🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press,
that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...
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👇
UNC Sociology is hiring for two tenure-track positions!
(1) An Assistant Professor specializing in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
(2) An Assistant/Associate Professor specializing in population health
Reviews begin 10/1. Links to positions below.
Our new paper on a large gender gap in the registration of deaths in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 ⬇️
Our new paper on a large gender gap in the registration of deaths in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 ⬇️
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
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Our new editorial in Bulletin of the WHO about ongoing initiative to improve the measurement of adult mortality in low-and-middle-income countries, where major data gaps have recently been compounded by US decision to end support for Demographic & Health Surveys
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Position is for 3 years with excellent salary, housing and benefits. Please share widely. For more information and application, link ⬇️
apply.interfolio.com/177935
I’m recruiting a postdoctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Position is for 3 years with excellent salary, housing and benefits. Please share widely. For more information and application, link ⬇️
apply.interfolio.com/177935
Aedes albopictus (the “tiger” mosquito) has rapidly spread over most of France in the past 20 years, and now there are locally transmitted Chikingunya outbreaks in several areas, including one in my hometown in southern France: 12 cases so far. #climatechange
www.liberation.fr/societe/sant...
🚨 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...
"We document large gender disparities in death registration in Guinea-Bissau. Gender differences in education explain most of the gap, with financial motives driving male registration and low awareness hindering both."
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
"We document large gender disparities in death registration in Guinea-Bissau. Gender differences in education explain most of the gap, with financial motives driving male registration and low awareness hindering both."
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
