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The well-established finding that migrants tend to be lonelier than their counterparts without a migration background in the country of settlement is typically ascribed to challenges that come with international migration. This study's point of departure is that migrants' high levels of loneliness may, in part, also reflect what could be called a "lonely migrant effect," that is, selection of lonely people into international migration. Selection of this kind was assessed using the 2012 and 2016 rounds of the Dutch Public Health Monitor (n = 685,088), enriched with administrative data on emigration in the three years following survey data collection. Overall, 2,401 respondents emigrated from the Netherlands in this period. Emigration was regressed on respondents' baseline loneliness scores in logistic regression models adjusted for various potential confounders. Results indicate that people who were lonely, as indicated by a 3+ score on the De Jong Gierveld loneliness scale, were approximately 1.27 times as likely as their nonlonely peers to emigrate in the observed period. No significant differences were found between people who were moderately lonely and people who were severely lonely. These findings suggest that elevated loneliness among migrants may partly reflect preexisting loneliness and should be interpreted with this selection effect in mind.

This article presents an analysis of the relationship between kin propinquity, residential mobility, and the persistence of segregation among ancestry groups living in Stockholm, Sweden. Residential segregation between Swedish and non-Swedish ancestry groups is established when immigrants first settle in Stockholm, which creates disparities in the spatial distribution of kin for the children of immigrants compared with their Swedish counterparts. Using agent-based models, we show how preferences to live near kin are sufficient to maintain existing segregation but are not sufficient to generate it. We then apply discrete choice models of residential mobility to longitudinal residential history data from Swedish population registers to estimate the effects of kin on the neighborhood choices of movers, ages 18‒30, during the 1998‒2017 period. We find that people are more likely to move to neighborhoods that are near to kin, net of controls for sorting by ancestry, socioeconomic status, and life course characteristics. Counterfactual simulations of residential mobility show that kin propinquity contributes to higher levels of segregation between Swedish and non-Swedish ancestry groups. These effects are larger for groups already experiencing high levels of segregation from the Swedish majority. We situate these findings in the emerging literature on social structural sorting.

Increasing evidence links exposure to extreme weather events in utero with adverse health outcomes at birth, including lower birth weight. This research, however, often faces data limitations because natural disasters may be localized, often affecting some neighborhoods but not others, whereas outcome data are often available only at higher geographic levels, such as counties. In this article, we introduce a novel strategy for estimating the effects of geographically bounded disasters when localized outcome data are unavailable. We employ this strategy to estimate the effect of exposure to severe tornadoes on infant birth weight in the United States from 1991 to 2017. We merge county-month data on singleton births with block-group-level monthly data on the paths of severe tornadoes and block-group data on the distribution of the population at risk of a birth. We then estimate difference-in-differences models in which the treatment variable is equal to the percentage of the population at risk of a birth affected by the tornado. This strategy results in an estimand that is both more interpretable and more policy-relevant than estimands from traditional models. Our findings demonstrate that exposure to a tornado during pregnancy reduced birth weight for Black mothers.

We construct a unique sibling dataset by linking multiple comprehensive administrative data sources in Taiwan. Using data on one million siblings, we estimate the effect of parental divorce occurring at ages 13‒18 on children's university admission. Our approach leverages differences in admission outcomes between siblings who experienced parental divorce before the national college entrance test at age 18 and those who experienced it afterward. The mother fixed-effects estimates reveal a significantly negative impact of parental divorce on children's university admission. Adolescents who experienced parental divorce faced a 10.8% reduction in the likelihood of entering any university and a 15.9% reduction in the likelihood of being admitted to a first-tier university. Additional analyses show that younger adolescents are more vulnerable to the negative effects of parental divorce than their older counterparts. Furthermore, the study finds nonnegative effects of parental job loss on university admission, suggesting that the adverse impacts of parental divorce are unlikely to operate through income disadvantage.

