The Wittgenstein Centre at the PAA 2015

The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) provides a forum for demographers, sociologists, economists, public health professionals, and other individuals interested in research and education in the field of population. In 2015 the conference is taking place between 28 April-3 May in San Diego, USA.

Researchers from The Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital will present and discuss new research in presentations and poster sessions at this important event and will function as session chairs.

In addition, the United Nations Population Division in collaboration with the Wittgenstein Centre is organizing an invited session on "World population projections: Comparison and discussion of alternative approaches". The session will compare the most recent population projections by the Wittgenstein Centre to those of the United Nations. It will be chaired by Jane Menken, Director of the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, and will include presentations by UN Population Division Director John R. Wilmoth and Wittgenstein Centre Founding Director Wolfgang Lutz, followed by a discussion with Michael Teitelbaum, Harvard Law School, and Brian O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Session 72 will take place on Thursday, April 30, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM.

Furthermore, the Wittgenstein Centre will host a member-initiated meeting on "Human Fertility Database: Expanding research opportunities" on Wednesday April 29, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM in room Aqua E.

For detailed information to the PAA 2015 please visit the event website.

Wittgenstein Centre Publications at the PAA

Lutz W, Butz WP, KC S eds. (2014) Executive Summary: World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-first Century. Laxenburg: IIASA

Lutz W, Butz WP, KC S eds. (2014) World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-first Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer

Lutz W, Muttarak R, Striessnig E (2014) Universal education is key to enhanced climate adaptation. Science, 346(6213):1061-1062

Lutz W, Butz WP, KC S, Sanderson WC, Scherbov S (2014) Population growth: Peak probability. Science, 346(6209):561 

POPNET Newsletter 46, Spring 2015

European and Asian Data Sheets

Global Human Capital Data Sheet 2015

Wittgenstein Centre for Global Human Capital 5-year Report

Wittgenstein Centre Contributions at the PAA

Poster Session 2: Data and Methods/Applied Demography/ Spatial Demography/ Demography of Crime, Thursday, April 30, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
26. How Many Old People Have Ever Lived on Earth? • Dalkhat M. Ediev, Gustav Feichtinger, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, and Miguel Sanchez Romero

Poster Session 3: Fertility Intentions and Behaviors, Thursday, April 30, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
52. The Gender-Specific Effects of Partners’ Socio-Economic Resources on Fertility • Anna Matysiak and Natalie Nitsche

61. Life-Course Trajectories of Childless Women: Country-Specific or Universal? • Monika Mynarska, Anna Matysiak, Anna Rybinska and Valentina Tocchioni

83. Two-Tier Fertility Decline in Nigeria: The Growing Discrepancy between Muslims and Christians • Marcin Stonawski, Michaela Potancokova, Matthew Cantele, Vegard Skirbekk

87. Educational Differences in Fertility Intentions: A Meta-Analysis • Maria Rita Testa, Fabian Stephany

Poster Session 4: Children and Youth/Population and Aging, Thursday, April 30, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
6. Active Ageing Typologies and Related Health Outcomes: A Latent Class Analysis of the Older Europeans • Bruno Arpino, and Valeria Bordone

33. “Setting the Tone”: Sex of the First Child and Educational Outcomes of Subsequent Siblings • Limor Gabay-Egozi, Natalie Nitsche, and Lloyd D. Grieger

56. The Relationships between Longevity and Different Dimensions of Health: Findings from the Cloister Study • Marc Luy, Catherine Bowen, Paola DiGiulio, Christian Wegner-Siegmundt and Angela Wiedeman

Poster Session 8: Economy, Labor Force, Education, and Inequality/Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Saturday, May 2, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
18. Women's Labor Potential in an Aging Taiwan: Population and Labor Force Projections by Education up to 2050 • Yen-Hsin Alice Cheng, and Elke Loichinger

Session 42: Families in Later Life, Thursday, April 30, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2. Grandparental Childcare across Europe • Isabella Buber-Ennser

Session 48: Families and Households in Comparative and Historical Perspective, Thursday, April 30, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
3. Women’s Education and Cohort Fertility during the Baby Boom in the West • Jan Van Bavel, Martin Klesment, Eva Beaujouan, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Allan Puur, David Sven Reher, Miguel Requena, Glenn Sandström, Tomas Sobotka and Kryštof Zeman

Session 63: Visualizing Demographic Data, Thursday, April 30, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
2. How Data Visualisation Enhances the Impact and Visibility of Science • Ramon Bauer and Nikola Sander

Session 68: Longevity: Past, Present, and Future, Thursday, April 30, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
3. Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Will Lead to Slower Population Aging • Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov

Session 91: Variability in Reproduction, Thursday, April 30, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Chair and Discussant: Tomas Sobotka

3. What are the Consequences of Fertility Postponement for Women’s Completed Family Size? • Juliet A. Stone, Ann M. Berrington and Eva Beaujouan

Session 100: Determinants of Fertility Timing, Friday, May 1, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
4. Bimodal Age-Specific Fertility Profiles in Latin America: The Case of Chile and Uruguay • Everton E. C. Lima, Kryštof Zeman, Ruben Castro, Mathias Nathan, Tomas Sobotka

Session 104: Methods and Measurement in Population, Development, and Environment Research, Friday, May 1, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
4. Differential Mortality Patterns from Hydro-Meteorological Disasters: Evidence from Vital Records of Cause of Death Data by Sex and Age • Raya Muttarak and Erich Striessnig

Session 166: Gender, Families, and Time Use, Friday, May 1, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
4. Patterns of Time Transfers between Generations and Genders • Emilio Zagheni, Marina Zannella, Gabriel Movsesyan, Brittney Wagner

Session 205: Migration Data and Estimation, Saturday, May 2, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
3. Estimates of Global Bilateral Migration Flows by Gender Between 1960 and 2010 • Guy J. Abel

Session 219: Gender, Power, Sexual Health, and Family Planning, Saturday, May 2, 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
3. Like Mother, Like Daughter and also Like Mother-in-law? Influence of Older Generation’s Fertility Behaviours on Daughter’s Family Size Preferences in India • Abhishek Kumar, Raya Muttarak and Valeria Bordone