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.
Florence-based (together with Ann and Augusta).
www.peterfallesen.com
Florence-based (together with Ann and Augusta).
www.peterfallesen.com
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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 🇩🇰.
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 🇩🇰.
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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 🇩🇰.
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 🇩🇰.
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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...
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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...
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🚀✨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!
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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...
September 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🚀✨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...
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...
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Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...
@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...
@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid
Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.
www.academictransfer.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...
@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...
@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
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🚨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
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
September 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
🚨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
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
EAPS.nl
www.eaps.nl
September 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Bologna is calling
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‼️PhD Funding‼️ Check out this fully-funded PhD position in Stockholm, part of the a 5-year mixed method project investing Sexual and Reproductive Outcomes of Violent Crime led by Dr. Signe Svallfors
PhD studentship with quantitative focus: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
‼️PhD Funding‼️ Check out this fully-funded PhD position in Stockholm, part of the a 5-year mixed method project investing Sexual and Reproductive Outcomes of Violent Crime led by Dr. Signe Svallfors
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I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇
🚨 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...
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...
August 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇
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Nice opportunity. Deadline closing soon.
TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento
Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies
TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento
Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies
The 6th TN-Square is coming! 🏔️
This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we
couldn’t be more excited. ✨
Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news!
For more spoilers, check our website:
event.unitn.it/tn-square/
#TNSquare25
This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we
couldn’t be more excited. ✨
Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news!
For more spoilers, check our website:
event.unitn.it/tn-square/
#TNSquare25
TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento
Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies
event.unitn.it
August 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Nice opportunity. Deadline closing soon.
TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento
Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies
TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento
Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies
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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
August 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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
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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...
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
August 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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...
Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested!
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...
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[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.
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.
August 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
[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.
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.
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Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
theconversation.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n
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A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
July 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4
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July 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4
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Much of that distortion can be traced back to a few hyperactive users
-Just 10% of users produce 97% of political tweets
-A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news
This leads us to believe that society is more polarized, angry, & deluded than it really is. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
-Just 10% of users produce 97% of political tweets
-A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news
This leads us to believe that society is more polarized, angry, & deluded than it really is. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Much of that distortion can be traced back to a few hyperactive users
-Just 10% of users produce 97% of political tweets
-A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news
This leads us to believe that society is more polarized, angry, & deluded than it really is. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
-Just 10% of users produce 97% of political tweets
-A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news
This leads us to believe that society is more polarized, angry, & deluded than it really is. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Our article on parental union dissolution and children’s emotional and behavioral problems appears in the most recent issue of @sfjournal.bsky.social. We find a longterm increase in SDQ score following parental union dissolution [1/2]
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July 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Our article on parental union dissolution and children’s emotional and behavioral problems appears in the most recent issue of @sfjournal.bsky.social. We find a longterm increase in SDQ score following parental union dissolution [1/2]
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
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My book, "Decline and Prosper!", presents a comprehensive and evidence-based overview of the causes and consequences of global fertility decline.
I argue that low fertility is inevitable, yet also has positive effects. We should help people have the children they want bit.ly/35Hm3Yk
I argue that low fertility is inevitable, yet also has positive effects. We should help people have the children they want bit.ly/35Hm3Yk
Decline and Prosper!
This book considers the historical context as well as the full breadth of factors that drive fertility rates across the globe.
bit.ly
November 16, 2024 at 8:22 PM
My book, "Decline and Prosper!", presents a comprehensive and evidence-based overview of the causes and consequences of global fertility decline.
I argue that low fertility is inevitable, yet also has positive effects. We should help people have the children they want bit.ly/35Hm3Yk
I argue that low fertility is inevitable, yet also has positive effects. We should help people have the children they want bit.ly/35Hm3Yk
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Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.
May 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.
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Despite living in wealthy societies, too many children still grow up in poverty.
What can be done—nationally and locally—to change this?
Read our latest Policy Brief for the #Mapineq project by @janierola.net & @mjantti.bsky.social and find it out!
🔗 tinyurl.com/54bwznh9
What can be done—nationally and locally—to change this?
Read our latest Policy Brief for the #Mapineq project by @janierola.net & @mjantti.bsky.social and find it out!
🔗 tinyurl.com/54bwznh9
July 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Despite living in wealthy societies, too many children still grow up in poverty.
What can be done—nationally and locally—to change this?
Read our latest Policy Brief for the #Mapineq project by @janierola.net & @mjantti.bsky.social and find it out!
🔗 tinyurl.com/54bwznh9
What can be done—nationally and locally—to change this?
Read our latest Policy Brief for the #Mapineq project by @janierola.net & @mjantti.bsky.social and find it out!
🔗 tinyurl.com/54bwznh9
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Reckless disregard for the truth coming from cops, doctors, and scientists: A rant.
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Reckless disregard for the truth coming from cops, doctors, and scientists: A rant. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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June 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reckless disregard for the truth coming from cops, doctors, and scientists: A rant.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/24/r...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/24/r...
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As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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“We argue that higher dependency ratios associated with the demographic transition can be considered a manageable challenge for many”
Declining Fertility Leading to Long-Term Stability in Demographic Dependency Ratios
Higher dependency ratios associated with the demographic transition can be considered a manageable challenge for many.
www.adb.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“We argue that higher dependency ratios associated with the demographic transition can be considered a manageable challenge for many”
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In Nordic welfare states, not all family policies promote equality. A new AJS article by Evertsson, Moberg & van der Vleuten compares earnings penalties in same- and different-sex couples across countries, showing how policy design shapes work–care divisions www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
April 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In Nordic welfare states, not all family policies promote equality. A new AJS article by Evertsson, Moberg & van der Vleuten compares earnings penalties in same- and different-sex couples across countries, showing how policy design shapes work–care divisions www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Children from dissolved families benefit 5-7% less from non-school learning environments, with effects increasing over time. Schools showed little ability to compensate, suggesting deteriorating home environments post-separation primarily drive achievement gaps. New article out in ESR
Union dissolution and children’s educational achievement: separating effects of school and non-school environments*
Abstract. We study whether the educational disadvantage of children from households where parents have dissolved their union is due to selection or deterio
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June 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Children from dissolved families benefit 5-7% less from non-school learning environments, with effects increasing over time. Schools showed little ability to compensate, suggesting deteriorating home environments post-separation primarily drive achievement gaps. New article out in ESR