Should we be concerned about low fertility? Øystein Kravdal discusses six possible arguments in this reflection: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Here is a reminder that you still have one month (deadline August 25) to apply to the 6th TN-Square edition! 🏔️ Here is where to candidate: webapps.unitn.it/form/it/Web/... Don’t miss it! #TNSquare25

Honored to be part of the team of writers behind the @unfpa.org State of the World Population 2025 report. The real fertility crisis: The most consequential reproductive decision a person can make –when, whether and with whom to have a child– is being undermined by a set of barriers and obstacles

PopDays 2025, we are on our way! 🌞 The Trento delegation is heading to Cagliari to join the 2025 edition of PoPDays ( @aisp-sis.bsky.social ) - and hopefully squeeze in some sunny moments by the sea. Want to catch up with our members and their works? Here is when and where you can find them:

I'm really looking forward to this! My coauthors and I will present a poster on using statistical boosting + multistate models to study romantic partnership trajectories 👫💒💔😱 Very interesting results in my (very unbiased 😜) opinion, so don't forget to stop by our poster!

Exciting news from the #WelFerPoli project (PI: @agnese-vitali.bsky.social, Co-PI: R.Guetto): the first results of our data collection will be presented next week at #PopDays25!✨ From the first to the last session, you can find us here: ⤵️ - Family policies, 4/6 h 16.30 @giuliafeltrin.bsky.social

🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity! Apply now for joint St Andrews–Max Planck project on fertility trends in high-income countries. 📍Rostock & St. Andrews 🗓️ Deadline: 10 June 2025 📢 More info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-su... #PhD #Demography #FertilityResearch

📚 NEW BOOK - open access! Leading scholars explore how individual life trajectories, societal norms, and legal frameworks are shaping modern #relationships. Co-edited by CPC member @briennaph.bsky.social 🔖 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

📢 È online un nuovo contributo mio, di @vferraretto.bsky.social e @giuliafeltrin.bsky.social, su Neodemos: "Volere figli in Italia: quali i costi e benefici attesi?" www.neodemos.info/2025/04/08/v... Il contributo è parte del progetto WelFerPoli - Well-being and Fertility Policies.

Packing for #PAA2025 (my very first #PAA conference and trip to the US...) with 2 new pieces of research! 🛩️🧳 Make sure to drop by P09 (April 12, 4-5.30pm) to learn more about age at first union & subjective wellbeing among young adults 👩‍❤️‍👨⏰, my first solo-authored work @csisunitn.bsky.social

🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

Congratulations are in order for our @vferraretto.bsky.social ! ✨ Yesterday, she brilliantly defended her PhD thesis “The Transition to Adulthood Revisited: Gender and Socio-Economic Differences in the Timing of Events Among Young Europeans”.

Yesterday my PhD has come to an end and I cannot be more grateful to my supervisor @agnese-vitali.bsky.social who made this journey more stimulating and smooth than what I possibly expected, and to all the colleagues that I met along the way. Looking forward to what's next!

My first (short) article from the PhD is out! 👀 Check it out to discover a bit more on the demographics of age at self-disclosure and age at first coming out among LGB people in Europe 📝 (co-authored with my supervisor, @agnese-vitali.bsky.social !)

Well done to my brilliant colleagues at the Dep. of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento 🏔️ for bringing together PhD students from all the sub-fields of sociology (from political to economic to family sociology and much more) and creating room for constructive debate!💡

Thrilled to share our study in Digital Health! With Alyce Raybould, @peterampazzo.bsky.social, Ross Barker & Doug Leasure, we explore the global use of menstrual tracking apps across income levels. Key trends revealed! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We have worked on this study since the early days of my PhD, and I am so happy to see it published! Some changes are impressive: among the 1980s cohort, the probability of not being parent by age 35 is 44% among men and 26% among women (all over EU). ⤵️ www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Almost ready to fly to Edinburgh for #EPC2024! ✈️ Stop by the poster session P1 "fertility, family, life course" to talk about my joint work with @nhiekel.bsky.social and Agnese Vitali @csisunitn.bsky.social on couples' transition to living together in 🇩🇪 and related socio-economic disparities

📣Call for papers extended‼️ Angela Carollo, Aapo Hiilamo & Mikko Myrskylä invite submissions for the workshop "Demystifying machine learning for population researchers" which aims to clarify machine learning methods for population research. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

(1/4) Were young adults more or less likely to leave the parental home in 2020? Agnese Vitali, Francesco Billari and I addressed this question in our latest work, now published in Advances in Life Course Research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The real emergency isn't the birthrate: it's about women and young people." Why the traditional family model is more of an obstacle than an incentive to fertility in Italy, in an accurate piece on the Italian "demographic winter"❄️👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

Valeria‘s work,mainly conducted while she was visiting my research group #gender #inequalities and #fertility at @mpidr.bsky.social shows that both partners’ economic resources matter in German couples‘ decision to move in together, intersecting employment status, contract type and personal income.