A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) challenges the traditional view that influence within families flows only from parents to children. The research was...

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This study examines spatial and temporal patterns of Private Rental Sector (PRS) growth and its associations with socioeconomic residential segregation across Swedish municipalities from 1994 to 20...

In this article, we look at the role of density in neighbourhood satisfaction. Our context is a Nordic capital area experiencing increasing densification and growing segregation. In theory, given i...

Professor Mikko Niemelä has been invited to become a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Membership, granted...

The data behind the US "record low" births headlines are more nuanced than they appear

This paper argues for a paradigm shift in demography, moving beyond the alarmist and deterministic narratives fixated on “lowest-low fertility (LLF)” (total fertility rate ≤ 1.3). Initially a useful ...

An international group of researchers propose a new, more sustainable approach for welfare states to update their policies.

Oxfam’s 2026 inequality report charts the fortunes of the world’s billionaires and asks: is extreme wealth concentration incompatible with a democratic society?

In theory where you are from is not meant to determine the quality of your research. The geography of elite research shows this to be untrue.

Inequality has a profound negative effect on health and wellbeing: not because it suddenly kills, but by slowly reshaping how people live, relate, cope, and age

In Finland, serious illness can reduce earnings for years, with migrants facing substantially larger income losses than native-born individuals, according...

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Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices.

Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback

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To reduce hunger, poverty and inequalities requires he right metrics to track progress and evaluate interventions, writes Jakob Dirksen. But neither crude aggregates (like GDP) nor dashboards of…

To reduce hunger, poverty and inequalities requires he right metrics to track progress and evaluate interventions, writes Jakob Dirksen. But neither crude aggregates (like GDP) nor dashboards of…

What is an INVEST fellowship? INVEST fellowships are 1-3 (or up to 6) months visits to the flagship to collaborate...

Global poverty measures rely on household data. But if we “open the front door” and look inside, we find large differences between men/women and adults/children

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FIRE fellowships are 1–2 months visits to the Finnish Infrastructure for Register-Based Research (FIRE) to collaborate with our researchers.

In the “INVEST visitors” series, we present visiting professors and fellows who have arrived at the flagship INVEST. This time...

Doctoral programme on Inequalities, Interventions and New Welfare State (DPInvest) at the University of Turku invites applications for fixed-term doctoral researcher positions with an employment contr...

The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term senior researcher or doctoral researcher position from 1....

INVEST Research Flagship Centre will continue as a permanent department in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of...

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Instead of old-fashioned rhetoric about costs to the state, the government should tell a better story about welfare

This post offers four facts about inequality in Latin America before discussing two “cycles” that serve to continuously reproduce these disparities over time