Join us to celebrate the 2026 IUSSP Laureate - Jane Bertrand - at the 2026 PAA Annual Meeting in St Louis, Missouri on Thursday May 7th from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in America’s Center, Room 101.

A virtual ceremony will be organized later on.

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Beyond national borders: assessing avoidable mortality across European districts (2002–2019) - N-IUSSP Avoidable mortality is traditionally analysed at the national level. Using district-level data from 10 European countries between 2002 and 2019, Sophie Stroisch, Michael Mühlichen, Pavel Grigoriev and...

N-IUSSP: Beyond national borders: assessing avoidable mortality across European districts (2002–2019), by Sophie Stroisch, Michael Mühlichen, Pavel Grigoriev and Tobias Vogt

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Every year of schooling counts for dementia risk in the US - N-IUSSP In the US, each additional year of education is linked to a lower risk of dementia in later life, Hyungmin Cha notes. The decline is steady across the education spectrum, ... Read more

N-IUSSP: Every year of schooling counts for dementia risk in the US, by Hyungmin Cha

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Immigrant housing and mobility across countries and generations - N-IUSSP Harmonised cross-national data from five European countries reveals persistent differences in residential mobility and housing patterns among immigrants and their descendants in Europe. Joseph Harriso...

N-IUSSP: Immigrant housing and mobility across countries and generations - Joseph Harrison

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Reminder to submit until April 30, 2026 👇

Keynote speakers:
- Ann Berrington, University of Southampton
- Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania
- Manos Antoninis, Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, UNESCO

How seasonal mortality shapes life expectancy in Europe (2000-2019) - N-IUSSP Mortality in Europe follows a clear seasonal pattern, with more deaths during winter months especially, but their impact on life expectancy is often overlooked. Using data from 20 countries, Isabella ...

N-IUSSP: How seasonal mortality shapes life expectancy in Europe (2000-2019)

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Formal childcare and the next child in ten European countries - N-IUSSP Working parents with at least one child who use formal childcare services are not always more likely to have further children. As Jonas Wood shows, the European evidence is mixed, ... Read more

N-IUSSP: Formal childcare and the next child in ten European countries

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Not just later: why marriage is disappearing in South Korea - N-IUSSP First marriage in South Korea has declined sharply over the past three decades. This is not simply a story of later marriage. Even after accounting for delayed timing, Sam Hyun ... Read more

N-IUSSP: Not just later: why marriage is disappearing in South Korea

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Your partner’s education shapes your survival - N-IUSSP People with higher levels of education tend to live longer, healthier lives. However, education is not only an individual resource – its benefits may also be shared between partners. Using ... Read mo...

N-IUSSP: Your partner’s education shapes your survival

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The role of polygyny in sub-Saharan Africa’s fertility decline - N-IUSSP Across 23 sub-Saharan African countries, fertility decline in the past few decades is in good part attributable to the shrinking share of women in polygynous unions. As Sophia Chae and ... Read more

N-IUSSP: The role of polygyny in sub-Saharan Africa’s fertility decline

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Small-scale mortality in Italy: 2002–2018* - N-IUSSP The study of small-scale mortality, although of great interest, is rarely feasible due to data limitations. By exploiting a municipality-level database prepared by the Italian National Institute of St...

Small-scale mortality in Italy: 2002–2018, by Gustavo De Santis, Federico Benassi, Gianni Carboni and Mauro Maltagliati

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From arrival to settlement. Vulnerabilities of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe - N-IUSSP download pdfPrintShare this post

N-IUSSP Ebook: From arrival to settlement. Vulnerabilities of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe, edited by Daria Mendola, explores the issue from a multidisciplinary perspective, placing Italy within the broader European context.

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🚨 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…

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Join the IUSSP for a high-level virtual debate: "When Populations Shrink - Should States Encourage Births or Adapt?" (Zoom, 1 April 2026).

