Personal Research Output

Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals

Amos, Mark (2019) Contraceptive method choice and spousal communication: examining the effect of family planning method using an instrumental variable approach Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare 


Radovich, Emma, Mardieh L. Dennis, Edwine Barasa, Francesca L. Cavallaro, Kerry LM Wong, Josephine Borghi, Caroline A. Lynch, Mark Lyons-Amos, Timothy Abuya, and Lenka Benova. (2019) Who Pays and How Much? A Cross-Sectional Study of out-of-PocketPayment for Modern Contraception in Kenya. BMJ Open 9 (2)

Amos, M.J. (2018) Interviewer effects on patterns of non-response: Evaluating the impact on the reasons for contraceptive non-use inthe Indonesia and Philippines DHS Demographic Research 39(14) 

Emma Radovich, Mardieh Dennis, Kerry Wong, Moazzam Ali, Caroline A. Lynch, John Cleland, Onikepe Owolabi Mark Lyons-Amos and Lenka Benova (2018) Who meets the contraceptive needs of young women? A cross-sectional study of first providersof family planning in 33 sub-Saharan African countries Journal of Adolescent Health 6(3)

Lyons-Amos, M.J. and T. Stones (2017) Trends in DHS data quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of age heaping over time in 34 countries in Sub-SaharanAfrica BMC Research Notes

Emma Radovich, Mardieh Dennis, Kerry Wong, Moazzam Ali, Caroline A. Lynch, John Cleland, Onikepe Owolabi Mark Lyons-Amos and Lenka Benova (2017) Who meets the contraceptive needs of young women? A cross-sectional study of first providers of family planning in 33 sub-Saharan African countries Journal of Adolescent Health

Lyons-Amos, M.J. and I. Schoon (2017) Differential responses in first birth behaviour to economic recession in the United Journalof Biosocial Science

Mikolai, J. and M.J.Lyons-Amos (2017) Coping with complex individual histories: A comparison of life course methods with anapplication to partnership transitions in Norway Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

Lyons-Amos, M.J. (2016) Latent class models for cross-national comparisons: The association between individual & national-level characteristics in fertility & partnership International Journal of Population Studies

Schoon, I. and M.J. Lyons-Amos (2017) A socio-ecological model of agency: The role of psycho-social and socioeconomic resources in shaping education and employment transitions in England Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies

Perelli-Harri, B. and M.J. Lyons-Amos (2016) Partnership Patterns in the United States and across Europe: the role of education and country context Social Forces 10.1093/sf/sow054

Schoon, I. and M.J Lyons-Amos (2016) Diverse Pathways in Becoming an Adult: The Role of Structure,Agency, and Context Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 10.1016/j.rssm.2016.02.008

Perlman M, Lyons-Amos M, Leckie G, Steele F, Jenkins J (2015) Capturing the TemporalSequence of Interaction in Young Siblings. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126353. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126353

Perelli-Harris, B., and M.J. Lyons-Amos (2015) The Heterogeneity of Relationship Patternswithin and across countries: an examination of the United States and 14countries in Europe Demographic Research 33(6) 145-178

Lyons-Amos, M.J., G. Durrant and S.S. Padmadas (2014) Contraceptive confidence andtiming of first birth in Moldova BMJ Open 4(8)

Padmadas, S.S, M.J. Lyons-Amos and S. Thapa (2014) Do abortion users exhibit better contraceptive behaviour than post-partum women? Analysis of calendar data from Nepal Demographic and Health Survey International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 127(2): 132-137

Lyons-Amos, M.J., G. Durrant, S.S. Padmadas (2011) Is traditional contraceptive use associated with Poverty and Isolation? Journal of Biosocial Science, 43(3) 305-327

Book chapters

Lyons-Amos, M.J. (2017) Differential responses in first birth behaviour to economic recession in the United Kingdom in Pathways to Adulthood: Structure, Agency, and Context UCL Press

Lyons-Amos, M.J.and I.Schoon (2017) Interrelations in Employment and Family Transitions: Trends before and after the Great Recession in Youth and the Great Recession Cambridge University Press

Mturi, Akim J., G.N. Osuafor and Mark J. Lyons-Amos (2014). “The mismatch between contraceptive use and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa.” In: Explaining Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa: Projecting the Demographic Future. A.J. Mturi and S. Agyei-Mensah (eds.). New York: Edwin Mellen Press, pp 134-168

Working papers
Chikhungu Lana, Mark Amos, Ngianga II Kandala, Saseendran Palikadavath (2018) Married women’s experience of domestic violence in Malawi: new evidence from a cluster and multinomial logistic regression analysis Portsmouth-Brawijaya Centre for Global Health, Population, and Policy Working paper series Number 7. 

