Fertility and family trends: Insights from GGP-Austria and beyond

International Workshop
Vienna, 20 November 2024

The workshop presented results based on the GGP-Austria as well as partner surveys from other countries and offered a platform for exchange and networking among scientists from national and international research institutions, as well as interested students.


Session 1:  Fertility and family trends in times of crises and uncertainty

Chair Ingrid Setz

  • The desire to have children in times of global uncertainty: On the influence of fears about the future on reproductive attitudes
    Claudia Herbst
  • The burden of crises and changes in fertility intentions
    Isabella Buber-Ennser, Brian Buh, Maria Winkler-Dworak
  • Partnership stability in times of multiple crises - How private have social challenges become?
    Norbert Neuwirth, Sonja Dörfler-Bolt, Lorenz Wurm
  • Uncertainty and flexibility of fertility intentions
    Ross Barker, Isabella Buber-Ennser

Session 2: Life course transitions: partnership and parenthood

Chair Eva-Maria Schmidt

  • Cohabitation, marriage or motherhood? First family-forming transitions of women in Austria
    Bernhard Riederer
  • The changing attitudes towards marriage and cohabitation in five European countries
    Dominika Perdoch Sladká
  • The role of the partner age gap on first births by age at union formation
    Marie-Caroline Compans, Éva Beaujouan, Alessandra Trimarchi
  • Paid parental leave reforms and mothers' employment in Austria, France, and Hungary
    Zsuzsanna Makay
  • Academics: Partnership, fertility intentions, and their realization
    Georg Wernhart
     

Session 3: Fertility ideals, intentions and realisation

Chair Norbert Neuwirth

  • Do fertility intentions predict fertility behaviours? A Machine Learning approach
    Bruno Arpino, Gaetano Tedesco, Valeria Bordone, Maria Rita Testa
  • Formation and realization of fertility intentions in Norway
    Trude Lappegård
  • The gap between ideal and achieved family size in Europe: The role of infertility
    Ester Lazzari, Éva Beaujouan
  • The gap between the desired and intended number of children – the case of Czechia
    Eva Waldaufová
  • Understanding gendered fertility intentions and parenting responsibilities with qualitative research
    Eva-Maria Schmidt


Session 4: Opportunities and challenges of GGS usage

Chair Bernhard Riederer

  • How comparable are the cross-national surveys in the Generations and Gender Survey Round II?
    Aisling Connolly, Thibaud Ritzenthaler, Olga Grünwald, Arianna Caporali
  • Insights from Croatia's first GGS data
    Ivan Čipin, Petra Međimurec
  • Introducing the GGS Teaching Dataset
    Julia Rokos
  • Generations and Gender Survey: Same focus, new challenges
    Monika Mynarska

Panel discussion on the future of the GGP

Chair Ingrid Setz
Anne Gauthier, Trude Lappegård, Monika Mynarska, Norbert Neuwirth, Julia Prikoszovits

 


Organisers: Isabella Buber-Ennser, Ingrid Setz, Bernhard Riederer