Scientists from the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) will present their work at the European Population Conference 2026 in Bologna, Italy.


Thursday, 04 June 2026

Session 14, 11:00 -12:30 Room A:Flash Session Inequality Dimensions of Human Capital
Gender Gaps in Skills-Adjusted Mean Years of Schooling 1970-2025
Ingeborg Spiegeler Castañeda, Michaela Potancoková, and Claudia Reiter


Session 11, 09:00 -10:30 Room M: Intergenerational Proximity, Living Arrangements and Kin Ties Across Societies

Aging Independently: Understanding Older Adults’ Living Arrangements across Societies
Federica Becca, Maria Pohl, Albert Esteve, and David Reher 


Session 15, 11:00 -12:30 Room B: Fertility: trends and patterns
Fewer Births, Fewer Plans: Unpacking the Recent Fertility Declines in Post-transitional Societies
Tomas Sobotka


Session 27, 14:00 -15:30 Room B: Mortality and Longevity
Stalling Gap in Life Expectancy between Western and Eastern German Men: The Role of Socioeconomic Position
Marc Luy, Paola Di Giulio, Lina Lasar, Tianyu Shen, Fabian Tetzlaff and Juliane Tetzlaff


Session 27, 14:00 -15:30 Room B: Mortality and Longevity
Stagnation or Measurement Artefact? Re-Evaluating the Recent Mortality Slowdown in Selected Low Mortality Countries
Tamara Vaz, Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer and Marc Luy 


Session 32, 14:00 -15:30 Room G: Flash Session Gender, Work and Labour Market
Work Flexibility and Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Labor: Evidence from European Time Use Surveys
Marco Santacroce


Session 33, 14:00 -15:30 Room H: Aging, Frailty and the Dynamics of Later-Life Health
Is Health Deterioration Unidirectional? Evidence from Monastic Populations in Austria and Germany (2012–2022)
Paola Di Giulio, and Marc Luy


Session 39, 16:00 -17:30 Room B: Innovations in Life Table and Multistate Modeling
Further Applications and Clarification of the Multistate Life Table Decomposition Method
Tianyu Shen, and Iñaki Permanyer


Session 41, 16:00 -17:30 Room D: Fertility, Family Policies and Labour Markets
Parenting Leave Policies and Fertility in Europe
Adèle Lemoine, Angela Greulich, Sonja Spitzer, and Constantin Kumaus


Session 42, 16:00 -17:30 Room E: Flash Session Work, Family Roles and Social Participation in Later Life
Reforming EU Pension Systems: Equity and Sustainability in Conflict
Miguel Sanchez-Romero, David Zettler, and  Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz


Session 45, 16:00 -17:30 Room H: Family, Housework and Time Use
The Gender Revolution Continues: Housework Time in 25 European Countries, 2002–2022
 Caroline Berghammer

European couples’ division of domestic labor: The role of work from home and gender
Olga Leshchenkoand Caroline Berghammer


Session 49, 16:00 -17:30 Room P: Health and Economic Outcomes
Up the Down-escalator? Health, Productivity and Individual Incentives under Climate Change
Ivan Frankovic, Michael Freiberger, Michael Kuhn, and Stefan Wrzaczek

The Timing of Cancer Onset and Its Labour-Market Consequences
Yuliya Kulikova, Sonja Spitzer, and Jana Ströbinger


Poster P1, 10:30 - 11:30, Poster Room: Families, Fertility, and the Life Course 1
Demographic and Socio-Economic Profiles of Same-Sex Couples in Austria
Gwen Göltl


Poster P3, 15:30 - 16:30, Poster RoomFamilies, Fertility, and the Life Course 3
No Worries? Multiple Crises, Future Economic Expectations and Fertility Intentions
Bernhard Riederer


Poster P3, 15:30 - 16:30, Poster Room: Families, Fertility, and the Life Course 3
Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated: Women with Diverging Fertility Patterns
Jitka Slabá, Eva Waldaufová,  Anna Štastná, Krystof Zeman, and Jitka Jírová


Session 3, 9:00 -10:30 Room C: Flash Session Mortality Levels and Trends
Flash Session Mortality Levels and Trends
Chair: Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer


Session 14, 11:00 -12:30 Room A: Flash Session Inequality Dimensions of Human Capital
Flash Session Inequality Dimensions of Human Capital
Chair:  Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz


Session 21, 11:00 -12:30 Room H: Housing and Living Arrangements
Housing and Living Arrangements
Chair: Isabella Buber-Ennser


Session 30, 14:00 -15:30 Room E, Invited Session Second Demographic Transition: 25 Years after Bad Herrenalb
Invited Session Second Demographic Transition: 25 Years after Bad Herrenalb  
Panellist: Tomas Sobotka


Session 32, 14:00 -15:30 Room G: Flash Session Gender, Work and Labour Market
Flash Session Gender, Work and Labour Market
Chair: Caroline Berghammer


Session 49, 16:00 -17:30 Room P: Health and Economic Outcomes
Health and Economic Outcomes
Chair: Michael Kuhn


