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B.A. in Sociology University of A Coruña, Spain 2005
M.A. in Human Geography Autonomous University of Barcelona 2007
Ph.D in Demography Autonomous University of Barcelona 2010

Current and Previous positions.

• Associate Research Scientist. Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University Bloomington (July 2025 - present)
• Assistant Research Scientist. Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University Bloomington (June 2022 - June 2025)
• Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University Bloomington (Jan 2021 - May 2022)
• Research Associate. Department of Sociology and Communication, University of Salamanca. 2020
• Research Associate. Centre for Demographic Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona. 2018-2020
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. 2016-2019
• Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. 2014-2016
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Demographic Studies, Barcelona. 2010-2014

Scholarly Interests

Sociologist and demographer with research expertise in reproductive health, abortion attitudes, fertility decisions, gender inequality, international migration, and family policies. Research experience in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies

Devolder, D.; Bueno, X.; Gumà, J.; Treviño, R. y Zueras, P. (2010): Anàlisi de la fecunditat a partir de l’Enquesta demogràfica de Catalunya 2007, [Analysis of fertility using the 2007 Catalan Demographic Survey] Quaderns d'Estadística num. 4 desembre 2010. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya (IDESCAT). 193p.

Encyclopedia Entries

Bueno X., Prieto-Rosas V. (2022) Migration Theories. In: Gu D., Dupre M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham

Book Chapters

Bueno X., Oh E. (2022) How Do Men Talk about Taking Parental Leave? Evidence from South Korea, Spain, and the U.S. In: Grau Grau M., las Heras Maestro M., Riley Bowles H. (eds) Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham, pp. 165-179.

Bueno, X. and Domingo, A. (2016): El discurso sobre la diversidad y la crisis económica. Retos para la gestión municipal de la inmigración [The discourse on diversity and the economic crisis. Challenges for the municipal management of immigration], in Domingo, A. (Ed.) Inmigración y diversidad en España. Crisis económica y gestión municipal [Immigration and diversity in Spain. Economic crisis and municipal management]. Barcelona: Icaria Editorial. Procesos migratorios, 164: 99-128

Domingo, A. and Bueno, X. (2016): La tentación pigmentocrática. Fisuras en el discurso intercultural [The pigmentocratic temptation. Fissures in the intercultural discourse], in Domingo, A. (Ed.) Inmigración y diversidad en España. Crisis económica y gestión municipal [Immigration and diversity in Spain. Economic crisis and municipal management]. Barcelona: Icaria Editorial. Procesos migratorios 164: 129-160.

Bueno, X. and Treviño, R. (2015): Los municipios ante la disminución del Fondo para la Integración: percepciones desde la gestión local [Municipalities facing the decrease of the Fund for Integration: perceptions from the local management], In Arango, J.; Moya, D.; Oliver, J. and Sánchez, E. (Dir.): Flujos cambiantes, atonía institucional. Anuario de la Inmigración en España 2014 (edición 2015) [Changing flows, institutional atony. Yearbook of Immigration in Spain 2014 (2015 edition)], Barcelona: CIDOB: 249-276.

Vidal-Coso, E. and Bueno, X (2015): Les altres catalanes: Calendaris de formació familiar de les migrants d'abans i d'ara [The other Catalan women : forming a family before or after migration?], in Domingo, A. (Coord.) Recerca i Immigració VII. Migracions dels segles XX i XXI: una mirada candeliana [Migrations from the 20th and 21st centuries: a Candel's look]. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Benestar Social i Família. Col·lecció Ciutadania i Immigració, 11: 167-192.

De Valk, H. and Bueno, X. (2015). Living Arrangements, the Crisis and Mother's Participation in the Labor Market, in Domingo, A., Sabater, A. and Verdugo, R. (Ed.) Demographic Analysis of Latin American Immigrants in Spain, Applied Demography Series 5. Springer International Publishing: 155–180.

Domingo, A., Bueno, X. and Esteve, A. (2014). El Rapto de las Latinas: Migración latinoamericana y mercado matrimonial en España [The Rapture of Latinas: Latin American Migration and the Marriage Market in Spain], in Cosio-Zavala, M.E. and Rozée Gómez, V. (Coords) Género en movimiento: familias y migraciones [Gender in movement: families and migrations]. México, El Colegio de México, 310.

