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Dilek Yildiz

@dyildiz.bsky.social
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Social statistician/demographer @IIASA @Wittgenstein Centre

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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨Who is migrating and how educated are they? With @guyabel.bsky.social, we estimated the educational and age profile of immigrants across 199 countries from 1990 to 2020. ➡️https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07969-8
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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · 27/04/2026
People with more education live significantly longer - even in countries where official records are incomplete. Paper: doi.org/10.4054/DemR... 1. Higher levels of education consistently linked to longer life expectancy 2. In some countries, the gap between education levels exceeds a decade of life
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Demographic Research - Bayesian multidimensional mortality reconstruction (Volume 54 - Article 28 | Pages 877–934)
Volume 54 - Article 28 | Pages 877–934
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A harmonized dataset of education- and age-specific fertility rates for DHS countries - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A harmonized dataset of education- and age-specific fertility rates for DHS countries
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🐣 Earlier this month, with Afua Durowaa-Boateng and @anne-goujon.bsky.social we published our extended education- and age-specific fertility estimates in Scientific Data 🚼 We combined DHS data and UN ASFR to create a harmonized dataset. ➡️ lnkd.in/gxbXT9dh @iiasa.ac.at @demographyvienna.bsky.social
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
So excited to see this out!🎉 With Andrea Tamburini and Arkadiusz Wisniowski we integrated Eurostat, DHS, UN and WIC data to estimate education-specific mortality in 13 countries☠️@demographyvienna.bsky.social @iiasa.ac.at @oeaw.bsky.social @socialstats.bsky.social
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers
Western emigration surges 20% since the pandemic as politicians, professionals and citizens leave for better opportunities, lower taxes and political stability abroad.
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
orf.at/stories/3423...
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Demografischer Wandel: AMS warnt vor drastischen Folgen
Der Chef des Arbeitsmarktservice (AMS), Johannes Kopf, warnt vor drastischen Folgen für den Arbeitsmarkt, sollte die Politik dem demografischen Wandel und anderen Gesellschaftstrends nicht rasch mit w...
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PREMIUM_EU @premiumeu.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
👇 Press play for key learnings from our experts www.youtube.com/watch?v=abeu... In a week, they will meet alongside 120+ guests at our project conference "The Future of Rural Europe" and final tool launch hosted at #CoR in Brussels. Stream the full-day event 10 March 👉 lnkd.in/dg4BMh_G #HorizonEU
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Key insights from four experts on migration and regional development: PREMIUM_EU
YouTube video by Nordregio Videos
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🤓 So happy to finally see this paper with Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Afua Durowaa-Boateng published 🥳 ➡️We combine patchy DHS data and UN TFR to create harmonized datasets of education-specific TFRs 🐣@socialstats.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social @iiasa.ac.at @oeaw.bsky.social
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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
📢 Call for Papers! We invite you to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demography and Human Capital", taking place from Dec 1-2, 2026 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna. 📆 Deadline: April 30, 2026 🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve... #demography
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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
📢 Apply for the two-year Master Programme "Global Demography" at the University of Vienna! The programme starts on 1 October 2026. 📅 Application period: 2 March to 7 April 2026 🔗 More information: demografie.univie.ac.at/studies/mast... @univie.ac.at #demography
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
@odamoun.bsky.social & link to the working paper: pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/21...
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Spain plans to regularise undocumented migrants - Curious to see if this plan will actually be implemented. In the meantime - check out our working paper led by Osama Damoun @uab.cat & with Samir KC @iiasa.ac.at on regional pop projections of Spanish regions by education & origin until 2071
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Julia Mikolai @jmikolai.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
DL to apply for one of two funded PhD positions is 9 Feb. Among the topics is Family complexity and children's lives in Scotland; links below for details and how to apply
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A great paper from Afua Durowaa-Boateng and Endale Kebede looking at the spouse age gaps in Ghana and Kenya, an important factor in gender power dynamics 🤓
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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
📢 Call for papers is now open! We invite you to submit your contributions to the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2027 special issue "Demographic perspectives on migration". 📆 Submit until 15 May 2026. 🔗 viennayearbook.org/call #demography @vypr.bsky.social
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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📢 Save the date for the next #WICColloquium! Miguel Sanchez Romero and Tomas Sobotka: "Future Births: A Formal Perspective on Humanity’s Yet-to-Be-Born Generations". 📅 3 December 2025, 13:00-14:00h 📍 PSK Building MR04 (4rd floor) and online 🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/w...
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊 I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne! 💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓 oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/km5kybrq
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Postdoc (m/f/x) – Population Data and Projections
OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". F...
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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Feminicide is reshaping Mexico’s demographic future. Between 2000 and 2019, nearly 50,000 women were murdered. #Feminicide #Mexico #Demography #GenderViolence
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Demographic Research - Feminicide as a determinant of Mexican female life expectancy in the 21st century (Volume 53 - Article 24 | Pages 753–772)
Volume 53 - Article 24 | Pages 753–772
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
If your research touches on population dynamics, aging, education, labor force participation, or the links between demography, environment, and socioeconomic development, check out our research at the Multidimensional Demographic Modelling group for #YSSP2026 ➡️https://iiasa.ac.at/programs/popjus/mdm
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Application information
The 2026 YSSP application window is open. Please click on the "Open Calls" tab (left side) to apply. The deadline to apply is Monday, January 12, 2026 (midnight Austria time).
