The Stability of Child Fostering in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Senegal

Studies in Family Planning (2025). https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12284 Maria Pohl, Ewa Batyra and Albert Esteve In sub-Saharan Africa, child out-fostering is a traditional social practice, and research suggests stable levels of out-fostering over time, yet the underlying demographic and socioeconomic factors driving this stability have remained largely unexplored. To gain insight into the prevalence and associations of […]

Changes in Latin American and Caribbean Household Structure Amidst Fertility Decline, 1960-2020

Studies in Family Planning (2025). https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12282 Federica Becca, Albert Esteve and Andrés F. Castro Torres Over the past six decades, significant demographic and familial changes, including rapid fertility decline, have occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), impacting household structure and formation. We document trends in and changes to household size and composition in […]

African households: National and subnational trends from censuses and surveys

Population Studies – A Journal of Demography (February 2025). https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2024.2427580 Maria Pohl, Albert Esteve and Juan Galeano Using census and survey microdata from 49 African countries across 415 subnational areas, we offer a comprehensive overview of household size and composition in Africa. The study emphasizes the potential of these data for understanding family dynamics through […]

Rising Female-Headed Households: Shifts in Living Arrangements or Heightened Gender Symmetry?

Population and Development Review (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12692 Rita Trias-Prats and Albert Esteve Censuses and surveys predominantly report men as heads of households or reference persons despite women carrying out most domestic and care work. Recent evidence, however, suggests that an increasing number of households are headed by women. Using data from the newly released CORESIDENCE database, […]

Non-family Living Arrangements Among Young Adults in the United States

European Journal of Population 40, 10 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-024-09696-5 Kristen Jeffers, Albert Esteve and Ewa Batyra The share of young adults living in married-couple family households in the USA has declined in recent decades. Research on alternative living arrangements focuses on cohabitation among unmarried couples and parent–adult child coresidence. Less is known about trends in non-family […]

Five decades of household change across Asian societies

Asian Population Studies (December 2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2024.2431752 Huifen Fang, Juan Galeano and Albert Esteve Asian households have experienced substantial changes in recent decades. However, although scholars have examined demographic change from various perspectives, long-term, cross-national, data-rich comparison analyses on Asian households are still scarce. This article fills this gap. Using newly released data from the CORESIDENCE […]

Datafest Tbilisi 2024

LOCATIONTbilisi, Georgia ASSISTANTSJuan Galeano “Data Uncovers a Shift: Who we live with is changing. The CORESIDENCE data infraestructures”. Presenting author: Juan Galeano.

ALAP 2024

LOCATIONBogotá, Colombia ASSISTANTSAlbert Esteve, Juan Galeano, Federica Becca and Anna Turu “The CORESIDENCE Database: National and Subnational Data on Household Size and Composition Around the World, 1964–2021”, session “Red LAFAM: Hogares y familia en América Latina 2”. Presenting author: Juan Galeano. Co-Authors: Albert Esteve, Joan García-Román, Anna Turu, Federica Becca, Huifen Fang, Maria Pohl and Rita […]

CEDAR seminar

LOCATIONUmeå, Sweden ASSISTANTSAlbert Esteve, Federica Becca, Anna Turu and Rita Trias-Prats “Guess Who I’m Having Dinner with Tonight: A Global View on Living Arrangements”. Presenting author: Albert Esteve.

READI 2024

LOCATIONBeijing, China ASSISTANTSAlbert Esteve and Simin Dai “Global variations in living arrangements: Persistent and emerging trends”, Research on East Asian Demography and Inequality. Presenting author: Albert Esteve.