New Issue POPNET Newsletter
1 SEP 2021
This 51st edition of POPNET presents the Department of Demography, established in 2019 by the University of Vienna in its Faculty of Social Sciences. The department serves as the university-based pillar of the Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna).
In this issue:
- Restructuring at IIASA
- Baby boom or baby bust? Consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for fertility trends
- Demographics of COVID-19 deaths
- An indirect method to monitor the fraction of people ever infected with COVID-19: An application to the United States
- New ERC projects at the Wittgenstein Centre
- Demographic Data Sheets
- Selected publications in high-impact interdisciplinary and high ranking disciplinary journals
- Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
- Awards, events, and calls for papers.
The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.