Luca Maria Pesando
Biographic Data
| ID | 280046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca Maria Pesando |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Pesando |
| SIGNATURE | PESANDO L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University Abu Dhabi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1690-7163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mobile technologies, fertility preferences, and the calculus of conscious choice
This study explores the relationship between mobile technologies (MTs) and fertility preferences across 42 low- and middle-income countries. Theoretically, we shift the focus from TV/radio to mobile phones, Internet, and smartphones, building on a blend of diffusion and world society perspectives. Methodologically, we explore non-numeric and numeric fertility-preference outcomes using Demographic and Health Surveys. Associations with non-numeric …
The changing landscape of intergenerational family marriage norms and practices in urban India
Cultural and intergenerational dynamics of public trust in science and gendered expertise: Evidence from five countries
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields are essential for economic growth, yet women’s under-representation remains a persistent barrier to inclusive development. Gender-based stereotypes deter women from engaging in STEM careers, particularly in scientific research. This study utilizes a randomized survey experiment ( n = 5837) across five countries—Canada, Switzerland, Israel/West Bank and Gaza, Italy, and the United Ara…
A Research Note on the Demographic Potential of Polygyny: Evaluating an Age-Related Summary Indicator
This research note discusses one underexplored aspect of the study of polygyny, namely, the extent to which the practice remains viable from a purely demographic standpoint. Using data from the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 covering 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), I evaluate a simple indicator—gamma—for capturing the “demographic potential” of polygyny, that is, the fraction of men who can have two wives with no other m…
No evidence that anti-domestic violence laws reduce violent child discipline in sub-Saharan Africa
Albeit rarely recognized as such in existing legislation, violent child discipline is a clear form of domestic violence (DV) with enduring consequences for child well-being. This study merges household survey data from 27 sub-Saharan African countries with World Bank data on law implementation to investigate whether broad DV legislation introduced since the mid-2000s has curbed violent parenting practices. Using a quasi-experimental approach to c…
Internet and Women’s Family Ideals in Major Indian Cities: A Latent-Class Approach
Demographic convergence in marriage timing: Intersecting gender and educational expansion
BACKGROUND: Considering the massive educational expansion and dramatic changes in marriage timing the world is undergoing, this study explores whether the timing of marriage has become increasingly similar across countries amid educational expansion at different levels. OBJECTIVE: First, we focus on convergence in marital timing, a core family demography indicator often overlooked in the convergence literature. Second, we shift the focus from dem…
Shifting partnership ideals with online technologies among unmarried women in India
This study complements existing scholarship in family sociology and digital demography by investigating the role of digital technologies in shaping partnership ideals among unmarried women in India. We build on the premise that, by means of faster communication, effective information dissemination, and reciprocal exchange of norms and ideals, recurrent exposure to globalized cultural scripts through the Internet may shape family-related outcomes …
Marrying across Borders in Latin America: Visualizing Intermarriage Flows
The authors propose an adaptation of the well-known “circular plot,” traditionally used to quantify international migration flows, to visualize patterns of intermarriage within Latin American countries. The authors present data on intermarriage flows between partners’ countries of origin using data from recent household surveys from five Latin American countries. The visualization allows an easy-to-grasp snapshot of marital pairings considering p…
Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: Reverse policies' or data quality issues
Child marriage is associated with adverse outcomes related to women’s well-being. Many countries have introduced laws banning this practice, and a number of studies have evaluated their impact. Scant research has focused on instances where countries have lowered the legal minimum age at marriage, even though such ‘reverse policies’ could result in stalled or uneven progress in eradicating child marriage. Using visualization techniques, regression…
Declining Quantity and Quality of Births in Chile amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Extensive demographic scholarship shows that the population-level implications of mortality crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic extend beyond mortality dynamics to affect fertility and family-formation strategies. Using novel municipality-level data from Chile covering all births that occurred between January 2017 and December 2021, this study explores trends in fertility and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for "quantum" and "quality" of b…
Status (in)consistency in education and violent parenting practices towards children
Violent childrearing practices represent an invisible threat for global health and human development. Leveraging underused information on child discipline methods, this study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity and violent childrearing practices, testing a new potential pathway through which parental educational similarity may relate to child health and wellbeing over the life course. The study uses data from Multipl…
