🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 Does escaping in-work poverty reduce the risk of common mental disorders? Our new open-access paper, "Escaping In-Work Poverty and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of Swedish Workers”, published in Social Science & Medicine, answers this question: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

🎉 New paper out in JEMS! Migrants in Italy are much more likely than natives to be overqualified for their jobs. Yet overqualification is less strongly associated with lower job satisfaction among migrants, especially if arrived as adults. Read here ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper by @rishabhtyagi10.bsky.social, @peibich.bsky.social, @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social Using German longitudinal data, they find that involuntary job loss substantially increases the risk of marital dissolution. Little evidence of variation by gender norms. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Group Differences in Income Distributions, Poverty Gaps, and Poverty Buffers: Inequalities between the Children of Swedish-Born and Migrant Parents New Data visualisation, published with @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and @rafgrotti.bsky.social in @sociusjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2378...

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 Is overqualification a stepping stone for career progression among children of immigrants (G2) ? A new paper by @wooseongkim.bsky.social, @rafgrotti.bsky.social and @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social provide empirical evidence challenging this view (1/4) doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

While Sweden is making language a requirement for citizenship, new study shows immigrants engage with SFI differently, reflecting motivations, inequalities, and challenges in accessing SFI and integration opportunities. 👉 Check the new paper by Samaneh Khaef 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 New publication by @mimmilou.bsky.social: 👉 In Sweden and Norway, non-Western migrants, especially men, are more likely to report positive fertility intentions under conditions of uncertainty - such as holding non-permanent contracts or anticipating job loss. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interested in contributing to improving workers' health with new evidence from cutting-edge research? Check this out! The New World of Work research group at Karolinska Institutet is an international, interdisciplinary, and stimulating research environment. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Occupational Epidemiology – The Future of Work

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? Join us at the forefront of occupational health research. The New World of Work Research Group studies how changing labour markets affect health an

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My annual March 14 suggestion to move π Day to July 22 since 22/7 is closer to π than is 3.14.

In addition to official policies that are in place, I've started including this 'personal AI policy' in communications with students I supervise.

A new paper by Erik Carlsson and me was published in @genus.bsky.social Using the GGS data with register-based follow ups, we investigated how depression relates to fertility intentions and their realization among Swedish and Norwegian adults. Read more: 👇👇👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Does depression matter for fertility intentions and their realisation? An analysis of Norwegian and Swedish men and women in coresidential unions - Genus

Many high-income societies have seen two parallel trends in recent decades: falling fertility rates and an increasing prevalence of mental health issues among young adults. Yet, the association betwee...

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More immigration into the US raises the number of health care workers and saves the lives of older Americans, from David C. Grabowski, Jonathan Gruber, and Brian E. McGarry www.nber.org/papers/w34791

Joseph J Muwonge’s doctoral thesis shows socioeconomic and migrant gaps in mental #healthcare use vs self-reported need, including widening inequities for foreign-born people in Sweden during the pandemic, with larger gaps in expanded digital service use 🧪 #HealthEquity news.ki.se/socioeconomi...

On #WorldHealthDay, we highlight evidence that economic decisions have profound health impacts. Austerity policies in the UK are associated with 190,000 excess deaths and widening regional inequalities in life expectancy. Read our blog by Yonatan Berman and Tora Hovland ⬇️

The cost of austerity: How UK public spending cuts led to 190,000 excess deaths - LSE Inequalities

Austerity measures (2010-19) cost the average Briton nearly 1/2 a year in life expectancy. Regional disparities widened and 190,000 excess deaths occurred.

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I only wrote this substack *yesterday* about the dangers of being a foreign student or academic in the US, but I am already having to update it as more disappearances and visa revocations happen. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Researchers in demography have developed a new model that provides more accurate estimates of population sizes. This method has the potential to affect policy decisions, according to @mussino.eu, one of the researchers behind the study. www.su.se/department-o...

