On November 2-3 2015 Tomáš Sobotka participated in the United Nations expert Group Meeting on Policy Responses to Low Fertility organized by The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations jointly with the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. T. Sobotka gave a presentation on ‘Macro factors behind low fertility’.

Details about the meeting are available here.

Policy briefs based on the research presented at the meeting are also available at the same website. T. Sobotka’s research is covered in Policy Brief No. 3 on Austria and Policy Brief No. 6 on the Czech Republic.

Anna Matysiak’s recent article with Ivett Szalma discussing parental leave and mothers’ return to work in Hungary and Poland is presented in the first issue of Population Insights,

Two EURREP researchers, Anna Matysiak and Tomas Sobotka have been interviewed about their research in short videos produced by Population Europe (http://www.population-europe.eu/), a network of leading European population research centers.

Anna Matysiak discusses reasons for which some women remain childless. Video

Tomas Sobotka talks about the consequences of economic uncertainty for family formation during the recent economic recession. Video

The 2^nd Human Fertility Data Symposium on “Population-level fertility research: State of the art” will take place in Berlin, 23-24 June 2016. Read more

Print and online versions of the European Fertility Datasheet 2015 were officially launched on December 2, 2015 at the conference on Education and Reproduction in Low-Fertility Settings in Vienna. Through a combination of data for all countries of Europe and for broader European regions, maps, tables, graphs and featured thematic boxes combining text and graphics, the datasheet provides an in-depth look at European fertility. The online version provides expanded coverage, including additional maps, ranking charts as well as details about data sources and definitions. It also allows the users to download all the data. The datasheet was supported from the EURREP project budget and was prepared in collaboration of five EURREP researchers with two researchers affiliated with the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. Access online version of the datasheet at fertilitydatasheet.org.

The presentations at the special session on the “Human Fertility Database” at the 2015 PAA conference on 29 April 2015 are now available at the HFD website: http://www.humanfertility.org/cgi-bin/paa.php

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

Wednesday April 29th

• 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Human Fertility Database: Expanding research opportunities (Member-initiated meeting, free access). Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront, room Aqua E. Program available here: http://www.humanfertility.org/Docs/PAA.pdf

Thursday April 30

• 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Session 48: Families and Households in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Location: Sapphire Ballroom H, Level 4). Link: http://paa2015.princeton.edu/sessions/48

Paper 4: Women’s Education and Cohort Fertility during the Baby Boom in the West • Jan Van Bavel, Martin Klesment, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Allan Puur, David Sven Reher, Miguel Requena, Glenn Sandström, Tomas Sobotka, Kryštof Zeman).

•  1:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Poster Session 3: Fertility Intentions and Behaviors (Indigo Ballrooms A-H, Level 2). Link: http://paa2015.princeton.edu/sessions/P3#61

61. The Gender-Specific Effects of Partners’ Socio-Economic Resources on Fertility • Anna Matysiak, Natalie Nitsche.

62. Life-Course Trajectories of Childless Women: Country-Specific or Universal? • Monika Mynarska, Anna Matysiak, Anna Rybinska, Valentina Tocchioni.

• 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Session 91: Variability in Reproduction (Location: Aqua Salon AB, Level 3). Link: http://paa2015.princeton.edu/sessions/91

Session discussant: Tomas Sobotka

Paper 3: What Are the Consequences of Fertility Postponement for Women’s Completed Family Size? • Juliet A. Stone, Ann M. Berrington, Eva Beaujouan.

Friday May 1

• 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Session 100: Determinants of Fertility Timing (Location: Sapphire Ballroom A, Level 4). Link: http://paa2015.princeton.edu/sessions/100

Paper 4: Bimodal Age-Specific Fertility Profiles in Latin America: The Case of Chile and Uruguay Everton E. C. Lima, Kryštof Zeman, Ruben Castro, Mathias Nathan, Tomas Sobotka.

On 24 March 2015 Tomáš Sobotka gave a keynote “Demographic change in Central and Eastern Europe – European trends and national diversity” at the Joint Programming Initiative Conference in Vienna.

The presentation can be accessed here.

The programme & other conference presentations can be downloaded from here.

The EURREP Team will be present at the annual conference of the German Society for Demography (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie) in March in Berlin! See the conference programme here.