Today about a half of the world population lives in countries with fertility
around or below two births per woman. Post-transitional fertility rates
have often been unstable, undergoing unexpected downturns, upswings
and reversals. To account for these developments new theories, methods,
and measures have been proposed. These advances have been stimulated
by an emergence of new datasets that allow in-depth comparisons
of period and cohort fertility and their components between countries
and subnational regions. In particular, the Human Fertility Database
(HFD) and the Human Fertility Collection (HFC) have established themselves
as the leading resources in aggregate-level research on fertility.
This conference aims to build on the expanding data availability
and contribute to methodological and empirical advances in fertility
research. We encourage submissions on fertility trends, their variation,
components and driving forces, as well as on methods, data and
indicators in fertility research. Research based on the Human Fertility
Database and the Human Fertility Collection is especially welcome.
The conference will cover the following topics:
Spatial differences in fertility
Components of fertility change and variation
Fertility differentials by sex, education, and socio-economic characteristics
Fertility timing, tempo effects in fertility
Very low fertility
Shifts and reversals in fertility
Impact of economic factors, labour market and policy measures on fertility
Aggregate-level perspective on fertility intentions, desires, ideals
Fertility modelling and forecasting
Methods and indicators in fertility research
Multilevel analysis
Data visualisation
Data resources