Maria Winkler-Dworak
Info
Research Group: Population Economics
Job Title: Research Scientist
Phone: +43 1 515 81 7709
Fax: +43 1 515 81 7730
E-mail: maria.winkler-dworak@oeaw.ac.at
Education
- Studies in Technical Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology (1999)
- PhD in Technical Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology (2002)
- International Max Planck Research School for Demography, Rostock, Germany (2000)
- Stanford Workshop in Formal Demography, Stanford, CA (Aug. 2005).
Professional Career
- Research student at the Institute for Econometrics, Operations Research and Systems Theory, Vienna University of Technology
- Since March 1999: research scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- April 15th, 2004 – June 2004: EU-Research Training Network Fellowship at the Institut National d´Etudes Démographiques, Paris
Research Interests
- Population and Environment:
- Mathematical modelling of the interaction of population and environment
- Effect of institutions
- Family Formation:
- Tempo and quantum effects
- Gender differences
- The impact of socio-economic variables
- Mortality:
- Socio-economic differences and historical trends
Projects
- Gender Differences in Family Formation in France
- Union dissolution as an Engine to Fertility
- Demography of a Learned Society
Teaching
- Population Economics (University of Bamberg, SS 2007)
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Population Economics (University of Bamberg, summer term 2007)
Advanced Methods in Demography, Part 1 + 2 (University of Vienna, 2008 – present)
Selected Publications
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Winkler-Dworak, M. (2004) Food security, fertility differentials, and land degradation in sub-Saharan Africa: A dynamic framework. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2004, 227-252.
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Winkler-Dworak, M. and Engelhardt, H. (2004) On the Tempo and Quantum of First Marriages in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: Changes in Mean Age and Variance. Demographic Research 10(9), 231-264.
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Winkler-Dworak, M. and Toulemon, L. (2007) Gender Differences in the Transition to Adulthood: Is There Convergence over the Recent Periods? European Journal of Population 23(3-4), 273–314.
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Winkler-Dworak, M. (2008) The Low Mortality of a Learned Society. European Journal of Population 24:405-424.
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Thomson, E., Winkler-Dworak, M., Spielauer, M., Prskawetz, A. (2012) Union Instability as an Engine of Fertility? A Micro-simulation Model for France. Demography 49 (1): 175-195.
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Thomson, E., Winkler-Dworak, M., and Kennedy, S. (2012). The Standard Family Life Course: An Assessment of Variability in Life Course Pathways. Pages 35-52 in Evans, A. and Baxter, J. (eds.), Negotiating the Life Course. Life Course Research and Social Policies 1, Dordrecht: Springer.
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