New model provides better population estimates - Department of Sociology

Researchers in demography have developed a new model that provides more accurate estimates of population sizes than the models currently used by government organisations. This alternative method has t...

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Immigrants are more likely to adapt to Swedish childbearing norms if they move to Sweden at a young age, according to a new study by Ben Wilson, researcher in demography. This seems to be the case regardless of their gender or country of birth. www.su.se/department-o...

When INEQUALITY is on the list of verboten words, we need to work harder to make the value of our work known. Please follow @asa-ipm.bsky.social, the new account of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of @asanews.bsky.social, which will help share the latest work on social inequality

Check out my new paper with the fantastic @andreatilstra.bsky.social. We examine 🚬 and 🍷 behaviour around separation & divorce 💔 Surprising results, particularly for women... full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdssp.bsky.social #Demography #Sociology

Breaking Bonds, Changing Habits: Understanding Health Behaviors during and after Marital Dissolution - Andrea M. Tilstra, Nicole Kapelle, 2025

Marital dissolution is a stressful transition that can lead to unhealthy coping strategies, including smoking and drinking. Using fixed effect linear probabilit...

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University@oxforddemsci.bsky.social · last yr.

A new study by @andreatilstra.bsky.social and @nicolekapelle.bsky.social examined the smoking and drinking habits of over 13,000 Australians to understand how people cope with the stress associated with marital separation buff.ly/NGgh38g @oxpop.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social

Even in one-person households, gender disparities in housework remain — gendered behaviors exist beyond traditional family dynamics in all countries. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

I am happy to share that my supervisor @elelona.bsky.social and I published the first chapter of my thesis in the Journal of Early Adolescence🥳🥳 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Comparing Risky Behaviours Among Teenagers With Native or Immigrant Parents in Italy - Daniela Foresta, Elena Ambrosetti, 2025

Investigating adolescent risky behaviours from different cultural backgrounds helps understand societal differences. This study assesses the correlation between...

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New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs. @wooseongkim.bsky.social talks about his recent doctoral thesis on Radio Sweden. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/new-...

New study says children of immigrants in Sweden at high risk of being overqualified for their jobs - Radio Sweden

A new study suggests that the children of immigrants face challenges in the labor market and are at a higher risk for overqualification than those with ...

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📣 New paper coauthored by Jakob Dirksen: This article examines the strengths and weaknesses of existing SES assessment tools for measuring the impact of multidimensional poverty on TB-affected households. 🔗 buff.ly/4kgiTMp

🚨 NEW RESEARCH ALERT! 🚨 Do labor market disadvantages, such as unemployment and overqualification, affect children of immigrants born in the destination country (the second generation) in the same way as they affect the majority native population? authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... (1/4)

New IZA World of Labor article by @louislippens.be et al. on hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups: wol.iza.org/articles/hir...

Hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups

Discrimination in hiring based on ethnicity or gender is widely debated but appears in fact less severe than discrimination based on disability, appearance, or age

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Researchers in demography have developed a new model that provides more accurate estimates of population sizes than the models currently used by government organisations. This alternative method has the potential to affect policy decisions @sd.de www.su.se/department-o...

New model provides better population estimates - Department of Sociology

Researchers in demography have developed a new model that provides more accurate estimates of population sizes than the models currently used by government organisations. This alternative method has t...

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The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open! This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography. Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon). More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

Women’s sick leave rates increase sharply after having children – unlike men’s. A new research project led by @ylvamoberg.bsky.social explores why. #GenderEquality #Parenthood #Health #SickLeave #Research

The introductory chapter (Kappa in Swedish) of my doctoral dissertation, Unrealized Potential: Overqualification and its Consequences among the Children of Immigrants Born in Sweden, is available online (3/3): su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

A special thanks to @rrluthra.bsky.social for serving as the faculty opponent and leading an insightful and thought-provoking discussion during my public defense. (2/3)