Who speaks demography and Spanish? This 1979 Chilean policy document wants to maximize three indicators, and Google translates them all as life expectancy...? esperanza de nacer esperanza de sobrevivir esperanza de vida media

Can some medications make me more heat sensitive? Yes, certain medications can make you more likely to experience heat-related illness. While we can’t control the weather, we can prepare and help more people stay safe. Read more from @daphneberryhill.bsky.social here:

Can some medications make me more heat sensitive?

Yes, certain medications can make you more likely to experience heat-related illness. While we can’t control the weather, we can prepare and help more people stay safe.

thosenerdygirls.substack.com

Extreme heat is no longer just a matter of comfort. It is a public health issue, a matter of social equity, and one of climate justice. And pregnant women are on the front line. #heat #publichealth #climatechange Our article in @theconversation.com 👇 theconversation.com/climate-chan...

Climate change-related heat increases the risk of premature birth in 13 countries – new study

Our study looked at 36.6 million summer births.

theconversation.com

New working paper up on SocArxiv! osf.io/preprints/so.... I use the 1940 Census and linked mortality records in combination with an IV-design to study the causal effects of racial segregation on longevity. I show that segregation reduces both Black and White longevity.

Survey Statistics: random sampling is not leaving statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/16/s...

How has climate change shaped your lifetime of heat? Younger people today are experiencing more extremely hot days during their childhood compared to previous generations. Check out the new interactive tool by @climatecentral.org: climatecentral.observablehq.cloud/generational...

🌡️ New global study: hot nights increase mortality risk — independently of daytime heat. 178 cities, 44 countries, 14M+ deaths analyzed. Our new study published in Environment Int and led by Carmen Iñiguez and myself from the MCC Research Network. #HotNights #ClimateHealth #climatechange

🍂 Aug-tober? From the Upper Midwest to the Southeast, many are stepping into refreshingly cool late-summer air this week. 🔵 Temps 10–20°F below average—a rare late-August treat The catch? A refreshing summer cool down like this is becoming less common for future summer fun 🔽

🇪🇸 How is wealth distributed in Spain ? This study, co-authored by G.A. Marrero @cmtneztt.bsky.social @juancpal.bsky.social & D.Petrov, is the first systematic analysis of regional wealth inequality in Spain. Key findings in 🧵[1/5] wid.world/news-article...

New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain - WID - World Inequality Database

New Spain Wealth Atlas: understanding regional wealth inequality in Spain The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an internation...

wid.world

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide

(Forthcoming Article) - Difference-in-differences (DiD) is arguably the most popular quasi-experimental research design. Its canonical form, with two groups and two periods, is well-understood. Howeve...

aeaweb.org

It felt like a cool May, but only because we're frogs in a pot of water that is gradually boiling. @climatecentral.org

⚠️El calor de hoy no ha sido lo normal 🔥 Y este evento extremo es 5 veces más probable en un mundo con cambio climático que sin él 📈🌡️🌍

Kowall et al. published a multi-analyst epi study on the effect of marital status on cardiovascular disease (link.springer.com/article/10.1...). What can be learned from this effort? Check out our new commentary! link.springer.com/article/10.1... with @mendelrandom.bsky.social & Marcus Munafò

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

good_description/good_description_ddk_agb.pdf at main · ddekadt/good_description

Homepage of "Good Description" by Daniel de Kadt & Anna Grzymala-Busse - ddekadt/good_description

tinyurl.com

“I’ll just run this last robustness check and then the paper will be finished...”

[🆕RESEARCH] Increasing vegetation cover by 10%, 20%, and 30% could lower the global population-weighted mean temperature during the #warm season. These reductions could prevent approximately 0.86, 1.02, and 1.16 million deaths—corresponding to 27.16%, 32.22%, and 36.66% of all heat-related deaths.

🔔 Call for Interest 🔔 – UPF DemoSoc is looking for senior researchers to join through Spain’s ATRAE 2025 programme. PhD before 01/01/2018 required. 3–4 year contract + long-term stabilization. If you are interested, send an email to: jorge.rodriguez@upf.edu. Deadline to express interest: May 9.

My colleague Cristobal Young and co-author Erin Cumberworth just released their book on multiverse analysis, a set of tools that help resolve the "garden of forking paths" and "file-drawer" problems and, in the process, improve quantitative social & behavioral science. Highly recommend.

Putting together a list of demographers working on questions related to climate change and the environment. Reply or like this post to be added. Reposts appreciated so we can reach as many people as possible. go.bsky.app/MwYXxeN

Putting together a list of demographers working on questions related to climate change and the environment. Reply or like this post to be added. Reposts appreciated so we can reach as many people as possible. go.bsky.app/MwYXxeN

📊 #psy6135 #rstats Today's topic: Visualizing Uncertainty Topics: Visualizing distributions, Error bars, Bayesian stuff, fitted curves, ... Thx to @elibryan.bsky.social, @mjskay.com, @clauswilke.com, @cedricscherer.com and other folks I stole from. 💻 Slides-- friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...

New paper in @bmj.com. Ever been told ‘what does your DAG say?” or “show me your DAG”, or “ok draw a DAG” and not sure what that means or how to get started? Well buckle up, because Fernando Hartwig, @neilmdavies.bsky.social and I wrote an RMR on just this topic. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Dags Yda Like Dags Mickey Oniel GIF

ALT: Dags Yda Like Dags Mickey Oniel GIF

media.tenor.com

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

the100.ci

Delighted to share a new publication, with the amazing @kelseabest.bsky.social & Bishawjit Mallick, using pattern-oriented agent-based modeling to explore the importance of economic inequality in determining patterns of environmentally-driven migration in Bangladesh. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Economic inequality is a crucial determinant of observed patterns of environmental migration - Communications Earth & Environment

Levels of inequality within a community are important contributors to community-level patterns of migration, according simulations with an agent-based model of the influence of environmental shocks, l...

nature.com

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2} | Andrew Heiss

Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.

andrewheiss.com

Joey Cherdarchuk - Obumbratta@obumbratta.com · 2y ago

Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

Our Super Bowl plan is watching American Psycho and eating eggplant parmigiana.

The sex ratio at birth in Spain reached very high values (above 108-109 boys per hundred girls) in the early 1980s before returning to normal values at the end of the decade. Why?

A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.

These curves describe the relationship between longevity and income in U.S. states. Historically these curves have shifted up. In the U.S., the 2019 curve lies *fully below* the 2010. That is shocking. Whatever we are doing now may only entrench this concerning pattern. #medsky #episky #econsky

Putting together a reading list for demography and climate change. If you teach a course that includes readings about this topic or know anyone who does and would be willing to share your syllabus, shoot me a DM. If you've recently published a paper on this topic, share a link to it.