Investing in people and their capabilities pays off - also in terms of fertility: top-ranked countries on #HDI have higher fertility levels as people are confident to establish families - Prof Billari of Università Bocconi at #ICPD25 in Geneva

New paper: Seeding the gender revolution: Women’s #education and cohort #fertility among the baby boom generations tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #population #demography Austrian Academy of Sciences

Is #Europe facing a #population crisis? Panel discussion with Alanna Armitage UNFPA, Wolfgang Lutz, Tomas Sobotka and Shalini Randeria IWM, on 18 Oct 2018, 10AM-12PM at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in #Vienna wittgensteincentre.org/en/news/articl… EU_ScienceHub IIASA UNFPA in Eastern Europe & Central Asia #migration

Today the Government has launched a new strategy on #loneliness. Instead of offering medication, doctors will be encouraged to use #socialprescribing to refer lonely patients to social activities. Read our full response: bit.ly/2ROih3v

#FertilityMatters everywhere in the world. Why? Because it reflects how well couples and individuals have the power to choose whether, when or how often to have children. See how the #PowerOfChoice can change the world in UNFPA’s new #SWOP2018 report: unfpa.org/SWOP

Hands-On Programming with R is now available for free online, rstudio-education.github.io/hopr/! Please help me spread the word. Thank you O'Reilly for the CC! #rstats #bookdown RStudio Mara Averick

Tomas Sobotka: Policies should take the diversity of family trends into account. Austrian Academy of Sciences UNFPA in Eastern Europe & Central Asia UNFPA IWM IIASA #fertility #policy

New paper “From Privilege to Prevalence” online at #Demography! Maggie Frye and I ask how one’s own education, together with the greater educational context of one’s country-cohort, shapes marital timing across 30 African countries. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Explaining Swedish sibling similarity in fertility: Parental fertility behavior vs. social background demographic-research.org/volumes/vol39/…

Our research: first children increase mothers' time pressure and second children double it. Mothers' greater time pressure helps explain their worse mental health with children. @[email protected] Sorry mom! Signed, Your third child onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The large cross-country differences in fathers’ use of parental leave between Finland and Sweden mainly stem from differences in policy design - new #research by Eleonora Mussino, @jutervol & Ann-Zofie Duvander @SAGEsociology journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZsqnTEa…

Look forward to revisiting Southampton and convey partial new knowledge of the population policy of China and explore their effects on the fertility transition of China😊😊

Massive thanks to all the attendees, contributors and live-streamers of the Public Lecture last night. You can watch online here if you missed it: ow.ly/ZbkL50jKGG5 and don’t forget to sign up for the final instalment on 04 Dec southampton.ac.uk/news/events/20… University of Southampton Events

Even a hard way to go and back, still fully enjoyed those events of CPC (@cpc-cg.bsky.social 🦋), thank for all great thoughts and insightful presentations on family, partnership and health, especially for China, a country experiencing drastic social, cultural, economic and policy changes.

Xinhua: Beijing Population Falls for First Time in 20 Years  voanews.com/a/xinhua-beiji… via Voice of America

It all starts with fertility: Wolfgang Lutz is opening the 3rd HFDatabase Symposium #fertility across time and space IIASA Max Planck Society

News on fertility transition in developing countries: Yes, the trend in rural excess fertility (rural/urban) follows an inverted U shape over time! Main reason: The transition starts earlier in cities. Read new PDR paper by Mathias Lerch: bit.ly/U-Shape

Watch all contributions from the 3rd HFDatabase Symposium #fertility across time and space: Data and research advances bit.ly/2CEqiBa Austrian Academy of Sciences MPIDR #demography #population

Wittgenstein Centre IIASA Samir KC

#PAA2019 Interested in gender equity and sex ratio at birth? Come & join first day’s morning session. I am going to present a joint paper with Tomas Sobotka,Wittgenstein Centre documenting and discussing the welcome ‘’normalization’’ of the SRBs in China PAA