Emilio Zagheni

Biographic Data

ID274137
NAMEEmilio Zagheni
GIVEN NAMESEmilio
FAMILY NAMEZagheni
SIGNATUREZAGHENI E
AFFILIATIONSMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research
ORCID0000-0002-7660-8368
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS323
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10

  • Assessing the agreement between microsimulated and register-based kin counts in Sweden

    Open AccessLiliana P Calderón-Bernal, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies2026

    Estimating kinship networks is a data-intensive undertaking, usually conducted using empirical sources or demographic models. Although empirical data, such as population registers, provide observed individual-level information, they are limited by availability, truncation, and survivorship bias. Demographic models, including microsimulation, require less detailed data, but they often minimally account for population heterogeneity, family similari…

  • Unmarried and Increasingly Alone: Solitary Leisure Among Unmarried, Solo Dwelling Americans, 1965 to 2018

    Open AccessR Gordon Rinderknecht, Daniela V Negraia et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2026References: 14

  • Harvesting Effect and Extreme Temperature-Related Mortality in Italy

    Open AccessVinod Joseph Kannankeril Joseph, Risto Conte Keivabu et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Population /…2026References: 98

    It is well-established that deaths peak in winter and show throughs in summer. However, it remains unclear how mortality patterns will unfold as the climate warms, bringing fewer cold days and more hot days. One concern is “harvesting,” where a short-term surge in deaths among the most vulnerable people is then followed by a period with fewer deaths than usual because those individuals would have died soon anyway. Under global warming, it is poss…

  • The Limits of Predicting Individual-Level Longevity: Insights From the U.S. Health and Retirement Study

    Open AccessLuca Badolato, Ari Decter-Frain et al.ARTICLEDemography2026References: 78

    Individual-level mortality prediction is a fundamental challenge with implications for life planning, health care, social policies, and public spending. Drawing from the growing body of research on the predictability of life course events, we model and predict individual-level lifespan using 12 statistical and machine learning models and more than 150 predictors derived from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study longitudinal data. Statistical and …

  • The Grass Really is Greener on the Other Side: Immigration and Changes in Expressed Sentiments Online

    Open AccessJisu Kim, Ingmar Weber et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review2026References: 45

    Immigration produces diverse outcomes, with some immigrants finding happiness in an improved quality of life, while others face emotional distress from unexpected challenges. Studying these emotional experiences is challenging due to limited longitudinal data. To address this, we curated high-quality data and analyzed Twitter activities of immigrants in the United States to explore how their expressed sentiments evolve post-migration, comparing t…

  • Ad images in social media survey recruitment: What they see is what we get

    Zaza Zindel, Simon Kühne et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2025References: 7

  • Analysing Biases in Genealogies Using Demographic Microsimulation

    Open AccessLiliana P Calderón-Bernal, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Population /…2025References: 32

    An incomplete understanding of biases affecting the representativeness of genealogies has hindered their full exploitation. We report on a series of experiments on synthetic populations assessing how structural biases in ascendant genealogies affect the accuracy of demographic estimates. Using the SOCSIM microsimulation programme and Swedish fertility and mortality data (1751–2022), we analyse three biases: lineage survival, limited coverage of c…

  • The Contribution of Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation in England and Wales, Finland, and Italy (Turin)

    Open AccessJesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Ugofilippo Basellini et al.ARTICLEDemography2025References: 88

    Educational expansion has contributed considerably to increasing life expectancy, but its contribution to lifespan variation trends is unclear. We assessed the contributions of educational expansion and mortality changes by educational group to trends in life expectancy (e30) and lifespan variation (e30†) at age 30 in England and Wales, Finland, and Italy (Turin) in 1975–2015. We applied decomposition analysis to education-specific mortality rate…

  • Integrating Traditional and Social Media Data to Predict Bilateral Migrant Stocks in the European Union

    Open AccessDilek Yildiz, Dilek Yıldız et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review2025Cited by: 2References: 43

