Department

Digital and Computational Demography (Zagheni)

At a Glance Laboratories Publications Team

Publications

Akbaritabar, A.:

Thinking spatially in computational social science: commentary on Yong-Yeol Ahn (2021): “Representation learning for computational imagination”

EPJ Data Science 13:14, 1–12. (2024)

Akbaritabar, A.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Larivière, V.:

A global perspective on social stratification in science

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11:914, 1–10. (2024)

Akbaritabar, A.; Haunschild, R.; Bornmann, L.:

Higher mobility among researchers identified as potentially talented academics compared to a control group

In: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI2024), Berlin, Germany, 18-20 September 2024, 1–10. Zenodo. (2024)

Akbaritabar, A.; Rubin, B. P.:

The evolution of plasticity in the neuroscientific literature during the second half of the twentieth century to the presence

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 1–22. (2024)

Akbaritabar, A.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:

Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020

Scientific Data 11:816, 1–14. (2024)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

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

Population Studies, 1–13. (2024)

Anastasiadou, A.; Kim, J.; Şanlitürk, A. E.; de Valk, H. A. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Gender differences in the migration process: a narrative literature review

Population and Development Review. unpublished. (2024)

Anastasiadou, A.; Volgin, A.; Leasure, D. R.:

War and mobility: using Yandex web searches to characterize intentions to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine

Demographic Research 50:8, 205–220. (2024)

Basellini, U.:

Open science practices in demographic research: an appraisal

Demographic Research 50:43, 1265–1280. (2024)

Bernardi, F.; Conte Keivabu, R.:

Poor air quality at school and educational inequality by family socioeconomic status in Italy

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 1–40. (2024)

Bonetti, M.; Basellini, U.; Nigri, A.:

The Average Uneven Mortality index: building on the 'e-dagger' measure of lifespan inequality

Demographic Research 50:44, 1281–1300. (2024)

Castro Torres, A. F.; Akbaritabar, A.:

The use of linear models in quantitative research

Quantitative Science Studies, 1–32. (2024)

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Lohmann, S.; Zagheni, E.:

The value of cultural similarity for predicting migration: evidence from food and drink interests in digital trace data

Population and Development Review, 1–28. (2024)

Conte Keivabu, R.:

Temperature and school absences: evidence from England

Population and Environment 46:6, 1–20. (2024)

Conte Keivabu, R.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

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

One Earth 7:9, 1630–1637. (2024)

Conte Keivabu, R.; Cozzani, M.; Wilde, J.:

Temperature and fertility: evidence from Spain

Population Studies, 1–15. (2024)

Conte Keivabu, R.; Widmann, T.:

The effect of temperature on language complexity: evidence from seven million parliamentary speeches

Iscience 27:6, 1–13. (2024)

Dańko, M. J.; Wiśniowski, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Jdanov, D. A.; Zagheni, E.:

Assessing the quality of data on international migration flows in Europe: the case of undercounting

Migration Studies 12:2, 1–21. (2024)

Elejalde, E.; Ferres, L.; Navarro, V.; Bravo, L.; Zagheni, E.:

The social stratification of internal migration and daily mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic

Scientific Reports 14:12140, 1–11. (2024)

Gómez Ugarte Valerio, A. C.; Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Janssen, F.; Zagheni, E.:

Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-007. (2024)

Hexel, O.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Family structure and bequest inequalities between black and white households in the United States, 1989-2022

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-008. (2024)

Jacobs, E. M.:

On the up and up: the job mobility of skilled return migrants

Social Forces, 1–22. (2024)

Jacobs, E. M.:

Greener pastures: why Indian international students leave the US labor market

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–25. (2024)

Jacobs, E. M.; Theile, T.; Perrotta, D.; Zhao, X.; Anastasiadou, A.; Zagheni, E.:

Global gender gaps in the international migration of professionals on LinkedIn

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-037. (2024)

Klein, J. D.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Stop, in the name of COVID! Using social media data to estimate the effects of COVID-19-related travel restrictions on migration

Demography, 1–19. (2024)

Korinek, K.; Young, Y. M.; Schmidt, J.; Toan, T. K.; Zimmer, Z.:

Innovation in Aging 8:6, 1–13. (2024)

Korinek, K.; Zimmer, Z.; Teerawichitchainan, B.; Young, Y. M.; Cao Manh, L.; Toan, T. K.:

Cognitive function following early life war-time stress exposure in a cohort of Vietnamese older adults

Social Science and Medicine 349:116800, 1–10. (2024)

Miranda, M. L.; Turra, C. M.; Basellini, U.:

Forecasting life expectancy in São Paulo City, Brazil, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-017. (2024)

Rampazzo, F.; Bijak, J.; Vitali, A.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Assessing timely migration trends through digital traces: a case study of the UK before Brexit

International Migration Review, 1–22. (2024)

