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They find that disparities 📈in under-five mortality persist based on the mother’s origin.

‼️Paper just out! Emmanuel Idohou, Philippe Bocquier, and Michel Guillot investigate the role of parental origin in explaining the significant disparities that immigrant children in France face in terms of their survival 👇🔗https://austriaca.at/?arp=0x00407e65§0x00407e62
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‼️New #Debate out in @vypr.bsky.social! Jesús García-Gómez, Juan Galeano and Albert Esteve discuss how national-level data can obscure important internal diversity, leading to misleading conclusions about demographic patterns 👇🔗https://austriaca.at/?arp=0x0040760c§0x00407608
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@vypr.bsky.social Special Issue: "Delayed Reproduction: Patterns, Challenges and Prospects."

With an excellent team of guest editors:
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See the call: austriaca.at/buecher/file...

▶️Tomas Sobotka, the editor-in-chief of @vypr.bsky.social discusses falling fertility rates.
🎧Enjoy the podcast, and stay tuned for more content on this topic in our Special Issue, "Delayed Reproduction: Patterns, Challenges and Prospects."

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📣New Data&Trends out @vypr.bsky.social! Azzollini, Bellani, and Rivellini analyze attitudes towards immigration in ESS data, demonstrating the growing influence of parental socioeconomic background for the more recent cohorts
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🚨 New Data&Trends out on @vypr.bsky.social! Leen Marynissen, Karel Neels, and Jonas Wood investigate the association between education and entry into parenthood across origin groups and migrant generations in Belgium
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co-authored with Leen Marynissen, Jessica Nisén ‪ @jessicanisen.bsky.social, Peter Fallesen
@pfallesen.bsky.social, Karel Neels, Alessandra Trimarchi, Lars Dommermuth, Ruben van Gaalen @rubenivangaalen.bsky.social‬, Martin Kolk ‪ @martinkolk.bsky.social‬, and Pekka Martikainen

🚨Check out the latest @vypr.bsky.social Data&Trends. Jonas Wood and colleagues investigate urban-rural differences in northern and western Europe regarding women’s educational gradients in fertility.
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co-authored with Paul Hebert and Amy Hagopian

‼️New Review Article just out! Zack Almquist and colleagues tackle the challenges of measuring📏 and defining homelessness in the US, a key rising 📈 phenomenon that deserves attention from demographers.
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‼️Still time to submit your contribution for the 2026 Special Issue of the @vypr.bsky.social entitled "Delayed Reproduction: Patterns, Challenges and Prospects". ⏰May 31 2025 🔗 @demographyvienna.bsky.social @fertdem.bsky.social

Amazing thread by Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social on low fertility, where she also mentions our Special Issue on "The Causes and Consequences of Depopulation". 😀Check out her lucid view on this pressing topic, currently filled with misinformation and knowledge gaps @demographyvienna.bsky.social 👇

⏰11 more days to go!!! The deadline for the call for papers for the 2026 Issue of the @vypr.bsky.social "Delayed Reproduction: Patterns, Challenges and Prospects" is approaching‼️ @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
Submit by May 31 2025👇

Deadline is approaching!!! Submit your contribution until May 31 for the 2026 Issue of @vypr.bsky.social 👇
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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⏰
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New paper out!⚡️

Arnhold, Thomas, Szenkurök, Viktoria, & Weber, Daniela (2025). Mapping inequalities in the health of older adults around the world: Heterogeneities in cognitive and physical functioning. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025 [advance online publication]. doi.org/10.1553/p-mc...

The figure shows the relationship between the Gini estimates and medians of handgrip strength, immediate recall and verbal fluency for selected country’s population aged 60 to 74, in three panels. Note: The x-axis represents the health equality, measured as 1−𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑖̂. The y-axis represents the estimated country median. The upper left of the tables shows the coefficients and their significance levels when regressing the median on 1−𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑖̂ (Confidence levels: * p<0.05; ** p<0.01; *** p<0.001). The solid line represents a regression line, with the grey area denoting the standard errors. Austria = AT, Belgium = BE, Brazil = BR, Bulgaria = BG, Chile = CL, China = CN, Croatia = HR, Cyprus = CY, Czechia = CZ, Denmark = DK, England = GB, Estonia = EE, Finland = FI, France = FR, Germany = DE, Ghana = GH, Greece = GR, Hungary = HU, India = IN, Indonesia = ID, Ireland = IE, Israel = IL, Italy = IT, Japan = JP, Latvia = LV, Lithuania = LT, Luxembourg = LU, Malta = MT, Mexico = MX, Netherlands = NL, Poland = PL, Portugal = PT, Romania = RO, Russia = RU, Slovakia = SK, Slovenia = SI, South Africa = ZA, Spain = ES, Sweden = SE, Switzerland = CH, USA = US.