4 world experts from Finland, Japan, South Korea and Norway will address various aspects of the issue

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📢 Call for Papers!
We invite you to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demography and Human Capital", taking place from Dec 1-2, 2026 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna.
📆 Deadline: April 30, 2026
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Fertility postponement is not a universal correlate of fertility decline - N-IUSSP Worldwide, the path leading to delayed fertility is more complex than it may appear at first sight. Thomas Spoorenberg and Vegard Skirbekk offer a few keys to better interpret current ... Read more

Fertility postponement is not a universal correlate of fertility decline
By Thomas Spoorenberg and Vegard Skirbekk

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LGBTQ+ adults in the US have distinct partnership and living arrangements often missed in surveys: less often married, more likely to cohabit or have non-coresidential partners, and more likely to live alone, with roommates, or in smaller households.
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IUSSP Webinar: Toward a Demography of Crisis and Resilience

Join us for a lively roundtable exploring both short-term emergencies and longer-term demographic consequences — and what resilience really means in demographic terms.
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The disproportionate burden of multi-morbidity at death in the US - N-IUSSP Using multiple cause-of-death data from the United States, France, Italy, and Spain, Magali Barbieri and colleagues show that multi-morbidity at death contributes disproportionately to the US disadvan...

N-IUSSP: The disproportionate burden of multi-morbidity at death in the US

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👓Recommended Reading📚
How Mobile are Highly Talented Academics Compared to Other Scientists? Aliakbar Akbaritabar et al. examined whether regional & gender-specific differences exist in the academic mobility of highly talented scientists compared to other scientists.
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RRead

🧪 #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

Higher education and careers: gender disparities persist

🔎 Read the interview of INED Researcher Delphine Remillon: www.ined.fr/en/everythin...

Call for applications: European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2026-2027

To be held at @mpidr.bsky.social and @sghwarsaweu.bsky.social
Application deadline: 27 March 2026 at 12 PM (noon)
Program start: 1 September 2026
Scholarships are available
Details: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

We are looking forward to welcome a new EDSD Cohort in September. Apply now!

Policy polarization is rewriting the American geography of longevity - N-IUSSP The United States is becoming increasingly heterogeneous, a tendency also reflected in mortality trends. Perhaps unexpectedly, one of the driving forces behind these trends is state political orientat...

N-IUSSP: Policy polarization is rewriting the American geography of longevity

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The growing importance of donor eggs in assisted reproductive technologies in UK  - N-IUSSP Across high-income countries, women and couples are having children later than ever before, sometimes turning to assisted reproductive technologies (ART). At older ages, however, Ester Lazzari and Luz...

N-IUSSP: The growing importance of donor eggs in assisted reproductive technologies in UK

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Too much for the Dutch? How the Dutch baby boom affected kinship size in 2018 - N-IUSSP Dutch kinship network data, Vera de Bel argues, suggest that the Dutch baby boom has trickled down from one generation to the next, leading to larger numbers of aunts, uncles, ... Read more

N-IUSSP: Too much for the Dutch? How the Dutch baby boom affected kinship size in 2018

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The importance of educational expansion for longevity trends - N-IUSSP Educational expansion has contributed to increasing the average lifespan and reducing its variability. As Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Ugofilippo Basellini and Fanny Janssen show for England & Wales, ...

N-IUSSP: The importance of educational expansion for longevity trends

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Silver splits and older adults’ mental health in Europe: the role of children  - N-IUSSP The emotional consequences of “silver splits” (at age 50 years or over) depend on one’s ties with adult children. When these ties are close, Lisa Jessee and Deborah Carr observe, ... Read more

N-IUSSP: Silver splits and older adults’ mental health in Europe: the role of children

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Female early marriage and gendered fertility choices in Pakistan  - N-IUSSP Using four Pakistan Demographic and Health surveys Rashid Javed, Mazhar Mughal and Thierry Lorey find that women married before 18 show stronger son preference and differential fertility stopping patt...

N-IUSSP: Female early marriage and gendered fertility choices in Pakistan

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Paris:  from capital of early death during the Belle Époque (1871-1914) to a longevity champion today  - N-IUSSP Paris was once marked by high mortality. In the late 19th century, the French capital lagged significantly behind the rest of France in life expectancy. Today, it ranks among the ... Read more

N-IUSSP: Paris: from capital of early death during the Belle Époque

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