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In their study, Calderón-Jaramillo and Zueras measured unmet care needs in twelve European countries using data from the SHARE survey for older people aged 65+.

Migrant journeys are complex and can be unpredictable. Migration routes can change, sometimes rapidly. This creates challenges for policy and for computer simulations of migrant routes. Researchers have identified four crucial factors for migration modelling – and they caution against oversimplifying reality.

In their cohort study published in the Lancet Public Health, Juha Luukkonen et al. assessed whether being legally able to purchase alcohol at younger age was associated with later alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality.

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.