Happy to share my new publication in @SF_Journal!📣
Why is household equality so hard? Unequal scripts mean that equality takes work—often falling to women, even when men say they want it.
Paradoxically, for women, doing less still means more work.
https://t.co/BmeLZTqFAk
“Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults": @maikevd2011, @d_alburez & @andres9986 use survey data & demog models to calculate sizes of kinship types--"downward, lateral, upward & total"-- and compare the strengths of each approach. @CEDemografia@MPIDRnews
https://t.co/UudOXpxBQc
📢🏳️🌈 New publication alert!
My article has been published in Social Science Research.
Using ACS data, I show how state-level laws & public attitudes are associated with three types of occupational segregation for sexual minority workers.
Read here: https://t.co/nvqDMLcy3X
📢 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.
https://t.co/TS9hdL5ymD
In honor of international women's day, let's take a moment to remember the most famous statistician in history.
You've definitely heard of her, but you probably have no idea she was a statistician.
It's Florence Nightingale.
Harvard's Library Innovation Lab just released all 311,000 datasets from data .gov, totalling 16 TB.🫡🫡
This is a complete archive of federal public datasets harvested during 2024-2025, updated daily.
In addition to the inanity of blanket-banning research on these topics, if they're really doing this via string matching, they're also going to throw out econometrics ("biased" estimators), biology (blood-brain "barrier") and a whole bunch of math (Jensen's "inequality") 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I created a harmonised dataset of the population of the island of Ireland by age from 1841-2022. Ireland might be the only place where you see a U shaped graph like this. Is there anywhere else like this?
“The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth Outcomes”: In a study of the PA Marcellus Shale economy, @socmolly@Tiffany_L_Green & A Chapman find that a $1K gain in mean income correlates w/ a 1.5-pp drop in low birth weight. @UPennPRC https://t.co/LE2rNw9SCe
Saying bye bye to this site by sharing my last @ASR_Journal pub, w amazing colab @mioana! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most https://t.co/LdIdBjTbeE
🚨SURVEY PARTICIPANTS NEEDED🚨
https://t.co/J0Kz6iiSP9
I am seeking participants to complete a survey to assess influences of physical activity! Please follow the link below to complete the survey and feel free to share with your circles #dissertation#LGBTQ#physicalactivity
Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️#summer 2025 yet? Look no more! @MPIDRnews has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 https://t.co/c6YPq0Gize
A new analysis of Norwegian registries finds an association between family transitions and wealth differences over the life course, shedding light on the role of family structures and dynamics in reproducing social inequalities. Great work by @BHuenteler, @theresanutz, @JoWoern!
Even if all hostilities were to cease immediately, we estimate it would take over 50 years of uninterrupted peace to reduce the proportion of bereaved individuals in the Palestinian population to a quarter of current levels. New article w/ @Acosta_Kike_ 👇 https://t.co/f9DVQhXeje
In Germany, public childcare ⬇️ child maltreatment
--> ⬇️ from cases initiated bc of neglect & parental overburden (as well as abuse), suggesting substitution of inadequate childcare is a main channel
@MalteSandner Thomsen & @LibertadGonLu in @EJ_RES
https://t.co/0a4jBXwzAl