hope to see your work, especially in the realm of caregiving and/or LGBTQ+ kinship!

New paper in Social Science Research 📄 Using expenditure data, we find same-sex couples are modestly more likely than different-sex couples to outsource housework. Much of this gap reflects higher education and paid work hours, though much is unexplained. Free access for 50 days: tinyurl.com/ssossr

I am thrilled to announce that my first PhD paper, 'Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation', co-authored with @demography.bsky.social and @ezagheni.bsky.social, has already been published in the European Journal of Population. rdcu.be/eTImq

📢 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

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR We welcome Elena Pojman 👏👏👏. Before MPIDR, Elena was a dual-title Ph.D. candidate in sociology and demography at Penn State University. Her research focuses on social stratification & how it affects how people spend their time & money. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/welcomeEP

The call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open! Deadline: Jan 14, 2026. Topics/Teams: 1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production 2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities Check out the brand new website for information: www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de

What can demography teach us about the "gay cousin at Thanksgiving" meme? A lot! If you were born in the 80s, 90s, or 00s, you could have one queer cousin, on average*. Younger cohorts have fewer cousins overall, but still have a strong share who are queer. * for an American woman in 2023.

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

My latest article was recently published in Ethnic & Racial Studies. A 🧵: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9WABN...

🚨 #Hiring! 3yr #postdoc w/survey methodology experience to join the ERC-project SINGLE for its next stage of designing & launching a comparative multidisciplinary singlehood #survey in EU. Research area is open! Application deadline: 12-Jan-2026 (12PM CET). Barcelona-based. 👉🏻 shorturl.at/CmY0F

hope to see your work, especially in the realm of caregiving and/or LGBTQ+ kinship!

Call for Papers! Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll. Deadline: 21 January 2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

4 days left! Submit your work by Sunday, Oct. 5. Join demographers and social and health scientists at all career stages, from the US and abroad, next May in St. Louis, Missouri for #PAA2026. buff.ly/HoZlR1U

This new study from @nber.org analyzed the imapct of 2013 Texas abortion laws, finding bans cause “significant economic hardship” and widen income inequality, translating into higher rates of “financially motivated crime, such as theft and burglary.” www.nber.org/papers/w34245

👶 In 1960, most women had their first child by age 22. By 2023, the median was 27. Education plays a role: <HS = 20 yrs vs BA+ = 31 yrs. 📖 See the new @NCFMR Profile → doi.org/10.25035/ncf...

🚨New Publication🚨 In the August Issue of #PRPR, England & Xu present evidence that challenges the applicability of Second Demographic Transition theory to the U.S.—where disadvantage predicts cohabitation and non-marital births. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm organizing Session 804 - Families and Inequalities. Looking forward to reading your excellent submissions!

New in Rural Sociology: Caregiver well-being varies across rural, surburban, and urban places. We find: - Rural & surburban caregivers are worse-off than urbanites. - State-level family policy matters little. Caregivers deserve support, & policy should reflect that. doi.org/10.1111/ruso...

Finally got this banger of a title out: 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. If your descriptive figures and your model tell different stories, trust the figure. (And maybe rethink the model.) 👉 📄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New research brief from @elenapojman.com and Florence Becot on caregiving in the northeast region of the U.S.

The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities. Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

Women already do 2/3 of the unpaid care in the US, equating to $683 billion a year in unpaid care work. infogram.com/1pdd7xxy9p5x...

4% of marriages each year are now to same-sex marriage! 10 years of love wins! www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resour...

In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @shajiang.bsky.social W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number & age of kin” & kin networks. @stanford.edu @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

#MorningReads @rinreczek.bsky.social shows estrangement from family isn't just psychological—it's cultural. Findings show the repertoire of democratized kinship is used to create strategies of action to estrange. #pureintemacy #relationshipdisruption #relationshipexit

Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...

What happens to women when they are denied an abortion? Short run: their risk of death rises. A full 15 years later, they experience: more health issues, lower attainment, reduced labor-force participation, higher single motherhood, higher poverty, + greater government assistance

“Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults”: @maikevd.bsky.social, @demography.bsky.social & @afcastr0t.bsky.social use survey data & demog models to calculate sizes of kinship types--"downward, lateral, upward & total." @cedemografia.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Excited to share that my first novel now has a cover and a release date. It's about a criminology PhD student who becomes entangled in a whodunit-style murder mystery. Direct result of reading a bunch of Agatha Christie + procrastinating writing my dissertation. tulepublishing.com/books/the-ch...

"long-run, couple-level results support the view that the gender revolution has stalled and suggest that this stall may be caused partly by strong traditional gender preferences, whereas structural resources appear to facilitate gender equality among a selected few" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39015249/

The Trevor Project has officially launched the 2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People. Please support by helping reach LGBTQ+ young people ages 13 to 24. #LGBTYouth #SOGIdata

Some of our Demography students presenting at #PAA2025

So excited to win the poster award this morning for my dissertation work on racial-ethnic disparities in women’s kin caregiving burden across the life course #PAA2025

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Our (@stephzzhang.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @demography.bsky.social) working paper on the migrant mortality advantage among 18th and 19th century United Kingdom & Ireland emigrants has been updated -- spoiler, we find an advantage in this context too! doi.org/10.4054/MPID...

"Interactions among kin have important consequences, including resource transfers & alloparenting. Some interactions require the lives of relatives overlap. Overlap depends on mortality (longer lives give more opportunity for overlap) & fertility (higher fertility produce more kin to overlap)"

Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave? My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

New edworkingpaper that I knew I had to share when it first came across my virtual desk. tl;dr: "[state] abortion bans caused a 2.7 percentage point decrease in the proportion of high-achieving women who applied to a school in one of the 13 states with a total ban." edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1126

Léa Pessin (@eui-eu.bsky.social) & @elenapojman.com find that time in childcare and paid work, especially when couples have young kids, stratifies how Black, Hispanic, and white couples respond to work-family demands. doi.org/10.1111/jomf... #openaccess @umpsid.bsky.social

1/ Utilizando modelos de parentesco y encuestas nacionales de uso del tiempo, estimamos el tiempo potencial de cuidados de una niña promedio en Colombia, México y Paraguay frente a los cambios estructurales de su red de parientes en el tiempo.

New paper! "The Fall and Rise of Parental Financial Investments During the COVID-19 Pandemic" in the Journal of Marriage and Family. We examine parental spending on children during the pandemic (compared to 2015-2019) to understand what changed and why. Highlight thread👇 doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

The big genealogical database #FamiLinx, which contains extensive demographic and #kinship information, offers much promise for demographic research but careful sample #selection is necessary. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️☀️☀️#summer 2025☀️☀️☀️☀️ yet? Look no more! @mpidr.bsky.social has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 demogr.mpg.de/go/Incubator...

With #rstats re-gathering I’m reposting some of my past blog posts, including my most popular one: "Marginalia" Have you wondered what marginal and conditional effects are? Have you been confused how "marginal" can mean both an integral *and* a slope? Read on for the magic of {marginaleffects}!

In a new study from our collaboration with the Census Bureau, we demonstrate that both rising rents and evictions are associated with increased risk of death: evictionlab.org/rising-rents...

🚨Call for Applications!🚨Population & Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program @mpidr.bsky.social with @drdemography.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social @jiisu.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Important new work out in the European Sociological Review. This study is immediately an essential reference in the field of LGBTQ+ education research. Congrats and thank you to the authors! academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...