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!

There is a religious or "philosophical" view that people never existing is tragic. You are free to believe that, but I object to you imposing that value on other people (ie, women's bodies) today. Those non-subjects do not have rights we are bound to respect. /2

Doing my best to reverse these trends. However, my coauthors keep editing my sentences.

Very interesting report, and also quite different from the situation in the US where changes in intended number of children have been much smaller.

Know any quantitative demographers with maternal and child health expertise who are looking for work? gatesfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Gates/job/Se...

🚨 New preprint out We propose the ContraIndex, a novel tool to measure contraceptive labor and returns. Why does it matter? Bc both partners benefit from contraception - but women bear the cost: from choosing methods to managing side effects. 📊 Read ➡️ doi.org/10.31235/osf... @kfirl.bsky.social

As mifepristone continues to be threatened (read: RFK Jr's baseless/insane claims about safety) more folks are considering the role of misoprostol-only medication abortion regimens in the US Well happy Monday folks because I have *two* new studies out for you: (1/4)

As a group, demographers are not willing to project 100s of years into the future or make bold claims about depopulation. Just because you can extend a trend line mathematically doesn’t mean it makes sense to do so.

Of all the problems facing the US right now, I don't think falling birthrates crack the top 100, if they're even a problem at all.

The cdgd package now accommodates sampling weights! As always, let me know if you run into any issues using the package. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

The current wave of federal immigration raids began in January with a “rogue” operation in California’s Central Valley. My new study finds these raids increased school absences by 22%—a leading indicator of the resulting family stress & lost learning opportunities👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Declining birth rates are likely driven by "pregnancy avoidance" decisions - people repeatedly deciding that it's not a good time to get pregnant *right now* rather than deciding not to have any (more) children at all, as my colleagues and I show in a new paper. 1/ doi.org/10.1007/s111...

On the socioeconomic gradient in mortality in Sweden: for men, a positive gradient only emerged for the cohort born 1911-20; for cohorts 1841-1900, white-collar men had shortest lives. For women, a positive gradient existed for all cohorts 1841-1920 but SES differences were much smaller in the past

“This bill would introduce the most significant & costliest new federal ed program in decades. It has virtually no quality-control measures, transparency provisions, protections against discrimination, or evidence to suggest that it’s likely to improve ed outcomes.” A+ Jon Valant ECCA explainer

New paper alert on - you guessed it - childbearing decision-making! @srhayford.bsky.social & I evaluate if people's perceptions of their personal lives & how things are going more broadly are associated with whether they thought it was likely they would have a(nother) child. 1/

Giving +$313/mo ($3756/yr) in unconditional cash to low-income U.S. families with new babies doesn't seem to improve the children's development at age 4, per multi-city field experiment by child poverty & development researchers. Relevant to debates on CTC & baby bonus www.nber.org/papers/w3384...

Good thread, but unmentioned potential contributing factor is that academics all logged off for the summer 😆

New paper out in Socio-Economic Review on how doctors and patients talk about the price of care in fertility medicine! I find that the way they talk about money is radically different depending on both the clinic's targeted clientele and organizational structure academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

And here it is: explicit efforts to roll back the clock so that more women stay home with their children. This will create economic dependency for women & increase their risk of poverty in old age. 1/