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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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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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Acemoglu on the expected future : "America’s collapse thus followed Hemingway’s famous line on bankruptcy. It happened gradually, as shared prosperity, high-quality public services and the operation of democratic institutions weakened, and then suddenly." www.ft.com/content/4e3f...

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Striking differences, lopsided burdens.

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...and we're live. Join us at the hearings @who.int Europe

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"Aging is Living": join us tomorrow www.linkedin.com/posts/who-eu...

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"Rethinking our intergenerational social contract". I'll be giving a keynote at the WHO's Second European Programme of Work next Thursday. Join us online: www.who.int/europe/news-...

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"Rethinking our intergenerational social contract". I'll be giving a keynote at the WHO's Second European Programme of Work next Thursday. Join us online: www.who.int/europe/news-...

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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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Steven Lukes's third face of power, already in full swing: "Trump has discovered that he does not even have to take action to force his adversaries to adapt, back down or bend in his direction in a strategy of self preservation." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...

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En el análisis de la baja fertilidad española —1,19 hijos por mujer—, @pietervanhuysse.bsky.social concluye que se deben replantear las políticas públicas, en especial las fiscales, para permitir que aquellos que quieran ser padres puedan serlo.

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A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.

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The family-friendly Nordic societies help all parents -- work. Then, they send parents a large bill. The help is real, but it is not a gift ifstudies.org/blog/the-new...

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Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

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RIP economic demographer Richard Easterlin www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/b...

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The @financialtimes.com picks out highlights of an eventful year in science – and why some give reasons for hope. www.ft.com/content/4f8c... In this thread are pieces on ten topics from this year that tell us about ourselves, important trends and discoveries that could change our lives. 👇(1/x)

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Breaking news: Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president who later won the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, was the longest-living president in US history, having celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1. www.ft.com/content/fcb8...

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Jimmy Carter, the former US president who endured defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died at 100.

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My article in Estonian newspaper Postimees: Why do aging societies tax their own reproduction? arvamus.postimees.ee/8157204/taan...

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"policymakers think differently about (tech) companies in 2024, in part because Margrethe Vestager thought differently about them in 2014. ... one of the first law enforcers in the world to take action against these platforms for undermining competition, harming their users" www.ft.com/womenof2024

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'Pro-family Policies as Tools for Fair Compensation rather than Fertility Incentives?' : I'll be presenting today at the kickoff conference of our Family, Fertility and Human Development Initiative cehd.uchicago.edu?page_id=7742

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'The Factors That Reduce Fertility and The Policies that Enhance it': Jim Heckman and Ron Lee kick off the conference of our Family, Fertility and Human Development Initiative with CEHD Chicago cehd.uchicago.edu?page_id=8916

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Why do low-fertility societies implicitly tax their own reproduction? ifstudies.org/blog/debunki...

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James Heckman receives a honorary doctorate today at Corvinus U, first event of 3 days in our joint 'Family, Fertility and Human Development Initiative' led by the Center for the Economics of Human Development and Heckman at the University of Chicago www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/event/n...

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Today we say our final farewell to Walter Korpi. I thought this piece gave a good overview of the continued relevance of his work and legacy: jacobin.com/2022/01/clas...

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Demography is politicised rather than political - and that needs to change! This was a central tenet of our international workshop “The Political Perspectives on Demography”, hosted by Population Europe at the Berlin offices of the Max Planck Society in November! 🔗 tinyurl.com/yz6bs63x

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A revised version of my, rather bleak, essay in The Future of Social Democracy is at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Beyond human capital: How else do parents help their children? population-europe.eu/research/pol...

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What help do parents give their children in the labor market? One key advantage is human capital, in the broadest sense. But parents, when they can, also use other strategies to transmit advantages - to different degrees in different societies academic.oup.com/oep/article-...

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"The EU has been moving away from viewing old age in terms of burden or loss. In the 2023 "demographic toolbox": "Since our citizens are living longer & healthier lives, all our policies need to be forward-looking & support the shift from an ageing to a longevity society" futu-res.eu/digests/move...

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