Nicholas D.E. Mark
@nickdemark.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Sociology, UW-Madison. Studying and hoping I can eventually do something to reduce inequality in education + health.
Excellent new work on the ways that harsh immigration policy affects kids. In a paper last year colleagues and I found evidence for the specific mechanism Tom hypothesizes: fear. This makes me so sad for our kids. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Excellent new work on the ways that harsh immigration policy affects kids. In a paper last year colleagues and I found evidence for the specific mechanism Tom hypothesizes: fear. This makes me so sad for our kids. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I spoke w/ @npr.org's Here & Now about pronatalism. The conversation about low birth rates is really about creating a moral panic. Once folks are convinced that low rates cause major problems that can *only* be addressed through raising rates, it opens to door to all sorts of regressive policies.
The state of the pronatalist movement
The pronatalist movement, which claims to be rectifying what some of its members describe as the likely collapse of civilization due to population decline.
www.wbur.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I spoke w/ @npr.org's Here & Now about pronatalism. The conversation about low birth rates is really about creating a moral panic. Once folks are convinced that low rates cause major problems that can *only* be addressed through raising rates, it opens to door to all sorts of regressive policies.
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Three future PAA presidents (Taeuber, Taeuber, Whelpton) and one ASA president (Hankins) wrote positive pieces in American Journal of Sociology in the 1930s about Hitler's pronatalist policies.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Three future PAA presidents (Taeuber, Taeuber, Whelpton) and one ASA president (Hankins) wrote positive pieces in American Journal of Sociology in the 1930s about Hitler's pronatalist policies.
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If you’re attending SFP come to my book event tomorrow with Asha Hassan! @reproresearcher.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you’re attending SFP come to my book event tomorrow with Asha Hassan! @reproresearcher.bsky.social
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Sweden, the place with the best historical data, finds that a larger percentage of births in the late 1800s (12%) were by mothers over age 40 than today (5%). I extremely did not know this
www.scb.se/hitta-statis...
www.scb.se/hitta-statis...
October 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sweden, the place with the best historical data, finds that a larger percentage of births in the late 1800s (12%) were by mothers over age 40 than today (5%). I extremely did not know this
www.scb.se/hitta-statis...
www.scb.se/hitta-statis...
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I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
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3 #PostDoc researcher positions at @helsinki.fi in collaboration with IIASA @iiasa.ac.at and MPIDR @mpidr.bsky.social on population projections, migration dynamics, and human capital development
#demography #박사후연구
www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...
#demography #박사후연구
www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...
Postdoctoral Researchers in Demography and Population Projections
The Population Research Institute (PRI) at Väestöliitto – Family Federation of Finland and the University of Helsinki invite applications for three positions as Postdoctoral research fellow to study…
www.vaestoliitto.fi
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
3 #PostDoc researcher positions at @helsinki.fi in collaboration with IIASA @iiasa.ac.at and MPIDR @mpidr.bsky.social on population projections, migration dynamics, and human capital development
#demography #박사후연구
www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...
#demography #박사후연구
www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...
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Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social
Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know!
(This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)
Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know!
(This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)
hr.myu.umn.edu
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social
Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know!
(This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)
Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know!
(This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)
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Here are some data to drive this point home in sociology. Over the last 10 years we saw a decline from 333 to 200 asst prof jobs posted to the ASA job board - and that's until 2024, which was widely seen as a better market year than 2025
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Here are some data to drive this point home in sociology. Over the last 10 years we saw a decline from 333 to 200 asst prof jobs posted to the ASA job board - and that's until 2024, which was widely seen as a better market year than 2025
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Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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I hope @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social puts this issue front and center. When our team interviewed parents and teens in shelters in 2017, they described all the ways housing instability derails education and makes “school choice” a temporary arrangement.
154,000 New York City Students Were Homeless Last Year, a Record Number
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I hope @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social puts this issue front and center. When our team interviewed parents and teens in shelters in 2017, they described all the ways housing instability derails education and makes “school choice” a temporary arrangement.
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Yesterday's IVF press conference was full of inaccurate claims. @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and I try to correct some of those claims in this @newsweek.com piece.
White House issues warning over US fertility rate
Robert F. Kennedy Jr deemed declining U.S. fertility rates a "national security threat," saying birth rates are not high enough to stabilize the population.
www.newsweek.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Yesterday's IVF press conference was full of inaccurate claims. @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and I try to correct some of those claims in this @newsweek.com piece.
