Peter Fallesen
Research Professor. I study bad stuff in families. ROCKWOOL Foundation and Stockholm University. AE at EJP and ESR. President of the Danish Demographic Society.
Copenhagen-based (together with Ann and Augusta).
www.peterfallesen.com
- Reposted by Peter FallesenIf you are interested in all things ✨causal inference✨, please join our multidisciplinary Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG). We host monthly seminars featuring speakers with various academic backgrounds and research interests. Links below. cc @clscohorts.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social
- Reposted by Peter FallesenI'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join us at the University of Oxford and our @inetoxford.bsky.social Inequality team. Ideal candidate has experience in the fields of inequality, social mobility, and/or public policy. We can sponsor visas for non-UK applicants. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
- Reposted by Peter FallesenJOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
- Reposted by Peter FallesenDHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchl…
- So fortunate to be allowed to play a tiny role in this gigantic effort lead by @moberndorfer.bsky.social
- New paper finally published! Using data on 78 million births from 15 countries, we found that babies conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic have a different parental socioeconomic composition than expected had the pandemic not occurred. doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natcomms.nature.com @helsinki.fi
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- Reposted by Peter Fallesen"[S]ome countries often characterized as low-mobility emerge as matching or surpassing the egalitarian Nordic countries, reinforcing the view that wider mobility differences cannot be attributed solely to the education system." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
- NEW: Ely Strömberg, Per Engzell, "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
- Reposted by Peter FallesenDamning overview of the nudging literature. "[We] provide the most comprehensive synthesis of the effectiveness of nudging." "We find a small aggregated effect size." "[Our results show] the urgent need for higher quality, preregistered meta-analyses to clarify the true impact [of nudging]."
- Reposted by Peter Fallesen📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org
- I guess this means 50% I only wear black, 50% I have oatmeal on my back
- Reposted by Peter FallesenOur new paper: Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births? led by Laura Sochas is out now OA in @sfjournal.bsky.social
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Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/25/p... - Reposted by Peter FallesenGaza: Study Reveals Unprecedented Losses of Life & Life Expectancy Researchers from MPIDR & the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the conflict in Gaza on mortality. Life expectancy 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GazaLE
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- Reposted by Peter FallesenNew WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...
- Reposted by Peter Fallesen🚀✨The Editorial Board of ESR is growing! We’re happy to welcome PeterFallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social ( ROCKWOOL Foundation, Denmark) as a new Associate Editor!! We are thrilled to welcome Peter to the Editorial Board and look forward to working together! academic.oup.com/esr/pages/Ed...
- Reposted by Peter FallesenOur #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
- Reposted by Peter Fallesen🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... @ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography
- Reposted by Peter FallesenBologna is calling
- Reposted by Peter Fallesen‼️PhD Funding‼️ Check out this fully-funded PhD position in Stockholm, part of the a 5-year mixed method project investing Sexual and Reproductive Outcomes of Violent Crime led by Dr. Signe Svallfors
- PhD studentship with quantitative focus: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Peter FallesenI 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👇
- 🚨 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...
- Reposted by Peter FallesenNice opportunity. Deadline closing soon. TN-Square 6th Edition, Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research, 22-24 October 2025, Trento Employment and Mobility over the life course in changing societies
- The 6th TN-Square is coming! 🏔️ This edition we are discussing employment, mobility trajectories and social inequality and we couldn’t be more excited. ✨ Submit your application by August 25th and spread the news! For more spoilers, check our website: event.unitn.it/tn-square/ #TNSquare25
- Reposted by Peter FallesenSoon to open offer for a *funded* PhD to study child poverty dynamics at @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu If you have an interest in quantitative methods, social policy and child poverty this may be for you! Feel free to reach out for enquiries
- Reposted by Peter FallesenThis is a fabulous response by my colleague Kevin Munger to "that" Economist piece about the EUI. Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested! kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...