Bueno, X. and Vono, D. (2010): Pautas reproductivas e inserción laboral de las madres latinoamericanas en Estados Unidos y España a inicios del siglo XXI, in Bologna, E. (Ed.) Temáticas migratorias actuales en América Latina: remesas, políticas y emigración [Current migration themes in Latin America: remittances, policies and emigration], UNFPA, Série Investigaciones 7:185-215.

Bueno, X.; Buyuker, B.; Crawford, B., Turner, R. Lo, W., and Jozkowski, K. (2025). How Familism and Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Shape Attitudes Toward Legal Abortion Among Latinx and non-Latinx Adults in the United States. Sex Roles 91:61.

Mena-Meléndez, L., Bueno, X., Cary, K., Asamoah, N.A., Crawford, B., Turner, R., Lo, W. and Jozkowski, K. (2025). English- and Spanish-speaking U.S. adults' perceptions of the most common reasons for abortion: a study of open-ended data before and after Dobbs v. Jackson. BMC Reproductive Health, 22(130).

Bueno, X.; Mena-Meléndez, L.; Crawford, B., Turner, R., Lo, W. and Jozkowski, K. (2025). Assessing the impact of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision on abortion attitudes by abortion identity labels: a mixed-methods longitudinal study. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 33(1).

Dennis, B.; Bueno, X.; Crawford, B., Turner, R., Lo, W. and Jozkowski, K. (2025). 'Imagine you are a film director...': Understanding People's Implicit Assumptions about Abortion. American Journal of Qualitative Research 9(2): 207-235.

Bueno, X., Mena-Meléndez, L.; Crawford, B.; Turner, R.; Lo, W.J.; Jozkowski, K.N. (2025). A Mixed-Methods Approach to Translation Challenges in Multi-Language Research: Assessing How Spanish-Speaking Adults in the U.S. Interpret the Terms Pro-Vida (Pro-Life) and Pro-Elección (Pro-Choice). International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 37(1).

Mena-Meléndez, L.; Bueno, X.; Buyuker, B.; Crawford, B.; Turner, R.; Lo, W.J.; Jozkowski, K.N. (2025). Exploring the Association between Measures of Cross-Culturalism and Abortion Attitudes Amongst Latinxs in the United States Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science.

Gastón-Guiu, S. and Bueno, X. (2024). Gender, fertility, and employment among African women in Spain, 2000–2020. Migration Studies, 12(2).

Jozkowski, K.; Bueno, X., LaRoche, K.; Crawford, B., Turner, R. and Lo, W. (2024). Participant Driven Salient Beliefs Regarding Abortion: Implications for Abortion Attitude Measurement. Social Science Quarterly, (Online first).

Bueno, X., Lozano, M. and Adserà, A. (2023). Advanced or Postponed Motherhood? Migrants' and Natives' Gap between Ideal and Actual Age at First Birth in Spain. Demographic Research, 49(22): 565-600.

Jozkowski, K. Bueno, X., Crawford, B., Turner, R. and Lo, W. (2023). People's Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Abortion Laws Before and After the Dobbs v. Jackson Decision. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 31(1): 1–22.

Bueno, X.; Asamoah, N.A.; LaRoche, K., Dennis, B.; Crawford, B., Turner, R., Lo, W. and Jozkowski, K. (2023). People's perception of changes in their abortion attitudes over the life course: A mixed methods approach. Advances in Life Course Research, 57

Bueno, X.; Montenegro, M.; Lo, W.; Valdez, D.; Crawford, B., Turner, R. and Jozkowski, K. (2023). Migrant Generations and Abortion Circumstances: Assessing Latinxs' Abortion Attitudes in the US. Sociological Inquiry, 94(1): 130-148.

Bueno, X., and Pardo, I. (2023). Gender-Role Attitudes and Fertility Ideals in Latin America. Journal of Population Research, 40(2).

Büyüker, B., LaRoche, K., Bueno, X.; Jozkowski, K.N., Crawford, B., Turner, R. and Lo, W. (2023). A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding the Disconnection between Perceptions of Abortion Acceptability and Support for Roe v. Wade Among US Adults. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 48 (4): 649–678.

