related demographic techniques. A parsimonious model of HIV and population dynamics is presented here and fit to 46,000 observations, gathered from 11 East African populations. The fitted model simulates HIV and population dynamics with standard demographic inputs and only two additional parameters for the onset and scale of the epidemic. The und…
Shifting Childrearing to Single Mothers
We investigate how recent changes in the Western family have affected childhood living arrangements. For 17 developed countries, we use multistate life table techniques to estimate childhood trajectories of coresi-dence with biological fathers versus other maternal partners. In all countries childhood exposure to single parenting is more often caused by parental separation than out-of-partnership childbearing. Both exposure to single parenting an…
An International Comparison of Adolescent and Young Adult Mortality
s research interests center on population dynamics and family change.His current research includes a comparative project on the increasing complexity of childhood family experiences across industrialized countries and the impact of these experiences on child well being.Other projects in the developing world focus on how populations,and families in particular, cope with demographic crises.One current project looks at the demographic "recovery" in …
The uneven tides of the health transition
Demography, Measuring and Modeling Population Processes
A population history of North America
A population history of North America
Demographic pressure, economic development, and social engineering
The role of cohabitation in family formation
The prevalence of nonmarital cohabitation is steadily increasing in the United States. In evaluating the contribution of this new living arrangement to family formation, analysts have relied primarily on comparisons between individuals who cohabit and those who do not. We complement this line of inquiry by comparing the United States and 16 industrialized nations. We first identify six conceptually distinct ideal types of cohabitation with respec…
Demography, Measuring and Modeling Population Processes
Shifting Childrearing to Single Mothers
We investigate how recent changes in the Western family have affected childhood living arrangements. For 17 developed countries, we use multistate life table techniques to estimate childhood trajectories of coresi-dence with biological fathers versus other maternal partners. In all countries childhood exposure to single parenting is more often caused by parental separation than out-of-partnership childbearing. Both exposure to single parenting an…
A cross-over in Mexican and Mexican-American fertility rates
Against a backdrop of two new developments in the fertility behavior of the Mexican-Origin population in the U.S., the present discussion will update contemporary Mexican-Origin fertility patterns and address several theoretical weaknesses in the current approach to immigrant group fertility. Data come from six national surveys (three from Mexico and three from the U.S.) that cover a twenty-five year period (1975- 2000). The findings demonstrate …
Between One and Three Million
Estimates of mortality in Camabodia during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79) range from 20,000 deaths according to former Khmer Rouge sources, to over three million victims according to Vietnamese government sources. This paper uses an unusual data source - the 1992 electoral lists registered by the United Nations - to estimate the population size after the Khmer Rouge regime and the extent of "excess" mortality in the 1970s. These data also provi…
The phoenix population
The study of mortality crises provides an unusual and valuable perspective on the relationship between mortality and fertility changes, a relationship that has puzzled demographers for decades. In this article, we combine nationally representative survey and demographic-surveillance system data to study fertility trends around the time of the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime, under which 25% of the Cambodian population died. We present the first quantitat…
The international child poverty gap
According to the Luxembourg Income Study data, the U.S. child poverty rate is the second highest among 15 high-income nations. The present work reveals that 55% of all American children living in a household headed by a single female with no other adult present live in poverty—the highest rate for any of the five living arrangements in the 15 countries examined in this study. While previous analyses have focused on market forces and governmental …
Do marriages forget their past? Marital stability in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia
This paper assesses the impact of three main destabilizing factors on marital stability in Cambodia: the radical reformation of marriage under the Khmers Rouges (KR); the imbalanced gender ratio among marriageable adults resulting from gendered mortality during the KR regime; and, after decades of isolation from the West, a period of rapid social change. Although there is evidence of declining marital stability in the most recent period, marriage…
Global and National Declines in Life Expectancy
Timely, high-quality mortality data have allowed for assessments of the impact of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on life expectancies in upper-middle- and high-income countries. Extant data, though imperfect, suggest that the bulk of the pandemic-induced mortality might have occurred elsewhere. This article reports on changes in life expectancies around the world as far as they can be estimated from the evidence available at the en…
An International Comparison of Adolescent and Young Adult Mortality
s research interests center on population dynamics and family change.His current research includes a comparative project on the increasing complexity of childhood family experiences across industrialized countries and the impact of these experiences on child well being.Other projects in the developing world focus on how populations,and families in particular, cope with demographic crises.One current project looks at the demographic "recovery" in …
The Global and Regional Impact of Mortality and Fertility Transitions, 1950-2000
