Article published in the Brazilian Journal of Population Studies Maternal mortality in the Dominican Republic: Unraveling inequalities in times of the COVID-19 pandemic by Mercedes, Kary and collegues www.scielo.br/j/rbepop/a/w...

This is a very interesting and important paper published in the Brazilian Journal of Population Studies Developing a synthetic Brazilian population derived from the 2010 Census Souza Junior, Cleônidas Tavares e colegas www.scielo.br/j/rbepop/a/B...

international journal of epidemiology has dedicated a whole special issue to the impact of Covid in Brasil academic.oup.com/ije/issue/55...

Twenty years ago, I defended my dissertation and graduated in Demography from UC Berkeley. My advisor, Ron Lee, is in the picture with Ken Wachter, Gene Hammel, John Wilmoth, Jenna Johnson-Hanks, and Mike Hout. Event was at the old demography house - 2232 Piedmont.

O Brasil que envelhece: o futuro já começou contextobrasil.com.br/o-brasil-que...

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure invites applications for a two-week Summer School on ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility’, held at University of Cambridge from July 6-17th, 2026. Application deadline February 2 2026.

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Position is for 3 years with excellent salary, housing and benefits. Please share widely. For more information and application, link ⬇️ apply.interfolio.com/177935

New pre-print! Brazil Data Commons arxiv.org/abs/2511.11755 Collaborative work led by Isadora Cristina with Ramon Gonze, Jônatas Santos, Julio Reis, Mário Alvim, and Fabrício Benevenuto. Brazil Data Commons: A Platform for Unifying and Integrating Brazil's Public Data

Berkeley Demography application deadline for Fall 2026 admission is Dec 1, 2025. Read more here: www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-adm...

New insights on maternal mortality from historical demographer and former ICPSR Director George Alter.

The Race and Stratification Working Group at @nber.org will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. December 11, 2025 is the deadline to submit your paper! www.nber.org/conferences/...

🎉 New research out with @fertdem.bsky.social and @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social ! 💡 Time to ART birth decreased since the 2000s, and is shorter for those in their late 30s — likely reflecting improved treatment efficiency and faster access to care. 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41152834/

Importante e boa reportagem a @revistapiaui.bsky.social sobre o Censo de 2022 e a demora na divulgação dos microdados e suas implicações para diferentes setores. piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/a-cr...

! New Paper Out! In this paper - with Ernesto Amaral, Samantha Haussman and Guilherme Quaresma - we investigate, for Brazil, whether area level composition of workers by age, educational and formal-informal labor relations impact the wage levels of workers. www.cepal.org/en/publicati...

O estudo mostra que estudantes que vivem em famílias biparentais têm desempenho significativamente melhor em Matemática e Língua Portuguesa. Leia o press release da Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População! humanas.blog.scielo.org/blog/2025/10...

Last week UFMG hosted Semana do Conhecimento. In the event, students present the research they worked under the supervision of a faculty member. Gustavo Freitas presented the project, with @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social, proposing an index of aging preparedness for countries in the world.

In “...Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy & Lifespan Variation,” @jdzazueta.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social et al. show how expansion contributes to ↑ expectancy and ↓ variation. @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

@ibgeoficial.bsky.social E os microdados do Censo de 2022? Pelo calendário do IBGE, que não está mais no site, estavam previstos para setembro de 2025. E agora? Os dados de 2010 foram disponibilizados em abril de 2012. Um prazo bem mais curto que o atual. E com um processo bem menos tecnológico.

#Rebep In a recent paper, Moraes, Lopes and Alves quantify the impact of depression on the life expectancy of the Brazilian population with hearing impairment. doi.org/10.20947/S01...

New paper publish in Rebep by Leocádio, Verona and Wajnman investigate the association between gender equity in the family and fertility intentions in Brazil, at the micro level. The results indicated that greater gender equity reduces impact decisions for a second child doi.org/10.20947/S01...

On a different note, in April 2025, I ran my first marathon – the São Paulo International. A couple of weeks ago, I took on a real cross-country race on forest trails. I went for the tough 11 km route, but it was a lot of fun!

D'Antona and colleagues assess the influence of population size and spatial distribution on the extent of forest cover and fragmentation across all 31 ERs in the Amazon Biome in Brazil. rebep.org.br/revista/arti...

Torres and colleagues investigate mortality in Uruguay in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: geographic variations and causes of death rebep.org.br/revista/arti...

