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Is it (un)fair to raise the pension age in greying societies? I was interviewed by Adrian Finighan on @aljazeera.com TV's global business and economics program "Counting the Cost" (from min 21:30): youtu.be/SkLFnrtvW5Y?... @sdu.dk @sampol.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @d-ias.bsky.social

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They work you, here in Norway :) About to give the 5th talk of my Norwegian research visit, at @janabelschner.bsky.social's @sampol.bsky.social project workshop. With Vera Troeger, Maria Grasso, Javier Olivera, Benny Geys and many others www.uib.no/en/sampol/16...

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"Measuring human capital globally:" presenting today at the @unibergen.bsky.social's interdepartmental seminar series in Comparative Political Economy www.uib.no/en/sampol/11...

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"The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain, and these arrows of Bob Dylan will be all that remain." On tradition as anti-surfing: my happy birthday wishes to Bob Dylan tidsskrift.dk/aktualitet/a...

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"To cripple the institutions that acquire and transmit knowledge is a tragic blunder and a crime against future generations." Pinker's fierce, credibly self-critical, admirably comprehensive defense of - reason : www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

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Twenty-one Skytte Prize winner in a joint letter in today's @financialtimes.com : “President Donald Trump and his administration are on a spectacularly dangerous path” Read more here : www.skytteprize.com/news/twenty-...

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Thanks to Professor Pieter Vanhuysse @pietervanhuysse.bsky.social University of Southern Denmark, for visiting our department and giving a seminar on the question Do Low-Fertility Societies Tax their Own Reproduction?

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Do low-fertility societies tax their own reproduction? ifstudies.org/blog/debunki... About to present to the departmental lunch seminar at @unibergen.bsky.social's Dep. of Comparative Politics www.uib.no/en/sampol/39...

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Cultural Demography: a summary of our @populationeu.bsky.social workshop with Adrian Favell, Helene Lamont, Ron Lesthaeghe and many others :

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The Norwegian Birth Rate Committee also in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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The New Nordic Paradox of fast-falling #fertility in the most #family-friendly welfare states: today I am at the Norwegian Ministry of Children and Families to present "Taxing Reproduction" and consult with the Birth Rate Commission: www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/o... ifstudies.org/blog/the-new...

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In Oslo today to discuss how to debunk the second stork theory (of new adults), and much else on fertility to be discussed today at the Norwegian Centre for Fertility and Health ifstudies.org/blog/debunki... www.fhi.no/en/ch/Centre...

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... and tomorrow at @sdu.dk www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

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The New Nordic Paradox of falling #fertility in #family-friendly welfare states: our work on"Taxing Reproduction" cited in the new report of the #Norwegian government's appointed Birth Rate Commission: ifstudies.org/blog/the-new... Report: www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/o...

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Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz visits SDU! Join us on 14 May 2025 as Stiglitz explores freedom, inequality, and the future of the economy in his talk “The Road to Freedom”. 📍@sdu.dk Odense | 💻 Livestream: shorturl.at/ZpinL 🕑 14. 00–15.30 | Free entry, limited seating!

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My recommendations on inequality

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Viva Hammer (ANU) in The Canberra Times: "Pieter Vanhuysse explains that a country's productive labour doesn't arrive from heaven in a stork's mouth... when people realise it's more efficient to free ride on other people's children... it's the classic problem of the commons."

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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Nu pa dansk (with a 2min. video in English): 'Der fødes alt for få børn – også i de familievenlige nordiske velfærdsstater – i en grad, så det bliver vanskeligt at opretholde vores sociale modeller. Pieter Vanhuysse har et overraskende bud på, hvorfor vi mangler babyer' www.sdu.dk/da/nyheder/u...

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P. Vanhuysse prosazuje významný apel na změnu sociálního paradigmatu: sociální investice namísto "zdanění čápů" (rodičů)

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If we want more children in our societies, we need to ask a different question... who should support the parents and what is society willing to pay for those kids.

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"Far too few children are born – even in the otherwise family-friendly Nordic welfare states – to sustain our labour market and social model. Research from SDU Professor Pieter Vanhuysse has a surprising idea of why we lack babies in Europe." Interview: www.sdu.dk/en/nyheder/u...

