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Having a wash outside the home. A survey of users of City of Paris free public bathing facilities (bains-douches)

Paris has 16 free public bathing facilities, for a total of 500 private individual showers. These facilities and their users, surveyed in 2017, constitute an interesting case study of a public service that provides people who cannot bathe at home with access to hot water and privacy. Public bains-douches [shower-baths] were initially opened in Europe at the same time as social housing; ...

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Gwennaëlle Brilhault and Amandine Morisset

Gwennaëlle Brilhault, head of INED’s Surveys Department, and Amandine Morisset, in charge of listing INED surveys and making them available to users, answer our questions on consulting surveys and data

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Marriage seasonality (1946-2013)

For the 70th anniversary of its founding, the journal Population has been republishing articles from its 1946 issues, each commented upon by present-day researchers.

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Léonard Moulin

INED researcher Léonard Moulin tells us about his doctoral thesis on the effects on higher education students of introducing tuition fees. His work has received several awards, including the 2017 Prix Eicher this January.

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Mortality has fallen since 1950, but for whom?

Mortality fell considerably in the 20th century in western countries, but the decrease was neither regular nor continuous.

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Delphine Remillon

INED’s researcher tells us about the book "A dictionary of conventions"

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Fertility and public policy: a comparison of France and Italy in tribute to Valeria Solesin’s thesis work

Valeria Solesin, one of the persons killed in the 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris, was trained as a sociologist and demographer. At the time of her death she was in the last phase of completing her doctoral thesis on contemporary fertility behaviours in Italy and France, with a special focus on the transition from first to second child. The ...

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Religiosity dynamics among immigrants and their descendants in France

The French population has continued to become more secularized over the last several decades: nearly half of French people state they have no religion. Catholicism remains the country’s first religion but the number of believers continues to fall. In a context where religion’s hold continues to weaken, a situation reinforced by the French policy framework of “laïcité”, how do immigrants ...

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Virginie Rozee

nous parle de l’ouvrage L’aide à la procréation, dans les pays du Nord et du Sud qu’elle a co-dirigé avec Sayeed Unisa

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Loïc Trabut

tells us about intergenerational family co-residency