News

 

Invitation to the Symposium on “Demography, Education, and Democracy – A Global Perspective”

in celebration of the opening of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital 29th September 2011, 5pm, The Austrian Parliament more

VID project “Past, Present and Future Religious Prospects in Vienna 1950-2050” gets WWTF funding (GKS-Call 2010)

Project Leader: Anne Goujon, Funding: 296.000 Euro

Wittgenstein Award 2010 goes to Wolfgang Lutz

Press

Future trends in global population growth could be significantly affected by improvements in both the quality and quantity of education, particularly female education. Projections of future population trends that do not explicitly include education in their analysis may be flawed, according to research by  Wolfgang Lutz and Samir K.C. published in the journal Science. more

Sobotka, T., V. Skirbekk, and D. Philipov. 2011. "Economic recession and fertility in the developed world." Population and Development Review 37(2): 267-306
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Conferences / Scientific Workshops

Title Time
International Conference
'Education and the Global Fertility Transition'
30 Nov - 1 Dec. 2011, Vienna/Austria

past Conferences and Scientific Workshops here

VID Colloquium

Coordinators:  Katrin Fliegenschnee ,  Christian Wegner-Siegmundt

Title Time Lecturer
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 1000-1100 Valeria Bordone, Daniela Weber & Vegard Skirbekk, IIASA & Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
A Reversal of the Positive BMI-education Link and the Implication for Seniors’ Cognitive Abilities
Wed, 7 Dec 2011 1000-1100 Jana Vobecká, VID & Wittgenstein Centre
Demographic Avant-garde: A Historical Demography Perspective on Jews in Bohemia
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 1000-1100 Martin Karlsson , TU Darmstadt, Germany
¿Lo que no mata, engorda? The Impact of the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic on Economic Performance in Sweden
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 1600-1700 Roland Verwiebe and Bernhard Riederer, University of Vienna, Institute of Sociology
Educational Achievements of Immigrant Students in Western Societies
Thu, 22 Nov 2011 1400-1500 Holger Strulik, Leibnitz University of Hannover, Germany
Optimal Aging and Cognitive Ability: Understanding the Education Gradient
Thu,13 Oct 2011 1615-1715 Robert E. Wright, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Computable General Equilibrium Models and Demographic Research
Tue,11 Oct 2011 1600-1700 Robert E. Wright, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Regionality and Immigration Policy
Mon, 3 Oct 2011 1100-1200 Zhongwei Zhao, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
China’s Recent Fertility Levels and Their Long-term Impacts
Wed, 28 Sept 2011 1000-1100 Andrew Noymer, University of California
What's flu got to do with it?  The payoff of influenza studies for demography
Tue, 20 Sept 2011 1000-1100 Dean Carson, Flinders University, School of Medicine, Australia
Settlements at the Edge: Modelling demographic change in the small towns of remote Australia
Tue, 5 July 2011 1000-1100 Tom Wilson, University of Queensland
Probabilistic population forecasting for subnational regions: a case study of South East Queensland, Australia
Thu, 7 July 2011 1500-1600

Bernhard Hammer, Vienna University of Technology & Joze Sambt, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics

National Transfer Accounts: An introduction to methodology, results and their application to estimate the first and second demographic dividend
Mon, 20 June 2011 1530-1630 Bill Butz, IIASA, WIC
The Intellectual Discovery of Human Capital
Thu, 17 Mai 2011 1600-1700 Maike Neumann, Darmstadt University of Technology
Do extreme temperatures redistribute mortality rates? Evidence from Germany
Thu, 17 Mai 2011 1400-1500 Yang Yang, University of North Carolina
Cohort Analysis in Demographic Research: What’s New?
Thu, 12 Mai 2011 1100-1200 Dalkhat Ediev, VID, IIASA, WIC
The Pay-As-You-Go vs Funded pension System in low-mortality countries: a demographic perspective
Thu, 21 April 2011 1100-1200 Anne Goujon, VID, IIASA, WIC
Towards a Catholic North America? Projections of religious denominations in Canada and the US up to 2060
Thu, 7 April 2011 1600-1700 George Ploubidis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dealing with unmeasured confounders in studies of health inequalities:
Tue, 22 March 2011 1400-1500 Nikola Sander, VID
Retirement Migration of the Baby Boomers in Australia: Beach, Bush or Busted?
Tue, 8 March 2011 1600-1700 Tomáš Sobotka, VID
Economic recession and fertility in the developed world
Tue, 1 March 2011 1600-1700 Junji Kageyama, Meikai University, Japan
Happiness and Sex Difference in Life Expectancy
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 1400-1500 Michael Kuhn, VID, Carsten Ochsen
University of Applied Labour Studies, Germany & MPIDR
Demographic and Geographic Determinants of Physician Supply
Wed, 2 Feb 2011 1400-1500 Setsuya Fukuda, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Changing Roles of Women’s Earnings Potential in Marriage Formation in Japan
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 1330-1430 Ceren Inan, Institut d'Études Démographiques de l'Université Bordeaux IV (IEDUB), France
Ageing of regional populations in Turkey: multi-state projections to 2060

VID Colloquia up to December 2010   here

The VID at the
Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2007 New York,
NY 29-31 March 2007

Presentations of VID members

The VID at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2007
New York, NY 29-31 March 2007

Presentations of VID members

The VID at the European Population Conference 2006,

Liverpool, 21 - 24 June 2006

EPC 2006 Poster Award Winner: Nadine Zielonke
Nadine Zielonke with the President of EAPS,
Janina Jozwiak, and
Nico van Nimwegen, Vice-president of EAPS


Presentations
of VID members