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Are generations ageing less healthily over time? Find out what the latest register health & mortality data from Catalonia reveals: ije-blog.com

📝co-authored with Iñaki Permanyer, Jordi Gumà, Sergi Trias-Llimós

Full paper here: academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

YouTube video by 1 Stunde 1 Thema Lebenserwartung: Sind 120 Jahre die natürliche Grenze? Demograf Dr. Marc Luy

💡Demograf Marc Luy im „1 Stunde 1 Thema“-Podcast: Gibt es eine natürliche Grenze der Lebenserwartung? Was haben Regionen mit besonders vielen 100-Jährigen gemeinsam? Und: Wie lebt er selbst, um gesund alt zu werden?
🔗 Hier nachhören: tinyurl.com/53xu5asb
@emanuelbroger.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

Woman and man on bikes

The new EU-funded SoGreen project will make use of Europe’s leading social surveys to support a fair and inclusive green transition. Join their first webinar:

"Measuring Public Perceptions of the Green Transition"
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 from 2pm to 4pm CET
Register here: lnkd.in/efkvm9jv

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-...

📢 Apply for the two-year Master Programme "Global Demography" at the University of Vienna!
The programme starts on 1 October 2026.
📅 Application period: 2 March to 7 April 2026
🔗 More information: demografie.univie.ac.at/studies/mast...
@univie.ac.at #demography

Have you ever considered studying demography – also alongside your work?

Charles University in Prague is offering a part-time distance-learning programme leading to a Master's degree in Demography.

🔜 Application deadline: 28 February 2026

Read more here: lnkd.in/dHVw-3gR

Photo: Petr Jan Juračka

Proximity can become pressure: The mental health of ageing parents tends to decline when their adult children are unemployed.

A new study shows that this correlation is stronger when both live under one roof.

Check it out: tinyurl.com/y5wvk6w9

Job opening for postdoctoral researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic-Epidemiology.

The Medical Demography research group explains its goals for studying disease progression and its effects on health and the population.

We are looking for a PhD in demography, sociology, epidemiology, or related fields with experience in quantitative health data analysis.

Apply now: The application deadline is March 22, 2026. For more information, visit www.demogr.mpg.de/go/jobs.

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography
Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc

PhD-Candidate   Ageing and Health The Norwegian National Centre for Ageing and Health (Ageing and Health) is a publicly funded national centre of expertise in ageing and older people’s health in Norway. W...

PhD position in Norway

Focus: Using artificial intelligence (AI) to study intrinsic capacity - the combined physical and mental abilities that allow people to function and thrive as they age.

2411.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui...

Dr Zotcheva leads the project and I am a co-supervisor.

Changing Populations Welcome to issue 17 of Changing Populations.

Out now - the new issue of Changing Populations, the @cpc-cg.bsky.social newsletter magazine.

Rounding up the last six months, we cover how we are contributing to the debate across the UK and Europe on the #demographic challenges affecting our society.

@bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

Nominations for the 2027-2028 IPDLN Directorship - IPDLN IPDLN is seeking nominations for individuals interested in running for the new Director of the network for calendar years 2027 and 2028.

@ipdln.bsky.social is opening nominations for the role of Director (2027–2028 term) 💼

The role provides strategic leadership for the future of the network, including overseeing the 2028 IPDLN Conference.

For more info: edu.nl/egxdf

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What demography can do: inform the future.
The foresight experts at @vdivde-it.bsky.social took some projections of demographic trends, and created a Qualitative Scenario Building exercise for our Policy Lab. The goal: to imagine Europe in 2045. Here are the results: futu-res.eu/european-res...

Demografie und Hyperdiversität Francesco Billari nimmt bei einer Karl Popper-Lecture an der ÖAW die hyperdiverse Welt in den Blick und analysiert die komplexen Einflussfaktoren, die für die zunehmende Diversität von Bevölkerungen v...

📢 Register now!
Francesco C. Billari (Rector of Bocconi University, Milan): "Demography and Hyperdiversity".
📅 23 February 2026, 17:00h
📍 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Festive Hall
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/ev...

Join us at 3pm today for our #CPCCGWebinar with @shajiang.bsky.social from @mpidr.bsky.social - all welcome, register to join us online: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/e... @populationeu.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social

The decline of ‘Deaths of Despair’ in Italy: unveiling this phenomenon in a new context - Population Health Metrics Background The term “Deaths of Despair” (DoD) refers to mortality due to alcohol consumption, drug use, and suicides. While extensively studied in the United States, where these deaths have markedly i...

The last chapter of my PhD thesis is out, just a few days before my defense 🎓

Read the new paper in Population Health Metrics with Andrea Nigri, Sergi Trias-Llimós (@sergitl.bsky.social), and Elisabetta Barbi on Deaths of Despair in Italy:

📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎓 Scholarship announcement
Dept of Stat. Sciences awards a scholarship of 8.000,00 Euros, for students from Developing countries who will enrol in the Msc in Statistical Sciences in Padova for the a.y. 2026/27
🗓️Deadline 27/2/2026
🔗Details: tinyurl.com/4ubefexj
#Statistics #Scholarship #Padova

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

www.niussp.org/health-and-m...

#demography
#populationstudies

📢 SLLS 2026 Conference | 1–3 July, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Submit your paper by 13 Feb 2026, 17:00 GMT!