Regules García, R.; Gómez Ugarte Valerio, A. C.; Zoraghein, H.; Jiang, L.:

Sub-national population projections for Mexico under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) in the context of climate change

Population Research and Policy Review 43:3, 1–28. (2024)

Şanlitürk, A. E.; Billari, F. C.:

Search for a new home: refugee stock and Google search

International Migration Review, 1–29. (2024)

Sîrbu, A.; Goglia, D.; Kim, J.; Magos, Maximilian P.; Pollacci, L.; Spyratos, S.; Rossetti, G.; Iacus , S. M.:

International mobility between the UK and Europe around Brexit: a data-driven study

Journal of Computational Social Science, 1–32. (2024)

Walk, E.; Akbaritabar, A.:

Resolving the paradox between migration and collaboration of scholars worldwide

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2024)

Yildiz, D.; Wiśniowski, A.; Abel, G. J.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.; Gendronneau, C.; Hoorens, S.:

Integrating traditional and social media data to predict bilateral migrant stocks in the European Union

International Migration Review, 1–29. (2024)

Zanasi, F.; Conte Keivabu, R.:

Extreme temperatures and morbidity in old age in Europe

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 22, 1–28. (2024)

Zhao, Y.; Paul, R.; Reid, S.; Coimbra Vieira, C.; Wolfe, C.; Zhang, Y.; Chunara, R.:

Constructing social vulnerability indexes with increased data and machine learning highlight the importance of wealth across global contexts

Social Indicators Research. (2024)

Zimmer, Z.; Akbulut-Yuksel, M.; Young, Y. M.; Toan, T. K.:

The long-term association between exposure to wartime bombing earlier in life and post-traumatic stress later in life among today's older Vietnamese population

Acta Psychologica 246:104293, 1–9. (2024)

Abdi Nur, A.; Akbaritabar, A.; Vignau Loria, M.; Coolman, N.; Fan, X.; Curran, S.:

Bibliometric analysis of published literature on the determinants of family planning

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-027. (2023)

Akbaritabar, A.:

Dichotomy of offline versus online social capital

SSRN research paper series 4311832. unpublished. (2023)

Akbaritabar, A.:

Scientific collaboration networks in the interdisciplinary field of biodiversity in central Germany

In: 19th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2023: 2-5 July 2023, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; proceedings: volume 1, 19–41. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University. (2023)

Akbaritabar, A.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Larivière, V.:

A global perspective on the social structure of science

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-029. (2023)

Akbaritabar, A.; Dańko, M. J.; Zhao, X.; Zagheni, E.:

Sub-national disparities in the global mobility of academic talent

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-038. (2023)

Akbaritabar, A.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:

Global flows and rates of international migration of scholars

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-018. (2023)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.:

The long-lasting effect of armed conflicts on family bereavement

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2023)

Amerikaner, L.; Xu Yan, H.; Sayer, L. C.; Doan, L.; Fish, J. N.; Drotning, K. J.; Rinderknecht, R. G.:

Blurred border or safe harbor? Emotional well-being among sexual and gender minority adults working from home during COVID-19

Social Science and Medicine 323:115850, 1–10. (2023)

Anastasiadou, A.; Kim, J.; Şanlitürk, A. E.; de Valk, H. A. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Sex- and gender-based differences in the migration process: a systematic literature review

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-039. (2023)

Badolato, L.; Decter-Frain, A. G.; Irons, N.; Miranda, M. L.; Walk, E.; Zhalieva, E.; Alexander, M. J.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

The limits of predicting individual-level longevity

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-008. (2023)

Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Booth, H.:

Thirty years on: a review of the Lee-Carter method for forecasting mortality

International Journal of Forecasting 39:3, 1033–1049. (2023)

Bernardi, F.; Conte Keivabu, R.:

Poor air at school and educational inequalities by family socioeconomic status

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-014. (2023)

Calderón-Bernal, L. P.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-034. (2023)

Conte Keivabu, R.:

Jeff Goodell The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet Little Brown and Company, 2023, 400 p., $29.00 [book review]

Population and Development Review 49:4, 971–974. (2023)

Conte Keivabu, R.:

Spatial and temporal disparities in air pollution exposure at Italian schools

Genus 79:27, 1–27. (2023)

Conte Keivabu, R.; Cozzani, M.; Wilde, J.:

Temperature and fertility: evidence from Spanish register data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-021. (2023)

Dańko, M. J.:

UndercountMigScores v0.8.1

Software. https://github.com/MaciejDanko/UndercountMigScores: GitHub. unpublished. (2023)

Dańko, M. J.:

HMigD I App: the Human Migration Database I

Software. https://github.com/MaciejDanko/HMigD_Shiny_App_I: GitHub. unpublished. (2023)

Dańko, M. J.; Wiśniowski, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Jdanov, D. A.; Zagheni, E.:

Assessing the quality of data on international migration flows in Europe: the case of undercounting

