Patrick Heuveline

🚨I'm guest editing a special issue of PopStudies with Victoria Knutson, Maarten van Wijhe, José Manuel Aburto, @alysonvanraalte.bsky.social! ‘How do we estimate excess mortality? Current problems and methodological solutions’ Pre-submission enquiries by 1 Dec 2026 CfP: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

The video recordings of the presentations from our conference, "Beyond Birth Rates: Advancing a Pro-Alignment Approach to Low Fertility in North America," are now available at this link. If you missed the conference, watch the outstanding work of our panelists! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Call for papers on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Settings of Armed Conflict and Violence for a special collection in Population Health Metrics : link.springer.com/collections/...

@prbdata.bsky.social's 2026 World Population Data Sheet is here! It's interactive and lovely and full of all sorts of wonderful demographic data!

Introducing PDR special issue, Social and Demographic Consequences of Political Conflict and Violence, Mathis Ebbinghaus, Liliana Andriano & I ask how to build cumulative knowledge from heterogeneous findings on the effects of conflict on demographic outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Registration is open (and required) for this UN General Assembly sideline event next Tuesday: "Fertility in Transition: Causes, Consequences, and Choices" www.eventbrite.com/e/fertility-...

My paper "Double robust, flexible adjustment methods for causal inference: An overview and an evaluation" is out in Social Science Research. Spoiler: In simulations, double robustness appears less important than flexibility, and OLS does pretty well! 🧵👇 1/7 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New work by Stephanie Koning, @goleensamari.bsky.social & Abigail Weitzman introduces a typology of displacement from conflict-related insecurities—anticipatory, chronic & imminent—and examines their consequences for women displaced from Myanmar to Thailand doi.org/10.1111/padr...

New paper by Maya Luetke, @signesvallfors.bsky.social & Liz Boyle identifies key considerations re: transparency, validity & reproducibility when conducting quant research on armed conflict and health based on combinations of data (DHS + UCDP-GED or ACLED) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

While John Snow is often credited with founding modern epidemiology, William Farr built the machinery that allowed it to scale. Working at the General Register Office in London, Farr developed one of the world’s first systems for routine mortality surveillance, standardised causes of death.

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

Paper by E Acosta, @demography.bsky.social, @thegargiulian.bsky.social & C Torres first from PDR special issue I guest edited w/ L Andriano & M Ebbinghaus, Social and Demographic Consequences of Political Conflict and Violence, to be available on early view onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As "conflict-related mortality is on the rise and displacement has surpassed levels not seen since World War II", a timely editorial on Demography and War: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our call for papers is out! Submit until May 15 2026.

Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs. Sponsors: UC Berkeley Center on Economics and Demography of Aging & USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health Deadline: Dec 15 2025 populationsciences.berkeley.edu/conferences/...

Study finds fertility response to extreme weather events diff b/w nuclear and joint family structures in Bangladesh & authors conclude "family structure represents an important but underexplored variable in understanding climate-fertility associations in vulnerable regions" doi.org/10.1080/1948...

What can we learn about disaster impacts from case studies that often lack elements of a "gold standard" natural experimental research design? Review by Elizabeth Fussell, Kate Burrows & @narayansastry.bsky.social wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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

In new study on domestic violence in Vietnam, Hanbo Wu argues "normalization of and desensitization to violence in the domestic sphere as well as war trauma likely play an important role in explaining the effect of conflict exposure on the justification of IPV" doi.org/10.1007/s001...

The Dorothy S. Thomas Award is presented annually for the best graduate student paper on the interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables. Nominations now open! Submit a nomination by January 31, 2026. buff.ly/sMThJ6E

IMHO too little attention to mortality-fertility interactions in highly-specialized demography (was once asked "Are you a mortality demographer or a fertility demographer?"), so really enjoyed article on extrinsic mortality & life history traits w/ 30 (!) peer commentaries : doi.org/10.1017/S014...

👀 We are thrilled to have @um-psc.bsky.social alumnus @angabridged.bsky.social join us for our next Brown Bag session: Shannon Ang of NTU Singapore joins us presenting on ways older adults stay socially connected online. #sociology Live and on Zoom: psc.isr.umich.edu/events/ang/

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s... Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...

📢My paper is out in Population and Development Review.😀Central and Eastern Europe’s population change isn’t just about fertility, mortality, and migration — the age structure also an important factor. #demography #ageing #fertility #Hungary #Poland #Romania #migration doi.org/10.1111/padr...

CCPR Miniconference 10/17: “Fertility and Demographic Change” #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #miniconference

job TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY Department of Sociology, Western University csn-rec.ca/job-postings... @westernu.ca #cdnsoci

Very excited to announce that @srhayford.bsky.social, @lesja.bsky.social, and I will be guest-editing a special volume of @prpr-journal.bsky.social on "Contemporary Pronatalism in Demographic Context"! Submissions due March 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

There's still time to join us in Montreal for the 2026 @wfrn.bsky.social conference - the deadline is extended until October 15!

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

Formal demographers encouraged to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

"The probability of first birth within marriage has become increasingly similar across social classes, while cohabiting and single parenthood have become more strongly stratified," finds @aledinal.bsky.social in new DR article

📢 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...

New paper by @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social & Spoorenberg shows that "accounting for mortality through metrics like the 2-Sex Net Reproductive Rate (2SNRR) [could] change our understanding of fertility transitions globally" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our paper, “Optimal pandemic control strategies …” bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... w @nickirons.bsky.social, just published.Takeaway: U.S. COVID-19 school closures were not cost-effective, but other measures were. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

"Women with children increased their [desired family size] in response to growing COVID-19 mortality" in Pernambuco, Brazil, find @leticiamarteleto.bsky.social & Kumar in: read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

📊Next Thursday, our colleague @phbocquier.bsky.social will present a #IneqKill paper, "Identifying small-area diffusion of #mortality transitions using non-linear modelling in 19th-century Belgium" for the Formal Demography Working Group. Register here: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/

"Sociology recognizes social relationships are fundamental to the structure and organization of society, yet the discipline has shown limited interest in the dissolution of social ties through death," top-notch, agenda-setting read by E. Smith-Greenaway, A. Verdury & D. Carr: doi.org/10.1146/annu...

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna. 💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

Following major European pandemics and wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, "recovery times across events averaged approximately seven years and showed no significant statistical differences by event type or sex," find Silva & Aburto in new article: doi.org/10.1007/s426...

"Cohabitation remains a liminal space between singlehood and marriage for the NLSY97 cohort" find Huang & Kelley in new article: doi.org/10.4054/DemR...

"Oaxaca-Blinder meets Kitagawa" is something I've been thinking of writing about for a while, but even better to read it from one of the original characters: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Janet Currie, Princeton University, “Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #JanetCurrie #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

🚨 New paper: when researchers study epidemics, disasters, or conflicts but don't know how many people died, they often subtract pre and post population estimates or do a crude projection. Unfortunately, this almost never provides an accurate death toll 🧵 www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol5...

High-quality, open-access overview chapters, great resource for courses such as Sociology of the family

Emma Zang, Yale University, “Life-Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #EmmaZang #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

Applications are open for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science SICSS 2025 at UCLA! Apply by May 2! Free, 2-wk institute in comp social science for grad students, postdocs & early-career faculty. sicss.io/2025/ucla/ @ianlundberg.bsky.social @jenniebrand.bsky.social