CED - Center for Demographic Studies

Andrés F. Castro Torres

ORCID 0000-0003-1032-3869 Researcher (Barcelona Supercomputing Center- BSC) associated with the CED

Educational qualifications: Ph.D in Demography and Sociology (University of Pennsylvania)
Research Theme/s: Fertility and Households, Social Stratification

I am a Colombian sociologist with a Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania (2019). My research focuses on social class and gender differences in family formation and dissolution trajectories, primarily in countries of the global South and among immigrants in the United States and Europe. I use censuses, surveys, administrative records, and vital statistics to answer questions about how the people’s material living conditions throughout their life course associate with specific family and migration paths, and how these family and migration paths influence social class and gender disparities. I also research global inequalities in knowledge production in social sciences.

Information on current project: INTERINEQ

2024

Akbaritabar, Aliakbar, Andrés Felipe Castro Torres, i Vincent Larivière. 2024. «A Global Perspective on Social Stratification in Science». Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11(1):1-10. doi: 10.1057/s41599-024-03402-w.

Castro Torres, Andres F., i Aliakbar Akbaritabar. 2024. «The use of linear models in quantitative research». Quantitative Science Studies 1-21. doi: 10.1162/qss_a_00294.

2023

Telles, Edward, Albert Esteve, i Andrés F. Castro T. 2023. «Black–White Intermarriage in Global Perspective». Demographic Research 49(28):737-68. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2023.49.28.

Shukla, Shruti, Andrés F. Castro Torres, Rucha Vasumati Satish, Yulia Shenderovich, Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde, i Janina Isabel Steinert. 2023. «Factors associated with adolescent pregnancy in Maharashtra, India: a mixed-methods study». Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 31(1):2249284. doi: 10.1080/26410397.2023.2249284.

Robles, Adriana, Andrés F. Castro Torres, i Irene Casique. 2023. «Los 15 años de la Revista Latinoamericana de Población desde una perspectiva bibliométrica». Revista Latinoamericana de Población 17:e202326-e202326. doi: 10.31406/relap2023.v17.e202326.

Esteve, Albert, Andrés Castro, i Federica Becca. 2023. «Family Change in Latin America: Schooling and Labor Market Implications for Children and Women». IDB Working Paper Series. Inter-American Development Bank. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0005145.

Chia, Liu, Castro Andrés, i Batyra Ewa. 2023. «A gender story of institutional disengagement of young adults in Latin America». Sociology Compass. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13138.

Castro Torres, Andrés F., i Edith Y. Gutierrez-Vazquez. 2023. «Power Relations and Persistent Low Fertility among Domestic Workers in Latin America». The Sociological Review 00380261231181772. doi: 10.1177/00380261231181772

Lee, D. Susie, Ewa Batyra, Andres Castro, i Joshua Wilde. 2023. «Human Fertility after a Disaster: A Systematic Literature Review». Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290(1998):20230211. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0211.

Castro, Andrés. 2023. «The Neglected Role of Domestic Migration on Family Patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1950–2000». Studies in Family Planning. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12241

Batyra, Ewa, Luca Maria Pesando, Andrés Castro, Frank F. Furstenberg, i Hans‐Peter Kohler. 2023. «Union Formation, Within‐couple Dynamics, and Child Well‐being: A Global Macrolevel Perspective». Population, Space and Place e61. doi: 10.1002/psp.2661.

