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Luca Maria Pesando @lucampesando.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢 Job: I am hiring *TWO* 3-year Postdocs to join us at #NYUAD to work on household demography in Africa and school segregation in the Global South. More information below. Great research and family benefits. Deadline: Jan 15, 2027. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/193571 apply.interfolio.com/193489

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Skagerrak Demographic Series @skagerrak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are happy to announce that Skagerrak Demographic seminar now truly lives up to its name. Swedish Demographic Society (demografi.se) joins the initiative and will too organize hybrid meetings under our Nordic umbrella 🙌 @demografi.dk demografi.no

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📢 The complete 2026 volume of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research is now online! This year's special issue is devoted to Delayed Reproduction — one of the defining features of contemporary fertility change. #demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social 🔗: austriaca.at/5156-2inhalt

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Marcy Carlson @marcyc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#PAA2027 call for papers is out! Submissions due Sept 20th. Hope to see everyone in Seattle next spring! tinyurl.com/PAA2027CFP @popassocamerica.bsky.social

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UPS Florence @florenceups.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

📢 Applications are now open for the PhD Programme in Life Course Research! We offer 10 PhD scholarships in Demography & Social Statistics. 🗓️ Deadline: August 6, 2026. A great opportunity to join a stimulating research environment! 🌍

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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

📖 New publication: "The global fertility freefall: trends, drivers and uncertainties". Tomas Sobotka puts the spotlight on very low fertility and its drivers. 🔗 Read now: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nR43_XU-4... #demography @rbmonline.bsky.social

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Evelina Akimova @evakimova.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

📄 New paper in PNAS! Using data from ~40,000 Norwegian trios, we extend evocative gene–environment correlation to family demography. Accounting for parental PGIs, most traits showed no associations, but children's ADHD PGI predicted parental separation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

🚨New Data & Trends out @vypr.bsky.social ! @pfallesen.bsky.social and coauthors compare #fertility ideals with observed and projected completed cohort fertility in #Denmark and #Norway. 📎Online first austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0... #Demography #DelayedReproduction @juliahellstrand.bsky.social

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Summary of a fascinating paper which reconstructed historical trends in child stunting worldwide: "the reductions achieved in child stunting represent one of the great, if underappreciated, improvements in human welfare"

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Jack Fitzgerald @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

New preprint! We reanalyze 46 papers that use log-like specifications (ln(Z+1), inverse hyperbolic sine etc). We find widespread non-robustness, and we show through theory + simulation how these models drive spurious significance. 1/ doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A new Annual Review article by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social and colleagues worth a read. Don't let the formal modeling of luck fool you. This is one of the more interesting, and all around crazier, articles I've read recently. Super cool. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Luck and Predictability in the Life Course

There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Interesting research job for a quant sociologist at the ESRI in Dublin. 5-year contract with possibility of permanency. €93k. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Senior Research Officer in Sociology

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has a long-established tradition of sociological research, and we wish to recruit a sociologist with excellent

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/06/2026

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New paper, open access in EJP We link the Danish GGS to administrative records and find recall error in cohabitation histories grows ~0.5–0.6pp/year — ~12pp over 20 years. We also show how to correct it with regression calibration using a small validation subset. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Long-Term Recall Error in Retrospective Family Surveys: Cohabitation Histories in Denmark - European Journal of Population

Recall questions provide the possibility of obtaining longitudinal information in cross-sectional surveys and are often used in family research. Yet, recall instruments may suffer from measurement iss...

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You may have seen this graph in the FT, which claims to show birth rates plunging since the introduction to smartphone. Except it doesn't. Read my short piece with @debscohen.bsky.social on some of the problems with this graph of juicy cherries! unherd.com/newsroom/are...

FT graphic by John Burn-Murdoch entitled 'could digital media be affecting birth rates?'

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 17/04/2026

🇩🇰 Yesterday we had a wonderful yearly meeting of @demografi.dk — Danish Demography Day with one session of brilliant speakers and plenty of coffee break time to socialize 🫂 (👇 SDU is ready for the yearly science fest for kids 😍)

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Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH @socialepi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🚨I’m Hiring!: Postdoc in Social Epidemiology (REMOTE) I'm seeking to hire a postdoc with research interests in the social determinants of health with a focus on dementia and methods to strengthen causal inference. This is a great opportunity to contribute to research to inform public health policy.

