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
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Eva Beaujouan in Le Monde
Eva Beaujouan was interviewed for the article “Le Chômage et précarité retardent la maternité” in Le Monde, 19 March 2016. Read article
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
- 08:15 AM – 09:45 AM: Session P6: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Health 2, Location: Washington Marriott Wardman Park EXHIBIT HALL A.
Poster 32: Changing partnership and fertility · Eva Beaujouan, Maria Winkler-Dworak, Paola Di Giulio, Martin Spielauer
- 08:15 AM – 09:45: Session P6: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Health 2, Location: Washington Marriott Wardman Park EXHIBIT HALL A.
Poster 29: The Impact of the Great Recession on Age-Specific Fertility in Europe · Anna Matysiak, Tomas Sobotka and Daniele Vignoli
- 08:15 AM – 09:45: Session P6: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Health 2, Location: Washington Marriott Wardman Park EXHIBIT HALL A.
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
Tomáš Sobotka at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
On February 11, 2016, Tomáš Sobotka gave a Suessmilch Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock on Migration, fertility and population replacement in Europe. Details about the lecture are available here. Download presentation
Tomáš Sobotka interviewed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences
On December 7, Tomáš Sobotka gave an interview to the Austrian Academy of Sciences on family formation, work-family balance and late fertility of highly educated women. Read the interview (in German)
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.
Tomáš Sobotka’s article in “Orientace”
Tomáš Sobotka published an article (in Czech) on “The Myth of Europe Dying Out”, published in a weekly supplement “Orientace” of the Czech daily Lidove Noviny on 23 May 2015, pages 19-20.
Side meeting on Human Fertility Database at 2015 PAA Conference
Side meeting “Human Fertility Database: Expanding research opportunities” will be held at the PAA 2015 annual conference in San Diego on Wednesday April 29th, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront, room Aqua E. Please visit http://www.humanfertility.org/Docs/PAA.pdf for the meeting program.