Julia Leesch

New publication: @linatobler.bsky.social and I find that trends in educational (mis)matches in the US were largely driven by changes in educational supply and demand.

No Partner, No Children? Union Formation, Assortative Mating, and Educational Inequalities in Fertility in Germany - European Journal of Population European Journal of Population - Education is linked to whether and with whom individuals form partnerships. However, it is largely unclear how educational differences in union formation and...

📢 New publication together with @nhiekel.bsky.social: Our results show that in West Germany, but not in East Germany, highly educated women and less educated men are less likely to have children, partly because they are less likely to have a partner.

doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Portrait of Julia Leesch

👋A warm welcome to Julia Leesch @julialeesch.bsky.social, (MPI for #DemographicResearch) visiting from Rostock for 2 weeks to work with Prof. Nadia Steiber @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and Sandrine Metzger @metzgers.bsky.social on #LifeCourse research.
Learn more ➡️ t.ly/jQp2d
@univie.ac.at #Sociology

Educational hypogamy and gender equality within couples: a review of competing hypotheses and evidence from the Generations and Gender Survey Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e

New in ESR
Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions?
🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples!
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie!

Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026
www.ecsr2026.net

#ECSR2026

Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026

📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Congratulations!!

We just published this open access review paper on SES inequality in family formation and dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe. We identified several promising RQ and hypotheses for others to examine. Especially with the new @ggp.bsky.social data. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @shajiang.bsky.social W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number & age of kin” & kin networks. @stanford.edu @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

💡Rethink #Fertility and #Gender #Inequality in a Changing World💡Recap of the “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” conference @mpidr.bsky.social. Read all about the highlights here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

Five Decades of Marital Sorting in France and the United States – The Role of Educational Expansion and the Changing Gender Imbalance in Education Over the past half-century, higher education expansion and changing gender imbalances in education have reshaped the educational composition of the pa…

📢 We find that shifts in the gender imbalance in education promoted rising hypogamy and declining hypergamy. Yet, if the gender-education association had remained constant, educational expansion would have also led to changes in hypogamy and hypergamy.

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🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

Job opportunities 2 PhD Vacancies “Partnership Trajectories and Intergenerational Relations”

📢 PhD Opportunity at Masaryk University! 🎓 We seek 2 PhD students for the PRINS project on partnership trajectories & intergenerational relations. Apply by 31.03.2025! More info here: soc.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/jo...

Our recent special issue looks at the consequences of the educational expansion for mating patterns.
Want to know more? 👇 comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
#socsky #OpenAccess
@csisunitn.bsky.social @gcorti.bsky.social @flaviamazzeo.bsky.social
@WilfredUunk and many bskyless others

Partner markets and completed fertility in East and West Germany, is the relation between education and completed fertility mediated by partner search outcomes? Super talk by @julialeesch.bsky.social

Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:
go.bsky.app/4MjXqv8

🆕 2 JOBS at the ERC-funded DIGINEQ project!

* Join my team at CED/UAB in Barcelona!

* 1 PhD & 1 Postdoc

* Topics: Adolescent Wellbeing; Social Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Sciences

* Deadline: December 3, 2024

Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs

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🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨
📣Call for Application‼️
2. Rostock Open Science Workshop Rostock @mpidr.bsky.social
📅March 17–18, 2025
#openscience #data
demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
@ezagheni.bsky.social @demography.bsky.social @julialeesch.bsky.social

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Call for Papers! Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography

📣Call for Papers‼️
Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity
🗺️ @mpidr.bsky.social
📅 March 19–21, 2025
Submission Deadline: October 18, 2024
demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#socialscience

youtu.be/KhVRF46wZqQ?...

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Open Science Workshop

I'll be at the @mpidr.bsky.social Open Science Workshop in Rostock in March. Info and application (deadline in September): youtu.be/nCRfR7BYReU

Look at them! My research group rocked the #PAA2024 poster session on family demography

Why does educational homogamy in marriages vary across time and space? Our publication with Tomáš Katrňák and Jan Skopek leads to a new finding: In the investigated contexts, cross-country differences in ‘who marries whom’ are mainly linked to variations in assortative mating.
tinyurl.com/5chp757n

You might have thought 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀@𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗗𝗥 are over?! No, they're not. We are happy to welcome more new people to our @mpidr.bsky.social team. Today, meet @julialeesch.bsky.social. She joined the Research Group Gender Inequalities and Fertility. Welcome Julia! demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

NEW Full Professorship on "Technology and Society" at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin!

*Deadline: January 4th, 2024
*Salary: Academic Pay Scale [€132,301 – €167,243 annum]

Looking for TOP scholars in this field.

Please APPLY and/or SHARE!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEA677/w...

Vielen Dank, Nora!

I started a Postdoc at the @mpidr.bsky.social. I am very excited to be part of the research group “Gender Inequalities and Fertility” led by @nhiekel.bsky.social!