📢 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

The Second General Meeting of the #AgeIt project is underway in wonderful Naples, where many researchers from our team are presenting their latest contributions to demographic research on population ageing! 👇👇👇 @alderotti.bsky.social @elibrini.bsky.social @karlosj89.bsky.social

"Are grandchildren beneficial to mental health in old age? Using advanced statistical techniques & data from 160,000 individuals across Europe, Elisa Brini & Francesca Zanasi challenge this common belief: family ties do not significantly reduce the risk of depression for men & women in later life"

Final session of #PopDays2025: presentation of the Population Report “Towards a Positive Demography” 📍Aula A — starting now!

Everything is ready for the 2025 edition of Population Days - the conference of the Italian Association for Population Studies. We are looking forward to seeing you all in Cagliari! 👉 Use #PopDays2025 to post about the conference!

🚨 Come research singlehood with me! I’m hiring a 3-year Postdoc w/interest in Family Demography to start this Fall. Please share! 📍 Barcelona (@cedemografia.bsky.social) 🔎 ERC-funded project 'SINGLE' 📅 Deadline – April 24, 2025 🔗 More info: shorturl.at/400eo #Postdoc #Demography

Interested in #eusilc? #SPSS, #Stata, and #Rstats routines to transform the raw data of EU-SILC into system files are now available for the most recent EU-SILC release 2024-release1: www.gesis.org/en/missy/mat... #eurostat

#Published: "Parental social class and home-leaving in Italy: A changing landscape with persistent inequalities" by @elibrini.bsky.social, @gcorti.bsky.social, @francemente.bsky.social & @alderotti.bsky.social (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #OpenScience #sociology #demography

Guess who’s on BlueSky? 🙌 @eaps.bsky.social 🙌 A must-follow!

MORE THAN NATURE AND NURTURE? In a new Nature Human Behavior paper, we probe the origins of indirect genetic effects on educational achievement in Norway. We found they are more due to dynastic processes than to nurture processes. Here's a thread, with slight emphasis on the sociology of it. [1/9]

Check out our latest publication with @stefanischerer.bsky.social and Emmanuele Pavolini on @genus.bsky.social We delve into the impact of Early Childcare Education and Care services on first, second, and higher parity births in Italy 👇

Don't miss the opportunity to be part of the central dialogue on the future of fertility research. Abstract submissions for the "Gender and Social Inequality in Fertility" conference in Oslo (March 2024) are still open. ⏰ Deadline: Dec 11 t.co/X90XsF7XFi PS: March is still a good time for Nordlys🌌

Does employment instability affect family planning of 💑 ? Yes! Mainly her's, less his -> chllng gndr rls! w @eli_brini (on the other one) in EuJP we analyse #employment instability & #fertility in #Italy, covering two decades characterized by increased labour market deregulation t.co/d8jpFAK9Mq

Did educational expansion make cognitive ability more predictive of attainment? Meritocratic logics would suggest so. Our results reveal the opposite pattern: a decoupling between ability and education over birth cohorts! Out now in Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41...