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Cornell President Kotlikoff: "If Cornell were a business, we might have called the event a failure... Cornell is not a business. We are a university. And universities ... cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

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As EU Commissioner Glenn Micallef has opened a conversation about #Intergenerational #Fairness, how to measure this in our #policy models? IJI offers a simple 4-dimensional snapshot: Vanhuysse, P., Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies, Gutersloh: Bertelsmann papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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50th anniversary issue of PDR just out: Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Celebrating 50 Years of Population and Development Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17284457...

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Intergenerational justice and public policy in Europe: now as an OSE policy brief, with special emphasis on the EBiSS dimension (elderly bias in social spending) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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As EU Commissioner Glenn Micallef has opened a conversation about #Intergenerational #Fairness, how to measure this in our #policy models? IJI offers a simple 4-dimensional snapshot: Vanhuysse, P., Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies, Gutersloh: Bertelsmann papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Exploring the interplay of culture, demography, and policy: join Michele Lamont, Adrian Favell, Ron Lesthaeghe, Arnstein Aassve & many others at our @populationeu.bsky.social workshop on 30 April: population-europe.eu/events/exper...

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'We appear to be looking less at the decline of reading per se, and more at a broader erosion in human capacity for mental focus and application' www.ft.com/content/a801...

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@who.int Europe: "Pieter Vanhuysse underlines the under-acknowledged contribution of care-giving - rearing the next generation - in addition to productivity, that benefits all ages and builds well-functioning, thriving societies"

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Have we passed peak intelligence? In international tests, student scores for reading and maths sunk to a new low. US teens are struggling to concentrate & evaluate information. The excellent @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Warning: this thread is dark 🧵

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Exploring the interplay of culture, demography, and policy: join Michele Lamont, Adrian Favell, Ron Lesthaeghe, Arnstein Aassve & many others at our Population Europe workshop on 30 April: www.population-europe.eu/events/upcom...

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Interesting new work on cognitive skills and aging ("use it or lose it sounds right"!: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 👇

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How do men’s changing family and working lives influence their health & cognition? Glad to join great colleagues Ursula Staudinger, Anna Rotkirch & Kaare Christensen on the Expert Board of ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME, led by @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social at UiOslo www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/...

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Actions that make a difference apnews.com/article/maca...

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"the Trump administration sees Europe not merely as a competitor, but also as an economic and even ideological threat. It wants to undermine the power of the EU to regulate trade, competition and hate speech." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Who is responsible for population policies at the European Commission? In this article, get briefed on which EU commissioners have demography in their portfolio. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4w7eeax9

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📩 Read our latest newsletter! 🔹 Who is Responsible for Population Policy in the EU Commission? tinyurl.com/4w7eeax9 🔹 Cultural Demography Workshop: tinyurl.com/2s6k978w 🔹 New EU project on migration & cohesion: tinyurl.com/2zpj6txw 🔗 More insights: tinyurl.com/4xk22xwf #Demography #Policy

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"Aging is living:" video of all contributions to the hearing of WHO Regional Office for Europe's Second European Programme of Work hearings now available : www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpyD...

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My take in Kristeligt Dagblad: if we're going to create a Danish Ministry for Family Policy, as political actors now stary suggesting, let's focus more holistically on a Ministry of Human Capital and Population www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/danmark/ordf...

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Since 1 July 2024, due to Supreme Court ruling granting US Presidency broad, legal immunity, 'USA is noted by the Polity Project as experiencing a regime transition ...it is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy' www.systemicpeace.org/index.html?f...

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"They do not aim to govern." Snyder on the oligarchs' deliberate logic of sheer destruction snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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Now this is said news for me, both personally and professionally. I subscribed to the New York Review of Books just to read him! I invited him to lunch about a decade ago, and when I insisted on paying he said “Why Miles?” “To say thank you Sandy. “ #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

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Publication alert! 🚨 Care at the Crossroads: How Policy Feedback Shaped Competing Feminist Advocacy for Parental Leave Reform in Spain? I promise a fascinating thread on the politics of gender and work in Spain. Don't miss it! 🧵 1/9 doi.org/10.1111/polp...

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If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

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