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🚨Registration for the 2025 Wittgenstein Centre Conference Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century is open 🥳 ➡️Join us in Vienna or online to hear the latest research from the top migration scholars 🤓 ➡️This year we also have a Round Table to discuss how science can inform policy!
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
📊 Check this super recent paper on "Education, religion, and male fertility in sub-Saharan Africa" by my colleague Afua Durowaa-Boateng.🤓
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🚨Check out our new article in International Migration Review led by Andrea Aparicio Castro with Arkadiusz Wiśniowski & Michaela Potančoková @iiasa.ac.at Estimating and Conditional Forecasting Bilateral Migration Flows Between South America and Europe, 1985–2050 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Estimating and Conditional Forecasting Bilateral Migration Flows Between South America and Europe, 1985–2050 - Andrea Lisette Aparicio Castro, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski, Dilek Yildiz, Michaela Potančoková,...
South America and Europe have a history of reversals in the directionality of migration. While South America was a major destination for European migrants in th...
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Paola Di Giulio @pdigiulio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Between statistics and machine learning: “Bayesian reconstruction of fertility rates by education level” by Afua Durowaa-Boateng at the www.oeaw.ac.at/conference/a... @mla2s-oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social @anne-goujon.bsky.social @dyildiz.bsky.social #demography
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MigrantLife @migrantlife.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨Great #postdoc opportunity to work with Hill Kulu and the rest of the team on #migrant #family #housing research using #microsimulation! We look forward to receiving your applications! ✍️
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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
⏰Only one month left! Don´t forget to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025! 🔗 tinyurl.com/wittconfdem @vypr.bsky.social #WICVienna
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PREMIUM_EU @premiumeu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#Depopulation is reshaping rural regions across Europe. How can policymakers respond? Get research insights and join the discussions for attractive and resilient rural regions: 🔗 nordregio.org/events/rural... 🖥️ Webinar, 'Rural re-population: Attracting skilled migrants' 📅 29 April 🕙 10-12 (CEST)
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Rural re-population: Attracting skilled migrants | Nordregio
At this event, we explore which indicators might explain why certain regions are particularly attractive to move to compared to others. We also ask regional policymakers how they changed their…
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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · 10/03/2025
📢 We're hiring: Climate & Migration Researcher! 🌍📊 Join the Migration & Sustainable Development Research Group to study how climate impacts migration. We seek a postdoc with expertise in statistics, modeling (R, STATA, Python), and large-scale climate & migration data. iiasa.ac.at/employment/j...
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The next Wittgenstein Centre Conference will be on “𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆”. 🤓 See the conference call and submit your abstracts here ⬇️ www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/c...
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Access 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟯.𝟭 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿 🔗 WIC Data Explorer: dataexplorer.wittgensteincentre.org 🔗 R package: guyabel.github.io/wcde/ 🔗 Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1471...
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🔍 Coming soon: 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟬!
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📊 Expanded education categories! In addition, we've expanded our education categories! 🎓 𝗡𝗼𝘄, 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟲𝟬+ 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝟴 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, providing even deeper insights into global education and demographic trends. And there’s more coming soon… 👀
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟯.𝟭 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿 We recently identified and corrected a coding error that had inadvertently reversed education data for men and women in the base year for 37 countries. More updates below ⬇️ #populationprojection #humancapital @iiasa.ac.at @oeaw.bsky.social
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
2nd position⬇️ 📢The Vienna Institute of Demography is seeking a Postdoc to join Demography of Austria Research Group 📍 Location: Vienna, Austria 📅 Application Deadline: January 15, 2025 ➡️https://oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/VID/VID192PD124_.pdf @oeaw.bsky.social
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
📢 Exciting Opportunity! Vienna Institute of Demography Wittgenstein Centre & OEAW is seeking a PhD Student to join the Population Data and Projections Research Group. 📊📉 📍Vienna, Austria 📅 Deadline: January 31st, 2025 🔗https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/VID/VID181DOC124.pdf
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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · 19/12/2024
📣 Applications for the 2025 IIASA Summer School in Systems Modeling are open! 📍 Join us in Laxenburg, Austria from 7-18 July 2025. ⏰ The deadline for applications is 21 February 2025. ℹ️ iiasa.ac.at/capacity-dev...
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Are you a PhD student interested in population studies and would like to spend the summer in beautiful Vienna? Check out the Young Scientists Summer Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis! YSSP in the Population and Just Societies Program ⬇️ iiasa.ac.at/young-scient...
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Young Scientists Summer Program in the POPJUS Program
The Population and Just Societies Program (POPJUS) focuses on major societal challenges and delivers insights into current and future population sizes, structures, and distributions that are fundament...
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Wittgenstein Centre and friends at the Asian Population Association Conference 📈📊📉
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Less than a month to go until the 2024 Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Delayed Reproduction: Challenges and Prospects" 🤰 For more information and registration ⬇️ www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/c...
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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
📣Are you interested in qualitative research & migration? Do you speak German? Come and work with us @IIASAVienna We are looking for a part-time researcher. See the details: iiasa.ac.at/employment/j...
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