Demographer/Sociologist studying families, aging, and population health. Prof at University of Western Ontario (aka Western Union, Canada)
London, Ontario
Joined May 2013
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In “A Profile of Great-Grandparenthood in the U.S.,” @margolis_r & @AVerdery find rates of great-grandparenthood for older cohorts are stable bc of ↑ life expectancy & postponed fertility, but rates for younger cohorts are lower. @westernuSocSci @icds_psu
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Youjin Choi, @margolis_r & Anders Holm explore “The Effects of Extended Parental Benefits on Parents’ Employment & Earnings in Canada” & find that fathers’ use “had positive impacts" on both mothers’ & fathers’ earnings in the longer run. @StatCan_eng ow.ly/JnAC50W0v3L
The data are in! The total fertility rate in Canada reached a new low in 2023 at 1.26 births per woman. We now have "lowest low" fertility here, defined as being below 1.3 births per woman, as we see in Japan, S Korea, Italy and Spain. StatsCan report: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/dail…
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In “Changes in Family Structure & Increasing Gaps in Care,” @HuijinWu @margolis_r @Averdery & @pattersearch show “kinless older adults had the highest ADL & IADL care gap rates,” with men & Whites more at risk than others. @WesternuSoc @PSUSocCrim @umisr
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How do risk factors for chronic loneliness vary crossnationally? Check out our new pub with @margolis_r & @AVerdery in #JGSS
Spoiler...in 🧵
@geronsociety @psupopresearch @WesternuSOC
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Posted: “Sibling Availability, Sibling Sorting & Subjective Health.” H. Wang @AVerdery & @margolis_r find 2% of post-1979 adults are in only-child couples & they are not worse off than couples w/ any siblings. @AgingStudiesSU @CAPS-research @SULernerCenter
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My department is hiring for two positions. These are 3-year full time positions, with a teaching load of 6 courses a year and also a research and service component. #soctwitter @ASA_Family @PopAssocAmerica @asa_population
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Rachel Margolis retweeted
📢New Pub Alert! 📢
Happy to share that a new paper on older immigrant health across Europe with @margolis_r and @AVerdery is out in Population Research & Policy Review.
Check it out! rdcu.be/daeks
@SpringerNature @psupopresearch @WesternuSOC
Hi #academictwitter, my university is thinking about changing our course website platform from OWL to either brightspace or canvas. What do your universities use? And how well do they work for organizing course material, announcements via email, message boards, and grading?
A very thoughtful and insightful article by @WesternuSOC MA student @samar_elmasri so useful for our undergraduates that it should be required reading @WesternU @westernuSocSci. #soctwitter
Op-Ed: Wondering why your TA missed that email? Here’s the tea.
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Thanks for interviewing me! @LondonMorning @RebeccaZandberg @AndrewLuptonCBC @westernuSocSci @westernu
London is growing. Projections show our population will hit 650,000 in 30 years. So, how do we prepare? More w/ @WesternU demographer @margolis_r at 7:10. #ldnont
READ by @AndrewLuptonCBC:
cbc.ca/news/canada/london/lo…
Who will care for kinless older adults? Thanks @paula_span @nytimes for raising attention to this issue and our work. @AVerdery @spattersearch @DeborahCarr723 @Brownsl_BGSU @WesternuSOC
nytimes.com/2022/12/03/healt…
London Ontario is much more diverse than it used to be, and even more than most realize. The new census release finds that 22 percent in London, ON are immigrants, and of those, about 20 per cent are recent immigrants within the last five years.
cbc.ca/news/canada/london/th…
Joe Pinsker's new piece is out at the @TheAtlantic about how reporting on parenting and family policy has made him more worried about becoming a parent someday. Like all his work, it's so well researched and tells stories from demography and sociology so clearly.
2/ I’ve spent the last four years reporting on parenting, and my final piece for @TheAtlantic is a reflection on how that experience has made me more worried about someday becoming a parent myself:
theatlantic.com/family/archi…
Sociologists on the job market: We have a great position in our department for an urban sociologist broadly defined. Deadline to Apply is end of August. Join this amazing group of colleagues and students sociology.uwo.ca/people/facu… @PopAssocAmerica @ASAnews
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This fall, I'll be teaching Research Design/Methods for our #Sociology graduate students @WesternuSoc. I'm looking for a variety of qualitative, historical, or other data (i.e. not surveys) that are available for students to do secondary data analysis. #soctwitter suggestions?
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New paper out 🚨
An overview of the gerontology field in Puerto Rico and how migration is affecting the health of older adults left behind.
Thanks to @AppDemography @AVerdery, @CarlosMdL58 & Dr.Monge for the support.
I admit: it is exciting to see the island on the world map.😊
