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Converges with what @yacouba-compaore.bsky.social found using #HDSS data in #Senegal, #TheGambia, and #BurkinaFaso.
Ghanaian data shows weak support for the nuclear convergence hypothesis. Urbanisation hasn't led to the dominance of nuclear families—extended types persist.
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

@josephineabaafi.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @anushe.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Ask people how many siblings they have. The average will *always* be larger than the average number of kids women have. How much larger? Turns out, there is an exact formula 🤩

#twitterkast

Preston SH. 2020. My Life in Words and Numbers. Annual Review of Sociology 46: 1–17
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
March 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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If #Europe #EU had the guts, they would issue a special #research grant to welcome #refugees from #waronscience in #USA, and reverse the brain drain.

#CDC #NIH #NHS #USAID
March 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Listen to me chat about the evolutionary anthropology of grandmothers with Ella Al-Shamahi on BBC4 🙂

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
February 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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"Evolutionary research investigates how social structure allows inequality to evolve, but is developing in silo from social & cognitive sciences. I synthesise these literatures in a framework of how & why cultural & ecological conditions create social structure to produce or constrain inequality"
Social structure and the evolutionary ecology of inequality
From rising disparities in income to limited socio-political representation for minority groups, inequality is a topic of perennial interest for conte…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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January 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Just reposting this in case anyone missed it last week. Please submit your work!

#EconSky #histmed #demography #econhist
CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South

CFP Deadline 3 February 2025

Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE

Organised by myself and Neil Cummins

Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group
December 16, 2024 at 6:31 PM