2022

ABUFHELE, Alejandra; PESANDO, Luca Maria; CASTRO Andres (2022) “Parental Educational Similarity and Inequality Implications for Infant Health in Chile: Evidence from Administrative Records, 1990–2015.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 82 (December): 100736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100736 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)-2021_Q1_SOCIOLOGY, i.i. 3.909
SJR_2021_Q1_Social Science, i.i. 1.39

GARCÍA-ARIAS, Jenny Alejandra; CASTRO-TORRES, Andrés F. (2022) “A binational analysis of infant mortality among crisis-driven diasporas and those who remain: a population-based study in Colombia and Venezuela”. BMJ Global Health, 7 (8), e009523: 1-8 (ISSN: 2059-7908). DOI:10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009523 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2021_Q1_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 8.064
SJR_2021_Q1_ Health Policy, i.i. 2.263

CASTRO TORRES, Andrés (2022) “Family formation trajectories and migration in the United States by the end of the 20th century”. Current Sociology (First published: May 18, 2022): 1-30 (ISSN: 0011-3921). https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221097155 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2021_Q2_Sociology, i.i. 2.489
SJR_2021_Q1_Sociology and Political Science, i.i. 0.928

BATYRA, Ewa; PESANDO, Luca M.; CASTRO; Andrés F.; FURSTENBERG, Frank F.; KOHLER, Hans-Peter (2022) “Union Formation, Within-Couple Dynamics, and Child Well-Being in Global Comparative Perspective”. Population Center Working Papers, 84: 1-32. University of Pennsylvania, Population Center.

ESTEVE, Albert; CASTRO-MARTÍN, Teresa; CASTRO, Andrés F. (2022) “Families in Latin America: Trends, Singularities, and Contextual Factors”. Annual Review of Sociology, 48: 485-505 (ISSN: 0360-0572). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-030420-015156
I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_Q1_Sociology, i.i. 4.16
SJR_2021_Q1_Sociology and Political Science, i.i. 5.406

CASTRO, Andrés F.; ALBUREZ-GUTIERREZ, Diego (2022) “North and South: Naming practices and the hidden dimension of global disparities in knowledge production”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-PNAS, 119 (10), e2119373119: 1-7 (eISSN: 1091-6490). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119373119 I.F.: JCR (SCIE)_2020_Q1_Multidisciplinary Sciences, i.i. 11.0205
SJR_2020_Q1_Multidisciplinary, i.i. 5.011

CASTRO TORRES, Andrés F.; GUTIERREZ-VAZQUEZ, Edith Y. (2022) “Gendered and Stratified Family Formation Trajectories in the Context of Latin American Migration, 1950 to 2000”. International Migration Review (First Published January 19): 1-34 (ISSN: 0197-9183). https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183211067768 I.F.:
JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q2_Demography, i.i. 2.901
SJR_2020_Q1_Demography, i.i. 1.109

LIU, Chia; CASTRO-TORRES, Andrés F.; BATYRA, Ewa (2022) “A gender story of social disengagement of young adults in Latin America”. MPIDR Working Paper, 4: 1-47. https://doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2022-004

CASTRO-TORRES, Andrés F.; BATYRA, Ewa; MYRSKYLÄ, Mikko (2022) “Income Inequality and Increasing Dispersion of the Transition to First Birthin the Global South”. Population and Development Review, 48 (1): 189-215 (eISSN: 1728-4457). https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12451 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q1_Demography, i.i. 3.338
SJR_2020_Q1_Demography, i.i. 1.836

CASTRO TORRES; Andrés F.; PARRADO, Emilio A. (2022) “Nativity differentials in first births in the United States: Patterns by race and ethnicity”. Demographic Research, 46: 37–64 (ISSN: 1435-9871). DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2022.46.2 I.F.:
JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q3_Demography, i.i. 2.046
SJR_2020_Q1_Demography, i.i. 1.132

2021

CASTRO TORRES, Andrés F.; PESANDO, Luca M.; KOHLER, Hans-Peter; FURSTENBERG, Frank (2021) “Family change and variation through the lens of family configurations in low- and middle-income countries”. Population, Space and Place, e2531: 1-22 (ISSN: 1544-8444). https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2531
I.F.:
JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q1_Demography, i.i. 3.814
SJR_2020_Q1_Demography, i.i. 1.398

2022-2024

Interconnected inequalities and family life courses in Spain (INTERINEQ)

Funding entity: Social Observatory of "la Caixa"