Starthjælpen gav en kortsigtet positiv beskæftigelseseffekt, men på den lange bane endte den med at koste samfundet penge pga ikke-intenderede konsekvenser

Super exciting with declining marriage trends in Sweden but stable trends of cohabitation formation in the context of ongoing fertility decline. Read more in our latest European J of Population publication: doi.org/10.1007/s10680…

A few days left to apply. Join us in Barcelona! upf.edu/web/politiques…

For anyone in Madrid… causal inf w Miguel Hernán

Flight attendant: Is there any doctor on this flight? Me: I am but not that kind... Attendant: A passenger is under the illusion you can infer causality using random effect better than fixed effect... Me: Say no more.

How does an unconditional cash allowance to families with children affect parents' mental health? Clemente Pignatti & I find that cash leads to a decline in bad mental health days, especially for lower-income and younger parents. Open access at Health Economics: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our new paper shows how restrictive abortion policies can increase infant mortality. Some— but not all— of the increase we found was likely due to forced continuation of pregnancies with known lethal congenital anomalies. Absolutely heartbreaking study to work on.

The Nordic Demographic Symposium 2025 will take place June 10-12 at Hindsgavl Castle, Denmark. CfP will open in winter, but please save the date demografi.dk/aktiviteter/20…

We are hiring a postdoc in sociology at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI). Great place to work, and to do a postdoc (I did one 2015-16) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Check out our (Alice Goisis Peter Fallesen Marta Seiz Tatiana Eremenko Marco Cozzani Leire Salazar) paper in Fertility Sterility on educational gradients in assisted reprod. births in 5 countries. Institutional factors do moderate the gaps! #DIGCLASS fertstert.org/article/S0015-…

Er en tur i Berlingeren og tale om vores skilsmisseforskning, og fotografen har skruet op for dramatikken og det Hammerhøiske lys

Har simpelthen æren af at være Dagens citat i Kristeligt Dagblad - men mit primære take away er at flere børn burde navngives Arnolphus, for det er da et brag af et navn

Economists claiming to be the first to study a topic that has been well-studied by other disciplines be like

Ny AE-analyse slår igen fast, at uddannelse i den grad betaler sig for samfundet. Der er ikke mange investeringer på 780.000 kr., der giver 14,3 mio. kr. igen. Det bør #dkpol huske, når der diskuteres #uddpol Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd (AE) ae.dk/analyse/2024-0…

📢 We're hiring! Two Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology and related fields (e.g. demography, social policy), open to recent PhD graduates and those soon to complete their doctorate Deadline: Mon 23 Sept More info & apply at: nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/jo…

Danske forskere er dygtige. Desværre får Danmark ikke for én enste krone mere forskning ud af, at vi er gode til at trække EU-penge hjem. Det er nemlig et rent nulsumsspil, hvor Folketinget har bestemt, at alle midler, der hjemtages fra EU, modregnes i statens forskningsbudget.

Ifølge min chefs børn er det her meget sejere end de andre gange jeg har været i avisen

Well-done study in Norway that shows that a reform that (a) increased child allowances and (b) reduced taxes in northern Norway, increased childbearing modestly (that the effect size is small is unsurprising as the amounts involved are small). link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Kvinder i Danmark kan (i snit) se frem til at blive markant fattigere som pensionister end mænd. Det er der fem grunde til – og en af disse handler om, hvor mange børn, man får. Ny analyse af Peter Fallesen Jacob Rødgaard Østdal #ligeløn #ligestilling #dkpol Tjek selv tallene her:

In 2021, MPIDR hosted a conference on "Pandemic Babies? The Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics." A special issue of Population and Development Review was now published based on this conference: demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Population Council