Demographic Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences

Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2020

Vienna, November 30 - December 1, 2020
The conference was held online via Zoom.

COVID-19 is causing serious health, social and economic challenges, several of which are directly related to demographic factors. While the initial efforts focus on slowing the spread of the pandemic and mitigating its immediate impact, significant demography-related consequences are expected in the longer term, ranging from the way our economies function in terms of labor markets and migration, to family related behavior (including possible effects on fertility), international travel patterns and social and health care policies, as well as to how the economic burden can be shared fairly across the population.

This conference aims to bring together researchers from around the world working on COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences from a demographic perspective.

Wolfgang Lutz, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Raya Muttarak

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Chairs: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Maria Winkler-Dworak

Niki Popper |TU Wien

The COVID-19 crisis - decision support based on an agent-based approach: the challenge of understanding dynamic effects

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Session Chairs: Michael Kuhn, Miguel Sánchez-Romero

• Niklas Scheuer, Klaus Wälde
  Economic inequalities caused by Covid-19 and associated public health measures
  
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• Mengni Chen, Wanli Nie, Pau Baizan, Guy Abel
  Tracing human spatial mobility patterns before, during, and after COVID-19 in China
  
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• Guillaume Marois, Raya Muttarak, Sergei Scherbov
  Assessing the potential impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy
  
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• Jonathan Caulkins, Dieter Grass, Gustav Feichtinger, Richard Hartl, Peter M. Kort, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Andrea Seidl, Stefan Wrzaczek
  How long should the COVID-19 lockdown continue?
  
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Session Chairs: Dilek Yildiz, Endale Birhanu Kebede, Michaela Potančoková

• Bruno Arpino, Valeria Bordone, Marta Pasqualini
  Intergenerational relationships and COVID-19 fatality rates. A cautionary tale of available empirical evidence
   
• Vladimir Shapiro - AWARDED POSTER!
  Modelling COVID-19 age-sex mortality metrics
   
• Hilman Hanivan
  Socio-economic vulnerabilities and the risk of COVID-19
   
• Uzi Rebhun
  Inter-country variations in COVID-19 incidence from a social science perspective
   
• Leonoor Gräler, Leonie Bremmers, Job van Exel, Pieter Bakx, Marianne Van Bochove - AWARDED POSTER!
  Burden of informal care in the Netherlands during the corona pandemic

• Yolanda Wilda Artati, Ghaida Nasria Azzahra
  Socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 incidence rate in Java, Indonesia: a spatial model analysis

• Corrado Bonifazi, Daniele De Rocchi, Frank Heins, Giacomo Panzeri
  Excess mortality in the Italian local labour market systems during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Cindy Chen - AWARDED POSTER!
  Analysis of geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic factors impacting COVID-19 case rate in China’s Hubei province

• Suzana Lović Obradović, Stefana Matović
  Application of spatial analysis in the detection of population at risk from COVID-19 in Serbia

• Ankita Srivastava, Vandana Tamrakar, Moradhvaj Dhakad, Saddaf Naaz Akhtar, Krishna Kumar, Tekchand Saini, Nagendra C, Nandita Saikia
  Geographical variation in COVID-19 cases, prevalence, recovery and fatality rate by phase of national lockdown in India, March 14-May 31, 2020: evidence from crowdsourced data

• Daniela Arsenović
  COVID-19 in Serbia: demographic reflection and response
   
• Tchoubou Foba Habib
  Comparison of the evolution of COVID-19 in six countries: South Africa, Cameroon, Chad, France, Italy, and the United States during their first month of the pandemic
   
• Hamid Rabiei, Mohammad Haddadi
  Demographic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
   
• Nayara Julião, Raquel Guimarães
  Demographic and socioeconomic profile of the population with Coronavirus SARS-C0V-2/flu-like symptoms in Brazil
   
• Ahmmed Mortuza
  COVID-19 and demographic perspectives: evidence from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
   
• Timothy A. Ogunleye, Kehinde K. Adesanya, S. Gbolahan Salako, M. Y. Lawal-Sebioniga, A. Folashade Alade, A. P. Bamidele
  The study of epidemiological patterns of the COVID-19 pandemic: a peculiarity from Nigeria

Session Chairs: Erich Striessnig, Vanessa Di Lego

• Patrizio Vanella, Christian Wiessner, Anja Holz, Gérard Krause, Annika Möhl, Sarah Wiegel, Berit Lange, Heiko Becher
  The role of age distribution, time lag between reporting and death and healthcare system capacity in case fatality estimates of COVID-19
  
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• Raquel Guimaraes, Marília Nepomuceno, Acácia Nasr, Junior Garcia, Maria Goretti, Nestor Junior, Carlos Alberto Preto
  The changing age-structure of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 deaths and cases: a case study of Paraná, Brazil
  
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• Vandana Tamrakar, Ankita Srivastava, Mukesh C. Parmar, Sudhir Kumar Shukla, Shewli Shabnam, Bandita Boro, Apala Saha, Benjamin Debbarma, Nandita Saikia
  District level correlates of the COVID-19 pandemic in India
  
