The second issue of the EURREP Research Brief featuring the CFE database is put out.

Governments in many European countries are concerned about low birth rates, which have dropped well below two children per woman in all but a few countries in Western and Northern Europe. However, according to the results of the comprehensive data analysis by Tomáš Sobotka and Éva Beaujouan the ideal family size has become strongly centered at two children all across the continent during the last three decades.  Read more

Éva Beaujouan presented her and Tomáš Sobotka’s paper “Two is best? The persistence of a Two-child Family Ideal in Europe“ at the PAA in Boston, 1-3 May 2014. Poster

The EURREP Team will present a paper at the Annual British Society for Population Studies Conference 2014 in Winchester! Presentation

The first issue of the EURREP Reserach Brief is now put out. The printed version will be available at the EPC in Budapest, 25-28 June. You can read it online here.

The EURREP Team will present its research at the European Population Conference 2014 in Budapest!

Éva Beaujouan

• Union dynamics and fertility
• Is fertility still correlated to the number of siblings? A cross-generational study including half-siblings
• Educational differences in tempo and quantum of childbearing in Britain: a study of cohorts born 1940-1964
• Estimates of the contribution of rising educational participation to partnership postponement: a model-based decomposition for the U.K., France and Belgium

Zuzanna Brzozowska

• How did changes in female educational structure affect fertility in state socialism? Evidence from seven Central and South Eastern European countries
• Education and non-marital conception outcomes in Central Europe: a comparison of trends in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia

Anna Matysiak

• Paths into childlessness: country-specific or universal?

Anna Matysiak & Tomáš Sobotka

• Did the reversal in the cross-country association between women’s labor force participation and fertility really take place? A cohort view
• The impact of the Great Recession on fertility in Europe: a multi-level study

Tomáš Sobotka & Éva Beaujouan

• Two are best? The persistence of two-child family ideals and preferences in Europe

Kryštof Zeman

• Education and fertility through the lenses of four censuses: Czech Republic 1980, 1991, 2001, and 2011

On October 21-22 2013 Tomáš Sobotka participated in Expert Group Meeting on Fertility, Changing Population Trends and Development in New York, organized by the Population Division of the United Nations. He presented a paper on  “Pathways to low fertility: European perspectives”.  Presentation

Data for Norway and Japan have been added to the Human Fertility Database. It includes now data for 21 countries. More on www.humanfertility.org.

The Human Fertility Collection, a joint database by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Vienna Institute of Demography, has been officially launched and presented at the XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference in Busan, Korea, on August 30. The database is freely accessible online at http://www.fertilitydata.org

Tomas Sobotka and Eva Beaujouan presented a paper “Exploring long-term changes in fertility differentials by level of education” (co-authored by Zuzanna Brzozowska, Karel Neels and Ron Rindfuss) at the XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference in Busan, Korea, on August 29. The paper sets out a future research agenda on the topic by the EURREP team as well as collaborating researchers outside EURREP. Presentation