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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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Strong impact of lifestyle factors on trends in socio-economic mortality inequalities - N-IUSSP The key public health problems of smoking, alcohol and obesity are strongly socially patterned. In recent years, Fanny Janssen says, they have contributed markedly both to average educational inequali...

N-IUSSP: Strong impact of lifestyle factors on trends in socio-economic mortality inequalities

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📢 Call for papers is now open!
We invite you to submit your contributions to the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2027 special issue "Demographic perspectives on migration".
📆 Submit until 15 May 2026.
🔗 viennayearbook.org/call
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The health trajectories of refugees and how they differ from those of other migrants - N-IUSSP Alessandro Ferrara investigates whether refugees arriving in Germany during the 2010s follow the same health trajectories as other migrants. He finds that, like other newcomers, refugees arrive with s...

N-IUSSP: The health trajectories of refugees and how they differ from those of other migrants

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First births in Britain: parental class and partnership context - N-IUSSP Using UK birth cohorts (1940–1989), Alessandro Di Nallo shows that parental occupational class predicts whether first births occur in marriage, cohabitation, or while single – and at what ages. Despit...

N-IUSSP: First births in Britain: parental class and partnership context

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Formal childcare usage linked to higher second birth hazards in Belgium - N-IUSSP Working mothers who use formal childcare for their first child are more likely to have a second, Jonas Wood says. While part of this effect reflects differences in who uses ... Read more

N-IUSSP: Formal childcare usage linked to higher second birth hazards in Belgium

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Did you know? - N-IUSSP In 2024, nearly 78 per cent of women aged 15–49 who wanted to avoid pregnancy used modern contraceptive methods. Despite this progress, more than 250 million women of reproductive age ... Read more

N-IUSSP: Beyond the “demographic winter”

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The kinship gap. When just a few years of difference make a difference - N-IUSSP Rapid decline in a country’s birth and death rates creates a “kinship gap”, leaving people born just years apart with vastly different family support networks. Sha Jiang discusses the ensuing ... Read...

N-IUSSP: The kinship gap. When just a few years of difference make a difference

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The short-lived fertility upturn among Polish emigrants to the Netherlands - N-IUSSP The European Union enlargements of the early 2000s were accompanied by intense emigration from the new member states. This was followed by an apparent increase in emigrants’ fertility, well above ... ...

N-IUSSP: The short-lived fertility upturn among Polish emigrants to the Netherlands

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Immigrants’ cultural identity and employment chances in Italy - N-IUSSP Drawing on data from ISTAT’s survey on the Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens, Alessio Buonomo, Stefania Capecchi, Francesca Di Iorio and Salvatore Strozza examine the association be...

N-IUSSP: Immigrants’ cultural identity and employment chances in Italy

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Socioeconomic inequalities and single women’s entry into parenthood in Belgium - N-IUSSP Socioeconomic inequalities shape the ways in which people form families. Denise B. Musni and Christine Schnor show that these inequalities influence women’s likelihood of becoming a mother while singl...

N-IUSSP: Families and households
Socioeconomic inequalities and single women’s entry into parenthood in Belgium

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Internal migration and childhood loneliness in Europe - N-IUSSP Drawing on data from 26 European countries, Aude Bernard, Patricia McMullin, and Sergi Vidal uncover a strong association between the number of internal moves and childhood loneliness.  Childhood migr...

N-IUSSP: Internal migration and childhood loneliness in Europe

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The role of mortality in fertility transition studies - N-IUSSP Vegard Skirbekk and Thomas Spoorenberg advocate the combined use of fertility and mortality information, or net reproduction, when discussing fertility levels and trends, both in developing and in dev...

N-IUSSP: The role of mortality in fertility transition studies

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