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-026. (2023)

De Gaetano, A.; Bajardi, P.; Gozzi, N.; Perra, N.; Perrotta, D.; Paolotti, D.:

Behavioral changes associated to the COVID-19 vaccination: evidence from a cross-national online survey

JMIR preprints 47563. unpublished. (2023)

De Gaetano, A.; Bajardi, P.; Gozzi, N.; Perra, N.; Perrotta, D.; Paolotti, D.:

Behavioral changes associated with COVID-19 vaccination: cross-national online survey

Journal of Medical Internet Research 25, e47563–e47563. (2023)

Deimantas, V. J.; Şanlitürk, A. E.:

Refugees from Ukraine in Lithuania and the Lithuanian labour market: a preliminary assessment

Migration research series 76, Geneva. (2023)

Denecke, E. D.; Grigoriev, P.; Rau, R.:

Evaluation of small-area estimation methods for mortality schedules

arXiv e-prints 2302.01693. unpublished. (2023)

Donzowa, J.; Perrotta, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Assessing self-selection biases in online surveys: evidence from the COVID-19 Health Behavior Survey

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-047. (2023)

Drotning, K. J.; Doan, L.; Sayer, L. C.; Fish, J. N.; Rinderknecht, R. G.:

Not all homes are safe: family violence following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic

Journal of Family Violence 38:2, 189–201. (2023)

Gómez Ugarte Valerio, A. C.; Garcia-Guerrero, V. M.:

Inequality crossroads of mortality: socioeconomic disparities in life expectancy and life span in Mexico between 1990 and 2015

Population Research and Policy Review 42:57, 1–22. (2023)

Hsiao, Y.; Fiorio, L.; Wakefield, J.; Zagheni, E.:

Modeling the bias of digital data: an approach to combining digital with official statistics to estimate and predict migration trends

Sociological Methods and Research, 1–39. (2023)

Kashyap, R.; Rinderknecht, R. G.; Akbaritabar, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Grow, A.; Kim, J.; Leasure, D. R.; Lohmann, S.; Negraia, D. V.; Perrotta, D.; Rampazzo, F.; Tsai, C.-J.; Verhagen, M. D.; Zagheni, E.; Zhao, X.:

Digital and computational demography

In: Research handbook on digital sociology, 48–86. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. (2023)

Khatua, A.; Zagheni, E.; Weber, I. G.:

Host-centric social connectedness of migrants in Europe on Facebook

In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM): Limassol, Cyprus, June 5th - 8th, 2023, 1143–1147. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2023)

Kim, J.; Wang Sonne, S. E.; Garimella, K.; Grow, A.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Online social integration of migrants: evidence from Twitter

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-012. (2023)

Kim, J.; Wang Sonne, S. E.; Garimella, K.; Grow, A.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Online social integration of migrants: evidence from Twitter

Migration Studies, 1–28. (2023)

Paul, R.; Reid, S.; Coimbra Vieira, C.; Wolfe, C.; Zhao, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Chunara, R.:

Methodological improvements in social vulnerability index construction reinforce role of wealth across international contexts

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-017. (2023)

Pettrachin, A.; Gabrielli, L.; Kim, J.; Ludwig-Dehm, S.; Pötzschke, S.:

Did exposure to asylum seeking migration affect the electoral outcome of the 'Alternative fur Deutschland' in Berlin? Evidence from the 2019 European elections

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49:2, 576–600. (2023)

Pinchoff, J.; Regules García, R.; Gómez Ugarte Valerio, A. C.; Abularrage, T. F.; Bojorquez-Chapela, I.:

Coping with climate change: the role of climate related stressors in affecting the mental health of young people in Mexico

PLOS Global Public Health 3:9, e0002219–e0002219. (2023)

Prieto Rosas, V.; Bengochea Soria, J.:

International migration in South America

In: The Routledge history of modern Latin American migration, 62–77. New York: Routledge. (2023)

Qian, W.; Hexel, O.; Zagheni, E.; Kashyap, R.; Weber, I. G.:

Demographic inequalities in digital spaces in China: the case of Weibo

In: Workshop Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-23): Limassol, Cyprus, June 5th - 8th, 2023, 1–6. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2023)

Regules García, R.; Pinchoff, J.; Gómez Ugarte Valerio, A. C.; Abularrage, T. F.; Vieitez, I.; Ngo, T. D.:

Scientific Reports 13:16549, 1–9. (2023)

Rinderknecht, R. G.; Negraia, D. V.; Lohmann, S.; Zagheni, E.:

Understanding the growth of solitary leisure in the U.S., 1965 – 2018

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-025. (2023)

Şanlitürk, A. E.; Zagheni, E.; Dańko, M. J.; Theile, T.; Akbaritabar, A.:

Global patterns of migration of scholars with economic development

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:4, e2217937120–e2217937120. (2023)

