'Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Depopulation and Aging' - NBER Working Papers, October 2026
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35852
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'Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Depopulation and Aging' - NBER Working Papers, October 2026
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35852
#Demography #PopMastodon
New Instats livestreaming seminar: Networks in Social Science #ComputationalSocialScience #ComputationalStatistics #Criminology #DataAnalytics #DataScience #Demography #NetworkAnalysis #PoliticalScience #QuantitativeMethods #ResearchMethods #SocialNetworkAnalysis #SocialPolicy #SocialPsycholog
📢 Save the date for the next #WICColloquium!
José Manuel Aburto (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine): "The Hidden Toll of Violence: Parental Loss Across the Americas"
📅 22 October 2026, 11:00-12:00
📍Online & PSK, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/w...
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What does the future of immigration to the United States look like? In this post, Neeraj Kaushal discusses the rise of African immigration, challenges common myths, and looks at what comes next. buff.ly/fP5nX24 #AfricanImmigration #Immigration #AfricanDiaspora #Demography #Migration
👨👩👧👦🌍 Fertility rates vary dramatically across the world’s most populated countries. DR Congo ranks highest on this list with 5.801 children per woman, while China records the lowest at 1.031. The global replacement level is around 2.1 children per woman. 📊
#PopulationFacts #Demography (1/2)
The projects are offered through the @ox.ac.uk DPhil in Population Health, within the @oxpop.bsky.social, and are supervised by @oxforddemsci.bsky.social researchers.
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Applications are open for 4 DPhil projects in Demographic Science for 2027 entry
Topics include demographic forecasting, conflict related mortality, multimorbidity and LLM safety in population health research.
📅 Deadline: 1 Dec 2026
Sociology professor Rachel Margolis provided expert insight to The Atlantic in an article exploring how women decide how many children to have and the factors that shape family-size decisions. Read more: www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
IUSSP-PAA Webinars on AI & Demography - Part 1 on OCT 16 with Ridhi Kashyap, Emilio Zagheni, Andrew Tatem, Matthew Hauer / Part 2 on OCT 22 with Evans Omondi, Isaac Maddow-Zimet,Tyler McCormick, Madeleine Short Fabic. Moderation V. Adjiwanou
N-IUSSP: When babies and PhDs collide: a gendered story, by Xinyi Zhao
Published: “Occupational task content and marital intentions in Czechia in the context of structural labour market change” by @dominikasladka.bsky.social and @amatysiak.bsky.social (ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.ph...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
Population projections be like...
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Max Planck Gesellschaft (@maxplanck.de) is hiring:
Postdoctoral Researcher in Medical Demography
Population ‘pyramids’ that look like coffins are bad !
This was good from @bearlypolitics.co.uk 🐻 ….
Falling birth rates are usually explained by housing, wages and childcare. Antonio Spadaro sees something deeper: societies losing the desire to bind themselves to a future they cannot control. #Demography #BirthRate
Size matters.
Thomas Rawson spoke on infectious disease & demography, while Melinda Mills shared lessons from public participation in digital & health projects and chaired a session on behavioural & social considerations.
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Estonian men have lived shorter lives than women for 150 years #demography #Estonia #history
Experts debate Latvia’s demographic challenges before parliamentary election #demography #elections #latvia