Mark Amos, Mark; Aazia Hossain; Shehrin Shaila Mahmood; Mohammed Nahid Mia;  Mohammed Shohel Rana; Mohammed Kashem Iqbal; Asiful Haider Chowdrey; Manzoor Ahmed Hanif; William Stones; Saseendran Pallikadavath (2018) Do young mothers get the care they need? Mapping age disparities across the maternal continuum of care using a holistic clustering technique: Preliminary findings Portsmouth-Brawijaya Centre for Global Health, Population, and Policy Working paper series Number 5. 

Lyons-Amos, M.J. (2017) Interviewer effects onpatterns of non-response: Evaluating the impact on the reasons forcontraceptive non-use in Indonesia Portsmouth-Brawijaya Centre for Global Health, Population, and Policy Working paper series Number 1

Stones, T. and M.J Lyons-Amos (2017) Trends in DHS data quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of age heaping over time in 34 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Portsmouth-Brawijaya Centre for Global Health, Population, and Policy Working paper series Number 4

Mikolai, J. and Lyons-Amos M.J (2016) Longitudinal methods  for life course research:Comparing using sequence analysis, latent class growth models and multistateevent history models for studying partnership transitions. CPC working paper 78, ESRC Centre for Population Change, UK

Lyons-Amos, M.J. (2015) Multilevel models for cross-national comparisons: The association between individual & national-level fertility& partnership characteristics. CPC Working Paper 71, ESRC Centre for Population Change, UK

Perelli-Harris, B. and Lyons-Amos, M. (2014) Partnership patterns in the United States and across Europe: "Diverging destinies" or "diverging contexts"? CPC Working Paper 53, ESRC Centre for Population Change, UK. 

Beaujouan, E., Berrington, A., Lyons-Amos, M. and Ni Bhrolchain, M. (2014) User guide to the Centre for Population Change GHS database 1979-2009. CPC Working Paper 47, ESRC Centre for Population Change, UK. Available at; http://www.cpc.ac.uk/publications/cpc_working_papers/pdf/2014_WP47_CPC_GHS_User_Guide_Beaujouan_et_al.pdf

Perelli-Harris, B., and M.J. Lyons-Amos (2013) The Heterogeneity of Relationship Patternswithin and across countries: an examination of the United States and 14countries in Europe  CPC Working Paper 37, ESRC Centre for Population Change, UK

Falkingham, J., M. Evandrou, and M.J. Lyons-Amos (2012), Inequalities in child and maternal health outcomes in CEE and the CIS’ CPC Working Paper 24, ESRC Centre for Population Change, UK.  

Berrington, A., E. Beaujouan, M.J. Lyons-Amos and M. Ni­ Bhrolchain (2011) Evaluation ofthe Partnership Histories in the Centre for Population Change GHS Time Series Dataset CPC Working Paper 12, ESRC Centre for Population Change, UK. 

Lyons-Amos, M.J., G. Durrant, S.S. Padmadas (2009) The Correlates of Natural method usein Moldova:  Is natural method useassociated with Poverty and Isolation? Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (s3ri): Applications and Policy Working papers (A09/01)

Papers submitted or under review
Amos, M.J. Variation in the intersection between partnership and fertility: A comparison across 3 Cohorts in 15 Countries submitted to Genus

Chikhungu Lana, Mark Amos, Ngianga II Kandala, Saseendran Palikadavath Married women’s experience of domestic violence in Malawi: new evidence from a cluster and multinomial logistic regression analysis submitted to Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Mahmood, S.S., M.J. Amos, A. Hossain, M.N. Mia, W. Stones, S. Pallikadavath Does healthcare voucher provision improve utilization in the continuum of maternal and newborn care for poor pregnant women? Experience from Bangladesh submitted to Lancet Global Health

Asiful Haidar Chowdhury, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood; Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi; Mohammad Iqbal,; Aazia Hossain, Shahidul Haque, Mark Amos, Ph.D.; William Stones,Saseendran Pallikadavath, Abbas Bhuiya,
Does the maternal health voucher scheme reduce inequality in MNCH service utilization for distance to facility? Evidence from Bangladesh submitted to International Journal for Equity in Health

Amos, M.J., E. Radovich, K. Wong, M. Dennis, C.A. Lynch, L. Benova Pathways through the continuum of care: A person centred approach to transitions in pre-natal, delivery and post-partum care in Indonesia, Kenya and Nigeria. Submitted to BMJ Global Health


Amos, M.J., A. Hossain, M.N. Mia, S.S. Mahmood, W. Stones, S. Pallikadavath  Do young mothers get the care they need? Mapping age disparities across the maternal continuum of care using a holistic clustering technique revise and resubmit from BMC Pregnancy and Childbearing

DeRose L, M.J Amos, A. , Salazar, G. Huarcaya Children’s risk of family instability: Does cohabitation become more like marriage as it becomes more common? Submitted to Demographic Research


Amos, M.J. Contraceptive method choice and spousal communication: examining the effect of traditional contraception using an instrumental variable approach submitted to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare