The Wittgenstein Centre at the European Population Conference 2016

Under the theme "Demographic Change and Policy Implications" the European Population Conference (EPC) 2016 is targeting the general scientific community in population studies. The conference will take place between 31 August - 3 September 2016 in Mainz, Germany. Researchers from the Wittgenstein Centre will present and discuss new research in presentations and posters sessions at this important event.

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For more information to the EPC 2016 please visit the event website.

Wittgenstein Centre contributions at the European Population Conference 2016

Thursday, September 1

Session 2: Mortality and Longevity, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 1. Increasing Human Capital fuels increasing Life Expectancy and Optimism for the Future • Marc Luy, Marina Zannella, Christian Wegner-Siegmundt, Yuka Sugawara Minagawa, Wolfgang Lutz, Graziella Caselli

Session 5: Recession and fertility, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 4. Long-term effects of economic recession on fertility: The case of South Korea • Doo-Sub Kim, Sam Hyun Yoo

Session 6: Fertility preferences 1, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 1. When a poor index becomes a good proxy: On the predictive value of individual fertility preferences at the cohort macro-level • Eva Beaujouan, Laurent Toulemon

Session 12: Adapting to ageing - policy responses in the pension system, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Chair: Dimiter Philipov

Session 14: Family transitions, employment and earnings, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• 5. Diverging destinies? A microsimulation study of partnership and fertility by level of education in Britain • Maria Winkler-Dworak, Eva Beaujouan, Ann M. Berrington, Martin Spielauer

Session 16: Climate Change, Migration and Urbanisation, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Chair: Wolfgang Lutz

• 1. Examining the link between climate, conflict and cross-border migration • Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Raya Muttarak, Guy J. Abel

Session 18: Fertility and social change, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Chair: Zuzanna Brzozowska

Session 19: Policy Issues, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• 4. Bridging the gap between science and policy on migration and asylum • Nikola Sander, Ramon Bauer

Session 22 Measuring fertility, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• 3. Twin Peaks: The Emergence of Bimodal Fertility Profiles in Latin America • Everton E. C. Lima, Kryštof Zeman, Ruben Castro, Mathias Nathan, Tomas Sobotka

Poster Session 1, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

• 18. Family Consequences of Children Disability • Paola DiGiulio, Cecilia Reynaud
• 65. Intended and Realized Fertility: A Life Course Approach • Maria Rita Testa

Session 26: Aging and retirement, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

• 2. The Ownership of Assets and the Role of Age: Age-Specific Household Balance Sheets for Euro Area Countries • Bernhard Hammer
• 5. Differential Effect of the Pension System on Education and Income by Life Expectancy • Miguel Sanchez Romero, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Session 30: Innovations in demographic methods, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

• 3. Demographic Metabolism at Work • Wolfgang Lutz, Erich Striessnig

Session 32: Urban population dynamics, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

• 3. Projecting the regional explicit socioeconomic heterogeneity in India by residence • Samir K.C., Markus Speringer

Session 38: Health, wellbeing and morbidity, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

• 3. Too educated to be happy? An Investigation into the Relationship between Education and subjective Well-being • Erich Striessnig, Wolfgang Lutz

Session 39: Employment and well-being, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

• 4. Does working life expectancy reflect health status? • Daniela Weber, Elke Loichinger

Session 40 Education and fertility 1, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

• 2. Education and Fertility: a Meta-Analysis • Fabian Braesemann, Daniela Bellani, Maria Rita Testa, Fabian Stephany

Session 43 Gender and fertility, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

• 4. Gender revolution, family reversals and fertility • Tomas Sobotka, Anna Matysiak, Zuzanna Brzozowska

Session 44: Cross-national comparisons of internal migration, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

• 1. When the well runs dry, where do we go now? Exploring internal migration due to climate stress in Asia and Central and South America • Guy J. Abel, Raya Muttarak

Friday, September 2

Session 54 Gender equity and division of labor, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 3. Gender role conflict and bargaining over housework: The hidden effect of relative resources among couples • Daniela Grunow, Natalie Nitsche

Session 55 Fertility preferences 3, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 5. Partners’ relative incomes and fertility intentions • Agnese Vitali, Maria Rita Testa

Session 58 Modelling fertility, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 4. Estimating Indicators of Fertility Timing from Consecutive Census Data on Children Ever Born • Kryštof Zeman

Session 59: Population projections and forecasts, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 3. Forecasting fertility by age and birth order using time series from the Human Fertility Database • Han Lin Shang, Alessandra Carioli, Guy J. Abel

Session 65: Population, development and environment interactions, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Chair: Samir K.C.

• 1. Women, Weather, and Woes: The Triangular Dynamics of Female-Headed Households, Economic Vulnerability, and Climate Variability in South Africa • Martin Flatø, Raya Muttarak, André J. Pelser
• 2. The “First” Demographic Transition: Refurbishment and Revision of a Classical Model in Search of Main Drivers of the Process • Bernhard Koeppen, Marc Luy

Session 67 Education and fertility 2, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• 3. Educational pairings and fertility across Europe: How do the low educated fare? • Natalie Nitsche, Anna Matysiak, Jan Van Bavel, Daniele Vignoli

Poster Session 2, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

• 84. Ultra-Low Fertility in Korea: The Role of Tempo Effect • Sam Hyun Yoo, Tomas Sobotka

Session 75: Economic and social consequences of population ageing, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

• 4. The Dynamics of Human Capital-Specific Old-Age Dependency Ratio in Europe • Dimiter Philipov, Anne Goujon, Paola DiGiulio,
• 5. Quantifying economic dependency • Joze Sambt, Elke Loichinger, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Michael Freiberger, Bernhard Hammer

Session 80 Happiness and childbearing, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

• 5. Work-family Conflict Moderates the Impact of Childbearing on Subjective Well-Being • Letizia Mencarini, Anna Matysiak, Daniele Vignoli

Session 84 Fertility preferences 2, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

• 3. Realization of fertility intentions in Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary: How much do cities matter? Vienna, Prague and Budapest in comparison • Bernhard Riederer, Isabella Buber-Ennser
• 4. Education and Fertility desires in Italy • Alessandro Rosina, Emiliano Sironi, Maria Rita Testa

Session 86 Modelling mortality, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

• 4. From Survey Data with Mortality Follow-up to Period Life Expectancy: The Longitudinal Survival Method • Christian Wegner-Siegmundt, Marc Luy

Session 89 Health in contexts, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

• 1. Community Social Characteristics and Health at Older Ages: Evidence from 156 Religious Communities • Catherine Bowen, Marc Luy

Session 90 Integration challenges of forced migration, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

• 2. Refugees arriving in fall 2015 in Austria: Insights on their human capital • Isabella Buber-Ennser

Session 94: Education and fertility 3, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

• 1. Will one replace two? Trends in parity distribution across education in Europe • Zuzanna Brzozowska, Eva Beaujouan, Kryštof Zeman

Poster Session 3, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

• 20. Educational attainment in the 20th century: Using data from historical censuses and statistical yearbooks to reconstruct and validate a new global dataset on education • Jakob Eder, Markus Speringer, Anne Goujon, Samir K.C., Michaela Potancokova, Ramon Bauer
• 21. Small-area Population Projections by socio-economic heterogeneity and residence for the state of Gujarat • Markus Speringer, Samir K.C., Pramod Singh
• 47. Bowling together: Scientific collaboration networks of European demographers • Raya Muttarak, Guy J. Abel, Valeria Bordone, Emilio Zagheni
• 65. It deepens like a coastal shelf - educational mobility and social capital in Germany • Fabian Stephany

Saturday, September 3

Session 100: Analyzing life expectancy and lifespan: Factors and methods, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 3. Subjective Life Expectancy: Differences by Smoking, Education and Gender • Sergei Scherbov, Bruno Arpino, Valeria Bordone

Session 102: Marriage and repartnering, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 1. Falling first marriage rates in Europe during the Great Recession. A comparison of 17 countries • Caroline Berghammer, Tomas Sobotka

Session 108 Biodemography and later life outcomes, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 3. The Influence of Early-Life Socio-Economic Factors and Health Status on the Lifetime Risk of Disease: Findings from the Cloister Study • Angela Wiedemann, Christian Wegner-Siegmundt, Marc Luy

Session 110: Education and gender, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• 2. Cognitive gender differences contribute to horizontal gender segregation in education and occupation • Serhiy Dekhtyar, Daniela Weber, Jonas Helgertz, Agneta Herlitz

Session 112 Childlessness, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Chair: Tomas Sobotka

Session 118: Union formation and singlehood, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Chair: Eva Beaujouan

Session 123: Immigration, acculturation and health status, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Chair: Guy J. Abel