During the second half of the twentieth century, world population grew at a record pace, both in absolute and relative terms, from 2.5 billion to 6 billion (or 1.75 percent annually). Demographers have long identified rapid mortality declines as the main explanation. This article finds that one-fourth of today's world population is alive because of mortality improvements since mid-century. Very rapid growth is unlikely to continue as substantial …
The boundaries of genocide
The range of estimates of excess deaths under Pol Pot's rule of Cambodia (1975-79) is too wide to be useful: they range from under 1 to over 3 million, with the more plausible estimates still varying from 1 to 2 million. By stochastically reconstructing population dynamics in Cambodia from extant historical and demographic data, we produced interpretable distributions of the death toll and other demographic indicators. The resulting 95 per cent s…
HIV and population dynamics
In high-prevalence populations, the HIV epidemic undermines the validity of past empirical models and related demographic techniques. A parsimonious model of HIV and population dynamics is presented here and fit to 46,000 observations, gathered from 11 East African populations. The fitted model simulates HIV and population dynamics with standard demographic inputs and only two additional parameters for the onset and scale of the epidemic. The und…
Demographic pressure, economic development, and social engineering
A description of child illness and treatment behavior in Guatemala
Diversity and change in Cambodian households, 1998–2006
The uneven tides of the health transition
Interpreting changes in life expectancy during temporary mortality shocks
BACKGROUND: Life expectancy is a pure measure of the mortality conditions faced by a population, unaffected by that population's age structure. The numerical value of life expectancy also has an intuitive interpretation, conditional on some assumptions, as the expected age at death of an average newborn. This intuitive interpretation gives life expectancy a broad appeal. Changes in life expectancy are also routinely used to assess mortality trend…
It Takes a Village (Perhaps a Nation)
Research in the United States has shown that children growing up in 2-parent households do better in school than children from single-parent households. We used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data to test whether this finding applied to other countries as well (N = 100,307). We found that it did, but that the educational gap was greater in the United States than in the other 13 countries considered. Results from…
Household structure and child education in Cambodia
We analyze the effects of household structure on education in Cambodia. Consistent evidence documents that residence with both biological parents benefits children’s education in Western countries. Elsewhere, the issue is gaining more attention with the growing number of “left-behind children” due to adult migration and, possibly, changes in family behavior. The extant record is both thinner and more contrasted, however. Controlling for the prese…
One-Parent Families in Contemporary Cambodia
Non-marital births and divorce remain rare in Cambodia. Due to dramatic levels of adult mortality reached during the late 1970s, growing up with a single parent is not. Using nationally representative, cross-sectional data, we estimate that about 12% of children under age 18 co-reside with only one of their biological parents. Using longitudinal data representative of the Mekong River Valley, we find this proportion to be declining. Nearly half o…
Parental Loss and Mental Health in Post-Khmer-Rouge Cambodia
Adverse childhood events (ACE) may have lasting consequences throughout the life course. We focus on one particular type of ACE, parental loss in Cambodia—a country that lost nearly 25% of its population during the 1975-79 Khmer-Rouge regime—and on mental health disorders, one of the potential mechanisms through which ACE may have long-term consequences. Self-reports of symptoms that map on to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Healt…
Contemporary Marriage in Cambodia
Previous work has suggested that the drastic Khmer-Rouge-era changes to the family institution have not endured. Potentially more influential in the long term were the rapid socio-economic changes Cambodia underwent starting in the 1990s. We use four waves of the Cambodian Demographic and Health Surveys from 2000 to 2014 to document contemporary trends in marriage formation and dissolution. We find little change in the centrality of marriage, as …
L'insoutenable incertitude du nombre. Estimations des deces de la periode Khmer rouge
Heuveline Patrick. L'insoutenable incertitude du nombre : estimations des décès de la période Khmer rouge. In: Population, 53e année, n°6, 1998. pp. 1103-1117
Aids and population growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Modèles démographiques
Menken Jane, Coale Ansley Johnson, Heuveline Patrick. Modèles démographiques : les cinquante premières années de Population. In: Population, 50e année, n°6, 1995. Cinquante années de Population pp. 1545-1564
Modèles démographiques
La première table de mortalité, celle de Halley, supposait la population de Breslau stationnaire ; la démographie recourt donc aux modèles depuis ses débuts. Louis Henry définissait ceux-ci « comme l'étude de relations numériques en vue de déceler les causes, de s'y retrouver dans la complexité d'un ensemble de données non indépendantes, de justifier des méthodes de mesures ou des procédés de corrections d'erreurs... Ils remplacent dans bien des …
Aids and population growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Between One and Three Million
Estimates of mortality in Camabodia during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79) range from 20,000 deaths according to former Khmer Rouge sources, to over three million victims according to Vietnamese government sources. This paper uses an unusual data source - the 1992 electoral lists registered by the United Nations - to estimate the population size after the Khmer Rouge regime and the extent of "excess" mortality in the 1970s. These data also provi…
L'insoutenable incertitude du nombre
Heuveline (Patrick). - L'insoutenable incertitude du nombre : estimations des décès de la période Khmer rouge Cet article présente les différentes méthodes employées pour estimer la mortalité pendant la période Khmer rouge, méthodes regroupées en deux principaux types : la méthode par échantillonnage et la méthode «résiduelle». Le premier type s'appuie sur des entretiens à partir desquels est estimée la proportion de survivants parmi les proches …