Theile, T.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Calderón-Bernal, L. P.; Snyder, M.; Zagheni, E.:

rsocsim - Socsim microsimulation R package

Software. https://github.com/MPIDR/rsocsim: GitHub. unpublished. (2023)

Tsai, C.-J.; Rinderknecht, R. G.; Zagheni, E.:

The interplay between refugee inflows and media coverage in determining attitudes towards immigration in Germany

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-035. (2023)

Valdés, M. T.; C. Espadafor, M.; Conte Keivabu, R.:

Can a low emission zone improve academic performance? Evidence from a natural experiment in the city of Madrid

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-048. (2023)

Wang, Z.; Prieto Rosas, V.; Márquez Scotti, C.; Bengochea Soria, J.:

The social inclusion of migrants between policy and practice: lessons from Uruguay

International Migration Review, 1–11. (2023)

Zhao, X.; Akbaritabar, A.; Kashyap, R.; Zagheni, E.:

A gender perspective on the global migration of scholars

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:10, e2214664120–e2214664120. (2023)

Aburto, J. M.; Basellini, U.; Baudisch, A.; Villavicencio, F.:

Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table

Theoretical Population Biology 148, 1–10. (2022)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Barban, N.; Caswell, H.; Kolk, M.; Margolis, R.; Smith-Greenaway, E.; Song, X.; Verdery, A.; Zagheni, E.:

Kinship, demography, and inequality: review and key areas for future development

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2022)

Alexander, M. J.; Polimis, K.; Zagheni, E.:

Combining social media and survey data to nowcast migrant stocks in the United States

Population Research and Policy Review 41:1, 1–28. (2022)

Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.:

Explaining regional differences in mortality during the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy

Population Studies 76:1, 99–118. (2022)

Bengochea Soria, J.:

Huellas digitales y oportunidades para el estudio de la migración en América Latina y el Caribe

Documentos de trabajo del Programa de Población 8, Uruguay. (2022)

Castro Torres, A. F.; Akbaritabar, A.:

Methodological monotheism across fields of science in contemporary quantitative research

arXiv e-prints 2208.05373. unpublished. (2022)

Chin, A.; Coimbra Vieira, C.; Kim, J.:

Evaluating digital polarization in multi-party systems: evidence from the German Bundestag

In: WebSci '22: proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 26-29 June 2022, 296–301. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (2022)

Chong, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Alexander, M. J.; Zagheni, E.:

Correcting historical mortality rate bias in big crowd-sourced online genealogies

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-005. (2022)

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Theile, T.:

Desaparecidxs: characterizing the population of missing children using Twitter

In: WebSci '22: proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 26-29 June 2022, 185–190. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (2022)

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Fatehkia, M.; Garimella, K.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Using Facebook and LinkedIn data to study international mobility

In: Data science for migration and mobility, 141–158. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2022)

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Lohmann, S.; Zagheni, E.; Vaz de Melo, P. O. S.; Benevenuto, F.; Ribeiro, F. N.:

The interplay of migration and cultural similarity between countries: evidence from Facebook data on food and drink interests

PLOS One 17:2, e0262947–e0262947. (2022)

Conte Keivabu, R.:

Extreme temperature and mortality by educational attainment in Spain, 2012–2018

European Journal of Population 38:5, 1145–1182. (2022)

Conte Keivabu, R.; Cozzani, M.:

Extreme heat, birth outcomes, and socioeconomic heterogeneity

Demography 59:5, 1631–1654. (2022)

Dukhovnov, D.; Ryan, J.; Zagheni, E.:

The impact of demographic change on transfers of care and associated well-being

Population Research and Policy Review 41:6, 2419–2446. (2022)

Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Grow, A.; Bijlsma, M. J.:

Analyzing EU-15 immigrants’ language acquisition using Twitter data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-012. (2022)

Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.; Bordone, V.:

Close social networks among older adults: the online and offline perspectives

Population Research and Policy Review 41:3, 1111–1135. (2022)

Grow, A.; Perrotta, D.; Del Fava, E.; Cimentada, J.; Rampazzo, F.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.; Flores, R. D.; Ventura, I.; Weber, I. G.:

Is Facebook's advertising data accurate enough for use in social science research? Insights from a cross-national online survey

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society/A 185:S2, S343–S363. (2022)

Kim, J.; Pollacci, L.; Rossetti, G.; Sîrbu, A.; Giannotti, F.; Pedreschi, D.:

Twitter data for migration studies

In: Data science for migration and mobility, 159–182. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2022)

Kim, J.; Pratesi, F.; Rossetti, G.; Sîrbu, A.; Giannotti, F.:

Where do migrants and natives belong in a community: a Twitter case study and privacy risk analysis

Social Network Analysis and Mining, 1–23. (2022)

Kim, J.; Sîrbu, A.; Giannotti, F.; Rossetti, G.; Rapoport, H.:

