Ridhi Kashyap

Mapping the global digital gender divide: new study reveals stark inequalities in internet and mobile access A research team comprised of current and alumni members of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) has published a major new study in PNAS revealing where and to what extent women remain ...

New study on global digital gender gaps 🧔‍♂️👩📱🌐:

It finds that in low- and middle-income countries

- women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐
- 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men

( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱)

www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...

Proud to see @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social now a Dr. It was a pleasure advising her thesis and seeing her grow as a scholar. Congratulations!

Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data | PNAS The digital revolution has ushered in many societal and economic benefits. Yet access to digital technologies such as mobile phones and internet re...

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks for having me @i2sc.net - I enjoyed the discussion. Hope the rest of your SICSS goes well!

Can Satellite Maps Accurately Count People Where Censuses Are Missing? A new study published by our Phd Student Edith Darin, together Ridhi Kashyap and Douglas Leasure from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

🌍 Can satellites help count people where censuses are missing?
New work by @edithdarin.bsky.social, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social K& Douglas Leasure shows building-footprint maps + smart models can fill census gaps—vital for health, planning & aid.

www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/can-sat...

New work from the Digital Gender Gaps team — we show how access to free laptops provided in public schools improved foundational math esp for economically disadvantaged households, w/ more time on time on learning, less private tuition and better language comprehension.

Exploring Migration Patterns using Digital Trace Data

Sign up still open for 'Exploring Migration Patterns using Digital Trace Data' (Saturday, July 12) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Gender Inequalities Digital Demography @ IPC 2025

Sign up is still open for 'Gender Inequalities in a Digital World: Perspectives from Digital Demography' (Saturday July 12) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Are you attending the International Population Conference in Brisbane? The IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography is organising *3* pre-conference workshops on digital gender inequalities, kinship and microsimulation, and migration and digital trace data iussp.org/en/digital-a...

Congratulations @francescorampazzo.com! Wonderful news, very well done

Workshop: Demographic Microsimulation in R using SOCSIM: Modelling Population and Kinship Dynamics Date and time: 13 July 2025, 10am-1.30pm Location: The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Organisers: Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal – Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Aasli Abdi Nur and Ridhi Kashyap – University of Oxford Description Join us for an interactive workshop on SOCSIM demographic microsimulation using the "rsocsim" R package. SOCSIM is a powerful open-source tool for modelling individual demographic events and producing synthetic populations with plausible age and kinship structures, using population-level demographic rates as input. It has supported demographic research for decades. By simulating individual life courses that are consistent with macro-demographic rates, microsimulation enables the study of complex demographic phenomena, such as kin availability, kin loss, generational overlap, and the long-term effects of changing fertility and mortality rates on kinship networks. This approach is particularly useful for studying heterogeneous populations and understanding variation in demographic experience at both the individual and the population levels. In this workshop, we will cover the basics of demographic microsimulation with SOCSIM, including the process of setting up, running, and verifying a microsimulation in R using ‘rsocsim’ (https://github.com/MPIDR/rsocsim) and publicly available data from the World Population Prospects (WPP) 2024. From there, you will explore how to interpret and analyse the simulation output through practical examples of estimating kin loss and kin availability. Whether you are new to demographic modelling or looking to deepen your expertise, this workshop will provide valuable skills and insights for researchers interested in studying kinship dynamics. Requirements - Own laptop If you wish to attend this workshop, please fill out the online form here: https://forms.gle/nqyKrNaXzMSEmgWf6

#IPC2025! Workshop by @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @aasli.bsky.social & @ridhikashyap.bsky.social in Brisbane: "Demographic Microsimulation in R Using SOCSIM:Modeling Population & Kinship Dynamics."
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Sign up until 06/22/25
Applicants will be notified by the end of June.

🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥

A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society.

🌍 Open to *ALL*!
🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online)
🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io
📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk

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Hey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

I’ve loved my time here — highly recommend applying! Just a few days left...

Deadline approaching: Friday this week at noon UK!

Apply and/or share widely!

*JOB OPENING*

Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.

tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf

Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
👨‍💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor
👩‍💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health
📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness
👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography
🤖 Programmer AI
See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs
#Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population

Congratulations Morten!

Reflections on March 2020 Demography, Data, and "Dear Pandemic"

March 15, 2020 was a huge turning point for me w/ both @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & the start of my #scicomm adventure w/ @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social.

On the 5th anniversary of that day, I am excited to launch my Substack "Data for Health"-please subscribe!
jenndowd.substack.com/p/reflection...

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library To mark the Population and Development Review's (PDR) 50th anniversary, we analyze its contributions to the landscape of population research. We examine the trajectory of research published in PDR an...

The Population and Development turns 50 this year! To mark the occasion, w/ @aasli.bsky.social, we conduct a computational analysis of research themes and author characteristics in PDR and compare with @readdemography.bsky.social and Population Studies. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

How can we #AccelerateAction to improve women's health outcomes? buff.ly/pacAIJZ A new study co-authored by Dr Ursula Gazeley identifies the leading causes of maternal deaths globally and highlights the need to reduce health inequities in LMICs. @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social #IWD2025

Closing the digital gender gap starts with data 📊

For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level.

Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/

Social media card featuring an image of Ridhi Kashyap, Professor of Demography and Computational Social Science, and our logo with the following quote: 'As we stand at the brink of another technological shift, we must ensure that women are equal participants in digital society. Technologies can have a positive impact on societies – but only when we close the digital gender gap.' There is also a link to the news story: https://www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/digital-gender-gaps-dashboard-updated

On #InternationalWomensDay, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social's Digital Gender Gaps team have launched an updated dashboard to #AccelerateAction by helping to ensure women are equal participants in digital society buff.ly/OSV35V8 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch!
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Please forward to interested scholars.

Male and female life expectancy at birth for high income countries, in 2000 (tail of arrow) and 2019 (head of arrow)

Rates of mortality improvement decomposed by age across countries from 2000-2019

What's the future of mortality in high-income countries?
Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard.

But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography

Celebrating five years of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science On 17 October 2024, the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science hosted the inaugural Demographic Science Summit to celebrate five years of disrupting and realigning demography for the benefit of…

Happy 5th birthday to us! 🥳 In October, we celebrated five years of disrupting and realigning demography with the #demographic community at our inaugural #DemSciSummit https://buff.ly/3Da6Kre

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@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

We have another faculty opening at Oxford — this time in demography:

Associate Professor in Social Demography, open to any area/topic, and open to different career stages, incl. junior scholars. With linked tutorial fellowship at St John’s College.

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Happy to answer questions!