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Research examining the consequences of partnering early in life suggests that precocious exits from adolescence via teen union formation are often associated with negative outcomes.

We reflect on a pivotal dialogue that took place during UNGA 2024.

A new article explores the leverage rural-urban migration has on the urban transition.

It has been 20 years since the establishment of the ICA Foundation, a partnership between Bayer AG and Population Council to distribute hormonal intrauterine devices on a not-for-profit basis to women around the world.

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For decades, PDR has been a welcoming venue for ethnographically grounded scholarship, publishing many articles by anthropologists as well as work by demographers that incorporates anthropological approaches and evidence.

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Current approaches to measuring reproductive preferences in population surveys are limited to exploring only fertility preferences and implicitly assume that contracepting people are using a method they want.