Our paper is out today in Demographic Research where we investigate which aspects of partnership trajectories better explains completed fertility. Happy to be part of this work led by @svidal.bsky.social with Mariona Lozano. It’s always fun to work with friends!

Demographic Research@demresjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Partnership trajectories played a key role in shaping completed fertility of cohorts born 1962–77 in Spain. Delayed/foregone unions strongly reduced the likelihood of motherhood, while stable marriages supported progression to higher parity. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Always happy to publish together with friends :-)

Danilo Bolano@danilobolano.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our paper is out today in Demographic Research where we investigate which aspects of partnership trajectories better explains completed fertility. Happy to be part of this work led by @svidal.bsky.social with Mariona Lozano. It’s always fun to work with friends!

New study led by Jianji Chen: how work–family trajectories shape health later in life (evidence from China) Out now in Advances in Life Course Research 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.al...

Join the pre-EPC workshop in Bologna by the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration: “Global perspectives in lifetime migration data infrastructures” A great lineup of presenters from 4 different world regions 🌎🌍🌏 Register here: iussp.workshop@gmail.com Full program details: iussp.org/sites/defaul...

New publication out of Jianji Chen's thesis! Widowhood shapes economic well-being among older adults in China as a process. doi.org/10.1093/gero...

Widowhood and Economic Well-being in China: The Role of Coresident Children Before, During and After Spousal Death

AbstractObjectives. Previous research on the economic outcomes of widowhood for older adults has often treated spousal death as a single event rather than

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Publication alert🚨

Claudia Brunori@claudiabrunori.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢New article in International Migration Review! w/ @svidal.bsky.social (@lifelongmove.bsky.social) and Louise Caron, we study how immigrant descent and migration experiences in childhood shape later-life aspirations towards migration. Check it out (it's OpenAccess!) 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Check out this open-access article that deepens on compound effects of residential and social mobility!

LIFELONGMOVE Project@lifelongmove.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Moving homes, changing perspectives: How residential and social mobility in childhood shape locus of control and adult mental health Our team members Riccardo Valente and @svidal.bsky.social explore it in a new paper at SSR. Check it out, it’s open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Proud (and a little sad to see him go): Jianji Chen defended last week his PhD in Demography at UAB—on family dynamics & older adults’ well-being. Congrats, Dr. Chen, and all the best ahead! Also, big thanks to the committee: Karsten Hank, @elirenteria.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social

Double participation of @lifelongmove.bsky.social members in a session of the @sllshome.bsky.social conference 2025. Talks dealt with residential trajectories since early life and socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood. Thank you to participants for useful tips to improve our research.

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps

Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

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Excellent conference and powerful session on housing precarity organized by @lifecoursecentre.bsky.social. Homelessness, gender inequalities, and homeownership dynamics. I am grateful for the insights and discussion!

📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism - European Journal of Population

The negative impact of childhood internal migration on diverse life outcomes is well documented. The main hypothesis to explain this association is the severance of social ties. However, empirical evi...

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Great presentations by A Colasurdo, N Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025. Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026.

Great energy at the Workshop on Mining Migration Trajectories, hosted by the IUSSP Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025 ! @iussp.bsky.social Led by our own @svidal.bsky.social & Juste Lekstyte, it brought hands-on exploration of lifetime migration data using ML techniques #sequenceanalysis

Last Friday, Min Zhu successfully defended her PhD in Demography at UAB- @cedemografia.bsky.social with a dissertation on couple migration in China. Congratulations, Min, on this achievement - and best wishes for your career ahead!

Just wrapped up an inspiring workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life Course”! Great presentations and discussions on geographic mobility in childhood and adulthood across Europe. Thanks to everyone who made it such a success! See you next time!

Congratulations to @pertzikovitz.bsky.social team member of @lifelongmove.bsky.social for the successful defense of his doctoral thesis at Groningen University. Well done Dr. Pertzikovitz @popresgroningen.bsky.social

• Workshop: Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility over the Life Course (18 June 2025) Causes and Consequences of Spatial Mobility Over the Life CourseTuesday, June 18 | 10:00–13:00 | CED (Sala Àngels Torrents) & Zoom Organizers: Claudia Brunori, Juste Lekstyte, and Alon Pertzikovitz We are…

📢 Publication alert! In our new study (w/ Belinda Hewitt), we track individuals over time and find that cohabiting with marriage intentions is linked to similar—or even better—health & well-being than being married. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Have a read to this new publication on the role of transnational separation from a child for the mental health of migrant populations.

Claudia Brunori@claudiabrunori.bsky.social · last yr.

Another piece of my PhD thesis is now published in International Migration Review! How many immigrants get transnationally separated from their children in the migration process, and how does this affect their mental health in the short- and medium- term? Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1177/0197...

If interested in migration and mobility trajectories: Follow @lifelongmove.bsky.social for updates on the lifrlongmove ERC project and activities of the IUSSP panel on lifetime migration.

LIFELONGMOVE Project@lifelongmove.bsky.social · last yr.

Fresh from #PAA2025! Our PI Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social & co-authors presented new findings on the impact of lifelong neighborhood disadvantage and residential trajectories on socioeconomic outcomes. 📍📈 Stay tuned for more

📢 Reminder: Submit your paper or extended abstract for the Comparative Population Studies special issue on “Migration Trajectories Over the Life Course”! 🧳 🗓️ Deadline: May 15 📄 Call for papers: www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP... #Migration #Lifecourse

• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course” Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…

📢 Call for Papers We welcome submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. It aims to provide deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...

The European Association for Population Studies is now on bluesky. Follow @eaps.bsky.social for updates on activities and the next European Population Conference in Bologna!

Guess who’s on BlueSky? 🙌 @eaps.bsky.social 🙌 A must-follow!

Today we had Naza Panichella visiting at @cedemografia.bsky.social UAB, and gave us a great lecture on couple's internal migration and gender inequality in six European country

Great opportunity to work on a very interesting research project with a great team 👇👇👇

Philipp Lersch@pmlersch.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are hiring a postdoc for the deciphe.eu project at @diw.de. Work with @svidal.bsky.social, @sbeduk.bsky.social, S. Zinn, M. Medgyesi, myself, and other fantastic team members to understand the intergenerational persistence in homeownership in Europe! More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

And we do have a website now: https://www.deciphe.eu/

DECIPHE Research Project

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👇👇👇Thrilled to see this collaboration with @pertzikovitz and @ValkHelga published! 📢 We examine how childhood moves underlie partnership stability in adulthood, to contribute to our understanding of the long-term impacts of residential mobility! @lifelongmove

Alon Pertzikovitz@pertzikovitz.bsky.social · 2y ago

📄🍾 happy to share that the 3rd paper of my thesis, a great collaboration with Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social and Helga de Valk is now out in the ENJP 🏘️📦 We ask whether moving in childhood has lasting effects on individuals’ life courses. Short answer: yes Longer answer: doi.org/10.1007/s106...