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sorry, not sorry:
October 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
sorry, not sorry:
Wild.
Which is more efficient? Would love something that ran slightly faster than conditional logits!
Which is more efficient? Would love something that ran slightly faster than conditional logits!
Fun fact: you can estimate a conditional logit by running a fixed effects Poisson. They yield the same estimates and standard errors - they maximize the same likelihood. Poisson regression forever!
October 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Wild.
Which is more efficient? Would love something that ran slightly faster than conditional logits!
Which is more efficient? Would love something that ran slightly faster than conditional logits!
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WE'RE HIRING!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
WE'RE HIRING!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
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Just sayin' 😉
With 4 econ hist prizes in a row they should give it to Steve Ruggles already and get it over with
October 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just sayin' 😉
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Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion.
More details here:
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
More details here:
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion.
More details here:
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
More details here:
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
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New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.
It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets.
Thread 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets.
Thread 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.
It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets.
Thread 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets.
Thread 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI.
Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.
Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.
Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology
The Department of Sociology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level specializing in Computational Sociology. The search i...
jobs.rutgers.edu
October 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI.
Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.
Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.
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Interview with @epopppp.bsky.social that clarifies what it might mean to reject what she calls "the economic style of reasoning". In the 2nd answer below, she describes deontology as it's usually thought of in ethics these days: as the view that consequences aren't the *only* thing that matter.
![Is the economic style of reasoning not just about taking the reality of limited resources into account?
Could any policy goal not be attained in a more or less efficient manner?
This is a really good question, because I would never say that we shouldn't consider tradeoffs or try to increase efficiency. I don't think the problem is considering efficiency per se. But there are a couple of issues here.
One is recognizing efficiency as one value among many, and not just giving it top billing by default.
Maybe we do think that some universal benefits are so important that we should just pay for them because that's the kind of society we want to live in, even if that's less efficient. I mean, we pay for everyone to have K-12 [from kindergarten to 12" grade] education in the U.S., even though many families could afford to pay for their children's education themselves. That doesn't mean you don't recognize the cost at some level. It just means that you don't see formal cost-effectiveness as a sort of trump card that trounces everything else.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c7vqw26ejxgheeuju7luuydk/bafkreicve5qymdvwssmibso7e2nqonxzqwzzg7gtqqmcipg7fam6d5xlmy@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Interview with @epopppp.bsky.social that clarifies what it might mean to reject what she calls "the economic style of reasoning". In the 2nd answer below, she describes deontology as it's usually thought of in ethics these days: as the view that consequences aren't the *only* thing that matter.
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Studying a survey of Danish mothers' pre-birth beliefs about how their career will unfold finds they accurately anticipate their eventual return to work but underestimate the duration of the career interruption, from Andrew Caplin, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Chris... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34289
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Studying a survey of Danish mothers' pre-birth beliefs about how their career will unfold finds they accurately anticipate their eventual return to work but underestimate the duration of the career interruption, from Andrew Caplin, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Chris... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34289
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Of you've never seen it, La Operación, classic 1982 documentary, is on youtube:
youtu.be/cGeustqUI78
youtu.be/cGeustqUI78
La Operacion (English)
YouTube video by Pretzel!
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Of you've never seen it, La Operación, classic 1982 documentary, is on youtube:
youtu.be/cGeustqUI78
youtu.be/cGeustqUI78
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Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
September 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
Research on fertility and families enhanced with new harmonised cohort data | CLS
Harmonised data on the fertility histories of four British cohorts are now available for the scientific community to download from the UK Data Service.
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
NEW DATA! Harmonised fertility histories of four British cohorts – born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989-90 – are now available for the scientific community to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
Find out more on the CLS website – bit.ly/42CN0qr
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Study on maternal (ethnic and socioeconomic) characteristics and child mortality in the UK. The study uses linkage of the 2011 census with birth and death registrations.
Educational differences, heightened risk of unemployed & Pakistani mothers stand out.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Educational differences, heightened risk of unemployed & Pakistani mothers stand out.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
September 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Study on maternal (ethnic and socioeconomic) characteristics and child mortality in the UK. The study uses linkage of the 2011 census with birth and death registrations.
Educational differences, heightened risk of unemployed & Pakistani mothers stand out.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Educational differences, heightened risk of unemployed & Pakistani mothers stand out.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...