🚨 New Data&Trends out on @vypr.bsky.social ! @tarnhold.bsky.social, @viktoriaszenkuroek.bsky.social & @webervienna.bsky.social use Gini coefficients to examine inequalities in physical and cognitive functioning of older adults in 🔗 tinyurl.com/VYPR25-07

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⏰Only one month left!
Don´t forget to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025!
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Urban-rural divide from a social stratification perspective. Using ESS data, @dirkkonietzka.bsky.social & I analysed changes in the educational composition of metropolitan and rural populations & the residential patterns of educational groups over the last 20 years in 🇧🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪🇬🇧 doi.org/10.1553/p-9g...

Abstract In recent years, many European countries have experienced growing disparities between urban and rural areas. These disparities are associated not only with differences in infrastructure, public goods and cultural provision, but also with heterogeneous demographic developments. In this paper, we intersect the perspectives of spatial demography, urban geography and social stratification by examining whether spatial inequalities between educational groups have increased in six European countries since the turn of the millennium. Analytically, we focus on (a) the educational composition of metropolitan and rural populations and (b) the residential patterns of educational groups. The empirical analyses using European Social Survey (ESS) data suggest that while there are no systematic changes over the two-decade study period, patterns of residential disparities differ considerably across the analysed countries. In particular, France and Sweden emerge as countries with significant differences in residential location between educational groups. At the same time, there is no evidence that the educational gradient of place of residence is stronger among the younger than the older age groups. Keywords: Socio-spatial disparities; Settlement types; Polarisation; European Social Survey "Educational disparities in place of residence. The urban-rural divide in six European countries from a social stratification perspective" Dirk Konietzka, Yevgeniy Martynovych, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025 [advance online publication] Population inequality matters

Konietzka, Dirk, & Martynovych, Yevgeniy (2025). Educational disparities in place of residence. The urban-rural divide in six European countries from a social stratification perspective. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025 [advance online publication] doi.org/10.1553/p-9g...

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025 Special Issue: Population inequality matters (Book Cover) Guest editors: Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Iñaki Permanyer, Vanessa di Lego The 2025 volume of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research highlights the role of population inequality in demographic research. Besides classical markers of heterogeneity in individual behavior, such as sex/gender, age, education, urban-rural residence and socio-economic status, other sources of inequality related to generational, environmental, and spatial factors are covered in the volume. Understanding population inequality is key for modeling population developments and projecting them into the future. Equally important is to understand how and why different types of inequality arise and evolve, and what policy challenges they impose for socio-economic development, welfare systems and social cohesion.

📢New paper out! @dirkkonietzka.bsky.social & @ymartynovych.bsky.social intersect perspectives of spatial #demography, urban geography, and social stratification to examine whether spatial inequalities between educational groups have increased in European countries.

🔗 tinyurl.com/VYPR25-06

🚨The call for contributions on the @vypr.bsky.social 2026 special issue "Delayed Reproduction: Patterns, Challenges and Prospects” is OPEN!

Don't forget to submit!⏬

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From the Special Issue:
“Population Inequality Matters”
Guest Editors: Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Iñaki Permanyer, Michaela Potančoková and
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More papers at: austriaca.at/9681-5inhalt

Abstract Having leadership skills (LS) may increase an individual’s chances of ascending to a higher rank in hierarchical social structures, which can, in turn, provide the resources needed to support a partner and/or a child. Nevertheless, research on the association between LS and family formation processes (marriage, fertility) is scarce. We explore the prospective association between LS and marriage/completed fertility for 650941 Swedish males. Poisson regression and linear probabilitymodels are applied, including sibling fixed effects models. Our findings demonstrate a positive association between men’s LS, as measured at the age of assignment to military service (17–20 years), and their probability of marrying by age 39 or older (depending on the birth cohort). Furthermore, among the men in our sample, we find that LS are positively linked with the number of children, and are negatively linked with the probability of remaining childless. These associations are only partially explained by education and income.

Peters, Steffen, & Barclay, Kieron (2025). Leadership skills and family formation among males. A study based on Swedish register data . Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025, online first 11/04/2025. doi.org/10.1553/p-kb...

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2025 Special Issue: Population inequality matters (Book Cover) Guest editors: Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Iñaki Permanyer, Vanessa di Lego The 2025 volume of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research highlights the role of population inequality in demographic research. Besides classical markers of heterogeneity in individual behavior, such as sex/gender, age, education, urban-rural residence and socio-economic status, other sources of inequality related to generational, environmental, and spatial factors are covered in the volume. Understanding population inequality is key for modeling population developments and projecting them into the future. Equally important is to understand how and why different types of inequality arise and evolve, and what policy challenges they impose for socio-economic development, welfare systems and social cohesion.

🚨 New paper! In a study of 650,941 Swedish men, Peters & Barclay find that leadership skills measured during military service assignment (ages 17–20) are associated with a higher likelihood of marriage and more children by midlife

🔗 tinyurl.com/vypr-2505

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