Aga Kasperska

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

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👇

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.

#research #hiring

Making Regression Coefficient Plots in Stata Traditionally, researchers reported results of regression analyses using tables. A more visually appealing way of presenting these results is by using a coefficient plot. Unlike a typical scatterplot…

If you use Stata and you want to make nice coefficient plots, this article by @uptonorwell.bsky.social is really fantastic!

medium.com/the-stata-ga...

Look at how having a child affects male and female happiness differently.

What do you notice?

📚 Our paper on employer’s perceptions of workers taking parental leaves: we find hiring & pay penalties for fathers taking (longer) leave and rewards for mothers taking shorter leave. #IPC2025

@amatysiak.bsky.social
@ewa-cukrowska.bsky.social @gaylekaufman.bsky.social
@labfam.bsky.social

How Poland’s Euro 2025 showing transformed a nation’s view of women’s football Despite their group-stage exit, Nina Patalon’s side have made history and changed perceptions back home

Millions of Poles tuned in to watch their country's first-ever appearance at the Women's Euro this month.

The tournament "has changed the perception of women’s football in the country forever", writes Joanna Wiśniowska for @theguardian.com.

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing?
We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023).
📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t.
📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher.
w/ @hudde.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.

What happens to women when they are denied an abortion?

Short run: their risk of death rises.

A full 15 years later, they experience:

more health issues,
lower attainment,
reduced labor-force participation,
higher single motherhood,
higher poverty, +
greater government assistance

🌍 Join Us at @UniWarszawski for a landmark event on Europe’s future!
We are thrilled to welcome you to "Europe and Mobilities: Challenges and Opportunities for Socio-Economic Transformations" conference — a flagship event of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU. 1/2

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📢 New publication!

With @amatysiak.bsky.social & @ewa-cukrowska.bsky.social we provide evidence of #FlexibilityStigma: employers see remote workers as less productive and committed which explains their career penalties. Plus gender differences.

📄 Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Can’t join us in Warsaw for #EUROMOBI2025? No problem!
We’re streaming the entire conference live on YouTube 🎥

🗓️ June 4–6
📍 Univ. of Warsaw
💬 Europe, mobilities & socio-economic change

Join us online (coffee not included 😉)
#EuropeAndMobilities

Male college students are 18.6% more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes made by instructors.

The latest agenda for the Europe and Mobilities conference is now available!
Explore the sessions, keynotes, and side events shaping the conversation around Europe's future.
See what’s coming soon at @UniWarszawski.
Registration and full details > bit.ly/4ijTmzG

My partner Radost has created fantastic visualizations of yesterday's Polish presidential election results — mapped by both population (~half of Poles live in cities) and territory.
Explore all the maps here: radostw.github.io/election_202...

The conference addresses key socio-economic issues in Europe: migration, demography, democracy, and tech change. @labfam.bsky.social & @amatysiak.bsky.social lead the session on Demographic Change & Resilience (Thu 4th of June, 14:45-16:15).

It’s held in 🇵🇱 with online access - link coming soon.

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

If you run conjoint experiments, you need to read this.

Most conjoints estimate average effects for each attribute.

But what if the effect of one attribute depends on the others?

This paper has got you covered!

less than 4 weeks to get your abstract in for the #BSPS2025 call for papers... strands from climate change to gender to conflict to formal demography to public views on low fertility ...and much more

take a look at the full range & submit your work by 9 May:
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Full poster:

📊 Our #PAA2025 poster on employer’s perceptions on workers taking parental leaves with @amatysiak.bsky.social, @ewa-cukrowska.bsky.social & @gaylekaufman.bsky.social
We find hiring and pay penalties for fathers taking (longer) leave and rewards for mothers taking shorter leave. @labfam.bsky.social

Gareth Southgate rails against ‘callous toxic influencers’ in Dimbleby Lecture Sir Gareth Southgate has expressed concern that ‘callous, manipulative and toxic influencers’ are taking the place of traditional father figures and contributing to mental health issues among young me...

