In IvanWilli/DemoKin: Estimate Population Kin Distribution

Published Articles and Pre-prints using DemoKin

Acosta, E., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Gargiulo, M., & Torres, C. (2025). Weaponizing kinship: A demographic analysis of bereavement in the Colombian conflict (Version 1) [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://osf.io/p87aw

Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Acosta, E., Zagheni, E., & Williams, N. E. (2024). The long-lasting effect of armed-conflict deaths on the living: Quantifying family bereavement. Science Advances, 10(30), eado6951. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado6951

Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Basellini, U., & Zagheni, E. (2024). When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss across the demographic transition. Population Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2024.2345075

Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Williams, I., & Caswell, H. (2023). Projections of human kinship for all countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(52), e2315722120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2315722120

Adhikari, S., & Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2025). The future of grandparenthood in South Asia: The role of population aging and educational expansion (MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-003). Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. https://doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2025-003

Ellis, S., Franks, D. W., Nielsen, M. L. K., Weiss, M. N., Croft, D. P., et al. (2024). The evolution of menopause in toothed whales. Nature, 627, 579–585. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07159-9

Feng, K., Song, X., & Caswell, H. (2024). Kinship and care: Racial disparities in potential dementia caregiving in the United States from 2000 to 2060. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 79(Suppl 1), S32–S41. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glae106

Hünteler, B. M., Polizzi, A., & van Raalte, A. A. (2024). Changing kinship structures in East and West Germany before and after reunification [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/6bf7k

Jiang, S., Zuo, W., Guo, Z., Caswell, H., & Tuljapurkar, S. (2023). How does the demographic transition affect kinship networks? Demographic Research, 48, 899–930. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2023.48.32

Jiang, S., Zuo, W., Guo, Z., & Tuljapurkar, S. (in press). Changing demographic rates reshape kinship networks. Demography.

Matos-Moreno, A., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Verdery, A. M., Santos-Lozada, A. R., Fernández Soto, M., & Williams, I. (2025). Kinship structures for left-behind older adults in high-out-migration contexts: Evidence from Puerto Rico. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 80(6), gbaf052. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf052

Robles, A., Martes-Camargo, P., & Rodríguez-Franco, R. (2024). ¿Quién cuida a la niña? Provisión de cuidados y estructura de parentesco en América Latina [Who takes care of the girl? Care provision and kinship structure in Latin America]. Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 41, e0274, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.20947/S0102-3098a0274

Schlüter, B.-S., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Bibbins-Domingo, K., Alexander, M. J., & Kiang, M. V. (2024). Youth experiencing parental death due to drug poisoning and firearm violence in the US, 1999–2020. JAMA, 331(20), 1741–1747. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.8391

Snyder, M., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Williams, I., & Zagheni, E. (2022). Estimates from 31 countries show the significant impact of COVID-19 excess mortality on the incidence of family bereavement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(26), e2202686119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2202686119

Song, X., & Caswell, H. (2022). The role of kinship in racial differences in exposure to unemployment. Demography, 59(4), 1325–1352. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10057831

van Damme, M., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., & Castro, A. (2025). Estimating kinship size of older adults in Europe with models and surveys. Demography, 1–1961236. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11961236

Formal demography papers

Butterick, J. W. B., Smith, P. W. F., Bijak, J., & Hilton, J. (2025). A mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling. Theoretical Population Biology, 163, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2025.02.002

Caswell, H. (2019). The formal demography of kinship: A matrix formulation. Demographic Research, 41(24), 679–712. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.24

Caswell, H. (2020). The formal demography of kinship II: Multistate models, parity, and sibship. Demographic Research, 42(38), 1097–1146. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2020.42.38

Caswell, H., & Song, X. (2021). The formal demography of kinship III: Kinship dynamics with time-varying demographic rates. Demographic Research, 45(16), 517–546. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2021.45.16

Caswell, H. (2022). The formal demography of kinship IV: Two-sex models and their approximations. Demographic Research, 47(13), 359–396. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2022.47.13

Caswell, H., Margolis, R., & Verdery, A. M. (2023). The formal demography of kinship V: Kin loss, bereavement, and causes of death. Demographic Research, 49(41), 1163–1200. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2023.49.41

Caswell, H. (2024). The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network. Demographic Research, 51(39), 1201–1256. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2024.51.39

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