    Although up-to-date information on the nature and extent of migration within the European Union (EU) is important for policymaking, timely and reliable statistics on the number of EU citizens residing in or moving across other member states are difficult to obtain. In this paper, we develop a statistical model that integrates data on EU migrant stocks using traditional sources such as census, population registers and Labour Force Survey, with nov…

  • Assessing Timely Migration Trends Through Digital Traces: A Case Study of the UK Before Brexit

    Open AccessFrancesco Rampazzo, Jakub Bijak et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review2025Cited by: 4References: 32

    Digital trace data presents an opportunity for promptly monitoring shifts in migrant populations. This contribution aims to determine whether the number of European migrants in the United Kingdom (UK) declined between March 2019 and March 2020, using weekly estimates derived from the Facebook Advertising Platform. The collected data is disaggregated according to age, level of education, and country of origin. To examine the fluctuation in the num…

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

    Open AccessDiego Alburez-Gutierrez, Ugofilippo Basellini et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies2025Cited by: 1References: 29

    The experience of losing a child is increasingly uncommon worldwide but is no less devastating for parents who experience it. An overlooked aspect of this phenomenon is its timing: at which age do bereft parents lose a child and how are these ages at loss distributed? We use demographic methods to explore the mean and variability of maternal age at child loss in 18 countries for the 1850-2000 birth cohorts. We find that the distribution of age of…

  • Global Gender Gaps in the International Migration of Professionals on LinkedIn

    Open AccessE Jacobs, Tom Theile et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2025References: 55

    This paper examines gender differentials in the international migration of professionals, and how this varies by country, industry, age, and years of experience. We leverage data from LinkedIn, the largest professional networking website, to construct Immigrant and Emigrant Gender Gap Indexes (iGGI and eGGI). These indexes measure inflows and potential outflows. The findings indicate that, among LinkedIn users, the global population of immigrant …

  • Racial disparities in deaths related to extreme temperatures in the United States

    Open AccessRisto Conte Keivabu, Ugofilippo Basellini et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

  • Gender Differences in the Migration Process: A Narrative Literature Review

    Open AccessAthina Anastasiadou, Jisu Kim et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2024Cited by: 7References: 11

    Migration scholars agree that migration is a highly gendered process. While the literature on this topic is increasing, the knowledge produced remains fragmentary and has not been synthesized systematically yet. This literature review aims at summarizing the current findings of quantitative migration research comparing migration patterns between genders and highlighting gaps and patterns in the literature over time. Following a reproducible and s…

  • Homecoming After Brexit: Evidence on Academic Migration From Bibliometric Data

    Open AccessEbru Sanliturk, Samin Aref et al.ARTICLEDemography2024References: 57

    This study assesses the initial effects of the 2016 Brexit referendum on the mobility of academic scholars to and from the United Kingdom (UK). We leverage bibliometric data from millions of Scopus publications to infer changes in the countries of residence of published researchers by the changes in their institutional affiliations over time. We focus on a selected sample of active and internationally mobile researchers whose movements are tracea…

  • Stop, in the Name of Covid! Using Social Media Data to Estimate the Effects of Covid-19-Related Travel Restrictions on Migration

    Open AccessJordan D Klein, Ingmar Weber et al.ARTICLEDemography2024Cited by: 3References: 19

    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration has postulated that international migrant stocks fell short of their pre-pandemic projections by nearly 2 million as a result of travel restrictions. However, this decline is not testable with migration data from traditional sources. Key migration stakeholders have called for using data from alternative sources, including social media, to fill these gaps. Building …

  • The Value of Cultural Similarity for Predicting Migration: Evidence from Food and Drink Interests in Digital Trace Data

    Open AccessCamila Camargo Vieira, Sophie Lohmann et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2024Cited by: 4References: 62

    One of the strongest empirical regularities in spatial demography is that flows of migrants are positively associated with population stocks at origin and destination and are inversely related to distance. This pattern was formalized into what are known as gravity models of migration. Traditionally, distance is measured geographically, but other measures of distance, such as cultural distance, are also relevant in explaining migration flows. Howe…