L'insoutenable incertitude du nombre. Estimations des deces de la periode Khmer rouge
Heuveline Patrick. L'insoutenable incertitude du nombre : estimations des décès de la période Khmer rouge. In: Population, 53e année, n°6, 1998. pp. 1103-1117
Transformation of the French Demographic Landscape, 1806-1906
France was among the first countries to experience so-called 'demographic transition', when mortality and fertility declined and daily living conditions were deeply transformed. But the exact position traditionally assigned to France in the European fertility decline will have to be revised in the light of this study, which introduces new approaches and methods to the study of historical demography based on data for the eighty-nine departments of…
The Global and Regional Impact of Mortality and Fertility Transitions, 1950-2000
During the second half of the twentieth century, world population grew at a record pace, both in absolute and relative terms, from 2.5 billion to 6 billion (or 1.75 percent annually). Demographers have long identified rapid mortality declines as the main explanation. This article finds that one-fourth of today's world population is alive because of mortality improvements since mid-century. Very rapid growth is unlikely to continue as substantial …
A description of child illness and treatment behavior in Guatemala
A population history of North America
A population history of North America
Demographic pressure, economic development, and social engineering
An International Comparison of Adolescent and Young Adult Mortality
s research interests center on population dynamics and family change.His current research includes a comparative project on the increasing complexity of childhood family experiences across industrialized countries and the impact of these experiences on child well being.Other projects in the developing world focus on how populations,and families in particular, cope with demographic crises.One current project looks at the demographic "recovery" in …
The uneven tides of the health transition
Demography, Measuring and Modeling Population Processes
HIV and population dynamics
In high-prevalence populations, the HIV epidemic undermines the validity of past empirical models and related demographic techniques. A parsimonious model of HIV and population dynamics is presented here and fit to 46,000 observations, gathered from 11 East African populations. The fitted model simulates HIV and population dynamics with standard demographic inputs and only two additional parameters for the onset and scale of the epidemic. The und…
Shifting Childrearing to Single Mothers
We investigate how recent changes in the Western family have affected childhood living arrangements. For 17 developed countries, we use multistate life table techniques to estimate childhood trajectories of coresi-dence with biological fathers versus other maternal partners. In all countries childhood exposure to single parenting is more often caused by parental separation than out-of-partnership childbearing. Both exposure to single parenting an…
The role of cohabitation in family formation
The prevalence of nonmarital cohabitation is steadily increasing in the United States. In evaluating the contribution of this new living arrangement to family formation, analysts have relied primarily on comparisons between individuals who cohabit and those who do not. We complement this line of inquiry by comparing the United States and 16 industrialized nations. We first identify six conceptually distinct ideal types of cohabitation with respec…
A cross-over in Mexican and Mexican-American fertility rates
Against a backdrop of two new developments in the fertility behavior of the Mexican-Origin population in the U.S., the present discussion will update contemporary Mexican-Origin fertility patterns and address several theoretical weaknesses in the current approach to immigrant group fertility. Data come from six national surveys (three from Mexico and three from the U.S.) that cover a twenty-five year period (1975- 2000). The findings demonstrate …
Do marriages forget their past? Marital stability in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia
This paper assesses the impact of three main destabilizing factors on marital stability in Cambodia: the radical reformation of marriage under the Khmers Rouges (KR); the imbalanced gender ratio among marriageable adults resulting from gendered mortality during the KR regime; and, after decades of isolation from the West, a period of rapid social change. Although there is evidence of declining marital stability in the most recent period, marriage…
The phoenix population
The study of mortality crises provides an unusual and valuable perspective on the relationship between mortality and fertility changes, a relationship that has puzzled demographers for decades. In this article, we combine nationally representative survey and demographic-surveillance system data to study fertility trends around the time of the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime, under which 25% of the Cambodian population died. We present the first quantitat…
Diversity and change in Cambodian households, 1998–2006
The international child poverty gap
According to the Luxembourg Income Study data, the U.S. child poverty rate is the second highest among 15 high-income nations. The present work reveals that 55% of all American children living in a household headed by a single female with no other adult present live in poverty—the highest rate for any of the five living arrangements in the 15 countries examined in this study. While previous analyses have focused on market forces and governmental …
It Takes a Village (Perhaps a Nation)
Research in the United States has shown that children growing up in 2-parent households do better in school than children from single-parent households. We used the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data to test whether this finding applied to other countries as well (N = 100,307). We found that it did, but that the educational gap was greater in the United States than in the other 13 countries considered. Results from…
Fertility Transition
Sociology (22 works) · Population (21 works) · Demography (20 works) · Geography (19 works) · Economics (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (8 works)