What's a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis
Leading theories on parenting in the United States suggest that parenting varies widely by socioeconomic status, with middle-class parents practicing "concerted cultivation"-marked by parents' intensive efforts to foster their children's development-and working-class parents engaging in the "accomplishment of natural growth"-with children given more freedom to manage their own time. While frequently inferred that these parenting practices reflect…
Union formation, within‐couple dynamics, and child well‐being: A global macrolevel perspective
Studies on global changes in families have greatly increased over the past decade, adopting both a country-specific and, more recently, a cross-national comparative perspective. While most studies are focused on the drivers of global changes in families, little comparative research has explored the implications of family processes for the health and well-being of children. This study aims to fill this gap and launch a new research agenda explorin…
Communication with Kin in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigates patterns of communication among non-coresident kin in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the New York City Robin Hood Poverty Tracker. Over half of New Yorkers spoke to their non-coresident family members several times a week during the pandemic, and nearly half increased their communication with non-coresident kin since March 2020. Siblings and extended kin proved to be especially important ties activa…
Mobile Phones and Attitudes toward Women’s Participation in Politics
This study explores the relationship between technology adoption and attitudes toward gender equality in political representation by relying on diffusion theories coupled with frameworks of ideational change, social interaction, and world society. We examine whether the use of mobile phones shapes gender attitudes toward women’s participation in politics by making it more widely accepted that women hold institutional roles. We do so with micro-le…
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015
This study expands existing scholarship on the relationship between parental educational similarity and infant health using rich administrative data from Chile covering births that occurred between 1990 and 2015. We test the relationship between parental educational similarity (homogamy) or dissimilarity (heterogamy) and two measures of infant health, namely low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth (PB). We show that parental educational homogamy…
Harnessing the Potential of Google Searches for Understanding Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence Before and After the Covid-19 Outbreak
Most social phenomena are inherently complex and hard to measure, often due to under-reporting, stigma, social desirability bias, and rapidly changing external circumstances. This is for instance the case of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), a highly-prevalent social phenomenon which has drastically risen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper explores whether big data—an increasingly common tool to track, nowcast, and forecast social ph…
A Four-Country Study on the Relationship Between Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Health from Infancy to Adolescence
Safer If Connected? Mobile Technology and Intimate Partner Violence
Mobile phones are an invaluable economic asset for low-income individuals and an important tool for strengthening social ties. They may also help women overcome physical boundaries, especially those who are separated from support networks and are bound within their husbands' social spheres. Using micro-level data on women and men from recent Demographic and Health Surveys, including new information on mobile phone ownership, this study examines w…
Trends in child marriage and new evidence on the selective impact of changes in age-at-marriage laws on early marriage
This study adopts a cohort perspective to explore trends in child marriage - defined as the proportion of girls who entered first union before the age of 18 - and the effectiveness of policy changes aimed at curbing child marriage by increasing the minimum legal age of marriage. We adopt a cross-national perspective comparing six low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that introduced changes in the minimum age at marriage over the past two deca…
Family change and variation through the lens of family configurations in low‐ and middle‐income countries
Using 254 Demographic and Health Surveys from 75 low- and middle-income countries, this study shows how the joint examination of family characteristics across rural and urban areas provides new insights for understanding global family change. We operationalise this approach by building family configurations : a set of interrelated features that describe different patterns of family formation and structure. These features include partnership (marr…
Educational Assortative Mating in Sub-Saharan Africa: Compositional Changes and Implications for Household Wealth Inequality
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is undergoing rapid transformations in the realm of union formation in tandem with significant educational expansion and rising labor force participation rates. Concurrently, the region remains the least developed and most unequal along multiple dimensions of human and social development. In spite of this unique scenario, never has the social stratification literature examined patterns and implications of educational asso…
