East German women who were children or adolescents in 1990 seem to face more mental health issues than West German women of their age. This is especially if their parents were unemployed. Have you seen our PopDigest on reunification and mental health? tinyurl.com/2jb5bh75

Natalie Nitsche ANUDemography shows based on #NLSY79 data that homogamous tertiary educated couples have the highest first and second birth rates in the US 🇺🇸, indicating the relevance of resource pooling for family formation PAA #poptwitter comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

Based on #SOEP and #BHPS Rona Geffen shows that recent cohorts of adults are forming more gender-#egalitarian households: 1.5-male breadwinner households in 🇩🇪 and dual-earner households in 🇬🇧 – indicating a cohort replacement of household labour supply comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

Thank you for a great and exciting year. Season's greetings🌟and a Happy New Year from the entire Comparative Population Studies team. We are already looking forward to 2025 and our journal’s 50th anniversary 🍾. Stay tuned.

📢 Call for Papers 📢 We welcome submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. The SI aims to provide deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

Over the past five decades, Comparative Population Studies has become an established journal in the ever-changing landscape of population research. At the Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB), we're proud of this journey and excited about the future. The best is yet to come! 🚀#PopulationResearch #Innovation #Anniversary

Last week, we celebrated🥂50 years Comparative Population Studies with a reception during the annual meeting of the German Society for Demography #DGDJahrestagung A wonderful moment to reflect on 5 decades of valuable research and contributions to the field of demography and population research!

🎉 50th anniversary 🎉 In his editorial, former director of Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB) and publisher of Comparative Population Studies, Norbert F. Schneider, reflects on the #transformation of CPoS: From a German print journal into an international #open-access journal comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

Comparative Population Studies' three most downloaded articles🏆of Vol. 47 (2022), Vol. 48 (2023) and Vol. 49 (2024) all deal with the topic of #migration: Ukrainian refugees in 🇩🇪, experiences of violence at #European borders or internal migration in 🇪🇸 Check them out 👇 comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

The survey data used in the CPoS paper on labour outcomes of internal migration and distance to family in Spain is **now** available upon request doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/7SCP6

Did long-term differences in socioeconomic structures shape birth seasonality in 🇩🇪? Risto Conte explores this question focussing on the pre- and post-reunification eras in #East and #WestGermany using HFDatabase comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

Contrary to #Gender Revolution Theory, Mark Gortfelder, Allan Puur and Martin Klesment TLU Demograafia do not find a positive association between the degree of division of domestic #labour and #fertility for Estonia 🇪🇪 Want to know the details? 👇 comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

🎉 50th anniversary 🎉 In his editorial former external editor Philip Rees provides guidance for aspiring authors of Comparative Population Studies articles in preparing and revising a submission. Find the full guide below comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

Irina Grossman Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and Tom Wilson evaluate the accuracy of mortality forecasting methods by preparing ‘retrospective’ forecasts for Australia 🇦🇺 based on data from Human Mortality Database including 8 methods from the StMoMo and demography R packages a.o. comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

Johannes Huinink shares his experinces with Comparative Population Studies and its predecessor from over 4 decades, highlighting key milestones, scholarly debates, and the importance of making #demographic research more inclusive globally🌍Read his anniversary editorial 👇 comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CPoS…

Great presentations by A Colasurdo, Nazareno Panichella and J Wu at Session 96, "Internal Migration as a Life Course Trajectory", organized by the Panel on Lifetime Migration at #IPC2025. Papers from this session—and others—will appear in a Special Issue of Comparative Population Studies in 2026