I'll be teaching again for Barcelona Summer School of Demography, "Demography with R" 6-10 July: ced.cat/en/bcn4seaso... You can do this program in person or online. Sign up, it's fun to do demography! @cedemografia.bsky.social
📢CALL FOR PAPERS
Bold, unconventional, theoretically sharp? Submit your abstract to the Demog-Crazy 2026 Award by 1 April 2026 😜.
Quetelet Journal rewards the paper that first amuses... then truly enlightens. Shortlisted authors submit full papers by 1 July 2026. ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/Qu...
📢 Call for survey questions!
💡 GGP is inviting proposals for innovative, inspiring, and ready-to-field survey questions or modules to include in the GGS-II Wave 3 questionnaire
🗓️ Submission deadline: March 22, 2026
More details are available here: www.ggp-i.org/engage/get-i...
📣 Call for papers:
We are inviting you to submit contributions to a Special Collection on the Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in the Long-Run, organized by K. Thompson, T. Riswick & S. Clouston. Submissions to this collection are possible from January 28, 2026 until June 28, 2026. (1/2)
#Published: "Exploring the full spectrum of reproductive experiences" by @sljitka.bsky.social, Jitka Jírová, Anna Šťastná & Jiřina Kocourková (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
Many thanks to my co-authors Jitka Jírová, Anna Šťastná and Jiřina Kocourková for a great collaboration.
➡️ Most common trajectories involve only live births.
➡️ Most frequent combinations: live birth + induced abortion (10–13%) and live birth + miscarriage (7–9%).
➡️ Younger cohorts postpone childbearing → fewer events (incl. adverse outcomes) at younger ages.
➡️ Trajectories diversify with age, but cohort differences remain limited.
🥳New article out!
Exploring the full spectrum of reproductive experiences
doi.org/10.20377/jfr...
Using Czech health register data, we analyse reproductive trajectories of women born 1976–1991, including live births, miscarriages, induced abortions, stillbirths, and infertility treatment (ART).
➡️ Younger cohorts postpone childbearing → fewer events (incl. adverse outcomes) at younger ages.
➡️ Trajectories diversify with age, but cohort differences remain limited.
📊 Starting with the GGS datasets?
📌 You might find this quick user guide helpful: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
➡️ Find out about the sample, design, special values, and more
Just published! "Research material" - a new survey module on first reproductive experiences (timing, outcomes, events). www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
@ggp.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social @soc-muni.bsky.social
📢 New dataset for researchers!
The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024.
🔗 eplp-dataset.org
💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia.
🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social
Two people wearing aprons prepare food together in a modern kitchen, a symbolic image of partnership and living together.
🆕📰Marriage or Separation
Angela Carollo, H.Putter,P.Eilers &J.Gampe have developed a model to analyze transitions from non-marital cohabitation to either marriage or separation considering two-time scales simultaneously: age of individuals & duration of cohabitation.
https://ow.ly/WUty50XcZzT
17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
❓ Kolik žen má zkušenost s léčbou neplodnosti? Jaké metody asistované reprodukce tyto ženy využívají a jak je kombinují?
🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze věnované asistované reprodukci. Celý leták naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...
Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ...
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
#PanelData #FredaAutumnSchool
📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025!
Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.
Countries classified by the development of gender gaps in left–right self-placement over time. Source: World Country Polygons, EB (1990–2023), our own calculations.
interesting paper by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social on the gender divide in the left-right self-placement. There is no clear trend across all countries, increases in some countries, in others stability academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
🤩📣 New paper on participant-led methodological development for collecting high-resolution data on the post-natal period 👩🍼
with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️
funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social
summary 🧵👇
The sub-national associations between the prevalence of polygyny (the proportion of married men over age 20 in a polygynous marriage) and the prevalence of unmarried men (the proportion of men in their 20s who have never been married) in 74 censuses, mostly from Sub-Saharan Africa.
The proportion of men in their 20s who were never-married across United States counties in 1880, disaggregated by marriage system and region. Out of five groups, the second lowest proportion of unmarried men is found in the polygynous West (which was mostly Utah)
Actually, social composition effects mean that, in ~50% polygynous countries, the places with the most polygyny have the least unmarried men! Another ~40% have no association, even after controlling for the local sex ratio. Communities that marry polygynously, usually marry more overall (3/5)
There are less than 2 weeks left to register for our course "Theories, Data, and Visualization for Global Analyses of Family Change"! Join us this June in beautiful Barcelona to learn more about family systems and change with a focus on comparative analyses: ced.cat/bcn4seasons/...
The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD) is still accepting applications until May 1. Attend in person or online if you'd like to brush up either on demography or R skills ced.cat/es/bcn4seaso... These are Modules 1-4 listed in the four-seasons school. I teach module 2 this year :-)
I'm co-organising the historical demography strand for PopFest 2025! We're looking forward to a range of interesting talks from UK and European students — economic historians and historians of medicine also welcome! Get in touch if you want to chat about submitting!👋
www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
📢 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...
🚨I am happy that the first chapter of my PhD thesis has been published. Together with @juangaleano.bsky.social & Albert Esteve, we use data from the CORESIDENCE database to map national and subnational trends in household size and characteristics across Africa.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Good @iamjburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the increase in time spent in loneliness by younger generations (using ATUS, ONS Time Survey and European Social Survey) www.ft.com/content/2305...
The deadline to submit for the ESHD conference was extended to Valentine's Day! 😍 So, you can still submit to the AYHD's Flash session.
This session will let you discuss early work-in-progress with other early-career researchers. To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal! ☑️
Today we are at the #YoungDemographers conference which is held from 5-7 February in Prague, Czech Republic at Faculty of Science - Charles University. #YD2025
