CED - Center for Demographic Studies

My research lies in the areas of demography, health, international development, social policy and social statistics. I apply a wide range of quantitative methods to study topics related to fertility and family change, child health and sexual and reproductive health, as well as how social policies influence these outcomes. My latest research focuses on the variation and gender differences in transition to adulthood, the relationship between socioeconomic inequality and population dynamics, and the consequences of policy changes on health and families in Latin America, Africa and Asia. My work has been published in journals such as Population and Development Review, BMJ Global Health, and Studies in Family Planning. I received my PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science in 2018, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania from 2018 to 2020 and since 2021 I have been a guest researcher at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

2024

Batyra, Ewa. 2024. «Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis». Development and Change 55(5):1018-50. doi: 10.1111/dech.12846.

Vaisanen, Heini, i Ewa Batyra. 2024. «Birth Intention Status and Infant Mortality: Fixed-Effects Analysis of 60 Countries». Population and Development Review. doi: 10.1111/padr.12652.

Jeffers, Kristen, Albert Esteve, i Ewa Batyra. 2024. «Non-Family Living Arrangements Among Young Adults in the United States». European Journal of Population 40(1):10. doi: 10.1007/s10680-024-09696-5.

2023

Esteve, Albert, Ewa Batyra, i Annika Elwert. 2023. «Gender Asymmetries in Mixed Unions». IUSSP On-Line.

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.

Esteve, Albert; Annika Elwert i Ewa Batyra (2023). “Gender Asymmetries in Cross-NationalCouples”. Population and Development Review, 49 (2): 379-396 (ISSN: 0098-7921). https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12565

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.

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.

Batyra, Ewa, i Luca Maria Pesando. 2023. «Increases in Child Marriage among the Poorest in Mali: ‘Reverse Policies’ or Data Quality Issues?» Population Studies 1-19. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2023.2181383.

BATYRA, Ewa; LEONE, Tiziana; MYRSKYLÄ, Mikko (2023) “Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: The case of Brazil”. Population Studies-A Journal of Demography 77(2): 179-195 (ISSN: 0032-4728). https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2022.2104916 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2021_Q2_Demography, i.i. 2.828
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2022

VÄISÄNEN, Heini; BATYRA, Ewa (2022) “The Effect of Birth Intention Status on Infant Mortality: A Fixed Effects Analysis of 60 Countries.” WP-2022-032. 0 ed. Rostock: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. https://doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2022-032.

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.

BATYRA, Ewa; PESANDO, Luca M. (2022) ““Reverse Policies?” Reducing the Legal Minimum Age at Marriage Increases Child Marriage Among the Poorest in Mali”. Population Center Working Papers, 89: 1-35. University of Pennsylvania, Population Center.

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
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2022-2024

Measuring and Understanding Disparities in Family Formation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (DisparFam)

Funding entity: European Commission. European Research Executive Agency

Reference: HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 - GA No 101060237