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Marta Seiz

@martaseiz.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at UNED. Social Demography, Family, Perinatal & Reproductive Health, Child Disability, Autism. Dance lover. Views my own. https://sites.google.com/view/marta-seiz/home

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FES - Federación Española de la Sociología

Desde el Comité de Investigación de Sociología de la Población y Demografía de la Federación Española de Sociología estamos organizando un workshop ONLINE abierto a quienes trabajéis en investigación/producción de datos en estos ámbitos. DEADLINE ABSTRACTS 30/11 👇
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28.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Childlessness is stratified by education - but not in the way it used to be. Childlessness is higher, & growing, among the less educated, while childlessness among the highly educated is low & stable.

We're approaching an era of fertility "haves" & "have nots".
www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/worki...

03.10.2025 01:43 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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📊 Nordic Statistics Database - fresh figures are out!

📈 The latest roll-out of new data covers updated figures across #economy, #demography, #environment, and more.

💡 Explore the #NordicStatistics Database and get easy access to timely, comparable, open data: nordregio.org/news/septemb...

03.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Paper by Cozzani et al. explores a possible mechanism underlying ART birth disparities & highlights that these disparities do not appear to arise from treatment success, at least when treatments are performed in widely subsidized public context in Italy. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

02.10.2025 06:11 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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First DemoSoc seminar of the year. Come join us!

03.10.2025 09:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
As fertility rates in the U.S. and elsewhere continue to fall, standard demographic theories that focus on objective micro- and macroeconomic conditions seem unable to explain these trends. New approaches, such as the Narrative of the Future framework and the “uncertainty” paradigm, have emphasized the potential for subjective perceptions to be important for fertility decision-making, net of objective characteristics. We use a unique new source of data—the National Couples’ Health and Time Study, a nationally representative sample of cohabiting and married adults interviewed between September 2020 and April 2021—to examine short-term fertility intentions and better understand if and how including a general subjective evaluation (overall life satisfaction) and domain-specific subjective evaluations (economic stress and relationship satisfaction) are related to fertility intentions. We find that most respondents did not intend to have a child in the next year, though about one in seven respondents were unsure about if/when to have a(nother) child. Net of objective characteristics, overall life satisfaction was positively associated with short-term intentions to have a child, and greater economic stress was linked to uncertainty about short-term intentions. We did not observe a link in multivariable models between relationship satisfaction and intentions. Further, models stratified by parenthood indicated that both objective characteristics and subjective perceptions were more strongly linked to first-birth intentions than higher-parity intentions. Our results add to the growing body of work suggesting that (a) subjective perceptions have modest but significant links to fertility decision-making and (b) uncertainty in decision-making is important to consider.

As fertility rates in the U.S. and elsewhere continue to fall, standard demographic theories that focus on objective micro- and macroeconomic conditions seem unable to explain these trends. New approaches, such as the Narrative of the Future framework and the “uncertainty” paradigm, have emphasized the potential for subjective perceptions to be important for fertility decision-making, net of objective characteristics. We use a unique new source of data—the National Couples’ Health and Time Study, a nationally representative sample of cohabiting and married adults interviewed between September 2020 and April 2021—to examine short-term fertility intentions and better understand if and how including a general subjective evaluation (overall life satisfaction) and domain-specific subjective evaluations (economic stress and relationship satisfaction) are related to fertility intentions. We find that most respondents did not intend to have a child in the next year, though about one in seven respondents were unsure about if/when to have a(nother) child. Net of objective characteristics, overall life satisfaction was positively associated with short-term intentions to have a child, and greater economic stress was linked to uncertainty about short-term intentions. We did not observe a link in multivariable models between relationship satisfaction and intentions. Further, models stratified by parenthood indicated that both objective characteristics and subjective perceptions were more strongly linked to first-birth intentions than higher-parity intentions. Our results add to the growing body of work suggesting that (a) subjective perceptions have modest but significant links to fertility decision-making and (b) uncertainty in decision-making is important to consider.

Another new paper on fertility intentions! Using @nchatstudy.bsky.social data, we consider whether cohabiting & married people's short-term fertility intentions are subjective perceptions of well-being.

The answer? Yes! 1/

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

28.06.2025 14:48 — 👍 26    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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📌The deadline for the call for papers for the 2026 Issue of the @vypr.bsky.social “Delayed Reproduction: Patterns, Challenges and Prospects” is approaching‼️

Submit until May 31 2025⏰
🔗 www.viennayearbook.org/call

#demography
@fertdem.bsky.social
@oeaw.bsky.social
www.viennayearbook.org

15.05.2025 11:58 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 4

Este viernes presento el libro "Familias que afrontan la #discapacidad infantil. El desigual acceso a apoyos terapéuticos y educativos.", que he realizado con el patrocinio de @funcas.bsky.social
Agradecería difusión para que puedan conectarse aquellas personas y entidades interesadas (ver 👇)

08.04.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
¿Puede una herencia universal (o transferencia pública de riqueza a los jóvenes) reducir la desigualdad? | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas La riqueza está muy desigualmente distribuida –mucho más que la renta– en las economías de la UE. Gran parte de los hogares no dispone de ninguna riqueza neta y el decil más rico suele acumular una pr...

Hoy se recoge en @csic.es nuestra publicación en Journal of European Social Policy sobre efectos distributivos de la herencia universal [con @guillemvidal.me, @josenoguerauab.bsky.social, Andreas Thiemann]: www.csic.es/es/actualida...
El artículo científico aquí: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

23.01.2025 12:33 — 👍 24    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1
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Strains of intensive parenting lower second birth risks:

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29.11.2024 07:13 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Enrollment is now open for the 4th edition of the Master's in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M! No prior knowledge of programming or stats is needed—perfect for social sciences grads. Questions? Contact us or ask to be connected with our student ambassadors!

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16.12.2024 10:10 — 👍 28    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 7

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