Excellent new work on the ways that harsh immigration policy affects kids. In a paper last year colleagues and I found evidence for the specific mechanism Tom hypothesizes: fear. This makes me so sad for our kids. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I spoke w/ @npr.org's Here & Now about pronatalism. The conversation about low birth rates is really about creating a moral panic. Once folks are convinced that low rates cause major problems that can *only* be addressed through raising rates, it opens to door to all sorts of regressive policies.

Three future PAA presidents (Taeuber, Taeuber, Whelpton) and one ASA president (Hankins) wrote positive pieces in American Journal of Sociology in the 1930s about Hitler's pronatalist policies. /1

If you’re attending SFP come to my book event tomorrow with Asha Hassan! @reproresearcher.bsky.social

Sweden, the place with the best historical data, finds that a larger percentage of births in the late 1800s (12%) were by mothers over age 40 than today (5%). I extremely did not know this www.scb.se/hitta-statis...

I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so... Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...

3 #PostDoc researcher positions at @helsinki.fi in collaboration with IIASA @iiasa.ac.at and MPIDR @mpidr.bsky.social on population projections, migration dynamics, and human capital development #demography #박사후연구 www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...

Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know! (This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)

Here are some data to drive this point home in sociology. Over the last 10 years we saw a decline from 333 to 200 asst prof jobs posted to the ASA job board - and that's until 2024, which was widely seen as a better market year than 2025

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

I hope @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social puts this issue front and center. When our team interviewed parents and teens in shelters in 2017, they described all the ways housing instability derails education and makes “school choice” a temporary arrangement.

Yesterday's IVF press conference was full of inaccurate claims. @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and I try to correct some of those claims in this @newsweek.com piece.

sorry, not sorry:

Wild. Which is more efficient? Would love something that ran slightly faster than conditional logits!

WE'RE HIRING! The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions Please share widely!

Just sayin' 😉

Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion. More details here: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI. Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.

Interview with @epopppp.bsky.social that clarifies what it might mean to reject what she calls "the economic style of reasoning". In the 2nd answer below, she describes deontology as it's usually thought of in ethics these days: as the view that consequences aren't the *only* thing that matter.

Studying a survey of Danish mothers' pre-birth beliefs about how their career will unfold finds they accurately anticipate their eventual return to work but underestimate the duration of the career interruption, from Andrew Caplin, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Chris... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34289

Of you've never seen it, La Operación, classic 1982 documentary, is on youtube: youtu.be/cGeustqUI78

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr

Study on maternal (ethnic and socioeconomic) characteristics and child mortality in the UK. The study uses linkage of the 2011 census with birth and death registrations. Educational differences, heightened risk of unemployed & Pakistani mothers stand out. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Electric vehicle adoption reduces air pollution and improves infant health, lowering rates of very low birth weight, prematurity, and child asthma, from Cavit Baran, Janet Currie, Bahadir Dursun, and Erdal Tekin https://www.nber.org/papers/w34278

So grateful for this support from the amazing @dianeravitch.bsky.social We’re SO CLOSE to our end-of-quarter fundraising goal. Please consider chipping in too! 👇 secure.actblue.com/donate/cowen... dianeravitch.net/2025/09/26/j...

Carolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

“People should not be concerned about the U.S. population into the future.” PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. @pbsnews.org @nickdemark.bsky.social

🚨 Come join us in Ed Policy at @uwmadison.bsky.social! We're hiring an Asst/Assoc Prof studying the intersection of education and the environment. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Recruiting for a new study on men’s sexual health experiences! Please share :)

Shouldn’t compare the 2022-2023 NSFG to prior waves: indeed, NCHS no longer provides the weights needed to test for change over time correctly

Am I the only one who is a little skeptical of the 20-24 numbers given NSFGs response rate drop off?

New paper with Jeremy Fiel @ricesocsci.bsky.social. We find school finance reforms reduced inequality of school funding by income, but did not reduce inequality by race/ethnicity and in some cases increased funding inequality by race/ethnicity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

‼️PhD Funding‼️ Check out this fully-funded PhD position in Stockholm, part of the a 5-year mixed method project investing Sexual and Reproductive Outcomes of Violent Crime led by Dr. Signe Svallfors

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The GC-CUNY Stone Center invites applications for two postdocs, to join us in NYC Aug 2026-Aug 2028. One focused on wealth, one on intergenerational mobility/poverty. Deadline Nov 3! @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/applications...

The fantastic Atlanta Workshop on Public Policy & Child Well-being is now accepting paper submissions! 👇 Thanks to the organizers @lindsbullinger.bsky.social @danieldench1.bsky.social

**I'll be at ASA if you'd like to chat about the position. Reach out by email.** The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston is hiring a TT assistant professor with strengths in the soc of gender/sexualities: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310899/...

Bocconi University in Milan is hiring in sociology at any level (open rank). Ideal candidate might focus on inequality, social policy, computational, labor markets, or similar. Happy to answer questions about my time there for anyone considering applying. More details: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

Demographic expertise provided by longtime PAA members: @lesja.bsky.social @nickdemark.bsky.social Thank you @amnanawaz.bsky.social ‪@pbsnews.org‬

Kudos to @lesja.bsky.social & @nickdemark.bsky.social for bringing some much needed demographic expertise to the conversation around pronatalism!

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

📣 New OA article in Journal of Health and Social Behavior! I show that the Colombian war has infringed on reproductive autonomy by increasing risks of unwanted births, especially among marginalized women. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Again: the alternative to pronatalism isn’t antinatalism. Or at least it shouldn’t be. The alternative is leaving people the fuck alone. (But what about all the future humans that could hypothetically be born one day?!? Shut up. Leave people’s reproduction choices the fuck alone. That’s what.)

Next up on my reading list: the academic-demographers case for pronatalism. Will this book finally convince me that the “population cliff” is not a fake crisis? Will I completely hate the book? We’ll see!