Centre for Economic Demography

What is going on in Lund?
Skvalborg, kvalborg, valborg, finalborg (1 maj), katastrofalborg, brutalborg 🍺🥳
The history of last april https://www.lundagard.se/.../dar-ute-star-majnatten.../
Important dates for 2022 https://www.lu.se/.../siste-april-och-forsta-maj-firande...
Unfortunately everything is in Swedish 🙄

”Där ute står majnatten blånande blå…” – Lundagard.se ”Där ute står majnatten blånande blå…” By Jakob Ehde - 29 april, 2015 - in Nyheter Siste april i Lund ligger många varmt om hjärtat. Men var kommer egentligen valborgsfesten från? Följ med i historien om en av studentlivets viktigaste traditioner. Våren är återigen på inga....

Congratulation Martin Önnerfors!
Your thesis has been awarded the Oscar II scholarship 🥳🏆

Oscar II:s stipendium! Martin Önnerfors har tilldelats Oscar II:s stipendium för sin avhandling Water for the Many: Health, neiqhbourhood chanqe and equalitv of access durinq the expansion of Swedish urban water networks. Oscar II:s stipendium delas ut årligen av Lunds universitet Stipendiet går till den avhandling so...

Watch out today!

Its legal to do an April fool prank
”April, April din dumma sill jag kan lura dig vart jag vill”

April Fools' Day - Wikipedia April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved in these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. April 1 is not....

We are happy to announce two new doctoral student positions. One position linked to the research project Migration policy, migrant selection and labor market outcomes in Sweden and Denmark and one position linked to the research program Women in science and technology.

Read more about the positions and apply latest May 1!

Two new PhD positions One position linked to the research project Migration policy, migrant selection and labor market outcomes in Sweden and Denmark and one position linked to the research program Women in science and technology.

Lund University in solidarity with Ukraine!
The devastating war in Ukraine is a human tragedy, and our deepest empathy and concerns are with the millions of people impacted 😢
It is now possible to donate money to the scholarship fund "Lund University support program for students and staff affected by the situation in Ukraine". All contributions are valuable and your gift makes a big difference 🙏

Send your gift via Swish 1230299719 or bank transfer 830-6599. Label the donation "Ukraine".

Regarding the war in Ukraine Lund University. This page was last updated on: 17 March 2022 Lund University is monitoring the course of events in Ukraine and the government’s management of the situation. The information on this page is continuously updated.

Today, Elien van Dongen held her midway seminar and answered the following questions:
1. How do we measure ”surname status inequality” and “surname status persistence”?
2. What do surname status inequality and surname status persistence look like for the full Swedish population over all birth cohorts 1820-1985? Levels and changes over time
3. How do “surname status persistence” of surname groups and individual surnames relate to each other? What does within-group and between-group mobility look like?

Thank you for a very interesting seminar with many great comments from the audience divided with 24 people at Zoom and 13 people in the room.

Today our PhD student Marcos Castillo held a seminar titled “The Land of Opportunity? Returns to migration for Swedish migrants during the Age of Mass Migration”

• Over a million Swedes migrated to the US during the Age of Mass Migration (1860-1930)
• In 1900, returns seem to be mostly driven by higher wages in the US, not by occupational changes

Thank you for a great seminar!

Wonderful to see so many people at the fourth Lund Population Day, both in person and joining digitally!

The breadth of research at Lund University with relevance to this year’s theme “Big Microdata and Population Research” was exemplified when listening to today’s interesting presentations from researchers at all three faculties represented at the Centre. To top it off, we were graced with the digital presence of keynote speaker Steven Ruggles who took us on a mind-boggling journey through the amazing technological advances in data storage and the remarkable history of IPUMS.

A big thank you to all who contributed to making LPD 2021 a memorable event! Hope to see you next year!

Congratulation Ingrid van Dijk 🎉
Thanks to Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds grant of 4 MSEK she can run the project "An age-old advantage? Healthy aging in two centuries of Swedish and Dutch long-lived families (1813-2021)".
We look forward to interesting research output in the next coming years!

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond | An age-old advantage? Healthy aging in two centuries of Swedish and Dutch long-lived families (1813-2021)

Today, Martin Önnerfors passed his defence and are now a doctor in Economic History

Many nice comments from the opponent Professor Lionel Kesztenbaum and the degree committee like:
“This is a very important asset and contribution”
“Impressive collection of data”
“Easy to read”

Congratulation Martin Önnerfors 🎉

Welcome new PhD students!
The departments biggest cohort ever with ten new PhD students, all funded with external money and connected to different research project.
We asked them to introduce themselves by answer some questions.
Read more about everyone's answers at our webpage
https://www.ekh.lu.se/nyheter/ten-new-doctoral-students

Congratulations to Martin Önnerfors who is one step closer to his doctoral dissertation by nailing his thesis today. He will defend his thesis titled: ”Water for the Many Health, neiqhbourhood chanqe and eaualitv of access durinq the exoansion of Swedish urban water networks” on Friday 17 September at 10:00 in Alfa 1, room 2003.

Welcome to join the defence at Zoom.
Please send me a mail, [email protected] no later than September 15 and we will invite you to the online defence.
Warmly welcome!