Federica Becca

 Fertility and Population Change

+43 1 51581 - 7713
federica.Becca(at)oeaw.ac.at


Dominikanerbastei 16, 1010 Wien
Room 05 01 A B9 01

Biographical sketch

Federica Becca is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography, in the Fertility and Population Change Research Group. Her research focuses on educational differences in fertility trends in low-fertility contexts, with particular attention to shifts in educational gradients, cohort perspective, and childlessness.

She holds a PhD in Demography from the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), completed in 2026, and has been part of the ERC-funded CORESIDENCE project since 2022. In 2025, she was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in the Kinship Inequality Research Group.

Her doctoral work examined changes in household structures in Latin America and the Caribbean and their relationship to demographic change, family dynamics, and social stratification. Her research has been published in scientific journals such as Demographic Research, Studies in Family Planning, and Population and Development Review.

Research areas

Family dynamics, Fertility, Social Inequalities, Households and intergenerational relations

Current research project: 

  • Educational differences in fertility from period and cohort perspective in low-fertility contexts;

  • The educational gradient of childlessness