Origin and destination attachment: study of cultural integration on Twitter

EPJ Data Science 11:55, 1–20. (2022)

Kim, J.; Sîrbu, A.; Rossetti, G.; Giannotti, F.:

Characterising different communities of Twitter users: migrants and natives

In: Complex networks and their applications X: Volume 1, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2021, 130–141. Cham: Springer. (2022)

Nigri, A.; Aburto, J. M.; Basellini, U.; Bonetti, M.:

Evaluation of age-specific causes of death in the context of the Italian longevity transition

Scientific Reports 12:22624, 1–10. (2022)

Perrotta, D.; Frias-Martinez, E.; Pastore y Piontti, A.; Zhang, Q.; Luengo-Oroz, M.; Paolotti, D.; Tizzoni, M.; Vespignani, A.:

Comparing sources of mobility for modelling the epidemic spread of Zika virus in Colombia

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16:7, e0010565–e0010565. (2022)

Perrotta, D.; Johnson, S. C.; Theile, T.; Grow, A.; de Valk, H. A. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Openness to migrate internationally for a job: evidence from LinkedIn data in Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-007. (2022)

Perrotta, D.; Johnson, S. C.; Theile, T.; Grow, A.; de Valk, H. A. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Openness to migrate internationally for a job: evidence from LinkedIn data in Europe

In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-22): Atlanta, Georgia and online, June 6th - 9th, 2022; hybrid conference, 759–769. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2022)

Rinderknecht, R. G.; Doan, L.; Sayer, L. C.:

MyTimeUse: an online implementation of the day-reconstruction method

Journal of Time Use Research 17:1, 45–72. (2022)

Şanlitürk, A. E.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Billari, F. C.:

Homecoming after Brexit: evidence on academic migration from bibliometric data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-019. (2022)

Snyder, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Zagheni, E.:

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–e2202686119. (2022)

Stelter, R.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Representativeness is crucial for inferring demographic processes from online genealogies: evidence from lifespan dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:10, e2120455119–e2120455119. (2022)

Yan, H. X.; Sayer, L. C.; Negraia, D. V.; Rinderknecht, R. G.; Doan, L.; Drotning, K. J.; Fish, J. N.; Buck, C.:

Mothering and stress during COVID-19: exploring the moderating effects of employment

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 8, 1–21. (2022)

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

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

Scientometrics 127:12, 7707–7729. (2022)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Kolk, M.; Zagheni, E.:

Women's experience of child death: a global demographic perspective

Demography 58:5, 1715–1735. (2021)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mason, C.; Zagheni, E.:

The “Sandwich Generation” revisited: global demographic drivers of care time demands

Population and Development Review 47:4, 997–1023. (2021)

Basellini, U.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Del Fava, E.; Perrotta, D.; Bonetti, M.; Camarda, C. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Linking excess mortality to mobility data during the ﬁrst wave of COVID-19 in England and Wales

SSM-Population Health 14:100799, 1–18. (2021)

Bengochea Soria, J.; Del Fava, E.; Prieto Rosas, V.; Zagheni, E.:

Leveraging census data to study migration flows in Latin America and the Caribbean: an assessment of the available data sources

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-019. (2021)

Bonetti, M.; Gigliarano, C.; Basellini, U.:

The Gini concentration index for the study of survival

In: Gini inequality index: methods and applications, 1–18. Boca Raton: Chapman and Hall/CRC. (2021)

Camarda, C. G.; Basellini, U.:

Smoothing, decomposing and forecasting mortality rates

European Journal of Population 37:3, 569–602. (2021)

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Vasconcelos, M.:

Using Facebook ads data to assess gender balance in STEM: evidence from Brazil

In: WWW'21: companion proceedings of the Web Conference 2021, 145–153. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (2021)

Del Fava, E.; Adema, I.; Kiti, M. C.; Poletti, P.; Merler, S.; Nokes, D. J.; Manfredi, P.; Melegaro, A.:

Individual’s daily behaviour and intergenerational mixing in different social contexts of Kenya

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2021)

Del Fava, E.; Adema, I.; Kiti, M. C.; Poletti, P.; Merler, S.; Nokes, D. J.; Manfredi, P.; Melegaro, A.:

Individual’s daily behaviour and intergenerational mixing in different social contexts of Kenya

Scientific Reports 11:21589, 1–13. (2021)

Fiorio, L.; Zagheni, E.; Abel, G. J.; Hill, J.; Pestre, G.; Letouzé, E.; Cai, J.:

Analyzing the effect of time in migration measurement using geo-referenced digital trace data

Demography 58:1, 51–74. (2021)

Fish, J. N.; Salerno, J. P.; Williams, N. D.; Rinderknecht, R. G.; Drotning, K. J.; Sayer, L. C.; Doan, L.:

Sexual minority disparities in health and well-being as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic differ by sexual identity

LGBT Health 8:4, 263–272. (2021)

Grow, A.:

The matching-hypothesis re-examined once more: does the structure of the partner market matter?