  • Modeling the Bias of Digital Data: An Approach to Combining Digital With Official Statistics to Estimate and Predict Migration Trends

    Open AccessY Hsiao, Lee Fiorio et al.ARTICLESociological Methods & Research2024Cited by: 2References: 32

    Obtaining reliable and timely estimates of migration flows is critical for advancing the migration theory and guiding policy decisions, but it remains a challenge. Digital data provide granular information on time and space, but do not draw from representative samples of the population, leading to biased estimates. We propose a method for combining digital data and official statistics by using the official statistics to model the spatial and temp…

  • Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter

    Open AccessJisu Kim, Soazic Elise Wang Sonne et al.ARTICLEMigration Studies2023Cited by: 2References: 7

    As online social activities have become increasingly important for people’s lives, understanding how migrants integrate into online spaces is crucial for providing a more complete picture of integration processes. We curate a high-quality data set to quantify patterns of new online social connections among immigrants in the United States. Specifically, we focus on Twitter and leverage the unique features of these data, in combination with a prope…

  • Computational approaches to migration and integration research: Promises and Challenges

    L G Drouhot, E Deutschmann et al.ARTICLENew Community2023Cited by: 18References: 87

    Computational social science provides an innovative set of methodological tools that can help answer questions of substantive interest to migration and integration research. In this introductory article, we first provide a brief history of how computational approaches have already enriched migration and integration research. Second, we identify several key promises of computational migration research (e.g. better access to hard-to-reach populatio…

  • Return migration of German-affiliated researchers: Analyzing departure and return by gender, cohort, and discipline using Scopus bibliometric data 1996–2020

    Open AccessXinyi Zhao, Samin Aref et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2022

    The international migration of researchers is an important dimension of scientific mobility, and has been the subject of considerable policy debate. However, tracking the migration life courses of researchers is challenging due to data limitations. In this study, we use Scopus bibliometric data on eight million publications from 1.1 million researchers who have published at least once with an affiliation address from Germany in 1996–2020. We cons…

  • Close Social Networks Among Older Adults: The Online and Offline Perspectives

    Open AccessSofia Gil‐clavel, Emilio Zagheni et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2022References: 46

    Qualitative studies have found that the use of Information and Communication Technologies is related to an enhanced quality of life for older adults, as these technologies might act as a medium to access social capital regardless of geographical distance. In order to quantitatively study the association between older people’s characteristics and the likelihood of having a network of close friends offline and online, we use data from the Survey of…

  • Combining Social Media and Survey Data to Nowcast Migrant Stocks in the United States

    Open AccessM Alexander, Kivan Polimis et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2022Cited by: 17References: 24

    Measuring and forecasting migration patterns has important implications for understanding broader population trends, for designing policy effectively and for allocating resources. However, data on migration and mobility are often lacking, and those that do exist are not available in a timely manner. Social media data offer new opportunities to provide more up-to-date demographic estimates and to complement more traditional data sources. Facebook’…

  • The Impact of Demographic Change on Transfers of Care and Associated Well-being”

    Open AccessDenys Dukhovnov, Joan M Ryan et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2022References: 47

    This study aims to evaluate the impact of demographic change on long-term, macro-level childcare and adult care transfers, accounting for the associated well-being effects of informal caregiving. We measure the impact of demographic change on non-monetary care exchanged between different groups by estimating matrices of time transfers by age and sex, and weighting the time flows by self-reported indicators of well-being, for activities related to…

  • Global burden of maternal bereavement: Indicators of the cumulative prevalence of child loss

    Open AccessEmily Smith-Greenaway, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: We provide country-level estimates of the cumulative prevalence of mothers bereaved by a child's death in 170 countries and territories. METHODS: We generate indicators of the cumulative prevalence of mothers who have had an infant, under-five-year-old or any-age child ever die by using publicly available survey data in 89 countries and an indirect approach that combines formal kinship models and life-table methods in an additional 81…