🔗 tinyurl.com/yh242mm2

Great opportunity for anyone working with longitudinal data and life course perspectives. Very much looking forward to #SLLS2026 in Brussels (hosted at the Free University of Brussels, ULB). Please consider submitting and sharing widely!

More information: www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-...

Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? A decomposition analysis of the gender gap in unhealthy life years across Europe - European Journal of Epidemiology This study tests the “longevity hypothesis,” which posits that women’s greater number of years spent in poor health is primarily a direct consequence of their longer survival. We analyse gender differ...

📖 New publication: "Why do women live longer than men, but spend more time in poor health? A decomposition analysis of the gender gap in unhealthy life years across Europe".
@mmuszynskas.bsky.social et al. test the “longevity hypothesis".
🔗 Read now: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#demography

Join us on Tuesday, 20 January for a discussion on youth in Europe.

Following a presentation on demographic trends in the near future, Prof. Aassve will lead a discussion on possible ways to strengthen the voice of young people.

Register here: tinyurl.com/28jv36du

❄️ Freezing cold outside? Perfect timing to submit your work for our Family Diversity & Health summer workshop in Berlin ☀️

📅 June 29–30, 2026
📍 Hertie School, Berlin

🫶 No participation fees
🏨 1 hotel night covered

📨 1-page abstracts due: Jan 31, 2026

📖 New publication: "Trends in time with children in European countries: Intensification and gender convergence"!
Caroline Berghammer and @melissamilkie.bsky.social review studies investigating childcare trends in European countries.
🔗 Read now: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...
#demography

Want to learn more about using the National Pupil Database, from experienced CEPEO researchers? Sign up for one (or both!) of our free courses this February...

Online, Feb 10-11th:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

In person (central London), Feb 25th:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...

📢 PhD positions @univie.ac.at

Follow this link 👇 to apply for one of the 40 paid PhD positions @univie.ac.at and select #ViDSS also for available topics and supervisors in #Sociology @ifswien.bsky.social

✨ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 - 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀✨

You're invited to nominate exceptional sociologists and projects with significant contributions to the field for the 2026 #KohliPrize and #InfrastructurePrizeforSociology.

Nominate until 𝟴 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Further details and nomination form via: kohlifoundation.eu

Zukunft: "Die Zukunft ist nicht nur etwas, das uns zustößt" Wie können wir das Morgen wieder optimistischer denken? Ein Gespräch mit dem Kulturmanager Stefan Brandt, dem Soziologen Steffen Mau und der Schriftstellerin Juli Zeh

Excellent @zeit.de conversation: Our Director @steffenmau.bsky.social with Juli Zeh & Stefan Brandt on escaping dystopian thinking. They explore what Mau calls "Veränderungserschöpfung" (change exhaustion), the crisis of progress narratives & reclaiming agency in imagining futures. Worth reading!

Screenshot of the title and abstract: Parental socioeconomic composition of birth cohorts changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic offers opportunities to study effects of in-utero and early life exposure to environmental changes. However, inferences from such studies may be flawed if the pandemic has changed the socioeconomic composition of parents. Analysing over 77.9 million live births from 15 countries, we estimate changes in the socioeconomic composition of the cohort born between December 2020 and December 2021 using interrupted time series analysis. We find that, compared with their counterfactual compositions, the December 2020-December 2021 birth cohort has a higher proportion of babies born to socioeconomically advantaged parents in Austria, England, Finland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Wales, and the United States while we observe the opposite change for Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. These changes in cohort composition may cause between-cohort differences in life course outcomes that are influenced by parental socioeconomic circumstances even if early life exposure to the pandemic had no direct effect on this birth cohort.

Figure 4 in the article. Figure caption: The black dots are percentage-point differences derived from the estimated mean counterfactual number of live births using interrupted time series Poisson regressions on the number of live births. 95% confidence intervals presented as horizontal lines around the point estimates are estimated using a three-step approach (see method section). Estimates are based on 596,276 live births for Austria; 19,995,228 for Brazil; 4,329,577 for Colombia; 413,903 for Denmark; 1,965,574 for Ecuador; 4,391,999 for England; 330,063 for Finland; 12,876,945 for Mexico; 1,167,024 for the Netherlands; 343,379 for Scotland; 134,874 for South Australia; 2,229,935 for Spain; 758,034 for Sweden; 22,306,054 for the United States; 216,797 for Wales. For Spain, only births with maternal age over 25 are included (see methods and suppl. material). Quintiles of equivalised household income and area deprivation are abbreviated by the letter Q. Q5 (highest income, lowest deprivation) denotes the fifth quintile, Q4 the fourth quintile, and so forth. For countries, where only parental educational attainment was available, “Post-Second./ Tert.” denotes post-secondary or tertiary educational attainment, “Upper Second.” denotes upper secondary educational attainment, “Lower Second.” denotes lower secondary educational attainment, and “Prim.” denotes primary educational attainment.

New paper finally published! Using data on 78 million births from 15 countries, we found that babies conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic have a different parental socioeconomic composition than expected had the pandemic not occurred. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
@natcomms.nature.com @helsinki.fi

New name, new focus: The Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods is now the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral #Economics. This name change reflects the research conducted in Bonn very nicely. 👍 www.coll.mpg.de #BehavioralEconomics

Population Europe convened leading demographers, policymakers, and civil society representatives at the German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue, Villa Vigoni to dissect Europe's demographic challenges and to pathways to resilience and social cohesion:
www.population-europe.eu/events/event...