Berkay Ozcan: “Immigration is not a silver bullet for falling birth rates” Berkay Ozcan discusses falling birth rates, whether immigration might provide the answer and what a smaller global population would mean for the environment.

📉 Is immigration a solution to declining birth rates? And would a falling population benefit the environment?

Read our interview with @berkayozcan.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

@berkayozcan.bsky.social

"This study investigates variability in women’s experiences balancing work and family, focusing on the association between early childhood investments and work trajectories."

Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

🔗 The event is organized by @kenza-elass.bsky.social, @berkayozcan.bsky.social, @paolaprofeta.bsky.social, @almudenasevilla.bsky.social, @margauxsuteau.bsky.social.

NEW: Vida Maralani, Camille Portier, Berkay Özcan, "Early Childhood Investments and Women’s Work Outcomes across the Life Course" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

I am getting considerably better at predicting those papers that will go through smooth reviews, get quickly accepted into top journals, but will have NO impact.

Great news! Huge congrats Zach!

PhD recent completions Recent PhD completions in the Department of Social Policy.

🎉Many congratulations to @mary-aliced.bsky.social who has successfully completed her PhD, a fantastic achievement! Thank you to @berkayozcan.bsky.social and @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social for their expert supervision.

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Celebrating Richard Breen’s work in honour of his retirement, with a great conference organized by @berkayozcan.bsky.social , @kbkarlson.bsky.social and Janne Jonsson

I should add that the article is more alarmist than I was in conversation. I also shared thoughts and my disagreement on Elon Musk’s population comments(!)—but that didn’t make it into the final cut.

Britain's 'baby deserts' shown in interactive map Alarming figures laying bare the 'baby bust' reveal some boroughs have seen a 60 per cent decline in women having children since 2013.

I recently spoke to the Daily Mail about fertility trends in the UK. We dug into what's driving the decline and what it means for "baby deserts" and future of UK, etc.
Here's the piece + interactive map:
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

We started with Matthias Doepke's presentation, discussed by @berkayozcan.bsky.social: "The Economics of Fertility: a New Era". Mind-blowing!

"Gender Inequality: Navigating New frontiers And Paradigm Shifts": what an event !! Super proud of our organizing team for making this happen! Almudena Sevilla, @berkayozcan.bsky.social @paolaprofeta.bsky.social @kenza-elass.bsky.social 🥳 A brief overview of last week's event👇

🎤 We kicked off the workshop this morning with the fascinating talks of Almudena Sevilla and Matthias Doepke ✨

Join us online for talks on Gender, AI, Climate Change and Transformations! 💻

@margauxsuteau.bsky.social @paolaprofeta.bsky.social @axagenderlab.bsky.social @berkayozcan.bsky.social

I will be presenting this at the PAA in Washington DC, stop by if interested.

I am excited about this joint workshop between LSE, Bocconi and NYU AD -- and looking forward to fantastic series of papers!

I could not be more proud of Magdalena. She completed her PhD with an excellent dissertation and has already started (I'm sure doing fantastic work) at InterAmerican Development Bank (IAB) in Washington, D.C. Magda has been the glue in the PhD Programme. I'm sure LSE will miss her terribly!

Our latest version—with improved datasets and additional analyses—is out! We show that large-scale refugee migration can shape native fertility patterns.
A big thank you to my co-authors Giray Aksoy and Aya Aboulhosn and to @rfberlin.bsky.social for sharing our work!
👉 Read more below!

Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting:
rc28.soc.ucla.edu

We are going for another round with this fantastic Workshop on Gender Inequality, now, in addition to @Bocconi and @LSE with support from @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social. Feel free to register for an online or in-person participation -- see program below👇

Huge congrats Elina ;) very well deserved!

I am excited about being part of this symposium with excellent company. Please submit your papers below👇 #EconSky #Demography

Faculty position in computational social science available in the division of social science at NYU Abu Dhabi. Details and application here ⬇️
apply.interfolio.com/160603

Yet another study (this time by Claudia Goldin) that uses cross-sectional data, and finds evidence for a U-shaped pattern for gender equality and fertility, even though this pattern does not exist for (almost) any country across time.

www.nber.org/papers/w33311

How about this recent paper? www.nber.org/system/files...

We have an open call out for papers in the European Sociological Review for a special issue celebrating Richard Breen's contributions to sociology!

Deadline 15 June!

More info 👇

Richard A. Easterlin, ‘Father of Happiness Economics,’ Dies at 98 He put forth the so-called Easterlin paradox, finding that the richer you are doesn’t mean the more satisfied you’ll be with your life.

“Improvements in income have relatively little effect on happiness,” he said … when he was in his mid-90s, “whereas improvements in health and family life have substantial impact.”

#EconSky

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/b...

My alma mater is hiring! Fantastic place to work!

📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976

Are you saying that because you are Swedish (i.e. I recall a recent debate about whether they feed their guests and other people...) or because you are trained as a sociologist? ;)