A Sequence-Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This study investigates whether young people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have experienced processes of destandardization of the life course similar to those observed in high-income societies. We provide two contributions to the relevant literature. First, we use data from 263 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) across 69 LMICs, offering the richest comparative account to date of women's transition to adulthood (TTA) patterns in t…
The Internetization of International Migration
The Internet has revolutionized our economies, societies, and everyday lives. Many social phenomena are no longer the same as they were in the pre-Internet era: they have been "Internetized." We define the Internetization of international migration, and we investigate it by exploring the links between the Internet and migration outcomes all along the migration path, from migration intentions to actual migration. Our analyses leverage a number of …
Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development
This article provides a broad empirical overview of the relationship between family change and socioeconomic development drawing on 30-plus years of Demographic and Health Surveys data from 3.5 million respondents across 84 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We conduct two sets of analyses. First, we document global and regional-level associations between the Human Development Index (HDI) and novel indicators reflecting multi-dimensional f…
A Sequence-Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This study investigates whether young people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have experienced processes of destandardization of the life course similar to those observed in high-income societies. We provide two contributions to the relevant literature. First, we use data from 263 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) across 69 LMICs, offering the richest comparative account to date of women's transition to adulthood (TTA) patterns in t…
The Internetization of International Migration
The Internet has revolutionized our economies, societies, and everyday lives. Many social phenomena are no longer the same as they were in the pre-Internet era: they have been "Internetized." We define the Internetization of international migration, and we investigate it by exploring the links between the Internet and migration outcomes all along the migration path, from migration intentions to actual migration. Our analyses leverage a number of …
Kinship Practices Among Alternative Family Forms in Western Industrialized Societies
ObjectiveThis article discusses how kinship is construed and enacted in diverse forms of the family that are now part of the culturally pluralistic family system of Western societies.BackgroundThis study is the second in a pair documenting changes over the past century in the meaning and practice of kinship in the family system of Western societies with industrialized economies. While the first paper reviewed the history of kinship studies, this …
Family change and variation through the lens of family configurations in low‐ and middle‐income countries
Using 254 Demographic and Health Surveys from 75 low- and middle-income countries, this study shows how the joint examination of family characteristics across rural and urban areas provides new insights for understanding global family change. We operationalise this approach by building family configurations : a set of interrelated features that describe different patterns of family formation and structure. These features include partnership (marr…
Educational Assortative Mating in Sub-Saharan Africa: Compositional Changes and Implications for Household Wealth Inequality
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is undergoing rapid transformations in the realm of union formation in tandem with significant educational expansion and rising labor force participation rates. Concurrently, the region remains the least developed and most unequal along multiple dimensions of human and social development. In spite of this unique scenario, never has the social stratification literature examined patterns and implications of educational asso…
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015
This study expands existing scholarship on the relationship between parental educational similarity and infant health using rich administrative data from Chile covering births that occurred between 1990 and 2015. We test the relationship between parental educational similarity (homogamy) or dissimilarity (heterogamy) and two measures of infant health, namely low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth (PB). We show that parental educational homogamy…
Safer If Connected? Mobile Technology and Intimate Partner Violence
Mobile phones are an invaluable economic asset for low-income individuals and an important tool for strengthening social ties. They may also help women overcome physical boundaries, especially those who are separated from support networks and are bound within their husbands' social spheres. Using micro-level data on women and men from recent Demographic and Health Surveys, including new information on mobile phone ownership, this study examines w…
Childlessness and upward intergenerational support: Cross-national evidence from 11 European countries
Childless individuals are often depicted as ‘selfish’ as they opt out of raising children in favour of investing resources in themselves. Yet no research has investigated whether this claim holds in domains of social life such as intergenerational family support. Using data from the Generations and Gender Survey for 11 European countries, this article examines differences between childless and non-childless individuals in the provision of financi…
A Four-Country Study on the Relationship Between Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Health from Infancy to Adolescence
