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

Since 2020, I am part of the WDA Global Longevity Council (lnkd.in/dUdJ4gsy). The council discusses past and future global demographic trends with the goal of aligning on a potential demographic outlook until 2050.

Occupations more exposed to AI showed larger increases in female employment share in Europe, from Stefania Albanesi, António Dias da Silva, Juan F. Jimeno, Ana Lamo, and Alena Wabitsch https://www.nber.org/papers/w33451

Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.

with Anderson Fernandes, we wrote a short piece on the relevance of education as a driver for sustainable growth in the context of rapid demographic changes. We focus mostly on low and middle income countries. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Last call! If you're a student interested in demography and data science, u can apply to spend a summer at @mpidr.bsky.social for the 2025 Incubator Programme. This year, I'll be mentoring a group working on mortality estimation in the context of armed conflict. Deadline this Wednesday!! More info 👇

👋 #AcademicSky and especially #demography We are delighted to join bsky 🙌 Danish Demography Society was established in 1972 and was reborn in 2022 after almost a decade of inactivity 🇩🇰 This summer we are honored to host Nordic Demographic Symposium, please apply 🔗 demografi.dk/aktiviteter/...

Running in 2024

Great papear genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

We are hiring!! (2 positions) TT Assistant Professor position in #Demography and Population Health. DEADLINE 02/02/25 Please share www.upf.edu/web/politiqu... #sociology

📣 New publication: Leocádio, Verona & Wajnman explore the association between gender equality in the family and fertility intentions in low-fertility countries. Check the full paper #openaccess here: 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Featured in the latest Digest: "Gender, Career Opportunities, and the Relocation Decisions of Couples" https://www.nber.org/digest/202412/gender-career-opportunities-and-relocation-decisions-couples

Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T

A group of colleagues led by @njarnefelt.bsky.social have developed a new set of indicators to measure the length of working lives based on Finnish register data. Career length is growing, but not for all: www.etk.fi/en/topical-i...

With @evertonclima.bsky.social , Marcos Gonzaga and Flávio Freire, we have a new paper out. It is part of the “Innovations in measuring adult mortality in countries with incomplete civil registration” edited by Menashe-Oren, Saikia and Helleringer www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

This paper by Everton Lima et al. proposes an alternative for estimating #mortality for small areas in countries with limited data. The estimates show how data quality and adult mortality are evolving over time and are related to #socioeconomic factors. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

I have an op-ed in the NYT today about how to reduce crime. The key idea, based on decades of strong research evidence: focus on increasing the probability of getting caught, not the punishment. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

Falling #fertility across the world will lead to significant changes in countries' age pyramids. By 2100, when today's newborns are in their 70s, they (or their elders!) will be the largest age group in many countries. #demography #rstats code: github.com/schmert/bone...

Demography Admission Details: www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-adm... Apply here: grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/s...

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is accepting applications for Fall 2025 for the PhD program in Demography AND the Graduate Group in Sociology & Demography. Seeking a diverse and strong cohort; applications DUE 12/17/2024. Learn more about the program: www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-pro...