by N.R. Prabhakara. India has five million working children between the ages of 5 and 14, which is more than two percent of all children in this group. Despite legal prohibitions, several socio-economic situations ranging from poverty, high fertility, and a non-responsive education system...
Nuffield College is delighted to relaunch the Jemolo Fellowship scheme for academic visitors to Nuffield College. Open to Italian researchers and non-Italian scholars who work on Italy, in the fields of Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Modern History and Public Law. Visitorships normally...
Deadline November 1, 2022. Do you have a mentor, colleague or professor who you feel has made significant contributions to the advancement of population sciences or the IUSSP? Consider nominating her or him for the 2023 IUSSP Laureate Award. Candidates for the Award no longer need to be members...
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of the David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Mortimer Spiegelman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Demographic Studies. The deadline to apply is Wednesday...
CALL FOR ARTICLES RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences ISSUE ON: U.S. Census 2020: Continuity and Change Zhenchao Qian Department of Sociology Brown University Trevon Logan Department of Economics The Ohio State University The decennial...
The Social, Behavioral, & Economic COVID Coordinating Center (SBE CCC) solicits applications for pilot projects for innovative measurement of social, behavioral, and economic indicators that are important correlates and consequences of the COVID pandemic. Two award sizes are...
The James Holmes Future Inclusion and Equity Leadership Development (or FIELD) Initiative identifies and engages the next generation of early to mid-career census watchers, experts, and advocates who reflect the diversity of today’s America. We believe that an important part of moving toward...
Fertility Transitions in the Developing World by John Bongaarts and Dennis Hodgson (Springer, 2022). This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behavior that occurred in Asia,...
The Network on Education, Biosocial Pathways, and Dementia in Diverse Populations, funded by the National Institute on Aging (R24AG077433; MPIs Asthana, Herd, and Walsemann), announces their upcoming Grant Proposal Workshop for Network members. The goal of the workshop is to provide feedback and...
The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) is a collaboration between four United Nations agencies (UNICEF (lead), World Health Organization, United Nations Population Division and World Bank) established to coordinate the generation of global, national and sub-national...