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Technological and demographic change create needs for #education systems to adapt. @maxplanck.de launches the project "EduTrack" for science-based policy.

We are thrilled to be working with @mpidr.bsky.social, @mpiwg.bsky.social and @mpips.bsky.social.

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Improving Fertility Forecasts: New Research Highlights the Importance of Birth Order Dynamics Demographic projections are central to understanding how populations evolve and to planning for the future. Governments, international organisations, and researchers rely on forecasts of fertility, mo...

New research from new LCDS member Jakub Bijak (among others) shows that better fertility forecasts depend on looking beyond total birth rates 👶📊

By accounting for birth order dynamics, predictions become more accurate and informative for policy & planning.

🔗 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/improvi...

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📆 Save the date for our next #CPCCGWebinar with Albert Esteve @uab.cat and @cedemografia.bsky.social:

How #livingarrangements are structured and evolve across #societies over time, reflecting #demographic dynamics, #family systems, and #economic conditions.

Register:
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You can follow the event via streaming!

Children with disabilities and their families remain underrepresented in research and policy

Join our next online event with Nicoletta Balbo @bocconi.bsky.social and learn how child disability shapes family life, schooling and what this means for policy

🗓 21.04, 1-2 pm CEST

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🎧 New episode! How do you make social science research more accessible?

@kturek.bsky.social tells @drtomemery.bsky.social about the Comparative Panel File, an open-source project bringing together survey data from across the world. 🌍

Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

Parental co-residence, intergenerational support and transitions to adulthood - Nuffield Foundation

Should intergenerational co-residence be viewed in a negative light - as a 'failure to launch' or as 'privileged dependence'? This is the question by @ann-berrington.bsky.social, in a think piece where she explores the prolonged living at home by young people.

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

www.niussp.org/migration-an...

#demography
#populationstudies

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🧑‍🏫 Join us THIS THURSDAY for our #CPCCGWebinar with @jeinhoff.bsky.social of @mpidr.bsky.social & @vincentrramos.bsky.social of @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social

Register to join us online: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @ukri.org @standrewssgsd.bsky.social

📣 Heads-up everyone interested in databases and scholarly migration! 📣

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www.scholarlymigration.org

Tune in and watch this space. More soon ...

@theiletom.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

#BiblioDemography

I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org:

“Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows”

Open Access: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
with Maciej J. Dańko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025

The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) invites applications for a Postdoc position on family formation among sexual minorities. Apply by 5 May: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

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

PopHel Talks: Next Monday, 13th of April,
@joandamiens.bsky.social presents with title: Housing pathways and mental health across the life course - evidence from Finnish registers

13th of April, 02:00-02:45 PM (UTC+2)
Please register for a Zoom link: elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Great kick-off meeting for the Department of Inequality, Transformation & Conflict - an ambitious research agenda led by @steffenmau.bsky.social focused around 4 key themes: Social Change & Transformation, Inequality & Social Structure, Social & Political Conflict &Migration & Borders www.ips.mpg.de

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👓Recommended Reading📚
Family Complexity Influences Health in Mid-Adulthood
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news...
Philipp Dierker | Mine Kühn
#aging | #demography | #family | #familypolicy | #mentalhealth | #wellbeing

A Max Planck research group will launch on April 1, 2026, focusing on reproductive aging and its social implications.

Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing, led by D. Susie Lee 이수지, is starting today! It will investigate indicators of female & male reproductive ageing: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news...

FRANCESCO BILLARI | Global politics is at odds with demography Migration emerges as a demographic necessity, not a temporary challenge

This, from demographer Francesco Billari, is very good:

“The real choice for political leaders is not whether to accept demographic change. It is whether to continue to fight it symbolically or to start governing it strategically”

www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026...

Published: "Linking mental health disorders to childlessness: The roles of disorder type and partnership" by @kailaheimosanna.bsky.social, @jessicanisen.bsky.social, @niinametsasimola.bsky.social, P. Martikainen & M. Myrskylä (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography

📢 Do a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships with LCDS 🎓👩‍🔬

We invite Expressions of Interest from outstanding postdocs to develop applications with us. Join a leading centre for demographic science and interdisciplinary research that hosted many succesful MSCA fellows before.

🗓 EOI deadline: 31 July 2026

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📨 If you’ve enjoyed this issue of #ChangingPopulations, don’t forget to subscribe to be the first to receive all things #population change and #demography in future newsletters -a new one will be published in the summer ⬇️

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Demograf Lutz: "Alterung ist eine Herausforderung, aber keine Katastrophe" Der Bevölkerungsexperte Wolfgang Lutz erklärt, warum Bildung und Erwerbsbeteiligung wichtiger sein können als die reine Anzahl der Kinder – und warum er Alarmrufe wegen sinkender Geburtenzahlen für üb...

💡Demograf Wolfgang Lutz zur sinkenden Geburtenrate: Weniger Kinder sind bis zu einem gewissen Grad kein Problem – wenn wir stärker in ihre Bildung investieren. Gesellschaften können sich an den demografischen Wandel anpassen, u.a. durch Änderungen bei Pensionen.
🔗 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Early Bird registration for the IPDLN Conference 2026 closes March 31 — just one week left! ⏳

Join 11 workshops on linked data, trusted research environments, data governance, community engagement, and more.

🔗 Register now: edu.nl/mrnvv

Exciting news: our transformation is complete! The Max Planck Institute for Political & Social Science in Göttingen launches under Ursula Daxecker & @steffenmau.bsky.social, addressing pressing social & political challenges, including democratic backsliding, social inequality, migration & conflict.

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict

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

www.niussp.org/family-and-h...

#demography
#populationstudies

Scientists have long debated whether happiness follows a U-shape as we age 📈 — dipping around middle age but rising again after 50. New research using SHARE data takes a closer look. #InternationalDayofHappiness

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper argues for a paradigm shift in demography, moving beyond the alarmist and deterministic narratives fixated on “lowest-low fertility (LLF)” (total fertility rate ≤ 1.3). Initially a useful ...

“We argue for a paradigm shift in demography, moving beyond alarmist narratives fixated on “lowest-low fertility”. Initially useful, the concept now obscures more than it reveals, as it conflates vastly different demographic trajectories across an increasingly heterogeneous global landscape”

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📗 NEW CPC-CG Policy Briefing by @jackiewahba.bsky.social shows how improving #immigrant pupils’ competence in their host country #languageskills strengthens belonging, reduces bullying and benefits the wider #school environment: www.cpc.ac.uk/res/docs/PB9... @populationeu.bsky.social

The call for papers is approaching! Submit to the @vypr.bsky.social by May 15! @demographyvienna.bsky.social #demography