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In their study, Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska and Magdalena Grabowska (University of Warsaw) examine whether there exists a sex preference for children among women from 11 European countries.

To examine the frequency of twin and other multiple births over time and across countries, Catalina Torres, Arianna Caporali, and Gilles Pison have developed the Human Multiple Births Database (HMBD).

In this study, Björn Högberg, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, and Jonas Voßemer find that the effects of maternal unemployment on poor infant health are small and not consistently significant. They also found no effects at all from paternal unemployment.

It was long believed that single mothers in Europe have the advantage of the welfare state: public childcare, housing regulations, and cash transfers would make their lives a little easier than those in other parts of the world. New research by Bram Hogendoorn and Juho Härkönen puts this belief into question.

When a couple decides to move in together, they have an important decision to make: who moves in with whom, or where will the new destination for both of them be? Particularly for long-distance couples, this decision has large consequences.

Miguel González-Leonardo, Michaela Potančoková, Dilek Yildiz and Francisco Rowe published the first study analysing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigration flows in a global sample of countries.

Eleonora Mussino and Stefano Cantalini look at the number of children migrants from two low-fertility contexts (Poland and Romania) have in two destinations (Italy and the United Kingdom), and compare them to co-nationals that never left the country of origin and to non-migrants at the destination country.

In this study, Giammarco Alderotti, Eleonora Mussino and Chiara Ludovica Comolli explored childbearing behaviour during the Great Recession (2010-2015) in Italy and Sweden across two dimensions of vulnerability: migration background and labour market uncertainty.

In this study, Amy Heshmati, Helena Honkaniemi and Sol P. Juárez (Stockholm University) evaluate the international scientific literature on the association between parental leave and parents’ mental health for both mothers and fathers.

In their latest study, Chiara Dello Iacono, Miguel Requena, and Mikolaj Stanek investigated the relationship between mothers’ partnership status and household structure and children’s low birth weights born in Spain.