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Journal Articles
2023
2022
Batyra, E. and H.-P. Kohler. 2022. “Unequal Transition to Adulthood: Widening Disparities in the Age at First Union, Sex and Birth in Many Low- and Middle-Income Countries .” Studies in Family Planning 53(3):549-565.
Castro Torres, A.F., E. Batyra, and M. Myrskylä. 2022. “Income Inequality and Increasing Dispersion of the Transition to First Birth in the Global South .” Population and Development Review 48(1):189-215.
Castro Torres, A.F. , L.M. Pesando, H.-P. Kohler, and F.F. Furstenberg. 2022 . “Family change and variation through the lens of family configurations in low- and middle-income countries .” Population, Space and Place , 28(4): e2531.
Pesando, L.M. 2022. “A Four-Country Study on the Relationship Between Parental Educational Homogamy and Children’s Health from Infancy to Adolescence .” Population Research and Policy Review 41:251–284.
2021
Andriano, L., J. Behrman, and C. Monden. 2021. “Husbands’ Dominance in Decision-Making About Women’s Health: A Spatial Diffusion Perspective in Sub-Saharan Africa .” Demography 58(5):1955–1975.
Batyra, E., H.-P. Kohler, and F.F. Furstenberg. 2021. “Changing Gender Gaps in the Timing of First Union Formation and Sexual Initiation in Sub-Saharan Africa .” Population and Development Review 47(2):289-322.
Batyra, E. and L.M. Pesando. 2021. “Trends in Child Marriage and New Evidence on the Selective Impact of Changes in Age-at-Marriage Laws on Early Marriage .” SSM – Population Health 14:100811.
Pesando L.M. 2021. “Educational Assortative Mating in Sub-Saharan Africa: Compositional Changes and Implications for Household Wealth Inequality .” Demography 58(2):571-602.
Pesando, L.M., N. Barban, M. Sironi, and F.F. Furstenberg. 2021. “A Sequence-Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries .” Population and Development Review 47(3):719-747.
Pesando, L.M., V. Rotondi, M. Stranges, R. Kashyap, and F.C. Billari. 2021. “The Internetization of International Migration .” Population and Development Review 47(1): 79-111.
2020
Behrman, J. and P. Gonalons-Pons. 2020. “Women’s Employment and Fertility in a Global Perspective (1960–2015) .” Demographic Research 43(25):707-744.
Furstenberg, F.F. 2020. “Kinship Reconsidered: Research on a Neglected Topic .” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(1):364-382.
Furstenberg, F.F., L.E. Harris, L.M. Pesando, and M.N. Reed. 2020. “Kinship Practices among Alternative Family Forms in Western Industrialized Societies .” Journal of Marriage and Family 82(5):1403-1430.
Kashyap, R. and J. Behrman. 2020. “Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins .” Demography 57(6):2143–2167.
Rotondi, V., R. Kashyap, L.M. Pesando, S. Spinelli, and F.C. Billari. 2020. “Leveraging Mobile Phones to Attain Sustainable Development .” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (24):13413-13420.
2019
Furstenberg, F.F. 2019. “Family Change in Global Perspective: How and Why Family Systems Change .” Family Relations 68(3):326-341.
Pesando, L.M. 2019. “Rethinking and Revising Goode’s Contribution to Global Family Change .” Marriage & Family Review 55(7):619-630.
Pesando, L.M., A.F. Castro, L. Andriano, J.A. Behrman, F.C. Billari, C. Monden, F.F. Furstenberg, and H.-P. Kohler. 2019. “Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development .” Population and Development Review 45(1):133-168.
Working Papers
Batyra, Ewa, Tiziana Leone, and Mikko Myrskylä. 2021. “Forecasting of Cohort Fertility by Educational Level in Countries with Limited Data Availability: The Case of Brazil .” Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. MPIDR Working Paper , WP-2021-011.
Castro Torres, Andrés, Luca Maria Pesando, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Frank Furstenberg. 2020. “Family Change and Variation Through the Lens of Family Configurations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries .” University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC) , 2020-31.
Furstenberg, Frank. 2019. “Family Change in Global Perspective: How and Why Family Systems Change .” University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC) , 2019-22.
Pesando, Luca Maria, Andrés F. Castro, Liliana Andriano, Julia A. Behrman, Francesco Billari, Christiaan Monden, Frank Furstenberg, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2018. “Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development .” University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2018-14.
Payne, Collin, Luca Maria Pesando, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2017. “Up, Down and Reciprocal: The Dynamics of Intergenerational Transfers, Family Structure and Health in a Low-Income Context .” University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC) , 2017-9.
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