Household Determinants of Teen Marriage: Sister Effects Across Four Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
This article investigates the household determinants of teen marriage in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam using data from the international Young Lives study tracking a cohort of children from the ages of 8–19 over a 15‐year period. First, we offer a descriptive and comparative overview of the prevalence of teen marriage among girls in geographically selected areas of the four countries, together with their sociodemographic determinants. Second…
Declining Quantity and Quality of Births in Chile amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Extensive demographic scholarship shows that the population-level implications of mortality crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic extend beyond mortality dynamics to affect fertility and family-formation strategies. Using novel municipality-level data from Chile covering all births that occurred between January 2017 and December 2021, this study explores trends in fertility and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for "quantum" and "quality" of b…
Union formation, within‐couple dynamics, and child well‐being: A global macrolevel perspective
Studies on global changes in families have greatly increased over the past decade, adopting both a country-specific and, more recently, a cross-national comparative perspective. While most studies are focused on the drivers of global changes in families, little comparative research has explored the implications of family processes for the health and well-being of children. This study aims to fill this gap and launch a new research agenda explorin…
Rethinking and Revising Goode’s Contribution to Global Family Change
This essay provides a comprehensive overview of William J. Goode's contribution to the study of global family and social change. I begin by describing Goode's theoretical perspectives and outlining his theses dating back to the 1960s. I then provide an assessment of where and why some of his predictions proved wrong and elaborate on what we have learnt on changes in families at the global level over the past half century. Lastly, I speculate on h…
What's a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis
Leading theories on parenting in the United States suggest that parenting varies widely by socioeconomic status, with middle-class parents practicing "concerted cultivation"-marked by parents' intensive efforts to foster their children's development-and working-class parents engaging in the "accomplishment of natural growth"-with children given more freedom to manage their own time. While frequently inferred that these parenting practices reflect…
Communication with Kin in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigates patterns of communication among non-coresident kin in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the New York City Robin Hood Poverty Tracker. Over half of New Yorkers spoke to their non-coresident family members several times a week during the pandemic, and nearly half increased their communication with non-coresident kin since March 2020. Siblings and extended kin proved to be especially important ties activa…
Shifting partnership ideals with online technologies among unmarried women in India
This study complements existing scholarship in family sociology and digital demography by investigating the role of digital technologies in shaping partnership ideals among unmarried women in India. We build on the premise that, by means of faster communication, effective information dissemination, and reciprocal exchange of norms and ideals, recurrent exposure to globalized cultural scripts through the Internet may shape family-related outcomes …
Harnessing the Potential of Google Searches for Understanding Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence Before and After the Covid-19 Outbreak
Most social phenomena are inherently complex and hard to measure, often due to under-reporting, stigma, social desirability bias, and rapidly changing external circumstances. This is for instance the case of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), a highly-prevalent social phenomenon which has drastically risen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper explores whether big data—an increasingly common tool to track, nowcast, and forecast social ph…
Rethinking and Revising Goode’s Contribution to Global Family Change
This essay provides a comprehensive overview of William J. Goode's contribution to the study of global family and social change. I begin by describing Goode's theoretical perspectives and outlining his theses dating back to the 1960s. I then provide an assessment of where and why some of his predictions proved wrong and elaborate on what we have learnt on changes in families at the global level over the past half century. Lastly, I speculate on h…
Childlessness and upward intergenerational support: Cross-national evidence from 11 European countries
Childless individuals are often depicted as ‘selfish’ as they opt out of raising children in favour of investing resources in themselves. Yet no research has investigated whether this claim holds in domains of social life such as intergenerational family support. Using data from the Generations and Gender Survey for 11 European countries, this article examines differences between childless and non-childless individuals in the provision of financi…
Household Determinants of Teen Marriage: Sister Effects Across Four Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
This article investigates the household determinants of teen marriage in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam using data from the international Young Lives study tracking a cohort of children from the ages of 8–19 over a 15‐year period. First, we offer a descriptive and comparative overview of the prevalence of teen marriage among girls in geographically selected areas of the four countries, together with their sociodemographic determinants. Second…