This research note focuses on accurately documenting the trends in educational resemblance between husbands and wives in South Korea over six decades, from 1960 to 2020. Having undergone rapid social changes in recent history, including industrialization, economic development, and educational expansion, Korea offers a compelling context for studying long-term changes in educational assortative mating across different stages of development. Using 2% microsamples from 13 census datasets collected between 1960 and 2020, we construct marriage tables cross-classifying six educational levels of husbands and wives, both aged 25 to 45. Log-multiplicative layer effect models are applied to assess the husband‒wife association, controlling for changing marginal distributions of both spouses' educational levels. Our analysis of 843,527 married couples shows that the association between husbands' and wives' education increases to a peak around 1995, after which it continuously declines. The inverted U-shape trend remains robust whether analyzing current or first marriages of varying duration and across different types of log-linear models. We provide theoretical and empirical discussions of major macro-level trends, especially the timing and gendered patterns of educational expansion, in Korea to contextualize the observed patterns of educational assortative mating.

This study examines the relationship between community violence and the use and provision of contraception in Mexico, where family planning is a long-standing policy priority and the "war on drugs" has led to chronically high levels of violence. We adopt a two-step approach. First, we investigate the association between women's exposure to violence and first contraceptive use. Combining individual-level data (n  =  86,219) from two waves of the National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID) with information on monthly municipality-level homicides in event-history models, we analyze the timing and method of women's first contraceptive use and the source of first contraception. Second, leveraging rare data from Mexico's Ministry of Health in clinic fixed-effects models, we study the association between homicides and contraceptive provision from public clinics. Results show strong positive associations between community violence and both the transition to first contraceptive use and the contraceptive provision of reversible methods. These relationships are stronger in the long term; one more homicide per 10,000 population during the past five years is associated with triple the risk of initiating contraceptive use and two to three more reversible contraception users served in each public clinic per month. The findings suggest increasing contraceptive vigilance and fertility regulation preferences-but also healthcare system resilience-in times of insecurity.

Begum et al. (2018) examined gender bias in parental attitudes using an experimental approach in rural Bangladesh. Households were reported as randomly assigned to treatment conditions in a lab-in-the-field allocation task. We show that the group assignment was inherited from Islam (2019), a previous, nonrandomized experiment conducted in the same region. The lack of randomization contradicts the design descriptions provided by the authors in Begum et al. (2018) and elsewhere and raises concerns about the validity of comparisons across treatment groups. This also points to serious shortcomings in the reporting and transparency of the study design-issues that mirror those that led to the retraction of Islam (2019) from the European Economic Review.

The presence of exogamous consensual unions (marriages and cohabitations) is an important indicator of social closeness between groups. European research on intermarriage has focused on unions between minority groups and the native majority population, highlighting that religion, especially Islam, constitutes a bright boundary. In diversifying societies, however, opportunities for union formation between minority groups with distinct national origins are increasing. Yet, we know little about partnership patterns among these groups, particularly whether different Muslim groups coalesce through intergroup unions. Using full-population register data from the Netherlands (1999‒2023), we analyze union formation across any combination of the 21 largest national origin groups present on the partnership market. Our findings reveal that unions involving partners from Muslim groups originating from different countries remain strikingly rare overall compared with endogamy within national origin groups, indicating the persistence of national legacies rather than exclusively religious closure. Boundaries for union formation between Muslim groups do not weaken meaningfully across immigrant generations and time. Among non-Muslim groups, by contrast, unions are more commonly formed within broader panethnic "melting pots." Overall, these results underscore the need for a more nuanced understanding of religious boundaries and panethnicity in union formation in Europe.

The shift of immigration enforcement to local communities has amplified anti-immigrant sentiment and enabled the unprecedented expansion of mass deportation systems. This study examines one such effort-the 287(g) program, which empowers local law enforcement to enforce U.S. immigration laws-and its effects on the residential segregation of Latinos. Using a difference-in-differences design that compares counties that implemented 287(g) with applicant counties that did not implement, we find that these policies significantly slowed declines in Latino‒White segregation, particularly in early-adopting Southern counties, where enforcement was most aggressive. We detect no effects on Black‒White or Latino‒Black segregation. Our analysis also suggests that these effects are driven by shifts in residential mobility and migration behaviors among Latino households, as enforcement amplified economic vulnerability, fear, and spatial isolation. These results indicate that interior immigration enforcement functions as a structural barrier to Latino integration, with downstream consequences for racial stratification and neighborhood inequality.