📉 Is immigration a solution to declining birth rates? And would a falling population benefit the environment? Read our interview with @berkayozcan.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

"This study investigates variability in women’s experiences balancing work and family, focusing on the association between early childhood investments and work trajectories." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

🔗 The event is organized by @kenza-elass.bsky.social, @berkayozcan.bsky.social, @paolaprofeta.bsky.social, @almudenasevilla.bsky.social, @margauxsuteau.bsky.social.

NEW: Vida Maralani, Camille Portier, Berkay Özcan, "Early Childhood Investments and Women’s Work Outcomes across the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

🎉Many congratulations to @mary-aliced.bsky.social who has successfully completed her PhD, a fantastic achievement! Thank you to @berkayozcan.bsky.social and @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social for their expert supervision. ➡️

Celebrating Richard Breen’s work in honour of his retirement, with a great conference organized by @berkayozcan.bsky.social , @kbkarlson.bsky.social and Janne Jonsson

I recently spoke to the Daily Mail about fertility trends in the UK. We dug into what's driving the decline and what it means for "baby deserts" and future of UK, etc. Here's the piece + interactive map: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

We started with Matthias Doepke's presentation, discussed by @berkayozcan.bsky.social: "The Economics of Fertility: a New Era". Mind-blowing!

"Gender Inequality: Navigating New frontiers And Paradigm Shifts": what an event !! Super proud of our organizing team for making this happen! Almudena Sevilla, @berkayozcan.bsky.social @paolaprofeta.bsky.social @kenza-elass.bsky.social 🥳 A brief overview of last week's event👇

🎤 We kicked off the workshop this morning with the fascinating talks of Almudena Sevilla and Matthias Doepke ✨ Join us online for talks on Gender, AI, Climate Change and Transformations! 💻 @margauxsuteau.bsky.social @paolaprofeta.bsky.social @axagenderlab.bsky.social @berkayozcan.bsky.social

I will be presenting this at the PAA in Washington DC, stop by if interested.

I am excited about this joint workshop between LSE, Bocconi and NYU AD -- and looking forward to fantastic series of papers!

I could not be more proud of Magdalena. She completed her PhD with an excellent dissertation and has already started (I'm sure doing fantastic work) at InterAmerican Development Bank (IAB) in Washington, D.C. Magda has been the glue in the PhD Programme. I'm sure LSE will miss her terribly!

Our latest version—with improved datasets and additional analyses—is out! We show that large-scale refugee migration can shape native fertility patterns. A big thank you to my co-authors Giray Aksoy and Aya Aboulhosn and to @rfberlin.bsky.social for sharing our work! 👉 Read more below!

Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting: rc28.soc.ucla.edu

We are going for another round with this fantastic Workshop on Gender Inequality, now, in addition to @Bocconi and @LSE with support from @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social. Feel free to register for an online or in-person participation -- see program below👇

I am excited about being part of this symposium with excellent company. Please submit your papers below👇 #EconSky #Demography

Faculty position in computational social science available in the division of social science at NYU Abu Dhabi. Details and application here ⬇️ apply.interfolio.com/160603

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

We have an open call out for papers in the European Sociological Review for a special issue celebrating Richard Breen's contributions to sociology! Deadline 15 June! More info 👇

“Improvements in income have relatively little effect on happiness,” he said … when he was in his mid-90s, “whereas improvements in health and family life have substantial impact.” #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/b...

My alma mater is hiring! Fantastic place to work!

📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976

Our new paper on behavioral changes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi, based on 4 rounds of a panel survey with mobile phone users #episky #IDsky journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

We're organising the 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of #Migration on 22-23 May 2025 in Madrid! Keynotes: Leah Boustan (Princeton) and Dean Yang (Michigan) Submit your papers before January 26, 2025: tinyurl.com/y2cd98kk

City of London chief says Brexit 'disaster' cost 40,000 finance jobs www.reuters.com/world/uk/cit...

Taking applications now for arguably one of the most attractive postdoc positions in sociology (2 openings) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

The highlight of the week: The panel I joined @BoodleHatfield LLP, a prominent law firm, discussing legal marriage! Met family law experts & prominent (and entertaining) journalists. Grateful for the opportunity and two lessons I took:👇 insights.boodlehatfield.com/post/102j2p2... #divorce #FamilyLaw

New postdoc opportunity in demography and public health at NYU Abu Dhabi. Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/142228

Huge congrats to my dear, talented colleague @mobarakhossain.net. That is a very smart move from both journals! They are lucky to have you (so are we!)

One of the highlights of 2023 for me has been visiting @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social. I am grateful to @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social for hosting me. Superb team and hospitality. I've attended fantastic seminars in two series: IFS-UCL-IoE Human Capital and Labor Markets and the QSS-CLS. I learned a lot.

The program for the 2nd Istanbul Applied Economics Workshop is out! Organisers put together fantastic papers. I'm excited about giving the keynote, meeting these scholars & hearing their work. The organisers invite all wanting to attend to register using this link: forms.gle/FsHxYnQ8nVSP...

Call for Papers: 2nd Istanbul Applied Micro Workshop Date: January 4, 2024 Place: Istanbul (in-person) Keynote Speaker: Berkay Özcan (LSE) Submission Deadline: December 2, 2023

In Sweden, by 2020, only ~20% of households had a child or more living in them & were concentrated in upper parts of the income distribution. In contrast, in Spain despite lower fertility, ~ 45% of the hhs had a child & were spread across the distribution. Join us to hear more.. or just for a beer!

In my first post, I'd like to express my gratitude to the National Bank of Romania & the National University of Political Studies & Public Administration in Romania (SNSPA) for inviting me as the keynote speaker for their Strategica Conference. They were amazing & loved everything about Bucharest.