Publication alert!🥳 We examine the roles of miscarriages, induced abortions, and ART. For part of the period, we were also able to distinguish between induced abortions performed at the woman’s request and those performed for medical reasons—two pathways with markedly different consequences.

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR)@vypr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📈How do reproductive events other than live births shape the timing of a second child? Check out the new research article by Jitka Slabá, Anna Šťastná, and Jiřina Kocourková. 🔗 austriaca.at?arp=0x004192... #demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social

💡 Strong piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on #HealthyLifeExpectancy! Measurement aspects matter: the definition of health and the survey data used (doi.org/10.12765/CPo...) and the reporting behaviour can bias cross-country comparisons (doi.org/10.1093/eurp...). 🔗 More: www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/research...

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

The problem with healthy life expectancy ft.trib.al/ysEoB4C | opinion

📢Join this pre- #EPC2026 workshop on 3 June 2026 in Bologna for researchers interested in comparative research using #population register #data! Register by 20 Apr 2026➡️ t.ly/9Uuhx @nadiasteiber.bsky.social @metzgers.bsky.social @lilivargha.bsky.social @baranowska-rataj.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

I'll be teaching again for Barcelona Summer School of Demography, "Demography with R" 6-10 July: ced.cat/en/bcn4seaso... You can do this program in person or online. Sign up, it's fun to do demography! @cedemografia.bsky.social

📢CALL FOR PAPERS Bold, unconventional, theoretically sharp? Submit your abstract to the Demog-Crazy 2026 Award by 1 April 2026 😜. Quetelet Journal rewards the paper that first amuses... then truly enlightens. Shortlisted authors submit full papers by 1 July 2026. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...

📢 Call for survey questions! 💡 GGP is inviting proposals for innovative, inspiring, and ready-to-field survey questions or modules to include in the GGS-II Wave 3 questionnaire 🗓️ Submission deadline: March 22, 2026 More details are available here: www.ggp-i.org/engage/get-i...

📣 Call for papers: We are inviting you to submit contributions to a Special Collection on the Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in the Long-Run, organized by K. Thompson, T. Riswick & S. Clouston. Submissions to this collection are possible from January 28, 2026 until June 28, 2026. (1/2)

#Published: "Exploring the full spectrum of reproductive experiences" by @sljitka.bsky.social, Jitka Jírová, Anna Šťastná & Jiřina Kocourková (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography

🥳New article out! Exploring the full spectrum of reproductive experiences doi.org/10.20377/jfr... Using Czech health register data, we analyse reproductive trajectories of women born 1976–1991, including live births, miscarriages, induced abortions, stillbirths, and infertility treatment (ART).

📊 Starting with the GGS datasets? 📌 You might find this quick user guide helpful: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ➡️ Find out about the sample, design, special values, and more

Just published! "Research material" - a new survey module on first reproductive experiences (timing, outcomes, events). www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @ggp.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social @soc-muni.bsky.social

📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia. 🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social

Is Marriage Still Outdated? Changing Views on Marriage and Cohabitation in Five European Countries - Population Research and Policy Review

This study aimed to examine how views on marriage and cohabitation changed between 2004–2009 and 2020–2023 in Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, and Norway. Cross-sectional data from the first round ...

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🆕📰Marriage or Separation Angela Carollo, H.Putter,P.Eilers​​​​​​ &J.Gampe have developed a model to analyze transitions from non-marital cohabitation to either marriage or separation considering two-time scales simultaneously: age of individuals & duration of cohabitation. https://ow.ly/WUty50XcZzT

17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

YD2026 Call for Papers

17th Conference of Young Demographers4–6 February 2026, Prague (Wednesday–Friday)Call for Papers Dear friends and colleagues, On behalf of the Young Demographers, the Geographical Institute and the...

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❓ Kolik žen má zkušenost s léčbou neplodnosti? Jaké metody asistované reprodukce tyto ženy využívají a jak je kombinují? 🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze věnované asistované reprodukci. Celý leták naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...

Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

#PanelData #FredaAutumnSchool 📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025! Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.

interesting paper by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social on the gender divide in the left-right self-placement. There is no clear trend across all countries, increases in some countries, in others stability academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

🤩📣 New paper on participant-led methodological development for collecting high-resolution data on the post-natal period 👩‍🍼 with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️ funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social summary 🧵👇

Collecting real-time infant feeding and support experience: co-participatory pilot study of mobile health methodology - International Breastfeeding Journal

Background Breastfeeding rates in the UK have remained stubbornly low despite long-term intervention efforts. Social support is a key, theoretically grounded intervention method, yet social support ha...

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Abbey Page@abbeyepage.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 New pre-print on methodological development of mHealth tool for #infantfeeding data collection 📢 osf.io/preprints/ps... funding from @britishacademy.bsky.social and Wellcome Trust Developed and written with Best Beginnings, @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and Emily Emmott

Actually, social composition effects mean that, in ~50% polygynous countries, the places with the most polygyny have the least unmarried men! Another ~40% have no association, even after controlling for the local sex ratio. Communities that marry polygynously, usually marry more overall (3/5)

There are less than 2 weeks left to register for our course "Theories, Data, and Visualization for Global Analyses of Family Change"! Join us this June in beautiful Barcelona to learn more about family systems and change with a focus on comparative analyses: ced.cat/bcn4seasons/...

The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD) is still accepting applications until May 1. Attend in person or online if you'd like to brush up either on demography or R skills ced.cat/es/bcn4seaso... These are Modules 1-4 listed in the four-seasons school. I teach module 2 this year :-)

I'm co-organising the historical demography strand for PopFest 2025! We're looking forward to a range of interesting talks from UK and European students — economic historians and historians of medicine also welcome! Get in touch if you want to chat about submitting!👋 www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...

Association for Young Historical Demographers@ayhdemographers.bsky.social · last yr.

🔈Reminder! You still have until 4 April to submit to the population studies conference PopFest. Aimed at students and early-career researchers and with a separate strand for historical demography! More info ⬇️ 📍 Southampton, UK 📆 7-8 July 2025 ℹ️ cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...

📢 PhD Opportunity at Masaryk University! 🎓 We seek 2 PhD students for the PRINS project on partnership trajectories & intergenerational relations. Apply by 31.03.2025! More info here: soc.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/jo...

Job opportunities

2 PhD Vacancies “Partnership Trajectories and Intergenerational Relations”

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🚨I am happy that the first chapter of my PhD thesis has been published. Together with @juangaleano.bsky.social & Albert Esteve, we use data from the CORESIDENCE database to map national and subnational trends in household size and characteristics across Africa. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

African households: National and subnational trends from censuses and surveys

Using census and survey microdata from 49 African countries across 415 subnational areas, we offer a comprehensive overview of household size and composition in Africa. The study emphasizes the pot...

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Good @iamjburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the increase in time spent in loneliness by younger generations (using ATUS, ONS Time Survey and European Social Survey) www.ft.com/content/2305...

The deadline to submit for the ESHD conference was extended to Valentine's Day! 😍 So, you can still submit to the AYHD's Flash session. This session will let you discuss early work-in-progress with other early-career researchers. To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal! ☑️

Association for Young Historical Demographers@ayhdemographers.bsky.social · 2y ago

There's still time to submit to the ESHD Conference in September! Reminder: the AYHD is organising a Flash Session! Here you can present early-stage work or research already presented in other sessions. To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal field. eshd2025.eshd.eu

Today we are at the #YoungDemographers conference which is held from 5-7 February in Prague, Czech Republic at Faculty of Science - Charles University. #YD2025

📢 New paper alert. Get a free copy of the paper of Detlev Lück and me on the drivers of contraceptive non-use in Germany. Get in touch if you want to discuss more www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQKER...

Drivers of contraceptive non-use among women and men who are not trying to get pregnant

This study examines an inconsistency between an attitude and a behaviour: non-use of contraception among people who are not trying to get pregnant. More than one in four people in that situation re...

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