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Peter Fallesen
@pfallesen.bsky.social
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Research Professor. I study bad stuff in families. ROCKWOOL Foundation and Stockholm University. AE at EJP and ESR. President of the Danish Demographic Society.
Florence-based (together with Ann and Augusta).
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 17h
Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/25/p...
Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Peter Fallesen

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 22h
Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy
Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE

Reposted by Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, Peter Fallesen

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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 14d
Berkeley Demography application deadline for Fall 2026 admission is Dec 1, 2025.

Read more here:
www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-adm...
Graduate Admission Information - Department of Demography
Overview of the Graduate Admission Process The Department of Demography offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Demography, a Ph.D. degree in Sociology and Demography, training with no degree goal under “cou...
www.demog.berkeley.edu

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · 15d
Stadig for tidligt til helt at være sikker på hvorvidt vi ser udligning nu, men ja lige nu går det op. Bliver spændende når vi til februar begynder at kunne se de aldersspecifikke fødselsrater for 2025

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Alessandro Martinello @alemartinello.com · 16d
In an interesting turn of events, US and Danish government came up with the same to help with the affordability crisis: longer mortgages!

That has sparked some backlash. But in the US, it seems the discussion is focusing on the wrong stuff.

Well, let’s try to learn from 🇩🇰.

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Oct 2
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ryomogi.bsky.social Ryohei Mogi @ryomogi.bsky.social · Sep 9
Do you know year of Fire Horse? And do you know the total fertility rate dropped 26% in the last fire horse year in Japan?

My new blog post explains how the superstition changed fertility pattern in the last Fire Horse Years (1906, 1966) in Japan.

2026 will be Fire Horse...

Reposted by David Peetz, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Peter Fallesen

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · Sep 29
New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

Reposted by Fabrizio Bernardi, Peter Fallesen

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · Sep 13
🚀✨The Editorial Board of ESR is growing!

We’re happy to welcome PeterFallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social

( ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark) as a new Associate Editor!!

We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Editorial Board and look forward to working together!

academic.oup.com/esr/pages/Ed...

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Peter Fallesen, Baptiste Coulmont

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Ryohei Mogi @ryomogi.bsky.social · Sep 9
Do you know year of Fire Horse? And do you know the total fertility rate dropped 26% in the last fire horse year in Japan?

My new blog post explains how the superstition changed fertility pattern in the last Fire Horse Years (1906, 1966) in Japan.

2026 will be Fire Horse...

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Sep 8
I’ll be at the pre-conference workshop on Tuesday

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 8
Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid
Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.
www.academictransfer.com

Reposted by Emilio Zagheni, Peter Fallesen

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Sep 8
🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

Reposted by Peter Fallesen

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Eleonora Mussino @mussino.bsky.social · Sep 5
Bologna is calling
EAPS.nl | Call for Submissions
EAPS.nl
www.eaps.nl

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Signe Svallfors @signesvallfors.bsky.social · Sep 4
PhD studentship with quantitative focus: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Martin Kreidl, Patrick Präg , and 1 more

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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Aug 20
🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
We're hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography, deadline: 30 September 2025

Reposted by Judith N. Shklar, Christopher J. Sullivan, Markus Klein , and 4 more

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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · Aug 18
Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Aug 14
Helt enig

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Aug 14
Nok for tidligt at konkludere, men vi må forvente en stigning inden for en årrække når den del af faldet, der skyldes udsættelse pga øget uddannelsesoptag blandt yngre kvinder, begynder at blive indhentet

Reposted by David M. Farrell, Maarten Vink, Peter Fallesen

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Aug 11
This is a fabulous response by my colleague Kevin Munger to "that" Economist piece about the EUI.

Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested!

kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...
I guess that makes me...Horace Slughorn?
or maybe the centaur named "Firenze"
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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Aug 7
New albums from The Armed and from Alex G both been in high rotation in my headphones

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Ryohei Mogi @ryomogi.bsky.social · Aug 6
[New finding!]

Ryohei Mogi, Ryota Mugiyama, & Alyce Raybould (@alyceraybould.bsky.social ) has shown that individuals without a romantic partner are more likely to revise their fertility desires downward.‪

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Aug 2
Gambetta and Herzog wrote a book that indirectly tried to parse out the mechanisms by looking at Islamic extremism press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Engineers of Jihad
A groundbreaking investigation into why so many Islamic radicals are engineers
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Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Valerie Mueller, Alice Reid , and 2 more

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Jul 25
Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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Reposted by Ken Caldeira, David S. Cohen, Alfie Kohn , and 1 more

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jul 18
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Jul 16
Implications: when studying how events (disasters, policy changes, etc.) affect birth outcomes, we must account for conception rate changes. What looks like changing health might result simply from parts of the population changing conceptive behavior. 4/4

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Jul 16
More generally, underlying baseline risk matters for magnitudes. We find that temporal variation in conceptions explains around 8% of preterm birth fluctuations for White mothers, and 12-15% for Black mothers. 3/4

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Jul 16
Using US birth data (2010-2019), we show that a conception "shock" creates a wave pattern: fewer conceptions → fewer preterm births beginning from 5 months later → but more from 9 months before rates normalize. 2/4

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Jul 16
🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4
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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Jul 14
Congrats Zach!

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Jul 14
but no difference across post-dissolution living arrangements, including for joint living and parents' subsequent partner status. With M.N. Nielsen and M. Gähler. [2/2]