Jitka Slabá
@sljitka.bsky.social
One of the Prague's Young Demographers, Czech GGS team member
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💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia.
🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social
🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social
Is Marriage Still Outdated? Changing Views on Marriage and Cohabitation in Five European Countries - Population Research and Policy Review
This study aimed to examine how views on marriage and cohabitation changed between 2004–2009 and 2020–2023 in Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, and Norway. Cross-sectional data from the first round ...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia.
🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social
🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social
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🆕📰Marriage or Separation
Angela Carollo, H.Putter,P.Eilers &J.Gampe have developed a model to analyze transitions from non-marital cohabitation to either marriage or separation considering two-time scales simultaneously: age of individuals & duration of cohabitation.
https://ow.ly/WUty50XcZzT
Angela Carollo, H.Putter,P.Eilers &J.Gampe have developed a model to analyze transitions from non-marital cohabitation to either marriage or separation considering two-time scales simultaneously: age of individuals & duration of cohabitation.
https://ow.ly/WUty50XcZzT
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🆕📰Marriage or Separation
Angela Carollo, H.Putter,P.Eilers &J.Gampe have developed a model to analyze transitions from non-marital cohabitation to either marriage or separation considering two-time scales simultaneously: age of individuals & duration of cohabitation.
https://ow.ly/WUty50XcZzT
Angela Carollo, H.Putter,P.Eilers &J.Gampe have developed a model to analyze transitions from non-marital cohabitation to either marriage or separation considering two-time scales simultaneously: age of individuals & duration of cohabitation.
https://ow.ly/WUty50XcZzT
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17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
YD2026 Call for Papers
17th Conference of Young Demographers 4–6 February 2026, Prague (Wednesday–Friday) Call for Papers Dear friends and colleagues, On behalf of the Young Demographers, the Geographical Institute and the...
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October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
17th Conference of Young Demographers, 4–6 February 2026, Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Deadline for submissions: 27 October 2025
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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❓ Kolik žen má zkušenost s léčbou neplodnosti? Jaké metody asistované reprodukce tyto ženy využívají a jak je kombinují?
🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze věnované asistované reprodukci. Celý leták naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...
🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze věnované asistované reprodukci. Celý leták naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...
July 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
❓ Kolik žen má zkušenost s léčbou neplodnosti? Jaké metody asistované reprodukce tyto ženy využívají a jak je kombinují?
🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze věnované asistované reprodukci. Celý leták naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...
🔗 To se dozvíte v naší nejnovější analýze věnované asistované reprodukci. Celý leták naleznete zde: ggp-cz.fss.muni.cz/zajimave-vys...
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Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ...
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk
July 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ...
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
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#PanelData #FredaAutumnSchool
📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025!
Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.
📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025!
Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.
June 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
#PanelData #FredaAutumnSchool
📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025!
Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.
📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025!
Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.
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interesting paper by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social on the gender divide in the left-right self-placement. There is no clear trend across all countries, increases in some countries, in others stability academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
June 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
interesting paper by @nennstielr.bsky.social and @hudde.bsky.social on the gender divide in the left-right self-placement. There is no clear trend across all countries, increases in some countries, in others stability academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
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🤩📣 New paper on participant-led methodological development for collecting high-resolution data on the post-natal period 👩🍼
with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️
funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social
summary 🧵👇
with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️
funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social
summary 🧵👇
April 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🤩📣 New paper on participant-led methodological development for collecting high-resolution data on the post-natal period 👩🍼
with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️
funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social
summary 🧵👇
with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️
funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social
summary 🧵👇
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Actually, social composition effects mean that, in ~50% polygynous countries, the places with the most polygyny have the least unmarried men! Another ~40% have no association, even after controlling for the local sex ratio. Communities that marry polygynously, usually marry more overall (3/5)
April 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Actually, social composition effects mean that, in ~50% polygynous countries, the places with the most polygyny have the least unmarried men! Another ~40% have no association, even after controlling for the local sex ratio. Communities that marry polygynously, usually marry more overall (3/5)
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There are less than 2 weeks left to register for our course "Theories, Data, and Visualization for Global Analyses of Family Change"! Join us this June in beautiful Barcelona to learn more about family systems and change with a focus on comparative analyses: ced.cat/bcn4seasons/...
Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics
El Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics fou fundat l’any 1984 amb una triple missió: promoure la recerca, la docència i la difusió del coneixement en matèria de població.
ced.cat
March 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
There are less than 2 weeks left to register for our course "Theories, Data, and Visualization for Global Analyses of Family Change"! Join us this June in beautiful Barcelona to learn more about family systems and change with a focus on comparative analyses: ced.cat/bcn4seasons/...
