"The probability of first birth within marriage has become increasingly similar across social classes, while cohabiting and single parenthood have become more strongly stratified," finds @aledinal.bsky.social in new DR article

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

New paper by @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social & Spoorenberg shows that "accounting for mortality through metrics like the 2-Sex Net Reproductive Rate (2SNRR) [could] change our understanding of fertility transitions globally" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our paper, “Optimal pandemic control strategies …” bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... w @nickirons.bsky.social, just published.Takeaway: U.S. COVID-19 school closures were not cost-effective, but other measures were. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

"Women with children increased their [desired family size] in response to growing COVID-19 mortality" in Pernambuco, Brazil, find @leticiamarteleto.bsky.social & Kumar in: read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

📊Next Thursday, our colleague @phbocquier.bsky.social will present a #IneqKill paper, "Identifying small-area diffusion of #mortality transitions using non-linear modelling in 19th-century Belgium" for the Formal Demography Working Group. Register here: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

"Sociology recognizes social relationships are fundamental to the structure and organization of society, yet the discipline has shown limited interest in the dissolution of social ties through death," top-notch, agenda-setting read by E. Smith-Greenaway, A. Verdury & D. Carr: doi.org/10.1146/annu...

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna. 💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

Following major European pandemics and wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, "recovery times across events averaged approximately seven years and showed no significant statistical differences by event type or sex," find Silva & Aburto in new article: doi.org/10.1007/s426...

"Cohabitation remains a liminal space between singlehood and marriage for the NLSY97 cohort" find Huang & Kelley in new article: doi.org/10.4054/DemR...

"Oaxaca-Blinder meets Kitagawa" is something I've been thinking of writing about for a while, but even better to read it from one of the original characters: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Janet Currie, Princeton University, “Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #JanetCurrie #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

🚨 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...

High-quality, open-access overview chapters, great resource for courses such as Sociology of the family

Emma Zang, Yale University, “Life-Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #EmmaZang #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

Applications are open for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science SICSS 2025 at UCLA! Apply by May 2! Free, 2-wk institute in comp social science for grad students, postdocs & early-career faculty. sicss.io/2025/ucla/ @ianlundberg.bsky.social @jenniebrand.bsky.social

RAND's Postdoctoral Program in the Study of Aging is recruiting fellows! This program provides an opportunity for junior scholars in demographic and aging research to sharpen their research skills at @rand.org. Application deadline is May 23. Learn more: www.rand.org/well-being/s...

58,500 Russian fatalities in the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022–2023 according to new article by @hippopedoid.bsky.social & co-authors in Demography, would equal American fatalities during entire war in Vietnam doi.org/10.1215/0070...

50 years ago today, Khmers Rouges seized power in Cambodia. As we see attacks on education & medical knowledge re-emerging, remembering the massive number--likely >20% of the pop. at risk--of deaths from executions, exhaustion, starvation & treatable diseases in the next 3 years, 8 months & 20 days

Abigail Weitzman, University of Texas, Austin, “Threat Evasive Migration: A Population Perspective” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #AbigailWeitzman #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

*JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

Attending #IPC2025 in Brisbane and interested in #mortality #forecasting? Register for our hands-on workshop on “Advances in Mortality Forecasting” (11-12 July) ipc2025.iussp.org/side-meeting... @mpidr.bsky.social @ined.bsky.social

Come to L.A. in August!

3 years ago, Jim Vaupel passed away he was an exceptional scholar, mentor, and teacher he founded multiple influential structures in #demography here is a short footage on how he approached the challenges read many more warm stories at our memorial website remembering-james-vaupel.org

Family Transitions (formerly the Journal of Divorce & Remarriage) is seeking submissions for a special issue on "Future Directions for Stepfamily Research and Practice," edited by @toddmjensen.bsky.social. Paper proposals due by June 30th. More info: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

"The regulatory treatment of cohabitation plays a more significant role in shaping the wealth accumulation of cohabiting women and men than normative acceptance" find @nicolekapelle.bsky.social and colleagues academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Still a few days to submit your abstract to the Demog-Crazy Award! Visit the Quetetet Journal website for details (links below)

Couldn't believe it, but checked and they're all happening 🥶

Awful, suppression of specific research no longer suffices, now aim directly at investigators: MERIT awards provide long-term grant support to "investigators whose research competence and productivity are distinctly superior and who are highly likely to continue to perform in an outstanding manner"

🚨New paper in SER🚨 Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux #Sociology #Demography #Inequality

There is a week left to apply for this funding opportunity on social mobility and higher education

Euro life-course re-standardization? "The postwar generation experienced the most uniform life paths [...] However, younger cohorts also showed internal convergence, suggesting a new, more homogeneous transition pattern following a phase of de-standardization" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In this paper, we ask, "can adolescents acquire cultural capital through social capital access and exposure?" We find that they can, but only among adolescents with parents who have at least some college experience. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 2/

One more week to submit an abstract for this year's @iaphs.bsky.social annual meeting in Pittsburgh! See details and apply here: iaphs.org/conference/s...

| Interview | Mesurer l’espérance de vie à Gaza Après un an de conflit, l’espérance de vie dans la bande de Gaza a pratiquement été divisée par deux. Michel Guillot, directeur de recherche à l’Ined, explique la méthode utilisée pour arriver à cette conclusion. www.ined.fr/fr/tout-savo...

Surreal read of the day: a paper using USAID-funded and now terminated Demographic & Health Surveys to count the huge number of lives saved by the now frozen US PEPFAR program to fight HIV, co-authored by current US admin’s nominee to lead cuts in health research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

w/ seasonal patterns of mortality, interpretation of sub-annual life expectancy values is tricky (unless imagining time loops a la Groundhog Day!), but this should be a useful resource qlifetable: An R package for constructing quarterly life tables journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Data cleaning as main source of variation: "Thing that moves the needle is cleaning [...] we don't teach or discuss standardized/best data-cleaning practices. So there's big variance in how we do it" IMHO also missing piece in replicability--often limited to sharing (cleaned) analytical data & codes

Do you have a story to share about your posts or account being flagged for sharing abortion info? Fill out this survey: www.reprouncensored.org/report-incid... Don’t have a story to share? Share this post and spread the word that censoring abortion in social media must stop! #StopCensoringAbortion

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!

You know there's trouble ahead when made-up numbers show up in in section 1: "United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years. This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Doing research on the consequences of war? Join our two-day symposium "Demographic and Health Consequences of Violence and Armed Conflict" at @mpidr.bsky.social in Germany, July 01–02, 2025. Deadline: March 14. More info 👇 www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

"the National Institutes of Health and other health-related research funded by the Federal Government should prioritize gold-standard research on the root causes of why Americans are getting sick"... But without using forbidden words describing these root causes, discrimination, inequality, HA!

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.

Perfect encapsulation: "If the point of this exercise is to make sure taxpayer dollars are not wasted and are used well, the evaluation and data work that has been terminated is exactly the work that determines which programs are effective uses of federal dollars, and which are not.”

The new Health Data Preservation Project linked on @healthjournalism.org homepage is continuously updated with resources for preserving disappearing/disappeared federal health data. Pls share/bookmark as needed & reach out if you know of resources to add. healthjournalism.org/resources/he...

As simply put as I can: Indirect costs are *shared* costs not "directly" billed to a single project, most common being salary for staff supporting multiple projects Shared costs reduce total costs (direct + indirect, b/c economies of scale) & budget fluctuations, increasing job stability for staff

GovWayback: access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" https://govwayback.com/