Publication alert!🥳 We examine the roles of miscarriages, induced abortions, and ART. For part of the period, we were also able to distinguish between induced abortions performed at the woman’s request and those performed for medical reasons—two pathways with markedly different consequences.

💡 Strong piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on #HealthyLifeExpectancy! Measurement aspects matter: the definition of health and the survey data used (doi.org/10.12765/CPo...) and the reporting behaviour can bias cross-country comparisons (doi.org/10.1093/eurp...). 🔗 More: www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/research...

📢Join this pre- #EPC2026 workshop on 3 June 2026 in Bologna for researchers interested in comparative research using #population register #data! Register by 20 Apr 2026➡️ t.ly/9Uuhx @nadiasteiber.bsky.social @metzgers.bsky.social @lilivargha.bsky.social @baranowska-rataj.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

I'll be teaching again for Barcelona Summer School of Demography, "Demography with R" 6-10 July: ced.cat/en/bcn4seaso... You can do this program in person or online. Sign up, it's fun to do demography! @cedemografia.bsky.social

📢CALL FOR PAPERS Bold, unconventional, theoretically sharp? Submit your abstract to the Demog-Crazy 2026 Award by 1 April 2026 😜. Quetelet Journal rewards the paper that first amuses... then truly enlightens. Shortlisted authors submit full papers by 1 July 2026. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...

📢 Call for survey questions! 💡 GGP is inviting proposals for innovative, inspiring, and ready-to-field survey questions or modules to include in the GGS-II Wave 3 questionnaire 🗓️ Submission deadline: March 22, 2026 More details are available here: www.ggp-i.org/engage/get-i...

📣 Call for papers: We are inviting you to submit contributions to a Special Collection on the Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in the Long-Run, organized by K. Thompson, T. Riswick & S. Clouston. Submissions to this collection are possible from January 28, 2026 until June 28, 2026. (1/2)

#Published: "Exploring the full spectrum of reproductive experiences" by @sljitka.bsky.social, Jitka Jírová, Anna Šťastná & Jiřina Kocourková (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography

🥳New article out! Exploring the full spectrum of reproductive experiences doi.org/10.20377/jfr... Using Czech health register data, we analyse reproductive trajectories of women born 1976–1991, including live births, miscarriages, induced abortions, stillbirths, and infertility treatment (ART).

📊 Starting with the GGS datasets? 📌 You might find this quick user guide helpful: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ➡️ Find out about the sample, design, special values, and more

Just published! "Research material" - a new survey module on first reproductive experiences (timing, outcomes, events). www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @ggp.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social @soc-muni.bsky.social

📢 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

💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia. 🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social

🆕📰Marriage or Separation Angela Carollo, H.Putter,P.Eilers​​​​​​ &J.Gampe have developed a model to analyze transitions from non-marital cohabitation to either marriage or separation considering two-time scales simultaneously: age of individuals & duration of cohabitation. https://ow.ly/WUty50XcZzT

17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

❓ Kolik žen má zkušenost s léčbou neplodnosti? Jaké metody asistované reprodukce tyto ženy využívají a jak je kombinují? 🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze věnované asistované reprodukci. Celý leták naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...

Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

#PanelData #FredaAutumnSchool 📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025! Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.

interesting paper by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social on the gender divide in the left-right self-placement. There is no clear trend across all countries, increases in some countries, in others stability academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

🤩📣 New paper on participant-led methodological development for collecting high-resolution data on the post-natal period 👩‍🍼 with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️ funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social summary 🧵👇

Actually, social composition effects mean that, in ~50% polygynous countries, the places with the most polygyny have the least unmarried men! Another ~40% have no association, even after controlling for the local sex ratio. Communities that marry polygynously, usually marry more overall (3/5)

There are less than 2 weeks left to register for our course "Theories, Data, and Visualization for Global Analyses of Family Change"! Join us this June in beautiful Barcelona to learn more about family systems and change with a focus on comparative analyses: ced.cat/bcn4seasons/...

The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD) is still accepting applications until May 1. Attend in person or online if you'd like to brush up either on demography or R skills ced.cat/es/bcn4seaso... These are Modules 1-4 listed in the four-seasons school. I teach module 2 this year :-)

I'm co-organising the historical demography strand for PopFest 2025! We're looking forward to a range of interesting talks from UK and European students — economic historians and historians of medicine also welcome! Get in touch if you want to chat about submitting!👋 www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...

📢 PhD Opportunity at Masaryk University! 🎓 We seek 2 PhD students for the PRINS project on partnership trajectories & intergenerational relations. Apply by 31.03.2025! More info here: soc.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/jo...

