Demography of menopause @bspsuk.bsky.social 2026! The strand on "Women's health: Beyond maternal mortality" will host a special session on #menopause. Submit your works 👇until April 17 (5pm UK time)
Call for papers: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Assumed: Spontaneous pregnancy is rarely possible within 10 yrs from menopause, independently of age at menopause.
Is it so? Interesting evidence to rethink, yet more to be done, with better data on spontanous pregnancy, last births, and age at menopause.
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A week since the workshop launching Ben's UNIMAX group, I will not forget the optimism & enthusiasm filled the room in Blantyre, Malawi. Stay tuned for
-New opportunities w/Malawian admin data,
-New panel data of university graduates (first in Africa),
-Bilateral collaboration Global South & North!
Figure showing event-study plots centred around the birth of one's first grandchild. The left plot shows health changes, the right shows labour market changes (separated by grandparent gender).
The image shows the following abstract: The Cost of Caring: Gendered Health and Labour Market Effects of Grandparenthood While the effects of the transition to parenthood are well-researched, less is known about how the transition to grandparenthood affects health and labour market outcomes. Using comprehensive Norwegian register data covering the entire population born between 1950 and 1960, we examine the effects of first-born grandchildren born during 2007–2018. Employing event-study models with person-year records, we compare grandparents to not-yet grandparents. Our findings reveal a sharp increase in the likelihood of respiratory infections during the first two years of grandparenthood, with infections increasing by 56% for women and 31% for men. Additionally, grandparenthood modestly reduces the likelihood of doctor’s visits related to mental disorders (4.5%) and cardiovascular health (3.3%). Grandmothers also see a decline in musculoskeletal-related visits (3.8%). These health-related changes coincide with notable gendered effects on labour market participation. Ten years after the birth of their first grandchild, employed women are 12% less likely to hold full-time positions compared to a 2% reduction for men. Overall, our findings demonstrate that the transition to grandparenthood significantly reshapes health and economic outcomes for both women and men. The larger effects observed for women likely reflect their greater involvement in informal childcare provision. Our results underscore the intersection of health, family dynamics, and gendered labour market behaviours in late adulthood.
New preprint📈📉
What happens to health and work when people become grandparents? Using Norwegian register data on all individuals born 1950-1960, we use event-study models comparing grandparents to not-yet grandparents to track changes in health and labour supply.
🔗 www.ssrn.com/abstract=571...
Join me as 3-year #postdoc to study Demography of "Reproductive Ageing"
-menopause 🩸infertility 💉older fathers 👨👧 and more
-novel data sources from around the world
-population-level understanding of causes and consequences of reproductive ageing
+ Wonderful research community @mpidr.bsky.social
Reproductive ageing can, and should, become productive ageing indeed! 💯 Many thanks for promoting this idea. :)
It would be a full circle back, if the book is translated into English! 💫 Because in one part, the writing started as a way to relieve from a worklife occupied by language that I often felt to be not my own. Thank you Jonas for sharing the joy from the early phase of this project :)
A hobbey project - writing on the sheer complexity of nature, using public narratives on human nature built around science as examples. "The way we say natural" ➡️ Now published by 사이언스북스 in Korea. It was wonderfulto be able to write in mother tongue on topics I care as a scientist 😇 #scicomm
3 #PostDoc researcher positions at @helsinki.fi in collaboration with IIASA @iiasa.ac.at and MPIDR @mpidr.bsky.social on population projections, migration dynamics, and human capital development
#demography #박사후연구
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#3 The GP’s Role in Midlife Women’s Health by Marita Long. Again, pointed out life course transitions around menopause, incl. ⬆️ social isolution.
Awareness still very low, yet fear around #menopause high. Too much media coverage wo consultancy can be overwhelming #menopauseeducation
#2 Mental health around #menopause by Tania Perich. 👏 Life stage during which menopause occurs - in terms of caring role (e.g., grandmothering, ‘empty nest’) and career stage, etc. - as key context.
Learned a lot from “Making Menopause Matter: Multidisciplinary Insights” webinar - by Australian Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
#1 Ten priorities in #menopause research by Martha Hickey – now published www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Study global fertility as #postdoc with a wonderful colleague @ewabatyra.bsky.social ✔️ Apply by September 30, 2025. ERC Starting Grant funded!
One more week left to apply for a 3-year postdoc in Demography (deadline: Sept 30, 12:00 midday UK time). Join me at the Sociology Department in Oxford to study global fertility change as part of the DIVREP project!👇
Our work has now been covered by @economist.com Thank you for paying attention to what happens when demography meets reproductive ageing! www.economist.com/asia/2025/09...
Thank you for covering #menopause! Another working paper by Sara Abrahamsson, @marabarschkett.bsky.social, @martinflato.bsky.social www.iza.org/publications...
Thank you for this important work. Reminds me of HOMMES project by @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/...
🚨Call for Papers🚨
BIOSFER Conference
Fertility, Childlessness, and Reproductive Aging:
Bio-social Perspectives
Organizer: ERC Synergy BIOSFER project
🗺️Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy,
📅September 15–17, 2025
Application Deadline: April 30, 2025
Learn all:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
@au.dk
‼️ #JobOpening ‼️ #Postdoc Position(s) at the Max Planck | University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health in #Rostock
📅Deadline: May 4, 2025
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
#Postdoc #SocialInequalities #Population #Demography #Epidemiology #Health @pophel.bsky.social
Call for papers - Submit your Bio-Social works on Fertility, Childlessness, Reproductive ageing (deadline 30 Apr, 2025) for BIOSFER workshop at the beautiful Lake Como! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
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New paper🎉 just published🎉 in Biological Reviews 🎉
We propose a new gold standard to avoid “just-so” storytelling in evolutionary inference & apply it to autism. It’s been 9 years (!!) in the making.
Today 3pm CET We are delighted to have Süßmilch Lecture @mpidr.bsky.social by @rebeccasear.bsky.social on Eugenics, Demography, and academia. Cannot be more timely!
Sign up 👇 for online participation
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"A growing body of evidence suggests
-the existence of abrupt transitions in the aging process, marked by sudden molecular shifts;
-such transitions occur not only in late life but also throughout the entire lifespan." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Will twinning rate ⬆️ in low-income countries, even if the spread of IVF remains slow? Polyovulation rate increases w/maternal age (Evolved trait) + Maternal age structure is shifting upward (Demographic trend) = More twins expected! ✌️ doi.org/10.1093/humr... with wonderful @kieronbarclay.bsky.social
Female couples’ likelihood of having a child has increased, but only among those with high education
#Fertility #Inequality #Demography @pophel.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
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#PhDposition to work on "Social inequalities in health" at Helsinki University #Finland through Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center joint project
건강의 사회적 불평등을 핀란드의 광범위한 등록자료를 이용해 연구할 수 있는 박사 연구 기회 #유학
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Impact of socioeconomic status on fertility treatment
-> Studies are few, outcomes and the results are conflicting. It is unknown which, if any, marker of socioeconomic status is the most significant for fertility patients." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34315303/
