Peter Fallesen

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New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

🚀✨The Editorial Board of ESR is growing!

We’re happy to welcome PeterFallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social

( ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark) as a new Associate Editor!!

We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Editorial Board and look forward to working together!

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Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

I’ll be at the pre-conference workshop on Tuesday

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

Bologna is calling

‼️PhD Funding‼️ Check out this fully-funded PhD position in Stockholm, part of the a 5-year mixed method project investing Sexual and Reproductive Outcomes of Violent Crime led by Dr. Signe Svallfors

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

Nice opportunity. Deadline closing soon.
TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento
Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies

Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

Helt enig

Nok for tidligt at konkludere, men vi må forvente en stigning inden for en årrække når den del af faldet, der skyldes udsættelse pga øget uddannelsesoptag blandt yngre kvinder, begynder at blive indhentet

I guess that makes me...Horace Slughorn? or maybe the centaur named "Firenze"

This is a fabulous response by my colleague Kevin Munger to "that" Economist piece about the EUI.

Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested!

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New albums from The Armed and from Alex G both been in high rotation in my headphones

[New finding!]

Ryohei Mogi, Ryota Mugiyama, & Alyce Raybould (@alyceraybould.bsky.social ) has shown that individuals without a romantic partner are more likely to revise their fertility desires downward.‪

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Engineers of Jihad A groundbreaking investigation into why so many Islamic radicals are engineers

Gambetta and Herzog wrote a book that indirectly tried to parse out the mechanisms by looking at Islamic extremism press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Implications: when studying how events (disasters, policy changes, etc.) affect birth outcomes, we must account for conception rate changes. What looks like changing health might result simply from parts of the population changing conceptive behavior. 4/4

More generally, underlying baseline risk matters for magnitudes. We find that temporal variation in conceptions explains around 8% of preterm birth fluctuations for White mothers, and 12-15% for Black mothers. 3/4

Using US birth data (2010-2019), we show that a conception "shock" creates a wave pattern: fewer conceptions → fewer preterm births beginning from 5 months later → but more from 9 months before rates normalize. 2/4

🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

Much of that distortion can be traced back to a few hyperactive users
-Just 10% of users produce 97% of political tweets
-A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news
This leads us to believe that society is more polarized, angry, & deluded than it really is. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Congrats Zach!

but no difference across post-dissolution living arrangements, including for joint living and parents' subsequent partner status. With M.N. Nielsen and M. Gähler. [2/2]

Our article on parental union dissolution and children’s emotional and behavioral problems appears in the most recent issue of @sfjournal.bsky.social. We find a longterm increase in SDQ score following parental union dissolution [1/2]

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Decline and Prosper! This book considers the historical context as well as the full breadth of factors that drive fertility rates across the globe.

My book, "Decline and Prosper!", presents a comprehensive and evidence-based overview of the causes and consequences of global fertility decline.
I argue that low fertility is inevitable, yet also has positive effects. We should help people have the children they want bit.ly/35Hm3Yk

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

Despite living in wealthy societies, too many children still grow up in poverty.

What can be done—nationally and locally—to change this?

Read our latest Policy Brief for the #Mapineq project by @janierola.net & @mjantti.bsky.social and find it out!

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