🚨I am happy that the first chapter of my PhD thesis has been published. Together with @juangaleano.bsky.social & Albert Esteve, we use data from the CORESIDENCE database to map national and subnational trends in household size and characteristics across Africa. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Good @iamjburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the increase in time spent in loneliness by younger generations (using ATUS, ONS Time Survey and European Social Survey) www.ft.com/content/2305...

The deadline to submit for the ESHD conference was extended to Valentine's Day! 😍 So, you can still submit to the AYHD's Flash session. This session will let you discuss early work-in-progress with other early-career researchers. To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal! ☑️

Today we are at the #YoungDemographers conference which is held from 5-7 February in Prague, Czech Republic at Faculty of Science - Charles University. #YD2025

📢 New paper alert. Get a free copy of the paper of Detlev Lück and me on the drivers of contraceptive non-use in Germany. Get in touch if you want to discuss more www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQKER...

❓ How fair is the division of labor around first childbirth? Women feel it is most fair near birth but increasingly unfair as the child grows, while men’s perceptions remain unchanged. ▶️ New publication by Maria Hornung & @comochia.bsky.social open access! 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Ok, let's see how this works 🧐 The 16th Conference of #YoungDemographers is just around the corner! Programme is packed as always, incl. ⭐ Marc Luy and Rolf Granholm ⭐, and you can still join us as passive participants. Find out more ➡ youngdemographers.github.io/conference #demography

Yet another study (this time by Claudia Goldin) that uses cross-sectional data, and finds evidence for a U-shaped pattern for gender equality and fertility, even though this pattern does not exist for (almost) any country across time. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

New paper just out in @actasociologica.bsky.social with @minekuhn.bsky.social and Mikko Myrskylä, looking at the selective nature of re-partnering among single mothers in terms of their well-being in Germany and the UK. Read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢Calling all postgraduate students! There are 7 days to go until the call for papers will open for PopFest - the Annual Postgraduate Population Studies conference, taking place at @unisouthampton.bsky.social, 7 – 8 July 2025. Find out more about #PopFest25 👇 cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...

Here's a longer thread on last week's blog (Campop blog #28) about the seasonality of marriage and birth. First marriages, where changes in the seasonal pattern are linked to religion, work, holidays and taxation (with a short disruption caused by Cromwell's abolition of religious marriage) 1/5

Happy this study is already out. 🥳We are really thankfull to all @genus.bsky.social reviewers who help us to improve the paper! genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Are you working on a paper using sequence analysis /SA related method and want to discuss some aspects of it? Consider our webinar series "work-in-progress edition"! Deadline for submission (for presenting Feb.-May) Jan.5th 2025. More info and form at sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

You saw it here first! My new WP on impact of radio announcements on fertility. In 1969, a prominent family planning org launched a radio campaign to promote clinics. TL;DR: Women with greater exposure to the radio were less likely to have children. repositorio.banrep.gov.co/items/894887...

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...

New paper on how to calculate a multistate death distribution! What's that, you ask? Usually, we plot a death distribution by age at death. But age at death is the sum of our time spent in different states. If we split time between being healthy or not, then the distribution is multistate (1/3)

The WIC conference is behind, but left a great present in the form of a video of the round table discussion on reproductive futures. #demography #fertility #latefert @iiasa.ac.at www.youtube.com/live/p5iTyss...

Has been a fascinating 2 days discussing delayed fertility. I had the opportunity to present work on biological, genetic & medical factors related to postponement. And these amazing Vienna VID, ÖAW surroundings! Glad the focus was on the ceiling (and not me, haha) @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

Giving a keynote in this amazing space tomorrow for the Wittgenstein Centre's Conference: Delayed Reproduction - Challenges and Prospects. #reproduction #demography #fertility #Vienna

What are the patterns of non-transitional reproductive events (infertility, miscarriage, abortion)? Interesting results by age ang migration status by @passetwittig.bsky.social

Cohort Fertility and Couple Educational Composition in FI. Interesting findings from @linusandersson.bsky.social

Very interesting keynote by Anna Rotkirch at WIC2024 about childbearing cues and baby fever in low fertility societies

A great “meet some of the editors” of the @vypr.bsky.social at #latefert Conference. Miguel Sanchez Romero, @pdigiulio.bsky.social, @mwinklerdworak.bsky.social and Tomáš Sobotka! Find more info on the Vienna Yearbook here: tinyurl.com/3fjtwabc. #WiCVienna #demography ☕️👋🏼

How interfering reproductive events (like miscarriage) impact the spacing of the second child. Super flash talk by @sljitka.bsky.social at WIC2024

WIC conference kicking off with a *side event* today “GGP-Austria - Workshop 2024” In the program: - Fertility and family in times of crises and uncertainty - Life course transitions - Fertility ideals, intentions and realisation - Opportunities and challenges of GGS usage #demography