Author Archives: Zuzanna Brzozowska

Tomáš Sobotka in The Economist

In the article “The strange case of the missing baby” (The Economist, 30 April 2016) Tomáš Sobotka comments on fertility changes during the recent economic recession. Read

Eva Beaujouan’s work in Le Figaro’s Madame

The article “Les femmes sont moins satisfaites de leur couple que les hommes” published in Le Figaro’s Madame (March 18, 2016) summarises one part of Eva Beaujouan’s book chapter “Fréquence des désaccords, satisfaction dans le couple et séparation” published in Parcours de famille, a volume edited by Arnaud Régnier-Loilier. Read article

Beaujouan, É. (2016). Fréquence des désaccords, satisfaction dans le couple et séparation. In A. Régnier-Loilier (Ed.), Parcours de famille (pp. 137–149). Paris: Collection Grandes enquêtes, Ined.

EURREP at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA), 30 March – 2 April 2016

Different strands of the EURREP research will be well represented at the upcoming PAA Annual Meeting

Thursday March 31th

  • 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM: Session 61: Childlessness, Location: Washington Marriott Wardman Park DELAWARE A

Paper 1: Childlessness Trends in Twentieth-Century Europe: Limited Link to Growing Educational Attainment · Eva Beaujouan, Zuzanna Brzozowska and Kryštof Zeman

Friday April 1st

Poster 32: Changing partnership and fertility · Eva Beaujouan, Maria Winkler-Dworak, Paola Di Giulio, Martin Spielauer

Poster 29: The Impact of the Great Recession on Age-Specific Fertility in Europe · Anna Matysiak, Tomas Sobotka and Daniele Vignoli

Poster 34: The Role of Tempo Effect in the Ultra-Low Fertility in South Korea · Sam Hyun Yoo and Tomas Sobotka

  • 01:40 PM – 02:00 PM: Session 147-3: Low Fertility, Location: Washington Marriott Wardman Park WASHINGTON ROOM 4

Presentation: The Low–Fertility Future? Projections Based on Different Methods Suggest Long-Term Persistence of Low Fertility · Tomas Sobotka, Kryštof Zeman and Stuart Gietel-Basten

The VID/WIC conference “Education and Reproduction in Low Fertility Settings”

The VID/WIC conference on “Education and Reproduction in Low Fertility Settings”, in part coordinated by the EURREP researchers (T. Sobotka, E. Beaujouan, Z. Brzozowska) is taking place on 2-4 December in Vienna. The conference has brought together more than a hundred of researchers. Besides featuring 30 presentations in eight thematic sessions and 25 poster presentations, the conference includes three invited presentations. A keynote at the conference opening (“Quo vadis familia?“) is given by Gøsta Esping-Andersen, sociologist known especially for his research on welfare state typology and changes in family and gender relations. This keynote is followed by an invited lecture by Wolfgang Lutz (director of the Wittgenstein Centre) on Cognition driven demographic transition. On the second day of the conference, Alicia Adsera, demographer and economist from Princeton University will give the keynote on Education and fertility in the context of rising inequality. Conference programme, which will later include the presentations, is available here . Press release in German covering the conference and the preceding 3rd Generations and Gender Programme User Conference is available here .

Tomáš Sobotka at the Dutch Demography Day in Utrecht.

On 25 November 2015 Tomáš Sobotka gave a keynote on “European Fertility Trends: Continuity and Reversals” at the Dutch Demography Day, annual conference organised by the Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD). The conference programme is available here. Access T. Sobotka’s presentation here.