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Peter Fallesen
@pfallesen.bsky.social

Research Professor. I study bad stuff in families. ROCKWOOL Foundation and Stockholm University. AE at EJP and ESR. President of the Danish Demographic Society.
Copenhagen-based (together with Ann and Augusta).
www.peterfallesen.com .. more

Psychology 26%
Political science 20%

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The 2026 program for the ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Seminar Series is now online, and I couldn’t be more excited! We have an exceptional lineup of researchers who will visit us next year.

If you’d like to stay informed about upcoming seminars, sign up here.

en.rockwoolfonden.dk/seminars/
Seminars - The ROCKWOOL Foundation
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Damning overview of the nudging literature.

"[We] provide the most comprehensive synthesis of the effectiveness of nudging."

"We find a small aggregated effect size."

"[Our results show] the urgent need for higher quality, preregistered meta-analyses to clarify the true impact [of nudging]."
NEW: Ely Strömberg, Per Engzell, "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
sociologicalscience.com

I guess this means 50% I only wear black, 50% I have oatmeal on my back
📢 New dataset for researchers!
The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024.
🔗 eplp-dataset.org
Our new paper: Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births? led by Laura Sochas is out now OA in @sfjournal.bsky.social
Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births?
Abstract. Large local government spending cuts in England, spanning over a decade of austerity policies, have severely restricted the universal services an
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Breeders
Low
Leonard Cohen
My Bloody Valentine
Shellac
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Ozzy & Metallica

SRV & Joe Cocker

Iron Maiden & Yngwie

Jazzfest

U2
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Ozzy & Metallica

SRV & Joe Cocker

Iron Maiden & Yngwie

Jazzfest

U2
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

• James Taylor, Hourglass
• Ben Folds, Supersunnyspeedgraphic
• Motion City Soundtrack, Commit This to Memory
• Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Heart
• John Mayer, Sob Rock
Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/25/p...
Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
Gaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy
Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE
Berkeley Demography application deadline for Fall 2026 admission is Dec 1, 2025.

Read more here:
www.demog.berkeley.edu/graduate-adm...
Graduate Admission Information - Department of Demography
Overview of the Graduate Admission Process The Department of Demography offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Demography, a Ph.D. degree in Sociology and Demography, training with no degree goal under “cou...
www.demog.berkeley.edu

Stadig for tidligt til helt at være sikker på hvorvidt vi ser udligning nu, men ja lige nu går det op. Bliver spændende når vi til februar begynder at kunne se de aldersspecifikke fødselsrater for 2025

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In an interesting turn of events, US and Danish government came up with the same to help with the affordability crisis: longer mortgages!

That has sparked some backlash. But in the US, it seems the discussion is focusing on the wrong stuff.

Well, let’s try to learn from 🇩🇰.

Do you know year of Fire Horse? And do you know the total fertility rate dropped 26% in the last fire horse year in Japan?

My new blog post explains how the superstition changed fertility pattern in the last Fire Horse Years (1906, 1966) in Japan.

2026 will be Fire Horse...
New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...
🚀✨The Editorial Board of ESR is growing!

We’re happy to welcome PeterFallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social

( ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark) as a new Associate Editor!!

We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Editorial Board and look forward to working together!

academic.oup.com/esr/pages/Ed...
Do you know year of Fire Horse? And do you know the total fertility rate dropped 26% in the last fire horse year in Japan?

My new blog post explains how the superstition changed fertility pattern in the last Fire Horse Years (1906, 1966) in Japan.

2026 will be Fire Horse...

I’ll be at the pre-conference workshop on Tuesday
🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

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Bologna is calling
EAPS.nl | Call for Submissions
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PhD studentship with quantitative focus: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
Soon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries

Helt enig

Nok for tidligt at konkludere, men vi må forvente en stigning inden for en årrække når den del af faldet, der skyldes udsættelse pga øget uddannelsesoptag blandt yngre kvinder, begynder at blive indhentet
This is a fabulous response by my colleague Kevin Munger to "that" Economist piece about the EUI.

Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested!

kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...
I guess that makes me...Horace Slughorn?
or maybe the centaur named "Firenze"
kevinmunger.substack.com

New albums from The Armed and from Alex G both been in high rotation in my headphones
[New finding!]

Ryohei Mogi, Ryota Mugiyama, & Alyce Raybould (@alyceraybould.bsky.social ) has shown that individuals without a romantic partner are more likely to revise their fertility desires downward.‪

Gambetta and Herzog wrote a book that indirectly tried to parse out the mechanisms by looking at Islamic extremism press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Engineers of Jihad
A groundbreaking investigation into why so many Islamic radicals are engineers
press.princeton.edu