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Julia Leesch
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Postdoc @mpidr.bsky.social | Previously @tcddublin | #SocialStratification#SocialDemography #Family
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katchzhen.bsky.social
The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie!

Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026
www.ecsr2026.net

#ECSR2026

Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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markusklein.bsky.social
📢 New in @sfjournal.bsky.social: We study how parental #education shapes children’s #cognitive development. Accounting for selective parenthood & grandparent & early parent characteristics, we find education largely reflects broader #intergenerational advantages. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Parental education and children’s cognitive development: a prospective approach
Abstract. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) to estimate the impact of parental education on childre
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September 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Julia Leesch
martinkreidl.bsky.social
We just published this open access review paper on SES inequality in family formation and dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe. We identified several promising RQ and hypotheses for others to examine. Especially with the new @ggp.bsky.social data. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Inequality in Family Formation and Dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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readdemography.bsky.social
In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @shajiang.bsky.social W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number & age of kin” & kin networks. @stanford.edu @mpidr.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
June 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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mpidr.bsky.social
💡Rethink #Fertility and #Gender #Inequality in a Changing World💡Recap of the “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” conference @mpidr.bsky.social. Read all about the highlights here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
June 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
julialeesch.bsky.social
📢 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.

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Five Decades of Marital Sorting in France and the United States – The Role of Educational Expansion and the Changing Gender Imbalance in Education
Over the past half-century, higher education expansion and changing gender imbalances in education have reshaped the educational composition of the pa…
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April 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Reposted by Julia Leesch
mpidr.bsky.social
🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025
March 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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zilincikova.bsky.social
📢 PhD Opportunity at Masaryk University! 🎓 We seek 2 PhD students for the PRINS project on partnership trajectories & intergenerational relations. Apply by 31.03.2025! More info here: soc.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/jo...
Job opportunities
2 PhD Vacancies “Partnership Trajectories and Intergenerational Relations”
soc.fss.muni.cz
March 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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stefanischerer.bsky.social
Our recent special issue looks at the consequences of the educational expansion for mating patterns.
Want to know more? 👇 comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
#socsky #OpenAccess
@csisunitn.bsky.social @gcorti.bsky.social @flaviamazzeo.bsky.social
@WilfredUunk and many bskyless others
Special Issues | Comparative Population Studies
comparativepopulationstudies.de
November 22, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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lilivargha.bsky.social
Partner markets and completed fertility in East and West Germany, is the relation between education and completed fertility mediated by partner search outcomes? Super talk by @julialeesch.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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ekotov.pro
Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:
go.bsky.app/4MjXqv8
November 16, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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pablogracia.bsky.social
🆕 2 JOBS at the ERC-funded DIGINEQ project!

* Join my team at CED/UAB in Barcelona!

* 1 PhD & 1 Postdoc

* Topics: Adolescent Wellbeing; Social Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Sciences

* Deadline: December 3, 2024

Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs

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October 23, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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mpidr.bsky.social
🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨
📣Call for Application‼️
2. Rostock Open Science Workshop Rostock @mpidr.bsky.social
📅March 17–18, 2025
#openscience #data
demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
@ezagheni.bsky.social @demography.bsky.social @julialeesch.bsky.social
September 16, 2024 at 6:25 AM
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mpidr.bsky.social
📣Call for Papers‼️
Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity
🗺️ @mpidr.bsky.social
📅 March 19–21, 2025
Submission Deadline: October 18, 2024
demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#socialscience

youtu.be/KhVRF46wZqQ?...
Call for Papers! Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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September 4, 2024 at 8:35 AM
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philipncohen.com
I'll be at the @mpidr.bsky.social Open Science Workshop in Rostock in March. Info and application (deadline in September): youtu.be/nCRfR7BYReU
Open Science Workshop
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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August 26, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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nhiekel.bsky.social
Look at them! My research group rocked the #PAA2024 poster session on family demography
April 19, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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europeansocieties.bsky.social
👰NEW ARTICLE:👰‍ @julialeesch.bsky.social examines assortative mating in three countries 🇨🇿🇸🇪🇮🇹

OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1080/1461...
February 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
julialeesch.bsky.social
Why does educational homogamy in marriages vary across time and space? Our publication with Tomáš Katrňák and Jan Skopek leads to a new finding: In the investigated contexts, cross-country differences in ‘who marries whom’ are mainly linked to variations in assortative mating.
tinyurl.com/5chp757n
January 23, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Reposted by Julia Leesch
mpidr.bsky.social
You might have thought 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀@𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗗𝗥 are over?! No, they're not. We are happy to welcome more new people to our @mpidr.bsky.social team. Today, meet @julialeesch.bsky.social. She joined the Research Group Gender Inequalities and Fertility. Welcome Julia! demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
November 27, 2023 at 9:10 AM
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pablogracia.bsky.social
NEW Full Professorship on "Technology and Society" at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin!

*Deadline: January 4th, 2024
*Salary: Academic Pay Scale [€132,301 – €167,243 annum]

Looking for TOP scholars in this field.

Please APPLY and/or SHARE!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEA677/w...
November 22, 2023 at 2:50 PM
julialeesch.bsky.social
I started a Postdoc at the @mpidr.bsky.social. I am very excited to be part of the research group “Gender Inequalities and Fertility” led by @nhiekel.bsky.social!
November 15, 2023 at 5:50 PM