Urban Demographics

The world’s largest subway system goes cashless as Shanghai Metro adopts QR code Fitness tracking app Strava data gives away loca...

Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago, except in France . Via The Economist .

This is a quite nice way to put a lot of info in a concise and beautiful figure. It comes from ‘The Information Capital’ , a book by James C...

Where do women get Maternity leave and Who pays for it Cc @simonhedlin @lisawade #maternityleave pic.twitter.com/Jv5oRSU3Dr — Urban D...

Quick post: Gay Marriage became legal in all of the US states today! The Supreme Court on Friday said that same-sex couples had a constit...

Via The New York Times Related Links: Economic incentives and the timing of births: evidence from the German parental benefit 4 ...

Road pricing: What’s not to love? Top 20 things politicians need to know about science  and  Top 20 things scientists need to know about...

This week we had the visit from Prof. Toni Lopez here at Ipea, who gave us a very nice workshop on IPUMS (I'll write a post about IPU...

Three papers discussing the effects of media exposure on reproductive behavior. Ferrara et al (2008). Soap Operas and Fertility: Evid...

Book  Demographic Change and Housing Wealth Mapa interactivo de la población extranjera en Barcelona  ( movilidadyurbanismo ) P olitic...

Ok! now back fom the honeymoon to the real world. Something tells me I shouldn't be much enthusiastic about this (I refer to the real ...