In: Neurotic doubt and sacred curiosity: essays in honour of Koen Matthijs, 273–286. Leuven: Centre for Sociological Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven. (2021)

Grow, A.; Perrotta, D.; Del Fava, E.; Cimentada, J.; Rampazzo, F.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.; Flores, R. D.; Ventura, I.; Weber, I. G.:

How reliable is Facebook’s advertising data for use in social science research? Insights from a cross-national online survey

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-006. (2021)

Liu, C. Y.; Berlin, J.; Kiti, M. C.; Del Fava, E.; Grow, A.; Zagheni, E.; Melegaro, A.; Jenness, S. M.; Omer, S. B.; Lopman, B.; Nelson, K.:

Rapid review of social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2021)

Liu, C. Y.; Berlin, J.; Kiti, M. C.; Del Fava, E.; Grow, A.; Zagheni, E.; Melegaro, A.; Jenness, S. M.; Omer, S. B.; Lopman, B.; Nelson, K.:

Rapid review of social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic

Epidemiology 32:6, 781–791. (2021)

Lukac, M.; Grow, A.:

Reputation systems and recruitment in online labor markets: insights from an agent-based model

Journal of Computational Social Science 4:1, 207–229. (2021)

Martinez-Folgar, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Paniagua-Avila, A.; Ramirez-Zea, M.; Bilal, U.:

Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala

American Journal of Public Health 111:10, 1839–1846. (2021)

Mooyaart, J.; Dańko, M. J.; Costa, R.; Boissonneault, M.:

Quality assessment of European migration data: QuantMig Project Deliverable D6.2

The Hague. (2021)

Negraia, D. V.; Yavorsky, J. E.; Dukhovnov, D.:

Mothers' and fathers' well-being: does the gender composition of children matter?

Journal of Marriage and Family 83:3, 820–844. (2021)

Perrotta, D.; Del Fava, E.; Zagheni, E.:

The role of vulnerability in mediating the relationship between threat perception and the use of face masks in the context of COVID-19

In: Workshop Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2021): 7 June 2021 (virtual), 1–4. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2021)

Perrotta, D.; Frias-Martinez, E.; Pastore y Piontti, A.; Zhang, Q.; Luengo-Oroz, M.; Paolotti, D.; Tizzoni, M.; Vespignani, A.:

Comparing sources of mobility for modelling the epidemic spread of Zika virus in Colombia

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2021)

Perrotta, D.; Grow, A.; Rampazzo, F.; Cimentada, J.; Del Fava, E.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.:

Behaviours and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a cross-national Facebook survey

EPJ Data Science 10:17, 1–13. (2021)

Rampazzo, F.; Bijak, J.; Vitali, A.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

A framework for estimating migrant stocks using digital traces and survey data: an application in the United Kingdom

Demography 85:6, 2193–2218. (2021)

Smith-Greenaway, E.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Trinitapoli, J.; Zagheni, E.:

Global burden of maternal bereavement: indicators of the cumulative prevalence of child loss

BMJ Global Health 6:4, e004837–e004837. (2021)

Williams, I.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Mortality change and its impact on child survival

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-001. (2021)

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

International migration in academia and citation performance: an analysis of German-affiliated researchers by gender and discipline using Scopus publications 1996-2020

In: 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics ISSI 2021: 12-15 July 2021, KU Leuven, Belgium; proceedings, 1369–1380. Leuven: ISSI. (2021)

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

Mapping academic migration of German-affiliated researchers across countries using 8 million Scopus publications from 1996 to 2020

Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association 3:327, 1–2. (2021)

Aburto, J. M.; Villavicencio, F.; Basellini, U.; Kjærgaard, S.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:10, 5250–5259. (2020)

Alexander, M. J.; Polimis, K.; Zagheni, E.:

Combining social media and survey data to nowcast migrant stocks in the United States

arXiv e-prints 2003.02895. unpublished. (2020)

Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.:

A three-component approach to model and forecast age-at-death distributions

In: Developments in demographic forecasting, 105–129. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (2020)

Basellini, U.; Kjærgaard, S.; Camarda, C. G.:

An age-at-death distribution approach to forecast cohort mortality

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 91, 129–143. (2020)

Bergeron Boucher, M.-P.; Kjærgaard, S.; Pascariu, M. D.; Aburto, J. M.; Alvarez Martinez, J. A.; Basellini, U.; Rizzi, S.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Alternative forecasts of Danish life expectancy

In: Developments in demographic forecasting, 131–151. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (2020)

Cimentada, J.:

A new perspective on the international achievement gap: is academic autonomy good for everyone?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-005. (2020)

Cimentada, J.; Klüsener, S.; Riffe, T.:

Exploring the demographic history of populations with enhanced Lexis surfaces

Demographic Research 42:6, 149–164. (2020)

