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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 20d

The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie!

Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026
www.ecsr2026.net

#ECSR2026

Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026

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Markus Klein @markusklein.bsky.social · 23d

📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Parental education and children’s cognitive development: a prospective approach

Abstract. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on childre

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Julia Leesch @julialeesch.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congratulations!!

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Martin Kreidl @martinkreidl.bsky.social · Jun 23

We just published this open access review paper on SES inequality in family formation and dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe. We identified several promising RQ and hypotheses for others to examine. Especially with the new @ggp.bsky.social data. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Inequality in Family Formation and Dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Jun 12

In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @shajiang.bsky.social W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number & age of kin” & kin networks. @stanford.edu @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Jun 2

💡Rethink #Fertility and #Gender #Inequality in a Changing World💡Recap of the “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” conference @mpidr.bsky.social. Read all about the highlights here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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Julia Leesch @julialeesch.bsky.social · Apr 14

📢 We find that shifts in the gender imbalance in education promoted rising hypogamy and declining hypergamy. Yet, if the gender-education association had remained constant, educational expansion would have also led to changes in hypogamy and hypergamy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Five Decades of Marital Sorting in France and the United States – The Role of Educational Expansion and the Changing Gender Imbalance in Education

Over the past half-century, higher education expansion and changing gender imbalances in education have reshaped the educational composition of the pa…

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Mar 19

🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

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Zuzana Zilincikova @zilincikova.bsky.social · Mar 3

📢 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”

soc.fss.muni.cz

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Stefani Scherer @stefanischerer.bsky.social · Nov 22

Our recent special issue looks at the consequences of the educational expansion for mating patterns.
Want to know more? 👇 comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
#socsky #OpenAccess
@csisunitn.bsky.social @gcorti.bsky.social @flaviamazzeo.bsky.social
@WilfredUunk and many bskyless others

Special Issues | Comparative Population Studies

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · Nov 22

Partner markets and completed fertility in East and West Germany, is the relation between education and completed fertility mediated by partner search outcomes? Super talk by @julialeesch.bsky.social

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Egor Kotov 🌐🏃‍♂️🚊🚋🚙 @ekotov.pro · Nov 16

Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:
go.bsky.app/4MjXqv8

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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · Oct 23

🆕 2 JOBS at the ERC-funded DIGINEQ project!

* Join my team at CED/UAB in Barcelona!

* 1 PhD & 1 Postdoc

* Topics: Adolescent Wellbeing; Social Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Sciences

* Deadline: December 3, 2024

Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Sep 16

🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨
📣Call for Application‼️
2. Rostock Open Science Workshop Rostock @mpidr.bsky.social
📅March 17–18, 2025
#openscience #data
demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
@ezagheni.bsky.social @demography.bsky.social @julialeesch.bsky.social

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Sep 4

📣Call for Papers‼️
Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity
🗺️ @mpidr.bsky.social
📅 March 19–21, 2025
Submission Deadline: October 18, 2024
demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#socialscience

youtu.be/KhVRF46wZqQ?...

Call for Papers! Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Aug 26

I'll be at the @mpidr.bsky.social Open Science Workshop in Rostock in March. Info and application (deadline in September): youtu.be/nCRfR7BYReU

Open Science Workshop

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Apr 19

Look at them! My research group rocked the #PAA2024 poster session on family demography

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European Societies @europeansocieties.bsky.social · Feb 1

👰NEW ARTICLE:👰‍ @julialeesch.bsky.social examines assortative mating in three countries 🇨🇿🇸🇪🇮🇹

OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1080/1461...

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Julia Leesch @julialeesch.bsky.social · Jan 23

Why does educational homogamy in marriages vary across time and space? Our publication with Tomáš Katrňák and Jan Skopek leads to a new finding: In the investigated contexts, cross-country differences in ‘who marries whom’ are mainly linked to variations in assortative mating.
tinyurl.com/5chp757n

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Nov 27

You might have thought 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀@𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗗𝗥 are over?! No, they're not. We are happy to welcome more new people to our @mpidr.bsky.social team. Today, meet @julialeesch.bsky.social. She joined the Research Group Gender Inequalities and Fertility. Welcome Julia! demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · Nov 22

NEW Full Professorship on "Technology and Society" at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin!

*Deadline: January 4th, 2024
*Salary: Academic Pay Scale [€132,301 – €167,243 annum]

Looking for TOP scholars in this field.

Please APPLY and/or SHARE!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEA677/w...

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Julia Leesch @julialeesch.bsky.social · Nov 16

Vielen Dank, Nora!

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Julia Leesch @julialeesch.bsky.social · Nov 15

I started a Postdoc at the @mpidr.bsky.social. I am very excited to be part of the research group “Gender Inequalities and Fertility” led by @nhiekel.bsky.social!

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