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)
Selected Publications
- 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.
- 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.
- Sobotka, T., Winkler-Dworak, M., Testa, M.R., Lutz, W., Philipov, D., Engelhardt, H., Gisser, R. (2005) Monthly Estimates of the Quantum of Fertility: Towards a fertility monitoring system in Austria. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2005, 109-142.
- Winkler-Dworak, M. (2006) The Low Mortality of a Learned Society. VID Working Papers 05/2006. Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- Winkler-Dworak, M. and Toulemon, L. (forthcoming) Gender Differences in the Transition to Adulthood: Is There Convergence over the Recent Periods? European Journal of Population.
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