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The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD) is still accepting applications until May 1. Attend in person or online if you'd like to brush up either on demography or R skills ced.cat/es/bcn4seaso... These are Modules 1-4 listed in the four-seasons school. I teach module 2 this year :-)
Centro de Estudios Demográficos
El Centro de Estudios Demográficos fue fundado en 1984 con una triple misión: promover la investigación, la docencia y la difusión del conocimiento en materia de población.
ced.cat
March 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The Barcelona Summer School of Demography (BSSD) is still accepting applications until May 1. Attend in person or online if you'd like to brush up either on demography or R skills ced.cat/es/bcn4seaso... These are Modules 1-4 listed in the four-seasons school. I teach module 2 this year :-)
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I'm co-organising the historical demography strand for PopFest 2025! We're looking forward to a range of interesting talks from UK and European students — economic historians and historians of medicine also welcome! Get in touch if you want to chat about submitting!👋
www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
🔈Reminder!
You still have until 4 April to submit to the population studies conference PopFest. Aimed at students and early-career researchers and with a separate strand for historical demography!
More info ⬇️
📍 Southampton, UK
📆 7-8 July 2025
ℹ️ cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
You still have until 4 April to submit to the population studies conference PopFest. Aimed at students and early-career researchers and with a separate strand for historical demography!
More info ⬇️
📍 Southampton, UK
📆 7-8 July 2025
ℹ️ cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
cpc.ac.uk
March 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'm co-organising the historical demography strand for PopFest 2025! We're looking forward to a range of interesting talks from UK and European students — economic historians and historians of medicine also welcome! Get in touch if you want to chat about submitting!👋
www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
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📢 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
📢 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...
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🚨I am happy that the first chapter of my PhD thesis has been published. Together with @juangaleano.bsky.social & Albert Esteve, we use data from the CORESIDENCE database to map national and subnational trends in household size and characteristics across Africa.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
African households: National and subnational trends from censuses and surveys
Using census and survey microdata from 49 African countries across 415 subnational areas, we offer a comprehensive overview of household size and composition in Africa. The study emphasizes the pot...
www.tandfonline.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🚨I am happy that the first chapter of my PhD thesis has been published. Together with @juangaleano.bsky.social & Albert Esteve, we use data from the CORESIDENCE database to map national and subnational trends in household size and characteristics across Africa.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Good @iamjburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the increase in time spent in loneliness by younger generations (using ATUS, ONS Time Survey and European Social Survey) www.ft.com/content/2305...
February 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Good @iamjburnmurdoch.bsky.social on the increase in time spent in loneliness by younger generations (using ATUS, ONS Time Survey and European Social Survey) www.ft.com/content/2305...
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The deadline to submit for the ESHD conference was extended to Valentine's Day! 😍 So, you can still submit to the AYHD's Flash session.
This session will let you discuss early work-in-progress with other early-career researchers. To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal! ☑️
This session will let you discuss early work-in-progress with other early-career researchers. To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal! ☑️
There's still time to submit to the ESHD Conference in September!
Reminder: the AYHD is organising a Flash Session! Here you can present early-stage work or research already presented in other sessions.
To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal field.
eshd2025.eshd.eu
Reminder: the AYHD is organising a Flash Session! Here you can present early-stage work or research already presented in other sessions.
To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal field.
eshd2025.eshd.eu
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Call for Papers 6th Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography The European Society of Historical Demography is pleased to invite submissions for its 6th Conference, to be held in Bol...
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February 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The deadline to submit for the ESHD conference was extended to Valentine's Day! 😍 So, you can still submit to the AYHD's Flash session.
This session will let you discuss early work-in-progress with other early-career researchers. To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal! ☑️
This session will let you discuss early work-in-progress with other early-career researchers. To submit, mention "Flash session (AYHD)" in the Session proposal! ☑️
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Today we are at the #YoungDemographers conference which is held from 5-7 February in Prague, Czech Republic at Faculty of Science - Charles University. #YD2025
February 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Today we are at the #YoungDemographers conference which is held from 5-7 February in Prague, Czech Republic at Faculty of Science - Charles University. #YD2025
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📢 New paper alert. Get a free copy of the paper of Detlev Lück and me on the drivers of contraceptive non-use in Germany. Get in touch if you want to discuss more
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQKER...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQKER...
Drivers of contraceptive non-use among women and men who are not trying to get pregnant
This study examines an inconsistency between an attitude and a behaviour: non-use of contraception among people who are not trying to get pregnant. More than one in four people in that situation re...
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January 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
📢 New paper alert. Get a free copy of the paper of Detlev Lück and me on the drivers of contraceptive non-use in Germany. Get in touch if you want to discuss more
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQKER...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQKER...