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- Reposted by Peter FallesenWant to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n
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- 🔴New working paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social and @juhoharkonen.bsky.social. We describe the temporal link between conception timing and preterm birth rates. When conception rates fluctuate, preterm birth proportions shift predictably but with different magnitudes depending on baseline risk. 1/4
- Using US birth data (2010-2019), we show that a conception "shock" creates a wave pattern: fewer conceptions → fewer preterm births beginning from 5 months later → but more from 9 months before rates normalize. 2/4
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- Our article on parental union dissolution and children’s emotional and behavioral problems appears in the most recent issue of @sfjournal.bsky.social. We find a longterm increase in SDQ score following parental union dissolution [1/2] academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
- Reposted by Peter FallesenMy book, "Decline and Prosper!", presents a comprehensive and evidence-based overview of the causes and consequences of global fertility decline. I argue that low fertility is inevitable, yet also has positive effects. We should help people have the children they want bit.ly/35Hm3Yk
- Reposted by Peter FallesenEconomists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.
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- Reposted by Peter FallesenAs some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Did Model 1 or Model 2 generate these sequences? Why? Model 1: Pólya urn, starting with one black and one red ball. 1 (0) stands for black (red). Model 2: Empty probit model, random intercepts with mean 0, ICC = 1/2. All 100,000 sequences here: tinyurl.com/35pkyfxa
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- Reposted by Peter FallesenIn Nordic welfare states, not all family policies promote equality. A new AJS article by Evertsson, Moberg & van der Vleuten compares earnings penalties in same- and different-sex couples across countries, showing how policy design shapes work–care divisions www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- Children from dissolved families benefit 5-7% less from non-school learning environments, with effects increasing over time. Schools showed little ability to compensate, suggesting deteriorating home environments post-separation primarily drive achievement gaps. New article out in ESR
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- @rockwoolfonden.dk and Duke have jointly developed a public use dataset of population rates of child protective services contacts in the global North. Read more about it in this N- @iussp.bsky.social piece
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- Multi-field postdoc opening at Royal Holloway. Great PIs, good colleagues
- I am happy to share a 3-year postdoc opening. My fantastic colleagues @kailirimfeld.bsky.social and Dan Anderberg recently won a grant to work on youth mental health at the intersection of psychology, genetics, and education. It is open to economics PhDs, among other fields. #EconSky #econ_ra
- Reposted by Peter FallesenMy Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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- Reposted by Peter FallesenNordic Demographic Symposium 2025 is launching in a week! Look at this exciting program 😍 demografi.dk/dokumenter/N...
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- Article out in N-IUSSP reflecting on our recent @readdemography.bsky.social piece on how immigrants react when their traditional marriage market is restricted through policy. www.niussp.org/migration-an...
- Reposted by Peter Fallesenco-authored with Leen Marynissen, Jessica Nisén @jessicanisen.bsky.social, Peter Fallesen @pfallesen.bsky.social, Karel Neels, Alessandra Trimarchi, Lars Dommermuth, Ruben van Gaalen @rubenivangaalen.bsky.social, Martin Kolk @martinkolk.bsky.social, and Pekka Martikainen
- Reposted by Peter Fallesen🚨Check out the latest @vypr.bsky.social Data&Trends. Jonas Wood and colleagues investigate urban-rural differences in northern and western Europe regarding women’s educational gradients in fertility. 🔗 austriaca.at?arp=0x004055... #demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social
- Reposted by Peter FallesenAt the blog I wrote about a new paper by @natewilmers.bsky.social , @zparolin.bsky.social , and @lukaslehner.bsky.social . We're living in a novel era of inequality discordance. What's going on?! asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...
- Reposted by Peter Fallesen🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
- Reposted by Peter FallesenOpen call for Associate Editors at our journal!! To find out more about requirements and application procedures 👀 here www.demographic-research.org/files/Call_f...
- Reposted by Peter Fallesen🚨 PhD and Post Doc positions incoming 🚨 Received 3 million Euros from WASP-HS for an interdisciplinary (Econ, Sociology, Business) research cluster on AI, Structural Change and the Future of Work. PhD call coming very soon - start Jan 2026, fully funded in an amazing research team w fantastic data!
