"Higher testosterone levels reduce the risk of becoming or staying unemployed" - new research using our data from @peibich1 MPIDR, Ricky Kanabar @casp_bath, @AlexaanderP NZ Work Research Institute, and @schmied_julian Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung: doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.…

Happy Holi🌈 Spare a thought for the soldier on the borders, the LoC, the LAC. He doesn't go home for Holi or any other festival. Let's all appreciate the colours of courage, camaraderie and commitment that a soldier is dyed in, as he risks his life for the country. Jai Hind 🇮🇳

Part of team MPIDR is ready for Atlanta and PAA2022 👏 MPIDR PAA #PAA2022

My book, "Decline and Prosper!", presents an accessible, comprehensive and evidence-based overview of the causes and consequences of global fertility decline. It argues that continued low fertility is likely inevitable – but comes along with many benefits bit.ly/35Hm3Yk

Our study finds that when health is accounted for, the challenges associated with ageing are more universal than previously thought. The world cannot easily be divided in a young and an old groups of nations. thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

🚨The 1st results from the Malawi Family Planning Study (#MFPS) have been published in PNASNews with david canning, Daniel Maggio and Muqi Guo! Full paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Blog: gdpcenter.org/38ivbUx 🧵 for highlights ⬇️

Day 2 of the Nordic Demographic Symposium. Rishabh Tyagi PHDS student at MPIDR IMPRS-PHDS presents his work on involuntary job loss. #nds2022

First article of my dissertation is out in JECH_BMJ (with F. Janssen NIDI & T. Vogt Population Research Centre) 🥳 We studied adult metabolic health effects of the early-life exposure to the post-reunification economic crisis in East Germany tinyurl.com/Betal22👇 1/

NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia ft.com/content/ef2654… Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people. A thread:

UK stole $45 trillion from India during 1765 to 1938, still India overtook UK’s GDP this year. $45 trillion is 14 times more than the annual GDP of the UK today. They’d apologize and accept they owe reparations to India and other countries they colonized. cadtm.org/spip.php?page=…

HISTORY FOR ARGENTINA. HISTORY FOR MESSI. ARGENTINA ARE WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE '86 🇦🇷🏆

My first #PhD paper is now out in PNASNews!🔥We show that low-esteem in adolescence and limited increase thereof over three decades(!) is linked to more opposition to immigration, gender equality, and social equality in midlife. Main findings in the 🧵1/7 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We will host our 6th Annual CeFH Symposium on May 15-16th, in Oslo! Read more and register here: fhi.no/en/more/resear…

Just published! My latest paper looking at gender differences in mobility. One could say this is a paper that I have been trying to write for the last 7 years, but only with the Time Use Survey released in 2020 could I confidently do this analysis. 1/n tinyurl.com/yyjdtv5c

India elected to the highest UN 🇺🇳 statistical body for a 4-year term beginning on 1 January 2024! Congrats Team India at UN, NY for coming through so strongly in a competitive election.

It was great presenting my PhD project on unemployment & fertility at #PAA2023. Thanks to the chair & discussant of the session and my coauthors @c_dudel , Vegard Skirbekk , Lars & Mikko for all the support with this work.

Never not inkin’ — not even during sessions! ✌🏻 #PAA2023 PAA Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science #DemographyforLife

Do new technologies benefit workers? I used to think this was a simple question. And it is at the heart of my new book with Simon Johnson, Power and Progress, amazon.com/Power-Progress…