Risto Conte
@ConteRisto
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Postdoc @MPIDRnews. PhD from @EUI_EU. Interests: Climate Change, Sociology, Demography, Inequality.
Joined September 2018
📝Excited to share my new publication with @ezagheni and Helga de Valk in @PNASNews where we look at gravity-type models for migration prediction. Our results suggest that ignoring gender makes these models less reliable⬇️ https://t.co/OqrOaY5P4B
#migration #gender #modeling
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This (recently updated) free textbook on difference-in-differences looks amazing! It comes with practitioner checklists and practice data + code. A teaching/research goldmine! by @CdeChaisemartin and Xavier D'Haultfoeuille.
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📢Entrada en @universidad_si sobre la PAU y el papel de factores como la calidad del aire😶🌫️ Recupero las conclusiones de un paper con @marespadafor y @ConteRisto sobre el efecto de una ZBE sobre el rendimiento en la PAU Echa un vistazo!👇 https://t.co/Gm7GWStrkV
universidadsi.es
Las zonas de bajas emisiones afectan directamente al éxito de la PAU y a la posibilidad de que los alumnos ingresen a la universidad.
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Our monograph The Geography of Early Dropout In Spain is out! 🌍 #OA
https://t.co/GUZLAQibhB Miguel Requena and I analyze early dropout at the provincial (NUTS3) level using 2011 and 2021 census data. I'll be sharing key findings in the coming days. Starting with some maps! 👇
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As part of @SpringerNature @Nature, our latest News & Views article by @GualdiRosanna and Raya Muttarak is available online NOW. (provided by Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative) You can read it here: https://t.co/nIUyl6Xe4g
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📣Call for Papers‼️Only 2 weeks left! Conference "Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics" Speakers:J.Ballester, J.Kephart, R.Muttarak, V.Mueller, B.Thiede & D.Balk 📅Nov 11–12, 2025 🗺️ @MPIDRnews 📰Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025 https://t.co/shZYo5IZHF
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🚨 Concern about climate change is linked to lower fertility intentions in Italy. 👉 New study out in Genus by @chiarapuglisi93, Daniele Vignoli & Raya Muttarak (@popclima). 🔗 https://t.co/YmuF2kdiYe
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Did long-term differences in socioeconomic structures shape birth seasonality in 🇩🇪? @ConteRisto explores this question focussing on the pre- and post-reunification eras in #East and #WestGermany using @HFDatabase
https://t.co/uh1o38Ksxv
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Are you interested in how climate change affects human populations and how human activities drive environmental change?🌍 🔎 Check out our recently published Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2024 w/ 18 articles covering various aspects of the nexus https://t.co/hmvkSR4oUc
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📢 Happy to share that my co-authors & I have been awarded the 2024 @ipums Research Award for our study on the impacts of #climatechange on internal #migration worldwide using @ipumsi data 🔗 https://t.co/OiphzvEKQr 🔗 https://t.co/WtOK9OW5ND We are very grateful for this award!
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I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org: “Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows” Open Access: https://t.co/yAuXCYn3Ro w/ @danko_maciej @XinyiZhao16 @ezagheni @MPIDRnews #PAA2025
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This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: https://t.co/bft14a1NzA
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🚀 I spent the entire day training image segmentation models from scratch! I've created several pretrained models to detect features like buildings, cars, ships, solar panels, and wetlands. Video tutorials are coming soon! 🤗 Check out the pretrained models on Hugging Face:
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The first empirical evaluation of New York's congestion pricing has just been published. Spoiler: It worked really, really well🧵
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There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at @Columbia & academic career... 1/🧵
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The mother of all #DiD papers just dropped and #X is completely silent about it: Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner's Guide Baker, Callaway, Cunningham, Goodman-Bacon, and Sant'Anna https://t.co/8moBS7fJbo Comes with a complete checklist of steps!
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Difference-in-differences (DiD) is arguably the most popular quasi-experimental research design. Its canonical form, with two groups and two periods, is well-understood. However, empirical...
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📢 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21 Century" 📅 Date: 19-21 November 2025 🏘️ Location: Vienna, Austria 🕛 Deadline: 31 May 2025 https://t.co/7lkhnzTlYl 🙏Grateful for sharing
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Our paper on the effect of extreme heat on birth outcomes with my colleagues from @poblacion_csic is out in Population & Environment:
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Population and Environment - This paper investigates the impact of extreme heat on perinatal health disparities between migrant and native-born populations in Spain. Using birth records from 2018...
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No class death/decomposition🧟♂️— Wealth💸accumulation is firmly stratified by social classes in Europe, harming equal opportunity for young generations @SpringerSocSci paper with @lisdata by @pslrojo Vidal & Villani👇#DIGCLASS @LSEInequalities @UNI_FIRENZE
https://t.co/xNVm3BZslY
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Social Indicators Research - Wealth is a central determinant of life chances and intergenerational status persistence in modern societies. Despite increasing attention, sociologists traditionally...
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