Exhibitor List - PAA 2026 Annual Meeting

At #PAA2026, visit booth 409 to see what Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social is up to.

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study examines whether online dating helps explain differences in homogamy between same-sex and different-sex couples in the United States. Background Same-sex couples tend to exhib...

#MorningReads How I Met My Partner: Online Dating and the Homogamy Gap Between Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples:
Broader partner market constraints & selection processes matter most. Queer couples show less racial, educational, & age homogamy than het couples and are more likely to meet online.

“170 Years of Change in Living Arrangements”: @gfloridi.bsky.social & A. Esteve explore the role of mortality decline over time & encourage social scientists to consider how extended life spans can shape arrangements. @uoe-sps.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

In the just-up “Ending Birthright Citizenship,” @vanhookjenny.bsky.social & @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social determined that Latinos would account for ~80% of “unauthorized” births & Asians would experience the greatest relative impact of the Exec Order. @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026 How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

The End of an Era: The Vanishing Negative Effect of Women’s Employment on Fertility ANNA MATYSIAK AND DANIELE VIGNOLI This paper examines whether women’s employment in the 21st century remains a barrier to family formation, as it was in the 1980s and 1990s, or—similar to men’s—it has become a prerequisite for childbearing. We address this question through a systematic quantitative review (meta-analysis) of empirical studies conducted in Europe, North America, and Australia. We selected 94 studies published between 1990 and2023 (N = 572 effect sizes). Our analysis uncovers a fundamental shift in the relation-ship between women’s employment and fertility. What was once a strongly negative association has become statistically insignificant in the 2000s and 2010s—and even turned positive in the Nordic countries, parts of Western Europe (France, Belgium, and the Netherlands), and Central and Eastern Europe. This shift is evident both among childless women and mothers and has occurred across all analyzed country clusters, except for the German/Southern European group, where the relationship has remained negative. These findings challenge longstanding assumptions about work–family trade-offs and suggest a reconfiguration of the economic and social conditions underpinning fertility decisions in contemporary high-income societies. The paper calls for a reconceptualization of the employment–fertility relationship and development of a new theoretical framework that better captures these evolving dynamics in contemporary high-income societies

Important new paper by @amatysiak.bsky.social and Daniele Vignoli showing that the association between women's employment and fertility is no longer negative in most high-income countries as work-family reconciliation policies and practices have increased. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

Household production time and inequality in material living standards in the U.S., 1965–2018 We study how unpaid household production shapes trends in inequality in material living standards in the U.S. in the last five decades. We construct e…

New paper out in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social w @nancyfolbre.bsky.social! 🧵

What happens to U.S. inequality trends when you add the imputed $ value of household production to market income and consumption?

Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272726000186

Excited to share news about 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗗𝗲𝗺 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 together with amazing colleagues! 🤝

𝘼 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 🌈

Join us at our EPC pre-meeting and connect with researchers in queer demography!

📅 Wed 3 June
⏰ 13:00–17:00
📍 Room E

Interested? 👉 forms.gle/HuKoSuZ63YUQ...

🚨 A defining moment for global health data.

The termination of the #USAID-supported Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

📊 9,000+ studies

Why is research led by women retracted less frequently? - Impact of Social Sciences A recent study found research by women had fewer retractions. Are women betters researchers, or does the finding reflect wider structural issues?

“Who ends up retracted depends not only on who makes mistakes, but on who occupies positions where mistakes are most likely to occur and most likely to be discovered”

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

How Country Context Shapes Personal Opinions About Abortion - Amy Adamczyk, 2025 Amy Adamczyk on variation in global abortion attitudes.

I’m grateful to contribute a public-facing article to ASA's Contexts Magazine on how national contexts shape attitudes about abortion.

Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@scholars.org @johnjaycjphd.bsky.social
#PublicSociology #ComparativeResearch #ReproductivePolitics #ASA

hope to see your work, especially in the realm of caregiving and/or LGBTQ+ kinship!

New paper in Social Science Research 📄
Using expenditure data, we find same-sex couples are modestly more likely than different-sex couples to outsource housework. Much of this gap reflects higher education and paid work hours, though much is unexplained. Free access for 50 days: tinyurl.com/ssossr

I am thrilled to announce that my first PhD paper, 'Analysing biases in genealogies using demographic microsimulation', co-authored with @demography.bsky.social and @ezagheni.bsky.social, has already been published in the European Journal of Population. rdcu.be/eTImq

📢 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

WelcomeWeeks@MPIDR
We welcome Elena Pojman 👏👏👏. Before MPIDR, Elena was a dual-title Ph.D. candidate in sociology and demography at Penn State University. Her research focuses on social stratification & how it affects how people spend their time & money.
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/welcomeEP

The call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open!

Deadline: Jan 14, 2026.

Topics/Teams:
1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production
2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities

Check out the brand new website for information:
www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de

The Household Pulse Survey only provides data for respondents aged 18-88, so kin outside this age range are marked as "unknown."

This finding comes with several assumptions, of course. Interested in reading more? Look for a working paper in the coming months :)

Estimates are derived from a two-sex, time-variant kinship matrix model, to which estimates of the prevalence of queer identity for American men & women are applied. Here, "queer" includes those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or another non-straight identity.

What can demography teach us about the "gay cousin at Thanksgiving" meme?

A lot! If you were born in the 80s, 90s, or 00s, you could have one queer cousin, on average*. Younger cohorts have fewer cousins overall, but still have a strong share who are queer.

* for an American woman in 2023.

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

Through the looking glass: reexamining family structure’s contribution to racial inequality in life chances Black–white differences in rates of marriage, two-parent families, and single parenthood have long been regarded as a fundamental cause of U.S. racial inequality. Nonetheless, this perspective over...

My latest article was recently published in Ethnic & Racial Studies. A 🧵:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9WABN...

🚨 #Hiring! 3yr #postdoc w/survey methodology experience to join the ERC-project SINGLE for its next stage of designing & launching a comparative multidisciplinary singlehood #survey in EU. Research area is open!

Application deadline: 12-Jan-2026 (12PM CET). Barcelona-based.
👉🏻 shorturl.at/CmY0F

hope to see your work, especially in the realm of caregiving and/or LGBTQ+ kinship!

Call for Papers!

Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

4 days left! Submit your work by Sunday, Oct. 5. Join demographers and social and health scientists at all career stages, from the US and abroad, next May in St. Louis, Missouri for #PAA2026. buff.ly/HoZlR1U

Abortion, Economic Hardship, and Crime Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

This new study from @nber.org analyzed the imapct of 2013 Texas abortion laws, finding bans cause “significant economic hardship” and widen income inequality, translating into higher rates of “financially motivated crime, such as theft and burglary.”

www.nber.org/papers/w34245

👶 In 1960, most women had their first child by age 22. By 2023, the median was 27. Education plays a role: <HS = 20 yrs vs BA+ = 31 yrs. 📖 See the new @NCFMR Profile → doi.org/10.25035/ncf...

U.S. Women’s First Family-Forming Transitions to Cohabitation or Birth: Differences by Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Challenge the Theory of the Second Demographic Transition - Population Rese... Which do U.S. women do first—cohabit, have a birth, or marry? At what age do they experience this first family-forming event? How do these patterns differ by race, socioeconomic background, and their ...

🚨New Publication🚨

In the August Issue of #PRPR, England & Xu present evidence that challenges the applicability of Second Demographic Transition theory to the U.S.—where disadvantage predicts cohabitation and non-marital births.

Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm organizing Session 804 - Families and Inequalities. Looking forward to reading your excellent submissions!