Private Intergenerational Transfers, Family Structure, and Health in a sub-Saharan African Context
During the last two decades, the increase in surveys aimed at quantifying \nmonetary and non-monetary exchanges has fostered remarkable advances \nin measuring, modeling, and assessing the implications of intergenerational \ntransfers at both the micro- and the macro level. This expansion in data \navailability, together with the conceptual development of the National \nTransfer Accounts (NTA) framework (Lee and Mason 2011), has led to a \nflouri…
Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development
This article provides a broad empirical overview of the relationship between family change and socioeconomic development drawing on 30-plus years of Demographic and Health Surveys data from 3.5 million respondents across 84 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We conduct two sets of analyses. First, we document global and regional-level associations between the Human Development Index (HDI) and novel indicators reflecting multi-dimensional f…
Are Private Kindergartens Really Better? Examining Preschool Choices, Parental Resources, and Children’s School Readiness in Ghana
Low-cost private schools are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa and are often perceived by parents to be of better quality than public schools. This article assesses the interplay between kindergarten (or preschool) choice, household resources, and children’s school readiness in Ghana. We examine how child, household, and school characteristics predict private versus public kindergarten attendance and whether household characteristics are associ…
Kinship Practices Among Alternative Family Forms in Western Industrialized Societies
ObjectiveThis article discusses how kinship is construed and enacted in diverse forms of the family that are now part of the culturally pluralistic family system of Western societies.BackgroundThis study is the second in a pair documenting changes over the past century in the meaning and practice of kinship in the family system of Western societies with industrialized economies. While the first paper reviewed the history of kinship studies, this …
Trends in child marriage and new evidence on the selective impact of changes in age-at-marriage laws on early marriage
This study adopts a cohort perspective to explore trends in child marriage - defined as the proportion of girls who entered first union before the age of 18 - and the effectiveness of policy changes aimed at curbing child marriage by increasing the minimum legal age of marriage. We adopt a cross-national perspective comparing six low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that introduced changes in the minimum age at marriage over the past two deca…
Family change and variation through the lens of family configurations in low‐ and middle‐income countries
Using 254 Demographic and Health Surveys from 75 low- and middle-income countries, this study shows how the joint examination of family characteristics across rural and urban areas provides new insights for understanding global family change. We operationalise this approach by building family configurations : a set of interrelated features that describe different patterns of family formation and structure. These features include partnership (marr…
Educational Assortative Mating in Sub-Saharan Africa: Compositional Changes and Implications for Household Wealth Inequality
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is undergoing rapid transformations in the realm of union formation in tandem with significant educational expansion and rising labor force participation rates. Concurrently, the region remains the least developed and most unequal along multiple dimensions of human and social development. In spite of this unique scenario, never has the social stratification literature examined patterns and implications of educational asso…
A Sequence-Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This study investigates whether young people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have experienced processes of destandardization of the life course similar to those observed in high-income societies. We provide two contributions to the relevant literature. First, we use data from 263 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) across 69 LMICs, offering the richest comparative account to date of women's transition to adulthood (TTA) patterns in t…
The Internetization of International Migration
The Internet has revolutionized our economies, societies, and everyday lives. Many social phenomena are no longer the same as they were in the pre-Internet era: they have been "Internetized." We define the Internetization of international migration, and we investigate it by exploring the links between the Internet and migration outcomes all along the migration path, from migration intentions to actual migration. Our analyses leverage a number of …
Mobile Phones and Attitudes toward Women’s Participation in Politics
This study explores the relationship between technology adoption and attitudes toward gender equality in political representation by relying on diffusion theories coupled with frameworks of ideational change, social interaction, and world society. We examine whether the use of mobile phones shapes gender attitudes toward women’s participation in politics by making it more widely accepted that women hold institutional roles. We do so with micro-le…
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015
