Research Group Leader:

Tomáš Sobotka

The research group "Fertility and Population Change" studies fertility preferences, childlessness, union formation and dissolution, family changes and couple relations and their interconnections. It combines research based on individual- and aggregate-level data and puts a strong focus on education differences in family behaviours. The group also actively collects and disseminates data through several databases, including  the Human Fertility Database (HFD, a collaboration with MPIDR in Rostock) and the Cohort Fertility and Education (CFE) database.

Latest Publications:

Measuring the Effect of Employment Uncertainty on Fertility in Europe (A LIiterature Review)
Didn’t Plan One but got One: Unintended and sooner-than-intended Parents in the East and the West of Europe
The second demographic transition (SDT) in Europe in the last three decades

Projects

EURREP- Fertility, Reproduction and Population change in 21st Century Europe (EURREP) (ERC Starting grant)

ReCap - Reproductive Decision-making and Human Capital  (ReCAP) (FWF Elise Richter Grant)

Coupfer - Couples and Childbearing: New Approaches to the Study of Fertility Outcomes and Family Formation Across Europe (COUPFER)(EC Marie Curie grant)

FAMSOC - Changing Families and Sustainable Societies (FAMSOC)(EU-FP 7)