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Ribeiro, F. N.; Vaz de Melo, P. O. S.; Benevenuto, F.; Zagheni, E.:

Using Facebook data to measure cultural distance between countries: the case of Brazilian cuisine

In: WWW '20: proceedings of the Web Conference 2020; Apr 20-25, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, 3091–3097. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (2020)

Del Fava, E.; Cimentada, J.; Perrotta, D.; Grow, A.; Rampazzo, F.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.:

The differential impact of physical distancing strategies on social contacts relevant for the spread of COVID-19

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)

Dukhovnov, D.; Ryan, J.; Zagheni, E.:

The impact of demographic change on transfers of care and associated well-being

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-022. (2020)

Fiorio, L.; Zagheni, E.; Abel, G. J.; Hill, J.; Pestre, G.; Letouzé, E.; Cai, J.:

Analyzing the effect of time in migration measurement using geo-referenced digital trace data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-024. (2020)

Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.; Bordone, V.:

Close social networks among older adults: the online and offline perspectives

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-035. (2020)

Gozzi, N.; Perrotta, D.; Paolotti, D.; Perra, N.:

Towards a data-driven characterization of behavioral changes induced by the seasonal flu

PLOS Computational Biology 16:5, e1007879–e1007879. (2020)

Grow, A.; Perrotta, D.; Del Fava, E.; Cimentada, J.; Rampazzo, F.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.:

Addressing public health emergencies via Facebook surveys: advantages, challenges, and practical considerations

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2020)

Grow, A.; Perrotta, D.; Del Fava, E.; Cimentada, J.; Rampazzo, F.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.:

Addressing public health emergencies via Facebook surveys: advantages, challenges, and practical considerations

Journal of Medical Internet Research 22:12, e20653–e20653. (2020)

Grow, A.; van Bavel, J.:

The gender cliff in the relative contribution to the household income: insights from modelling marriage markets in 27 European countries

European Journal of Population 36:4, 711–733. (2020)

Hsiao, Y.; Fiorio, L.; Wakefield, J.; Zagheni, E.:

Modeling the bias of digital data: an approach to combining digital and survey data to estimate and predict migration trends

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-019. (2020)

Klüsener, S.; Schneider, R.; Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, M.; Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Sander, N.; Backhaus, A.; Del Fava, E.; Esins, J.; Fischer, M.; Grabenhenrich, L.; Grigoriev, P.; Grow, A.; Hilton, J. D.; Koller, B.; Myrskylä, M.; Scalone, F.; Wolkewitz, M.; Zagheni, E.; Resch, M. M.:

Forecasting intensive care unit demand during the COVID-19 pandemic: a spatial age-structured microsimulation model

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)

Lohmann, S.; Zagheni, E.:

Multi-platform social media use: little evidence of impacts on adult well-being

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-023. (2020)

Miranda-González, A.; Aref, S.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:

Scholarly migration within Mexico: analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data

EPJ Data Science 9. (2020)

Negraia, D. V.; Augustine, J. M.:

Unpacking the parenting well-being gap: the role of dynamic features of daily life across broader social contexts

Social Psychology Quarterly 83:3, 207–228. (2020)

Pascariu, M. D.; Basellini, U.; Aburto, J. M.; Canudas-Romo, V.:

The linear link: deriving age-specific death rates from life expectancy

Risks 8:4, 109.1–109.18. (2020)

Perrotta, D.; Grow, A.; Rampazzo, F.; Cimentada, J.; Del Fava, E.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.:

Behaviors and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a cross-national Facebook survey

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)

Ribeiro, F. N.; Benevenuto, F.; Zagheni, E.:

How biased is the population of Facebook users? Comparing the demographics of Facebook users with census data to generate correction factors

In: WebSci '20: 12th ACM Conference on Web Science, Southampton, UK, 6-10 July 2020, 325–334. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. (2020)

Subbotin, A.; Aref, S.:

Brain drain and brain gain in Russia: analyzing international mobility of researchers by discipline using Scopus bibliometric data 1996-2020

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-025. (2020)

Abel, G. J.; Muttarak, R.; Bordone, V.; Zagheni, E.:

Bowling together: scientific collaboration networks of demographers at European Population Conferences

European Journal of Population 35:3, 543–562. (2019)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Aref, S.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Grow, A.; Negraia, D. V.; Zagheni, E.:

Demography in the digital era: new data sources for population research

In: Smart statistics for smart applications : book of short papers SIS2019, 23–30. Pearson. (2019)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Chandrasekharan, E.; Chunara, R.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Hannak, A.; Interdonato, R.; Joseph, K.; Kalimeri, K.; Malik, M. M.; Mayer, K.; Mejova, Y.; Paolotti, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Reports of the workshops held at the 2019 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

AI Magazine 40:4, 78–82. (2019)

Alexander, M. J.; Polimis, K.; Zagheni, E.:

