Understanding child-related costs is crucial given their impact on fertility and labour supply

decisions. We quantify and compare the cost of children in Europe by analysing the effect of

child births on parents’ self-reported ability to make ends meet. This study is based on EU-

SILC longitudinal data for 30 European countries from 2004 to 2015, enabling comparisons

between country groups of different welfare regimes.

The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2018, Volume 16 is out now! (online first)

Using a nationally representative longitudinal data, this study investigated differences in the levels of obesity among foreign-born people from English Speaking and non-English Speaking countries relative to native-born Australians, and how those differences changed with duration of residence and age at arrival . This study also explored whether the association between nativity, duration of residence (DoR) and obesity is mediated by English language proficiency, socioeconomic factors and health...

Kinder im individuellen, partnerschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Kontext

The Wittgenstein Centre Progress Report covers the achievements of the Wittgenstein Centre in the years 2011-2017 during which the funding of Wolfgang Lutz’ Wittgenstein Award (Austrian Science Fund: FWF Z171-G11) was active.

The European Demographic Data Sheet 2018 reviews, explores and visualises recent population trends in 45 European countries. The data sheet also provides a snapshot of the current research at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital on changes in education composition and labour force, measuring economic dependency, assessing healthy life years, and estimating fertility.

unintended and sooner-than-intended births among men and women in six European countries

Zuzanna Brzozowska, Isabella Buber-Ennser, Bernhard Riederer and Michaela Potančoková

Education and fertility in low-fertility settings

Guest Editors: Eva Beaujouan, Tomas Sobotka and Jan Van Bavel

Gündüz, Duygu; Lejak, Anita; Wiedemann, Angela; Avanzi, Marion; Winkler, Walther-Benedikt; Ucar-Altenberger, Hadice; Stöllberger, Caludia; Weidinger, Franz, 2017: “Acute coronary syndrome in immigrants and non-immigrants. Results of an Austrian prospective pilot study”, Wiener klinische Wochenschrift 129(23-24): 900-905.

Nine questions and corresponding answers prepared by Bernhard Riederer as a result of the work within the FamiliesAndSocieties Project