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David Reimer @davidreimer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Very happy about this publication. We managed to pool two unique data sources: Behavioral reading data from the reading app Bookbites (used in many schools in DK) and population level data on library-loans. Both sources of data confirmed the same trend regarding gender differences in reading.

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Can a digital intervention buffer the long-term health costs of divorce? In our new JMIR paper, we link an RCT of 1,856 Danish divorcees to national registers over 5 years. Result: 28% fewer filled psych prescriptions + delayed reductions in GP visits and hospitalizations. jmir.org/2025/1/e69387

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Digital Health Intervention for and Long-Term Health Outcomes of a Divorce Cohort With Linked Danish Data: 5-Year Posttrial Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Digital health interventions are increasingly promoted as scalable and cost-effective approaches to support mental health and resilience. Short-term benefits are well documented, but evide...

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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate www.google.com/url?q=https:... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher www.google.com/url?q=https:...

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Thijs Bol @thijsbol.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers. Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6): ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/

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ICS Sociology PhD positions vacancies Graduate school program Social Sciences Methodology

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 12/02/2026

Low birth rates have modest long run negative effects, after good effects for a few decades, and raising birthrates exacerbates dependency. A giant, apparently permanent, disconnect between expert opinion (e.g., below) versus manufactured panic hype on this issue pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

My conclusion is that much of the worry about sub-replacement fertility is
overstated. Quantitatively, the net effect of even a large fertility reduction on the
US economy would be a relatively small decline in the standard of living. Comparing
demographic steady states and focusing on the most easily quantified channels,
a version of the United States with a total fertility rate of one child per woman
would have consumption per capita that was 8.7 percent lower than a version of
the country where the TFR was two. In the first four decades of the transition
following a decline in fertility below the replacement rate, consumption is actually
higher than it would have been if fertility had remained constant. Indeed, much of
the sturm und drang regarding the economic effects of current population aging is
related to the ending of such a transitory period of good times that resulted from
fertility declining from its Baby-Boom highs to near replacement, starting in the
1960s. Finally, it is important to note that any attempt to fix the economic problems
stemming from low fertility by raising the birth rate will entail a period of higher
overall dependency in the decades that it takes the resulting children to become
productive adults.

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

If you are interested in all things ✨causal inference✨, please join our multidisciplinary Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG). We host monthly seminars featuring speakers with various academic backgrounds and research interests. Links below. cc @clscohorts.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join us at the University of Oxford and our @inetoxford.bsky.social Inequality team. Ideal candidate has experience in the fields of inequality, social mobility, and/or public policy. We can sponsor visas for non-UK applicants. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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Vacancies

Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/01/2026

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist…

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

So fortunate to be allowed to play a tiny role in this gigantic effort lead by @moberndorfer.bsky.social

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Mikkel Mertz @mikkelmertz.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The 2026 program for the ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Seminar Series is now online, and I couldn’t be more excited! We have an exceptional lineup of researchers who will visit us next year. If you’d like to stay informed about upcoming seminars, sign up here. en.rockwoolfonden.dk/seminars/

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

"[S]ome countries often characterized as low-mobility emerge as matching or surpassing the egalitarian Nordic countries, reinforcing the view that wider mobility differences cannot be attributed solely to the education system." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Damning overview of the nudging literature. "[We] provide the most comprehensive synthesis of the effectiveness of nudging." "We find a small aggregated effect size." "[Our results show] the urgent need for higher quality, preregistered meta-analyses to clarify the true impact [of nudging]."

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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I guess this means 50% I only wear black, 50% I have oatmeal on my back

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Breeders Low Leonard Cohen My Bloody Valentine Shellac

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 09/11/2025

In an interesting turn of events, US and Danish government came up with the same to help with the affordability crisis: longer mortgages! That has sparked some backlash. But in the US, it seems the discussion is focusing on the wrong stuff. Well, let’s try to learn from 🇩🇰.

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

🚀✨The Editorial Board of ESR is growing! We’re happy to welcome PeterFallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social ( ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark) as a new Associate Editor!! We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Editorial Board and look forward to working together! academic.oup.com/esr/pages/Ed...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... @ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

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FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

‼️PhD Funding‼️ Check out this fully-funded PhD position in Stockholm, part of the a 5-year mixed method project investing Sexual and Reproductive Outcomes of Violent Crime led by Dr. Signe Svallfors

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