Patrick Heuveline

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Position is for 3 years with excellent salary, housing and benefits. Please share widely. For more information and application, link ⬇️

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Does exposure to armed conflict affect women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence? Evidence from Vietnam - Journal of Population Economics This study combines individual-level survey data and province-level data on wartime bombing to assess the long-term impact of the Vietnam War on Vietnamese women’s attitudes toward intimate partner vi...

In new study on domestic violence in Vietnam, Hanbo Wu argues "normalization of and desensitization to violence in the domestic sphere as well as war trauma likely play an important role in explaining the effect of conflict exposure on the justification of IPV" doi.org/10.1007/s001...

The Dorothy S. Thomas Award is presented annually for the best graduate student paper on the interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables. Nominations now open! Submit a nomination by January 31, 2026. buff.ly/sMThJ6E

IMHO too little attention to mortality-fertility interactions in highly-specialized demography (was once asked "Are you a mortality demographer or a fertility demographer?"), so really enjoyed article on extrinsic mortality & life history traits w/ 30 (!) peer commentaries :
doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Online ways for older adults to stay socially connected: Lessons from Singapore Shannon Ang Nanyang Technological University Singapore Nov. 17, 2025 PSC Brown Bag Series 2025 Join us live or on Zoom ISR (Thompson St.) Room 1430 | Mondays at noon

👀 We are thrilled to have @um-psc.bsky.social alumnus @angabridged.bsky.social join us for our next Brown Bag session: Shannon Ang of NTU Singapore joins us presenting on ways older adults stay socially connected online. #sociology Live and on Zoom: psc.isr.umich.edu/events/ang/

Register for IPUMs International Online Session Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊

Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.

🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...

Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

New paper on flooding and birth rates in Bangladesh with @valmuellerasu.bsky.social (and others):

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Global Fellows Program in Demography The PSTC has a long-standing tradition of hosting scholars, researchers, and practitioners from diverse corners of the globe.

The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...

📢My paper is out in Population and Development Review.😀Central and Eastern Europe’s population change isn’t just about fertility, mortality, and migration — the age structure also an important factor.
#demography #ageing #fertility #Hungary #Poland #Romania #migration
doi.org/10.1111/padr...

CCPR Miniconference 10/17: “Fertility and Demographic Change” #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #miniconference

job

TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY

Department of Sociology, Western University

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

@westernu.ca #cdnsoci

Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context Participating journal: Population Research and Policy Review Call for Papers Low and declining birth rates across the world have consequences for countries’ population size and structure. Concerns over the potential economic effects of population aging have spurred many countries to engage in efforts to raise birth rates. At the same time, there is growing concern about the social and cultural causes and consequences of low birth rates. Pronatalism – an ideology based on the belief that birth rates are too low, and societies should work to raise them in the interest of economic productivity and cultural preservation – has re-emerged as an increasingly visible and powerful force across different settings. The dynamics of low fertility – such as fertility decline, postponement, and changing patterns of family formation – have been common topics in population science over the last 25 years, but pronatalism has received considerably less attention from the field. This Special Issue will provide an opportunity for population scientists to contribute to the conversations about pronatalism throughout the world. We welcome critical, theoretical, descriptive, and empirical submissions that explicitly focus on some aspect of pronatalism. Further research is needed on the evidentiary base upon which pronatalism rests; the social, political, and cultural inspirations and implications of pronatalism; and the support for, and effects of, pronatalist policies. Evaluation of alternative approaches (besides raising birth rates) for addressing changes in population size and composition is also warranted. Submissions that discuss the causes and consequences of low fertility but do not directly engage with pronatalism fall outside of the scope of this issue.

Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

There's still time to join us in Montreal for the 2026 @wfrn.bsky.social conference - the deadline is extended until October 15!

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Pronatalism is fascism?

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here:

apply.interfolio.com/174709

Formal demographers encouraged to apply.
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

"The probability of first birth within marriage has become increasingly similar across social classes, while cohabiting and single parenthood have become more strongly stratified," finds
@aledinal.bsky.social in new DR article

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME) One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

Bringing mortality back into our understanding of fertility change: revisiting the onset of fertility transitions using net reproduction measures - Journal of Population Research This paper argues for the reintegration of mortality into studies of fertility transition by using net reproduction measures rather than solely focusing on total fertility rates (TFR). Accounting for ...

New paper by @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social & Spoorenberg shows that "accounting for mortality through metrics like the 2-Sex Net Reproductive Rate (2SNRR) [could] change our understanding of fertility transitions globally" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Optimal pandemic control strategies and cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions in the United States - BMC Global and Public Health Background Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a trade-off between the health impacts of viral spread and the social and economic costs of restric...

Our paper, “Optimal pandemic control strategies …” bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... w @nickirons.bsky.social, just published.Takeaway: U.S. COVID-19 school closures were not cost-effective, but other measures were. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

"Women with children increased their [desired family size] in response to growing COVID-19 mortality" in Pernambuco, Brazil, find @leticiamarteleto.bsky.social & Kumar in: read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

📊Next Thursday, our colleague @phbocquier.bsky.social will present a #IneqKill paper, "Identifying small-area diffusion of #mortality transitions using non-linear modelling in 19th-century Belgium" for the Formal Demography Working Group.

Register here: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

Congratulations!

"Sociology recognizes social relationships are fundamental to the structure and organization of society, yet the discipline has shown limited interest in the dissolution of social ties through death," top-notch, agenda-setting read by E. Smith-Greenaway, A. Verdury & D. Carr:
doi.org/10.1146/annu...

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna.

💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

Life Expectancy Loss and Recovery by Age and Sex Following Catastrophic Events in Europe during the 19th and 20th Centuries - Canadian Studies in Population Canadian Studies in Population - Following catastrophic events such as pandemics or wars, a systematic loss in life expectancy at birth ( $$\:{e}_{0}$$ ) can be observed. This study aims to...

Following major European pandemics and wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, "recovery times across events averaged approximately seven years and showed no significant statistical differences by event type or sex," find Silva & Aburto in new article:
doi.org/10.1007/s426...

"Cohabitation remains a liminal space between singlehood and marriage for the NLSY97 cohort" find Huang & Kelley in new article:
doi.org/10.4054/DemR...

If ithe author doing the study seems implausible, shouldn't it be a plausible cause for desk rejection? In a perfect world, we should and could have blind reviews after scrutiny from Editors. In reality, Editors are swamped, uncompensated, etc.