"Sir Gareth Southgate has expressed his concern that 'callous, manipulative and toxic influencers' are taking the place of traditional father figures in society and contributing to mental health issues among young men."

Russian public perceptions of the war in Ukraine: a paradox of optimism amid crisis This study examines public perceptions of the Ukraine war, with a particular focus on Russian attitudes toward its economic and political impacts in comparison to other countries. Drawing on theore...

🚨🔍 New research on Russian public opinion! Despite sanctions, political turmoil & economic strain, many Russians remain surprisingly optimistic about the war. Why? My latest study unpacks this paradox & what it reveals about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇 (1/4)

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1478...

A line graph compares two measures of fertility rates in Sweden over time: the total fertility rate and the completed cohort fertility rate. The total fertility rate is depicted using a red line, which shows a downward trend starting around the early 1900s, with fluctuations and a gradual decline to about 1.5 in 2022. The completed cohort fertility rate is illustrated with a blue line, with the time axis showing the women's birth year. It shows an initial decline followed by a stable fertility rate. A note at the bottom states that the completed cohort fertility rate has been shifted by 30 years to align with the respective birth years of women. The data source is the Human Fertility Database (2024) and the chart is published by Our World in Data.

New article by me!

It's a common mistake to think the TFR is a prediction of the average number of children women will have over their lifetimes.

But it's not. The TFR can decline even when the eventual number of children per woman stays constant or even increases; the opposite can happen too. 🧵

This is Zero. She's the world's first herding dog with a work-from-home gig. 14/10

A table comparing remote work practices from two perspectives: Human capital perspective and Legal perspective, across three levels: Intended practices, Actual practices, and Perceived practices. Intended practices: Human capital perspective: Advocates for hybrid work with both location and schedule flexibility, emphasizing benefits like job satisfaction, autonomy, and productivity. Legal perspective: Focuses on fair and compliant work schedules, requiring remote work agreements to cover policies, safety, privacy, and documentation of work hours. It also emphasizes non-discriminatory approval processes for remote work. Actual practices: Human capital perspective: Recognizes manager perceptions, showing that remote workers generally have better relationships with managers, higher performance ratings, and career penalties if managers see remote work as a personal accommodation rather than a productivity tool. Legal perspective: Stresses fair approval and evaluation, ensuring no discrimination in remote work approvals and that training helps prevent biases. It also emphasizes clear position descriptions and evaluation consistency. Perceived practices: Human capital perspective: Acknowledges individual worker experiences, noting stronger commitment benefits in younger employees, improved work-life balance with past remote experience, and the importance of the reasons given for denying remote work. Legal perspective: Aligns remote work with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) efforts, warning that negative perceptions of remote work decisions may harm DE&I and that denial of remote work could be perceived as discrimination or bias. The source notes that the table is based on a review of existing remote work literature

#RemoteWork recommendations for organizations.
Source: Baumann, H.M., & Marcum, T.M. (2023). Human capital and legal perspectives on remote work: recommendations for organizations. Management Research Review.
www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

Poland's population in 2020 was 38M, the same as in 1990. Below-replacement fertility reduced it by 5.6M over this period, but gains in life expectancy and a young initial age structure offset the decline.
#demography #fertility #Poland #Migration
Source: osf.io/preprints/so...

Lessons from Poland's pro-natalist "Family 500+" program - N-IUSSP Poland’s ambitious “Family 500+” program offered substantial monthly payment to families with children. While the program modestly increased overall fertility in the short-term, its effects varied sig...

“Poland’s ambitious “Family 500+” program offered substantial monthly payment to families with children. While the program modestly increased overall fertility in the short-term, its effects varied significantly by age and income”

www.niussp.org/fertility-an...

📢Calling all aspiring demographers! Apply for next year’s EDSD here: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-... and join us in Paris at INED! Deadline March 25 at noon