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• Philip Verwimp
  The spread of COVID-19 in Belgium: a municipality-level analysis
  
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Chairs: Wolfgang Lutz, Raya Muttarak

Joshua R. Goldstein | University of California – Berkeley

Demography after the pandemic

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Session Chairs: Sergei Scherbov, Marc Luy

• Héctor Pifarré I Arolas, Enrique Acosta, Guillem López Casasnovas, Adeline Lo, Catia Nicodemo, Tim Riffe, Mikko Myrskylä
  Years of life lost to COVID-19 in 42 countries
  
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• Mallika Snyder, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Iván Williams, Emilio Zagheni
  The lived experience of COVID-19 mortality: quantifying the relationship between excess mortality and family bereavement
  
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Session Chairs: Bernhard Binder-Hammer, Claudia Reiter

• Tomáš Sobotka, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Raya Muttarak, Kryštof Zeman, Vanessa Di Lego
  Age, gender and COVID-19 infections
  
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• Nadia Steiber, Raya Muttarak
  Occupational COVID-19 hazard in Austria: Are women really more exposed?
  
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• Alfried Braumann
  After the lockdown. The structural effects of COVID-19 on entrepreneurs and company formation in Vienna
  
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Session Chairs: Eva Beaujouan, Caroline Berghammer

• Michaela Kreyenfeld, Sabine Zinn
  Coronavirus & care: how the coronavirus crisis affected fathers’ involvement in Germany
  
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• Raffaele Guetto, Daniele Vignoli, Giacomo Bazzani
  Marriage and cohabitation under uncertainty: the role of narratives of the future during the COVID-19 pandemic
  
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• Lawrence Berger, Giulia Ferarri, Marion Leturq, Lidia Panico, Anne Solaz
  COVID-19 lockdowns and demographically-relevant Google trends: a cross-national analysis
  
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• Bruno Arpino, Marta Pasqualini, Valeria Bordone, Aïda Solé-Auró
  Older people’s non-physical contacts and depression during the COVID-19 lockdown
  
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Session Chairs: Sonja Spitzer, Vanessa di Lego, Roman Hoffmann

• Robbie M Parks, Lisa Thalheimer
  The hidden burden of pandemics, climate change and migration on mental health
   
• Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto
  Health and social consequences of COVID-19: evidence from ELSA
   
• Lydia Xourafi, Anastasia Kostaki
  Explaining psychosocial vulnerability and responses to the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece 2020
   
• Poh Lin Tan, Jeremy Lim
  Too close for comfort? Impact of residential crowding on family relationships during COVID-19

• Cynthia Boruchowicz, Susan W. Parker, Lindsay Robbins
  Time use of youth during a pandemic: evidence from Mexico
   
• Mălina Voicu, Simona Maria Stănescu
  Mortality in times of COVID-19 crisis. Are democracies better in controlling the outbreak?
   
• Javier Gonzalez-Rosas
  Forecasting when the COVID-19 pandemic mortality will be under control using the Stable Bounded Theory
   
• Hiroshi Ono, Takeshi Mori
  COVID-19 and telework: an international comparison                         

• Samare Huls, Ayesha Sajjad, Tim Kanters, Werner Brouwer, Job van Exel, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen - AWARDED POSTER!
  Productivity related to paid and unpaid work during the COVID-19 pandemic
   
• David A. Sánchez-Páez - AWARDED POSTER!
  Effect of income inequality on the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from European countries
   
• Jeremaiah M. Opiniano, Alvin P. Ang   
  Demographic benefits of international migration that a pandemic disrupted: the case of the Philippines
   
• Jeremy Lim, Poh Lin Tan
  Weathering the storm: the effects of working from home and income loss on family relationships during COVID-19

Chair: Tomas Sobotka, Zuzanna Brzozowska

• Lyman Stone
  Eros vs. Thanatos: How will COVID-19 impact fertility in 2020 and 2021?
  
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• Francesca Luppi, Bruno Arpino, Alessandro Rosina
  The impact of COVID-19 on fertility plans in Italy, Germany, France, Spain and UK
  
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• Joshua Wilde, Wei Chen, Sophie Lohmann
  COVID-19 and the future of US fertility: What can we learn from Google?
  
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• Giacomo Bazzani, Raffaele Guetto, Daniele Vignoli
  Narratives of the future shape fertility in uncertain times: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
  
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Chairs: Raya Muttarak, Paola Di Giulio

Karl Ulrich Mayer | Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Notes on a sociology of the COVID-19 pandemic: intersections with demography

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Paola Di Giulio, Dilek Yildiz, Sonja Spitzer, Michael Kuhn, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

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Paola Di Giulio (co-ordinator), Michael Kuhn, Wolfgang Lutz, Marc Luy, Raya Muttarak

Contact:

If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact conference.vid(at)oeaw.ac.at

The Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2020 is organized by the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital.
 

The Centre is a collaboration among the the World Population Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (VID/ÖAW) and Department of Demography of the University of Vienna.

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