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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · 7d

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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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 9d

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...

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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 26d

🚀✨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...

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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

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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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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

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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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FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social · Sep 4

‼️PhD Funding‼️ Check out this fully-funded PhD position in Stockholm, part of the a 5-year mixed method project investing Sexual and Reproductive Outcomes of Violent Crime led by Dr. Signe Svallfors

Signe Svallfors @signesvallfors.bsky.social · Sep 4

PhD studentship with quantitative focus: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

su.varbi.com

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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

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

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Stefani Scherer @stefanischerer.bsky.social · Aug 18

Nice opportunity. Deadline closing soon.
TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento
Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies

CSIS @csisunitn.bsky.social · Jun 3

The 6th TN-Square is coming! 🏔️

This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we
couldn’t be more excited. ✨

Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news!

For more spoilers, check our website:
event.unitn.it/tn-square/

#TNSquare25

TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento

Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies

event.unitn.it

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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

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

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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"

kevinmunger.substack.com

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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

press.princeton.edu

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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.

theconversation.com

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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

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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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Jul 13

Much of that distortion can be traced back to a few hyperactive users
-Just 10% of users produce 97% of political tweets
-A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news
This leads us to believe that society is more polarized, angry, & deluded than it really is. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congrats Zach!

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