Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  1. Acosta, E.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Gargiulo, M.; Torres, C. (in press). "Weaponizing Kinship: A Demographic Analysis of Bereavement in the Colombian Conflict" Population and Development Review. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/p87aw_v1. Joint first authorship with E. Acosta
  2. Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2026). "Caracterización demográfica del genocidio asociado al Proyecto Hidroeléctrico Chixoy en Guatemala (1982-2015)" Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos, 41, 1-31. DOI: 10.24201/edu.v41.e2495.
  3. Calderón Bernal, L. P.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E. (2025). "Analyzing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation" European Journal of Population, 41(34). DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09756-4.
  4. Gómez Ugarte, A.; Chen, I.; Acosta, E.; Basellini, U.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2025). "Accounting for uncertainty in conflict mortality estimation: An application to the Gaza War in 2023-2024" Population Health Metrics, 23:55. DOI: 10.1186/s12963-025-00422-9.
  5. Hünteler, B.; Hank, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Leopold, T. (2025). "A Typology of Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States" Journal of Marriage and Family, 88(1):284-298. DOI: 10.1111/jomf.70014.
  6. van Damme, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Castro, A. (2025). "Research Note: Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe with Models and Surveys" Demography, 11961236. DOI: 10.1215/00703370-11961236.
  7. Matos-Moreno, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Verdery, A.; Santos-Lozada, A.; Fernández Soto, M.; Williams, I. (2025). "Kinship Structures for Left Behind Older Adults in High Outmigration Contexts: Evidence from Puerto Rico" The Journals of Gerontology, Series B. DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbaf052.
  8. Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.; Williams, N. (2024). "The long-lasting effect of armed conflicts deaths on the living: Quantifying family bereavement" Science Advances, 10:eado6951. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6951. Joint first authorship with E. Acosta
  9. Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E. (2024). "When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss" Population Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2024.2345075.
  10. Schlüter, B.-S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Bibbins-Domingo, K.; Alexander, M.; Kiang, M. (2024). "Youth Experiencing Parental Death Due to Drug Poisoning and Firearm Violence in the US, 1999-2020" Journal of the American Medical Association. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.8391.
  11. Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Caswell, H. (2023). "Projections of human kinship for all countries" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(52):e2315722120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2315722120.
  12. Snyder, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Zagheni, E. (2022). "Estimates from 31 countries show the significant impact of COVID-19 excess mortality on the incidence of family bereavement" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(26):e2202686119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2202686119.
  13. Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2022). "The demographic drivers of grief and memory after genocide in Guatemala" Demography, 59(3):1173-1194. DOI: 10.1215/00703370-9975747.
  14. Stelter, R.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2022). "Representativeness is crucial for inferring demographic processes from online genealogies: Evidence from lifespan dynamics" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(10):e2120455119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2120455119.
  15. Castro, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2022). "North and South: Naming practices and the hidden dimension of global disparities in knowledge production" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(10):e2119373119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119373119.
  16. Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mason, C.; Zagheni, E. (2021). "The Sandwich Generation Revisited: Global Demographic Drivers of Care Time Demands" Population and Development Review, 47(4):997-1023. DOI: 10.1111/padr.12436.
  17. Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Kolk, M.; Zagheni, E. (2021). "Women's experience of child death: A global demographic perspective" Demography, 58(5):1715-1735. DOI: 10.1215/00703370-9420770.
  18. Smith-Greenaway, E.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Trinitapoli, J.; Zagheni, E. (2021). "The Global Burden of Maternal Bereavement: Indicators of the Cumulative Prevalence of Child Loss" BMJ Global Health, 6:e004837. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004837.
  19. Martinez-Folgar, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Paniagua-Avila, A.; Ramirez-Zea, M.; Bilal, U. (2021). "Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Guatemala" American Journal of Public Health. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306452.
  20. Basellini, U.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Del Fava, E.; Perrotta, D.; Bonetti, M.; Camarda, C.; Zagheni, E. (2021). "Linking excess mortality to Google mobility data during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales" Social Science and Medicine - Population Health, 14. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100799.
  21. Riffe, T.; Acosta, E.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; the COVerAGE-DB team (2021). "Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths" International Journal of Epidemiology, 50(2):390-390f. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyab027.
  22. Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2021). "Vivir para contarla: un análisis demográfico de las masacres de Río Negro en Guatemala (1980-1982)" Análisis de la Realidad Nacional, 208:91-104. Link.
  23. Nepomuceno, M.; Acosta, E.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Aburto, J. M.; Gagnon, A.; Turra, C. (2020). "Besides population age-structure, health and other demographic factors can contribute to understanding the COVID-19 burden" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(25). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008760117.
  24. Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2019). "Blood is thicker than bloodshed: A genealogical approach to reconstruct populations after armed conflicts" Demographic Research, 40(23):627-656. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.23.
  25. Leone, T.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Gandour, R.; Coast, E.; Giacaman, R. (2019). "Maternal and child access to care and intensity of conflict in the occupied Palestinian territory: a pseudo-longitudinal analysis (2000-2014)" Conflict and Health, 13(36). DOI: 10.1186/s13031-019-0220-2.
  26. McGovern, P.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2017). "Who takes workplace case-study methods seriously? The influence of gender, academic rank and PhD training" Industrial Relations Journal, 48(2):98-114. DOI: 10.1111/irj.12171.

Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings

  1. Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E. (in press). "Measuring Bereavement as a Consequence of War" Handbook on Conflict and Health (de Gruyter).
  2. Kashyap, R.; Rinderknecht, R. G.; Akbaritabar, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Gil-Clavel, S.; Grow, A.; et al. (2023). "Digital and Computational Demography" Research Handbook of Digital Sociology. DOI: 10.4337/9781789906769.00010.
  3. Coimbra, C.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Nepomuceno, M.; Theile, T. (2022). "Desaparecidxs: characterizing the population of missing children using Twitter" 14th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci '22), 185-190. DOI: 10.1145/3501247.3531589.
  4. Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Aref, S.; Gil-Clavel, S.; Grow, A.; Negraia, D. V.; Zagheni, E. (2019). "Demography in the Digital Era: New Data Sources for Population Research" Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the Italian Statistical Society. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/24jp7.

Technical Reports

  1. Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Segura Garcia, C. (2018). "The UNHCR Demographic Projection Tool: estimating the future size and composition of forcibly displaced populations" UNHCR Statistics Technical Series, 2018/1. Link.

Preprints

  1. Hünteler, B.; Hank, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Leopold, T. (2025). "Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relationships in Europe: A Latent Class Analysis" SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/m284w_v1.
  2. Abrams, L. R.; Jiang, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E. (2025). "Adverse Mortality Trends have Increased the Number Bereaved in the United States" SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/z38cs_v1.
  3. Hünteler, B.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2025). "Projecting Generational Placement Trajectories: Empirical and Simulated Populations in Norway" SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/serxq_v1.
  4. Jiang, S.; Liang, H.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E. (2025). "Human Capital Investment Helps Mitigate Family Caregiving Challenges in Aging China" MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-021. DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2025-021.
  5. Adhikari, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2025). "The Future of Grandparenthood in South Asia: The Role of Population Aging and Educational Expansion" MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-003. DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2025-003.
  6. Colasurdo, A.; Mulder, C.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2025). "Geographical dispersal of kin in Europe and the United States: 1700-1900" SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/fnbqa_v1.
  7. Hexel, O.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E. (2024). "Demographic and economic correlates of persistent racial inequalities in wealth at death in the US" MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-008. DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2024-008.
  8. Gómez Ugarte, A. C.; Acosta, E.; Basellini, U.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2024). "The effect of war on Palestinian life expectancy in 2023" SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/8smy2.
  9. Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Barban, N.; Caswell, H.; Kolk, M.; Margolis, R.; Smith-Greenaway, E.; Song, X.; Verdery, A.; Zagheni, E. (2022). "Kinship Approaches in Demography: Review and Key Areas for Future Development" SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/fk7x9.
  10. Chong, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Del Fava, E.; Alexander, M.; Zagheni, E. (2022). "Identifying and correcting bias in big crowd-sourced online genealogies" MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-005. DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2022-005.
  11. Williams, I.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2021). "Mortality change and its impact on child survival" MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-001. DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2021-001.
  12. Jiang, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Chung, P.; Alexander, M. (2025). "Measuring kinship dependency: A cross-national comparison across care regimes" Under review. MPIDR Working Paper. DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2025-024.
  13. Sasson, I.; Andersson, L.; van Raalte, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2024). "Social Inequalities in Bereavement across the Life Course: A Study of Four-Generation Kinship Networks in Sweden" Under review. Stockholm Research Reports in Demography. Link.
  14. Calderón-Bernal, L.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Kolk, M.; Zagheni, E. (2025). "Assessing the validity of microsimulated kinship networks using Swedish population registers" Under review. MPIDR Working Paper. DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2025-020.
  15. Pojman, E.; Mwedzi, D.; Olaya Bucaro, O.; Zhang, S.; Chong, M.; Alexander, M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D. (2023). "Leaving for life: Using online crowd-sourced genealogies to estimate the migrant mortality advantage for the United Kingdom and Ireland" Under review. MPIDR Working Paper. DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2023-050.