Friday, 05 June 2026

Session 51, 09:00 - 10:30 Room A: Health, Morbidity and Wellbeing
Multistate Joint Frailty Models for Interval Censored Data
Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer 


Session 57, 09:00 -10:30 Room G: Flash Session Assortive Mating, Education and Social Class
Italian Global Families: Changes over Time
Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Di Giulio, Francesca Fiori, and Cecilia Reynaud


Session 58, 09:00 -10:30 Room H: Single Parenthood and Complex Partnership Contexts
Who Do Minors Live with? Cohabitation with Minor Children and Their Father‘s Partnership Context
Isabella Buber-Ennser and Claudia Herbst


Session 68, 11:00 -12:30 Room E: Dealing with Incomplete or Deficient Data from Surveys and Censuses
Educational Gradient in Life Expectancy at Birth in India: Combining Estimations from Survey Data for Childhood and Adult Mortality
Moradhvaj Dhakad, Marc Luy, Domantas Jasilionis, and Tianyu Shen


Session 72, 11:00 -12:30 Room I: LGBTQIA+ Life Course Transitions and Trajectories
Repartnering after Union Dissolution. A Study of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples in Austria.
Melanie Wagner,  Anna Karmann, Caroline Berghammer, and Valeria Bordone


Session 77, 14:00 -15:30 Room A: Flash Session Fertility, Economic Conditions and Inequality
Can the stagnation of incomes explain recent fertility trends in Europe?
Daniël van Wijk , Tomas Sobotka, and Krystof Zeman


Session 82, 14:00 -15:30 Room F: Linked lives: Sibling Contexts and the Life Course
Parental Cancer Diagnosis and Children’s Educational Outcomes
Claudia Reiter


Session 95, 16:00 -17:30 Room G:  Fertility Responses to War and Crisis
Changes in Fertility Intentions Due to Multiple Crises in Austria: A Machine Learning Approach
Maria Winkler-Dworak

Accelerated Fertility Decline and Postponed Recuperation – Analysis of Recent Fertility Trends by Age of Mother and Birth Order in 2018–2023
Krystof Zeman, and Maria Winkler-Dworak


Session 99, 16:00 -17:30 Room M: Formal and Conceptual Approaches to Kinship, Generations and Social Change
Future births: A formal perspective on humanity's yet-to-be-born generations
Miguel Sanchez-Romero, Tomas Sobotka, Gustav Feichtinger, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, and Stefan Wrzaczek


Poster P5, 10:30 - 11:30, Poster Room, Health, Mortality, and Ageing 1
Life Expectancy Plateau in the United States and Divergence from Peers: The Impact of Changing Mortality Timing
Viorela Diaconu, Tamara Vaz and Marc Luy

A Cross-National Comparison of Health Inequalities and Health Expectancy: The Case of Roma Populations in Europe

Lina Lasar, and Marc Luy


Poster P6, 13:00 - 14:00, Poster Room, Health, Mortality, and Ageing 2
Multivariate Meta-Analysis of Temperature-Related Mortality in Mexican Metropolitan Areas: Socioeconomic and Geographical Vulnerabilities
Mikhail Maksimenko, and Itza Akari Olguín Zúñiga


Poster P7, 15:30 - 16:30, Poster Room, Education, Labor Market, and Economic Issues
Generation and Redistribution of Income from an Age-Perspective. European National Transfer Accounts for the Period 2008 - 2022
Bernhard Binder-Hammer


Poster P8, 17:30 - 18:30, Poster Room, Demographic Trends, History, Data and Methods
Rethinking Muslim Fertility: Transitions and Diversity from Muslim-Majority Societies to Europe and Australia
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi and Tomas Sobotka

The Formal Demography of Populations with Declining Fertility
Gustav Feichtinger, Roland Rau,  Andreas Novak, Stefan Wrzaczek, and Thomas Fent

Accounting for Climate Feedback in Population Projections
Jakob Zellmann, Mikhail Maksimenko, Itza Olguín, Raya Muttarak, Rosanna Gualdi, and Sirinya Kaikeaw


Session 84, 14:00 -15:30 Room H: Union Trajectories, Separation and Divorce
Union Trajectories, Separation and Divorce
Chair: Maria Winkler-Dworak


 

Saturday, 06 June 2026

Session 109, 09:00 -10:30 Room I: Ageing and the Future of Productivity
Ageing Labour and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
Isabel Gerstner, and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz


Session 111, 09:00 -10:30 Room M: Migrant Populations and Assimilation over Generations
Migrant–Native Skill Gaps in Europe: Evidence from two Cycles of PIAAC Surveys
Michaela Potancoková, Maria Paola Nicoletti Altimari, and Claudia Reiter


Session 121, 11:00 -12:30 Room I: Methodological Innovations in Mortality Studies
Measure of Lifespan Inequity Accounting for Disproportional Deprivation and Vulnerability of Populations
Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer, and Pauline Paulik

Methodological Innovations in Mortality Studies

Chair: Marc Luy