New work by Stephanie Koning, @goleensamari.bsky.social & Abigail Weitzman introduces a typology of displacement from conflict-related insecurities—anticipatory, chronic & imminent—and examines their consequences for women displaced from Myanmar to Thailand doi.org/10.1111/padr...

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

Protracted armed conflicts increasingly drive long-term displacement, yet demographic frameworks often treat forced migration from conflict settings as a response to acute, singular events. This stud...

doi.org

A great write-up on brand-new research I was involved in. We used a really different approach from the ones that we & many others have used previously to estimate how many Covid deaths there *really* were--almost 20% more than known. Our results broadly accord w others but add new demographic detail

Mike Stobbe@mikestobbe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The COVID-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. apnews.com/article/covi...

New paper by Maya Luetke, @signesvallfors.bsky.social & Liz Boyle identifies key considerations re: transparency, validity & reproducibility when conducting quant research on armed conflict and health based on combinations of data (DHS + UCDP-GED or ACLED) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

The humanitarian impact of armed conflict remains a significant international issue, with an estimated 2 billion people residing in fragile or conflict-affected settings. Despite increasing attention...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

While John Snow is often credited with founding modern epidemiology, William Farr built the machinery that allowed it to scale. Working at the General Register Office in London, Farr developed one of the world’s first systems for routine mortality surveillance, standardised causes of death.

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

Paper by E Acosta, @demography.bsky.social, @thegargiulian.bsky.social & C Torres first from PDR special issue I guest edited w/ L Andriano & M Ebbinghaus, Social and Demographic Consequences of Political Conflict and Violence, to be available on early view onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

The ongoing Colombian armed conflict has produced widespread homicides and enforced disappearances, as armed actors used violence to terrorize communities and consolidate power. Family bereavement—on...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

As "conflict-related mortality is on the rise and displacement has surpassed levels not seen since World War II", a timely editorial on Demography and War: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Introduction: Demography and War—Research on Population and Health in Contexts of Armed Conflict - Population Research and Policy Review

Population Research and Policy Review -

link.springer.com

Our call for papers is out! Submit until May 15 2026.

a man in a green elf costume is screaming and saying it 's finally here

ALT: a man in a green elf costume is screaming and saying it 's finally here

media.tenor.com

Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs. Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center on Economics and Demography of Aging & USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health Deadline: Dec 15 2025 populationsciences.berkeley.edu/conferences/...

Study finds fertility response to extreme weather events diff b/w nuclear and joint family structures in Bangladesh & authors conclude "family structure represents an important but underexplored variable in understanding climate-fertility associations in vulnerable regions" doi.org/10.1080/1948...

From floods to cyclones: Family structure and fertility preferences across climate-exposed regions of Bangladesh

Bangladesh experiences frequent extreme weather events (EWEs) that are associated with various dimensions of human life, including fertility preferences. This study examines associations among EWEs...

doi.org

What can we learn about disaster impacts from case studies that often lack elements of a "gold standard" natural experimental research design? Review by Elizabeth Fussell, Kate Burrows & @narayansastry.bsky.social wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Learning From Natural Experiments to Accelerate Demographic Research on Climate‐Related Threats to Human Populations

What makes a gold standard natural experiment? Research on disaster impacts often relies on case studies which lack elements of a natural experimental research design. Some or all of these elements m...

wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Position is for 3 years with excellent salary, housing and benefits. Please share widely. For more information and application, link ⬇️ apply.interfolio.com/177935

In new study on domestic violence in Vietnam, Hanbo Wu argues "normalization of and desensitization to violence in the domestic sphere as well as war trauma likely play an important role in explaining the effect of conflict exposure on the justification of IPV" doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Does exposure to armed conflict affect women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence? Evidence from Vietnam - Journal of Population Economics

This study combines individual-level survey data and province-level data on wartime bombing to assess the long-term impact of the Vietnam War on Vietnamese women’s attitudes toward intimate partner vi...

doi.org

The Dorothy S. Thomas Award is presented annually for the best graduate student paper on the interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables. Nominations now open! Submit a nomination by January 31, 2026. buff.ly/sMThJ6E

IMHO too little attention to mortality-fertility interactions in highly-specialized demography (was once asked "Are you a mortality demographer or a fertility demographer?"), so really enjoyed article on extrinsic mortality & life history traits w/ 30 (!) peer commentaries : doi.org/10.1017/S014...

👀 We are thrilled to have @um-psc.bsky.social alumnus @angabridged.bsky.social join us for our next Brown Bag session: Shannon Ang of NTU Singapore joins us presenting on ways older adults stay socially connected online. #sociology Live and on Zoom: psc.isr.umich.edu/events/ang/

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s... Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

Register for IPUMs International Online Session

Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...

forms.gle

The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...

Global Fellows Program in Demography

The PSTC has a long-standing tradition of hosting scholars, researchers, and practitioners from diverse corners of the globe.

pstc.brown.edu

📢My paper is out in Population and Development Review.😀Central and Eastern Europe’s population change isn’t just about fertility, mortality, and migration — the age structure also an important factor. #demography #ageing #fertility #Hungary #Poland #Romania #migration doi.org/10.1111/padr...

CCPR Miniconference 10/17: “Fertility and Demographic Change” #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #miniconference

job TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY Department of Sociology, Western University csn-rec.ca/job-postings... @westernu.ca #cdnsoci

Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

There's still time to join us in Montreal for the 2026 @wfrn.bsky.social conference - the deadline is extended until October 15!

Jennifer Hook@jenlhook.bsky.social · last yr.

The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities. Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

Formal demographers encouraged to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

"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

Demographic Research@demresjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

When do people become parents—and in what unions? @aledinal.bsky.social studies the risks of first parenthood (15–50) by union status and parental class across cohorts. Read more: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... #FamilyFormation #ReproducibleResearch

📢 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...

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

lse.ac.uk

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...

Bringing mortality back into our understanding of fertility change: revisiting the onset of fertility transitions using net reproduction measures - Journal of Population Research

This paper argues for the reintegration of mortality into studies of fertility transition by using net reproduction measures rather than solely focusing on total fertility rates (TFR). Accounting for ...

link.springer.com