Wednesday, 30 Nov. 2011

• The relative importance of education for the fertility decline in Sub-Saharan Africa (Regina Fuchs & Wolfgang Lutz) more
• The effect of education on fertility and at first birth: evidence from compulsory education laws in Latin America (Ana Mylena Aguilar Rivera) more
• Women’s education and the transition to motherhood in Tehran, Iran (Amir Erfani) more
• Female education, labour markets and fertility outcomes: tempo and quantum of first births in Belgium between 1960 and 2000 (Karel Neels) more
• Education and fertility. Evidence from the Hungarian GGP data (Tamás Bartus et al.) more

• Discussion

• Does motherhood impede access to lifelong learning? Evidence from European Social Survey (Anna Baranowska)
• How and what changed women’s fertility behaviour with educational attainment in Eastern and Western Germany over the last few decades? (Gwendolin J. Blossfeld)
• The impact of changes of women status on fertility (Anica Dragovic & Mohammed Humaid Aljabri)
• Youth and reproduction in Brazil (Sandra Garcia et al.)
• Electrification and fertility in the US (Rowena Gray)
• Child survival, evolution of income-dependent relative preferences and modern fertility transition (Junji Kageyama)

• Student, spouse and parent? School attendance and role incompatibility among adolescents and young adults in 73 countries, 2000 (Albert Esteve et al.) more
• Mass education, low fertility, human capital formation and the conditions for future economic development (Alberto Palloni et al.) more
• More schooling, more children: compulsory schooling reforms and fertility in Europe (Margherita Fort et al.) more
• Discussion

• Women’s childlessness at age thirty: the causal impact on labor force participation and education attainment in some Latin American countries (Laeticia Souza & Eduardo Rios-Neto) more
• Family planning in the north-eastern part of India: church vs. female education (K. C. Lalmalsawmzauva) more
• Women’s education and fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa (David Shapiro) more
• Discussion

Thursday, 1 Dec. 2011

• A re-assessment of the effects of female education and employment on fertility in Nigeria (Onipede Wusu) more
• Family planning and fertility differences with respect to the status groups of women in Turkey (M. Murat Yüceşahin et al.) more
• A re-assessment of fertility differentials by education using demographic and health surveys (Samir K.C.and Alessandra Grabero) more
• Senior's wellbeing: perceived and realized associations with variation in number of children (Valeria Bordone et al.) more
• Discussion

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-13.00

Session 4: Economic perspectives
Chair: Warren C. Sanderson

• The economic and demographic transition from a global perspective (Uwe Sunde & Matteo Cervellati) more
• Long-term determinants of the demographic transition: 1870-2000 (Fabrice Murtin) more
• Incentives and disincentives of reproduction: women’s educational attainment and fertility decisions in Singapore (Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun) more
• Discussion

13.00-14.45

• Have policy changes and investments in education expanded real opportunities and fertility choices for women and girls in Nigeria? (Olaide A. Adedokun et al.)
• Type of union and education: factors associated to mean age at first birth in the context of fertility decline: the cases of Brazil and Bolivia (Juliana V. S. Barros & Gabriela Mourise de Oliveira Bonifácio)
• Relationship between education and parity progression and birth intervals in a context of fertility decline: an application to Latin America (Gabriela Mourise de Oliveira Bonifácio & Laura L. R. Wong)
• Education as a main factor in fertility decline: the experience of Iran (Hossein Mahmoudian)
• Fertility and education forecast for India: a sub-national analysis (Monika Sawhney) (to be confirmed)
• Is education behind decreasing child sex-ratio (0-6) in India? Preliminary results of 2011 census (KNS Yadava)

14.45-16.15

Session 5: Modernity and fertility
Chair: Alicia Adsera

• One or two pathways to individual modernity? Effects of education on family formation in Japan and Germany (Bernhard Nauck & Rokuro Tabuchi) more
• theYesterday and today: what late 19th century America can teach us about fertility transitions (Warren C. Sanderson) more
• Implications of the shifting gender balance in education for reproduction in Europe (Jan Van Bavel) more
• Discussion

16.15-16.30

Coffee break

• Brief introductory statements by Nico Keilman, Wolfgang Lutz and others
• Open discussion