The impact of Hurricane Maria on out-migration from Puerto Rico: evidence from Facebook data

Population and Development Review 45:3, 617–630. (2019)

Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; West, J.:

The demography of the peripatetic researcher: evidence on highly mobile scholars from the Web of Science

In: Social Informatics 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Proceedings, 50–65. Cham: Springer. (2019)

Cimentada, J.:

perccalc: an R package for estimating percentiles from categorical variables

The Journal of Open Source Software 4:44, 1–3. (2019)

Del Fava, E.; Shkedy, Z.:

Mixture modeling

In: Handbook of infectious disease data analysis, 1–24. New York: Taylor & Francis Group. (2019)

Del Fava, E.; Wiśniowski, A.; Zagheni, E.:

Modeling international migration flows by integrating multiple data sources

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2019)

Dukhovnov, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Transfers of informal care time in the United States: the role of demographic differentials in intergenerational flows by age, sex, and racial and national background

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 17, 163–197. (2019)

Estiri, H.; Zagheni, E.:

Age matters: ageing and household energy demand in the United States

Energy Research and Social Science 55, 62–70. (2019)

Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Zagheni, E.:

Demographic differentials in Facebook usage around the world

In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2019): 11-14 June 2019, Munich, Germany, 647–650. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2019)

Grow, A.:

How to design agent-based marriage market models: a review of current practices

In: Simulieren und Entscheiden: Entscheidungsmodellierung, Modellierungsentscheidungen, Entscheidungsunterstützung, 59–83. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. (2019)

Grow, A.; Flache, A.:

Agent-based computational models of reputation and status dynamics

In: The Oxford handbook of gossip and reputation, 231–249. New York: Oxford University Press. (2019)

Hu, Y.; Li, P.; Martikainen, P.:

Rural-urban disparities in age trajectories of depression caseness in later life: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

PLOS One 14:4, e0215907–e0215907. (2019)

Kluge, F. A.; Goldstein, J. R.; Vogt, T. C.:

Transfers in an aging European Union

Journal of the Economics of Ageing 13, 45–54. (2019)

Marquez, N.; Garimella, K.; Toomet, O.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Segregation and sentiment: estimating refugee segregation and its effects using digital trace data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-021. (2019)

Marquez, N.; Garimella, K.; Toomet, O.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Segregation and sentiment: estimating refugee segregation and its effects using digital trace data

In: Guide to mobile data analytics in refugee scenarios, 265–282. Cham: Springer. (2019)

Negraia, D. V.; Augustine, J. M.:

Unpacking the parenting wellbeing gap: the role of dynamic features of daily life across broader social structures

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-011. (2019)

Negraia, D. V.; Augustine, J. M.:

SES and the emotional 'benefits' and 'costs' of parenting

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-012. (2019)

Negraia, D. V.; Yavorsky, J. E.; Dukhovnov, D.:

Mothers' and fathers' well-being while parenting: does the gender composition of children matter?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-013. (2019)

Nomes, E.; Grow, A.; van Bavel, J.:

The mid-twentieth century Baby Boom and the role of social influence: an agent-based modelling approach

Historical Life Course Studies 8, 1–26. (2019)

Stewart, I. B.; Flores, R. D.; Riffe, T.; Weber, I. G.; Zagheni, E.:

Rock, rap, or reggaeton?: assessing Mexican immigrants' cultural assimilation using Facebook data

In: Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference WWW 2019: May 13-17, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, 3258–3264. New York: ACM. (2019)

Cesare, N.; Lee, H.; McCormick, T.; Spiro, E.; Zagheni, E.:

Promises and pitfalls of using digital traces for demographic research

Demography 55:5, 1979–1999. (2018)

Dubois, A.; Zagheni, E.; Garimella, K.; Weber, I. G.:

Studying migrant assimilation through Facebook interests

In: Social Informatics: 10th International Conference, SocInfo 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 25-28, 2018, Proceedings, Part II, 51–60. Cham: Springer. (2018)

Haranko, K.; Zagheni, E.; Garimella, K.; Weber, I. G.:

Professional gender gaps across US cities

In: Proceedings of the Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018): 25-28 June 2018, Stanford, California, 604–607. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2018)

Rampazzo, F.; Zagheni, E.; Weber, I. G.; Testa, M.R.; Billari, F. C.:

Mater certa est, pater numquam: what can Facebook advertising data tell us about male fertility rates?

In: Proceedings of the Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018): 25-28 June 2018, Stanford, California, 672–675. Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press. (2018)

Weber, I. G.; Kashyap, R.; Zagheni, E.:

Using advertising audience estimates to improve global development statistics

ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries 1:2, 1–9. (2018)

Kluge, F. A.:

Wieviel Geld zahlt jung an alt und umgekehrt?

In: Grünbuch Alternde Gesellschaft: wie das "neue Altern" unser Leben verändern wird, 27–30. München: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (2017)

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