Work packages
Work package 1: Management and coordination
This work package involves:
- Providing administrative support to the project.
- Providing coordination of work in and between the work packages.
- Organizing the meetings of the consortium.
- Writing a mid-term report and a final report of the project.
Main responsible: Dimiter Philipov, VID
Work package 2: Macro perspective on fertility trends and institutional context
This work package involves:
- The construction of a macro-level database on fertility, family policies, transfers from firms and to the family.
- An analysis at the macro-meso level of the policy support to households in different family-work situations and variations in the fertility behaviour.
- Detailed data, computations and documentations for Austria and the Czech Republic as input for the Fertility Database. The Fertility Database is a MPIDR/VID project which aims at the construction of an open access database on births and population data.
Main responsible: Olivier Thévenon, INED
Work package 3: Contextualised micro level: fertility intentions
This work package involves:
- The development of a harmonized data set of the Generations and Gender Surveys as well as a report.
- An empirical paper on the use of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to model fertility intentions.
- A paper on the results of the modeling of couple’s fertility decision-making in the framework of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Main responsible: Jane Klobas, Bocconi University
Work package 4: The micro level: fertility behaviour
This work package involves:
- A comparative analysis of Bulgaria and Hungary on the factors that determine fertility intentions and their realization at the micro-level.
- Further country specific analyses on Italy, France, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.
- A summary of all findings with the purpose to identify similarities and differences among all countries, on one side, and among old and new members of the European Union, on the other side.
Main responsible: Zsolt Spéder, Demographic Research Institute
Work package
5: Fertility intentions and behaviours in context:
a comparative
qualitative approach
This work package involves:
- A scientific report on a typology of individual orientations and life course contingencies leading to positive, negative or undefined fertility intentions and life course configurations fostering or hampering the realization of such intentions.
- A scientific report which critically evaluates the instruments of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to predict intentions in relations to reproduce behaviour.
- A scientific report on variation in social norms and practices of social influences in different family and fertility cultures and specific political economies.
Main responsible: Laura Bernardi, UNIL
Work package 6: Macro-level determinants of fertility decision-making
This work package involves:
- A report on the analysis of the data of the European Social Surveys on cross-national differences in perceived norms concerning fertility-related behaviour.
- A report on the analysis of Eurobarometer data on cross-national differences in fertility intentions.
- A report on the analysis of the data of the European Social Surveys on cross-national differences in the timing and quantum of fertility.
Main responsible: Aart Liefbroer, NIDI
Work package 7: Synthesis and policy implications
This work package involves:
- State of the art
- Synthesis of policy relevant information.
- The recommendation of policy implications.
Main responsible: Tomáš Sobotka, VID
Work package 8: Dissemination
This work package involves:
- The dissemination of the work on a website, with a press release and the public announcement of the Fertility Database.
- Final plan for dissemination and use of the foreground.
Main responsible: Maria Rita Testa, VID