In the coming days, I will be sharing posts about the papers published in the journal to date, with no particular or specific order

@jacalazans.bsky.social, Carol Tomás and I are the editors of Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Populacao (www.rebep.org.br), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes population related papers in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Rebep has just turned 40 years old in 2024.

Very interesting paper on US life expectancy trends. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting and important discussion about low fertility by O. Kravdal. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

UC stands up for us. Let's stand up for UC.

New paper on Wage differentials in Brazil with @mathmenezes0.bsky.social - the paper is a derived from his Ph.D dissertation research. The paper studies changes in wages across cohorts. www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

New (core demography) paper on US metropolitan and nonmetropolitan mortality out in the Journal of Rural Health. Stay tuned for a thread 🧵summarising the key findings! #Demography

🚨 New article out in Social Science & Medicine! Irma Elo and I take a deeper look at trends in life expectancy for foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Concurso para Professor Assitente Departamento de Demografia Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Área de conhecimento Métodos Computacionais e Estatísticos Aplicados Mais detalhes: concursos.face.ufmg.br

Search for Assistant Professor Department of Demography - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Métodos Computacionais e Estatísticos Aplicados (Applied Computational and Statistical Methods) More details: concursos.face.ufmg.br

Join us 15 May for seminar by Iñaki Permanyer, CED @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Multimorbidity & mortality in random sample of 20% of Catalan population using Electronic Health Records…. Over 10 years! Across socioeconomic groups! @leverhulme.ac.uk @oxpop.bsky.social

Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

📢New paper out on measuring global #migration flows using online data in @pnas.org We use privacy-protected records from over 3 billion Facebook users to estimate migration flows between 181 countries, accounting for biases in social media usage 🔗https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409418122

🚨 New paper: when researchers study epidemics, disasters, or conflicts but don't know how many people died, they often subtract pre and post population estimates or do a crude projection. Unfortunately, this almost never provides an accurate death toll 🧵 www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol5...

Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.

Last week, I attended the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, where I had the opportunity to present my research conducted with Anderson Fernandes. Our study investigates the conditions under which a silver dividend might emerge in selected Latin American and African countries.

Rebep aims to foster and disseminate research in demography, population studies, and sustainable development and promote interdisciplinary dialogue with related fields. www.scielo.br/j/rbepop/grid

Proud to announce the 2025 IUSSP Early Career Awards: Nurudeen Alhassan (AFIDEP), Luca Maria Pesando (NYU-Abu Dhabi), Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (MPIDR), Igor Cavallini Johansen (UNICAMP) & Monica Alexander (University of Toronto). Join us on 12 May. REGISTER NOW! shorturl.at/HBXIx #demography

Last january/february, I started a new position as the Editor of the Brazilian Journal of Population Studies - . Rebep is the official publication of the Brazilian Association of Population Studies (ABEP). Rebep is 100% Open Access. Please, find more information here: www.scielo.br/j/rbepop/

Yesterday I completed my first marathon in São Paulo, Brazil. 😁

Very interesting It is a new series organized by the PhD in Population Sciences happening at ISCSP - University of Lisbon. The first speaker will be Flavia Andrade who is visiting us from University of Illinois (in-person or remote) Register here: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

My friend and colleague José Manuel Aburto has an open call for a 3-year Research Fellow to work with him on mortality estimation within the newly established Mortality and Inequalities Research Group at LSHTM. This is a great opportunity More info: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

💥José Manuel Aburto is seeking an early career colleague to join his forming team as a postdoc 🌿 JM is an exceptional mentor and friend. And now he is inviting a lucky colleague to join for an exciting ride. It's a highway to the frontier of demography. Catch this unique chance 🚀 lnkd.in/dBJyaF9p

We are now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 2-6, 2025. Deadline to apply is March 10. See more information on the workshop and how to apply here: populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u... Please share widely!

Call for Papers: Workshop on Health and Mortality in Latin America (Montevideo, Uruguay, 17-18 Sept 2025) Deadline for submission: 20 April 2025 This workshop will focus on discussing recent changes in health and mortality profiles in LA and the challenges these pose for different countries.

The second WDA policy paper (2024) examined life and healthy life expectancies for populations at birth and at age 60 and the major causes of Disability-Adjusted Life Years or DALYs, informed priorities can be made to effectively improve the health outcome of ageing societies tinyurl.com/2sj8na82