Call for Papers
From intentions to behaviour: reproductive decision-making in a macro-micro perspective
Vienna, 2-3 December 2010
Demographers have been increasingly interested in studying fertility intentions: Can intentions predict subsequent fertility? Is there a significant gap between intended and realised fertility? How do people construct their intentions to have or not to have a child? Why do some intentions to have a child get realised while others remain unrealised and some people have children they did not intend to have? What are the adequate theories and methods to address these and similar questions?
The conference will be structured along the following topics:
- Macro-level conditions and institutional environment: fertility trends and their links with important economic, cultural and policy-related determinants
- Reproductive decision-making at the micro-level
- Fertility decisions and their behavioural outcomes
- The impact of macro-level factors on micro-level decision-making and behaviour
- Policy implications
We encourage theoretical contributions, including those applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour, as well as empirical studies based on quantitative or qualitative data. Selected papers will be published in the 2011 issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research.
This annual VID conference is organised jointly with the REPRO project run under the 7th Framework Programme of the EC (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/repro/). Invited participants include members of the REPRO project’s steering board:
Icek Aizen, Jennifer Barber, Anne Gauthier and Ron Lesthaeghe
Please e-mail all submissions to conference.vid@oeaw.ac.at
Submissions should include an abstract and, wherever possible, the full paper and be sent to the VID by 15 September 2010. For more information, please contact Dimiter Philipov or Tomáš Sobotka at the VID.
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