This study expands existing scholarship on the relationship between parental educational similarity and infant health using rich administrative data from Chile covering births that occurred between 1990 and 2015. We test the relationship between parental educational similarity (homogamy) or dissimilarity (heterogamy) and two measures of infant health, namely low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth (PB). We show that parental educational homogamy…
Harnessing the Potential of Google Searches for Understanding Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence Before and After the Covid-19 Outbreak
Most social phenomena are inherently complex and hard to measure, often due to under-reporting, stigma, social desirability bias, and rapidly changing external circumstances. This is for instance the case of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), a highly-prevalent social phenomenon which has drastically risen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper explores whether big data—an increasingly common tool to track, nowcast, and forecast social ph…
A Four-Country Study on the Relationship Between Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Health from Infancy to Adolescence
Safer If Connected? Mobile Technology and Intimate Partner Violence
Mobile phones are an invaluable economic asset for low-income individuals and an important tool for strengthening social ties. They may also help women overcome physical boundaries, especially those who are separated from support networks and are bound within their husbands' social spheres. Using micro-level data on women and men from recent Demographic and Health Surveys, including new information on mobile phone ownership, this study examines w…
Union formation, within‐couple dynamics, and child well‐being: A global macrolevel perspective
Studies on global changes in families have greatly increased over the past decade, adopting both a country-specific and, more recently, a cross-national comparative perspective. While most studies are focused on the drivers of global changes in families, little comparative research has explored the implications of family processes for the health and well-being of children. This study aims to fill this gap and launch a new research agenda explorin…
Communication with Kin in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigates patterns of communication among non-coresident kin in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the New York City Robin Hood Poverty Tracker. Over half of New Yorkers spoke to their non-coresident family members several times a week during the pandemic, and nearly half increased their communication with non-coresident kin since March 2020. Siblings and extended kin proved to be especially important ties activa…
Marrying across Borders in Latin America: Visualizing Intermarriage Flows
The authors propose an adaptation of the well-known “circular plot,” traditionally used to quantify international migration flows, to visualize patterns of intermarriage within Latin American countries. The authors present data on intermarriage flows between partners’ countries of origin using data from recent household surveys from five Latin American countries. The visualization allows an easy-to-grasp snapshot of marital pairings considering p…
Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: Reverse policies' or data quality issues
Child marriage is associated with adverse outcomes related to women’s well-being. Many countries have introduced laws banning this practice, and a number of studies have evaluated their impact. Scant research has focused on instances where countries have lowered the legal minimum age at marriage, even though such ‘reverse policies’ could result in stalled or uneven progress in eradicating child marriage. Using visualization techniques, regression…
Declining Quantity and Quality of Births in Chile amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Extensive demographic scholarship shows that the population-level implications of mortality crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic extend beyond mortality dynamics to affect fertility and family-formation strategies. Using novel municipality-level data from Chile covering all births that occurred between January 2017 and December 2021, this study explores trends in fertility and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for "quantum" and "quality" of b…
Status (in)consistency in education and violent parenting practices towards children
Violent childrearing practices represent an invisible threat for global health and human development. Leveraging underused information on child discipline methods, this study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity and violent childrearing practices, testing a new potential pathway through which parental educational similarity may relate to child health and wellbeing over the life course. The study uses data from Multipl…
What's a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis
Leading theories on parenting in the United States suggest that parenting varies widely by socioeconomic status, with middle-class parents practicing "concerted cultivation"-marked by parents' intensive efforts to foster their children's development-and working-class parents engaging in the "accomplishment of natural growth"-with children given more freedom to manage their own time. While frequently inferred that these parenting practices reflect…
Demographic convergence in marriage timing: Intersecting gender and educational expansion
BACKGROUND: Considering the massive educational expansion and dramatic changes in marriage timing the world is undergoing, this study explores whether the timing of marriage has become increasingly similar across countries amid educational expansion at different levels. OBJECTIVE: First, we focus on convergence in marital timing, a core family demography indicator often overlooked in the convergence literature. Second, we shift the focus from dem…
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