Bueno, X., LaRoche, K., Crawford, B., Turner, R. and Lo, W.; Jozkowski, K., (2023). Do Fetal Development Markers Influence Attitudes toward Abortion Legality? Social Currents 10(2), 107–120.

Solon, M., LaRoche, K. J., Bueno, X., Crawford, B. L., Turner, R. C., Lo, W. J., & Jozkowski, K. N. (2022). Pro‐choice/pro‐elección versus pro‐life/pro‐vida: Examining abortion identity terms across English and Spanish in the United States. Social Science Quarterly 103: 1602– 1618.

Domingo, A., Bueno, X. y Treviño, R. (2021): El nuevo censo de 2021 en España: un debate metodológico, epistemológico y político pendiente. Revista Internacional de Sociología, 79(1).

Bueno, X. and García-Román, J. (2021): Rethinking Couples' Fertility in Spain: Do Partners' Relative Education, Employment, and Job Stability Matter?. European Sociological Review, 37(4): 571-587.

Bueno, X. and Grau-Grau, M. (2021): Why Is Part-Time Unpaid Parental Leave (Still) Gendered? Narratives and Strategies of Couples in Spain. Journal of Family Issues, 42(3):503-526.

Bueno, X. (2020): Fertility Decisions in Transition: Young Adults' Perceptions on Fertility Three Decades Apart in Spain. The History of the Family, 25(3): 386-405.

Bueno, X. and Brinton, M.C. (2019): Gender egalitarianism, perceived economic insecurity, and fertility intentions in Spain: A qualitative analysis, Population Studies, 73(2): 247-260.

Bueno, X. and Vidal-Coso, E. (2019): Vulnerability of Latin American Migrant Families Headed by Women in Spain During the Great Recession: A Couple-Level Analysis, Journal of Family Issues, 40(1):111-138.

Brinton, M.C., Bueno, X., Olah, L. and Hellum, M. (2018): Postindustrial Fertility Ideals, Intentions, and Gender Inequality: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis, Population and Development Review, 44(2): 281-309.

Bueno, X. and Vidal-Coso, E. (2017): Households economically headed by women in times of expansion and crisis: the case of Latin American migrants in Spain. Revista de Historiografía 26: 273-296.

Bueno, X. and De Valk, H. (2016): Arreglos familiares de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en España. ¿Cambios en tiempos de crisis? [Household Arrangements of Latin American Immigrants in Spain. Changes in times of crisis?]. Notas de Población, 102: 123-148.

Bueno, X. and Domingo, A. (2016): La gestión de la interculturalidad en tiempos de crisis: el discurso de los técnicos municipales en Cataluña [The management of interculturality in times of crisis: the discourse of technicians in local administration in Catalonia]. Migraciones 39: 45-71.

Domingo, A., Treviño, R. and Bueno, X. (2011): Género y estrategias familiares en la migración interna e internacional en Cataluña [Gender and family migration strategies of internal and international migration in Catalonia]. Revista de Demografía Histórica XXIX II 2011, segunda época: 59-86.

Esteve, A. and Bueno, X. (2012): Marrying after migration: Assortative mating among Moroccans in Spain, Genus 68(1): 41-62.

Devolder, D. and Bueno, X. (2011): Interacciones entre fecundidad y migración. Un estudio de las personas nacidas en el extranjero y residentes en Cataluña en 2007 [Interactions between fertility and migration. Catalonia's 2007 foreign-born population]. Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica 57(3): 441-466.

Cortina, C., Bueno, X. and Castro, T. (2010): ¿Modelos familiares de aquí o de allá? Cohabitación y fecundidad fuera del matrimonio entre los latinoamericanos en España [Imported family models? Cohabitation patterns of Latin American women in Spain] América Latina Hoy, 55: 61-84.

Esteve, A. and Bueno, X. (2010): Tras el rastro estadístico de las uniones de inmigrantes en España [Following the statistical trail of immigrant unions in Spain], Revista de Estadística Española 52(173): 89-123.

Bueno, X. and Vono, D. (2009): Pautas reproductivas de las madres latinoamericanas en Estados Unidos y España a inicios del siglo XXI [Reproductive patterns of Latin American mothers in the United States and Spain at the beginning of the 21st century], Diálogos Latinoamericanos 15: 94-113.