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The Baltic countries lost a quarter of their population between 1990 and 2020. While net migration was the main driver, below-replacement fertility reduced their populations by about one tenth.
Details: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#demography #Population #Estonia #Lithuania #Latvia

CUNY Leads U.S. News 2026 Rankings for Social Mobility and Return on Investment – The City University of New York CUNY has once again been recognized as a powerhouse of upward mobility by U.S. News & World Report. On its 2026 Best Colleges ranking, U.S. News featured 10 CUNY colleges, including The City College o...

Among regional universities in the northern U.S., two CUNY colleges — @baruch.cuny.edu and @huntercollege.bsky.social — tied for the top spot on U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Colleges ranking, with a total of six CUNY senior colleges in the top 10.

Last but not least! Installment #7 in Paul Krugman's recent series on #inequality.
@pkrugman.bsky.social
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

In their piece for the #EGEssaySeries, @davidautor.bsky.social, @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, and Gordon Hanson break down the China trade shock of the early 2000s, its impacts on manufacturing and the labor market, and how it has shaped U.S. politics.

Learn more ⬇️
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New Working Paper Alert! Joint work with my amazing co-authors Lisa Klein and @pmlersch.bsky.social! We show how demographic changes contributed to #wealth #inequality in #Germany from 1988 to 2017. #econsky

Tech C.E.O. Pays $400,000 to Conduct the Toronto Symphony

Solving Baumol’ Cost Disease Problems: A Modern Approach

Andrew A. Beveridge, Who Found the Unexpected in Census Data, Dies at 79 With his own research group and as a professor at Queens College, he plumbed raw data for often-surprising insights about the way the country was changing.

CUNY mourns the loss of Andrew A. Beveridge, a professor emeritus of sociology at @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. He also directed the University's Applied Social Research program and helped establish its Institute for Demographic Research.

Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (2009). The incomplete revolution: adapting to women's new roles. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity. ISBN 9780745643168.

This chart shows the share of women who have had no births by the end of their childbearing years in four countries: the United States, Sweden, Japan, and Spain. Each country's data is represented on separate graphs, plotted against the years from 1918 to 1972 along the horizontal axis, labeled as "Women's birth year." The vertical axis indicates the percentage of women who have had no births, ranging from 0% to 30%. In the US graph, the percentage starts around 15% in 1918, dips slightly mid-century, and then rises again to near 20% by the early 1970s. The Sweden graph shows a relatively stable line around 10–15% throughout the years, with no significant fluctuations. Japan's graph trends upward, reaching around 25% by the end of the timeline. In Spain, the share steadily increases, culminating in over 20% by 1972, indicating a growing trend in women having no births. The data source is cited as the Human Fertility Database (2024). The chart is published by Our World in Data.

What share of women reach the end of their childbearing years without having children?

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Twice as long – life expectancy around the world Life expectancy has doubled over the last two centuries around the world. How has this happened?

Read more in our article “Twice as long – life expectancy around the world”: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy-globally

Hello world! #data #LISdata

Data below refers to risk of poverty rate at 60 % of median equivalised disposable income (including 95% confidence interval)

First post on Bsky! Hello world!
👇Since December 2024 the LIS & LWS databases contain more than 1000 datasets. This enables research on more than 30 Mio. households and 90 Mio individuals.
Explore our databases here: www.lisdatacenter.org/our-data/ #LISdata #inequality #poverty #research

Opinion | Congestion Pricing Shows the Future of the Democratic Party A model for how to deliver for voters without getting stuck in a traffic jam — political or otherwise.

Read @henrygrabar.bsky.social on the political leadership needed to make congestion pricing both effective and sustainable #EconSky

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

Swift economic change may lead to both generational and gendered conflicts that result in a rapid decrease in the total fertility rate, from Claudia Goldin https://www.nber.org/papers/w33311

Screenshot showing off some of the new IPUMS IHGIS features, including some of the finest scale geographies

IPUMS IHGIS is now more geographic! 🌏 You can view tabulation geography metadata, filter tables by geographies for which they are available, and select geographies to include in your extract. 🗺️ Check it out at ihgis.ipums.org

Demystifying and Demonstrating Spatially Harmonized Geography in IPUMS DHS Data and techniques for dealing with shifting boundaries in longitudinal research

There is a new post on the IPUMS DHS Climate Change and Health Research Hub! Learn when and how to us IPUMS spatially harmonized boundary files in your longitudinal research. @ipumsGH #GlobalHealth #spatial #cartography tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...

The Urban Soil Guide Earth and Environmental Sciences alumna Anna Paltseva explores the science of urban soil and how to grow healthy food.

Calling all urban gardeners! Alumna Anna Paltseva’s new book offers other help for testing urban soil for contaminants and other down-to-Earth suggestions for improving soil quality www.gc.cuny.edu/news/urban-s...

Family influence on children's futures is crucial, but broader societal factors like labor markets, education systems, and healthcare also play significant roles. Addressing inequalities in these areas is essential for effective family support and children's opportunities. 👇🏻

Higher poverty rates in the US than in other rich countries are not due to a higher prevalence of single-parent families but due to the especially high penalty of being a single parent in the US. The explanation for variation in poverty across countries is not demography. 👇

How can academics with good ideas have more of an impact on policy makers?

The challenges lie in understanding the different perspectives of researchers and politicians.

Here’s a short thread on what I think are three of the main challenges, and the ways around them.

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