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❓ How fair is the division of labor around first childbirth? Women feel it is most fair near birth but increasingly unfair as the child grows, while men’s perceptions remain unchanged.
▶️ New publication by Maria Hornung & @comochia.bsky.social open access!
🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
▶️ New publication by Maria Hornung & @comochia.bsky.social open access!
🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
January 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
❓ How fair is the division of labor around first childbirth? Women feel it is most fair near birth but increasingly unfair as the child grows, while men’s perceptions remain unchanged.
▶️ New publication by Maria Hornung & @comochia.bsky.social open access!
🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
▶️ New publication by Maria Hornung & @comochia.bsky.social open access!
🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
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Ok, let's see how this works 🧐
The 16th Conference of #YoungDemographers is just around the corner! Programme is packed as always, incl. ⭐ Marc Luy and Rolf Granholm ⭐, and you can still join us as passive participants.
Find out more ➡ youngdemographers.github.io/conference
#demography
The 16th Conference of #YoungDemographers is just around the corner! Programme is packed as always, incl. ⭐ Marc Luy and Rolf Granholm ⭐, and you can still join us as passive participants.
Find out more ➡ youngdemographers.github.io/conference
#demography
Conference
youngdemographers.github.io
January 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ok, let's see how this works 🧐
The 16th Conference of #YoungDemographers is just around the corner! Programme is packed as always, incl. ⭐ Marc Luy and Rolf Granholm ⭐, and you can still join us as passive participants.
Find out more ➡ youngdemographers.github.io/conference
#demography
The 16th Conference of #YoungDemographers is just around the corner! Programme is packed as always, incl. ⭐ Marc Luy and Rolf Granholm ⭐, and you can still join us as passive participants.
Find out more ➡ youngdemographers.github.io/conference
#demography
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Yet another study (this time by Claudia Goldin) that uses cross-sectional data, and finds evidence for a U-shaped pattern for gender equality and fertility, even though this pattern does not exist for (almost) any country across time.
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
January 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Yet another study (this time by Claudia Goldin) that uses cross-sectional data, and finds evidence for a U-shaped pattern for gender equality and fertility, even though this pattern does not exist for (almost) any country across time.
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
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New paper just out in @actasociologica.bsky.social with @minekuhn.bsky.social and Mikko Myrskylä, looking at the selective nature of re-partnering among single mothers in terms of their well-being in Germany and the UK. Read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
New paper just out in @actasociologica.bsky.social with @minekuhn.bsky.social and Mikko Myrskylä, looking at the selective nature of re-partnering among single mothers in terms of their well-being in Germany and the UK. Read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📢Calling all postgraduate students! There are 7 days to go until the call for papers will open for PopFest - the Annual Postgraduate Population Studies conference, taking place at
@unisouthampton.bsky.social, 7 – 8 July 2025.
Find out more about #PopFest25 👇
cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social, 7 – 8 July 2025.
Find out more about #PopFest25 👇
cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
January 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
📢Calling all postgraduate students! There are 7 days to go until the call for papers will open for PopFest - the Annual Postgraduate Population Studies conference, taking place at
@unisouthampton.bsky.social, 7 – 8 July 2025.
Find out more about #PopFest25 👇
cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social, 7 – 8 July 2025.
Find out more about #PopFest25 👇
cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...
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Here's a longer thread on last week's blog (Campop blog #28) about the seasonality of marriage and birth. First marriages, where changes in the seasonal pattern are linked to religion, work, holidays and taxation (with a short disruption caused by Cromwell's abolition of religious marriage) 1/5
Campop blog #28: Recently, Boxing Day has had fewer births than any other day of the year. Today's blog explores the seasonality of births & marriages since 1540, and the changing influences of work, religion, holidays and taxation
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/12...
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/12...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeHigh days, hiring-days and holidays: the seasonality of marriage and birth « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't ...
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January 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Here's a longer thread on last week's blog (Campop blog #28) about the seasonality of marriage and birth. First marriages, where changes in the seasonal pattern are linked to religion, work, holidays and taxation (with a short disruption caused by Cromwell's abolition of religious marriage) 1/5
Happy this study is already out. 🥳We are really thankfull to all @genus.bsky.social reviewers who help us to improve the paper!
genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Vaccination and fertility: modelling the potential impact of Covid-19 vaccination on total fertility rate in Czechia - Genus
As with Northern European countries, Czechia experienced unexpected fertility developments during the Covid-19 pandemic. Fertility in Czechia increased between 2020 and 2021 from 1.76 children per wom...
genus.springeropen.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Happy this study is already out. 🥳We are really thankfull to all @genus.bsky.social reviewers who help us to improve the paper!
genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....