Invitation • 13.09.2023BiB Population Research Series

Eva Beaujouan is associate professor at the University of Vienna. She studies fertility and family change across the high-income countries for women and men, with a focus on the shift towards later fertility. Beside her FWF project LATEFERT (2019-2023), she has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant to study the Biological, Individual and Contextual factors of fertility recovery (BIC.LATE, 2021-2026)

Abstract

Recently, the proportion of childless women in the population has begun to stabilise in some European countries, while it is still booming in others. At an individual level, the experience of infertility, the choice not to have children, or a combination of economic or personal circumstances unfavourable to having children, are all reasons for remaining childless. In this presentation, we look at how these different aspects have developed in recent decades, and how they vary across countries. We expect that remaining childless by circumstance is the most frequent reason for not having children. Moreover, in a context of delayed fertility, we expect a growing group of people to be biologically childless, making the study of this phenomenon urgent.

Location

The event will take place on the 3rd floor of the BiB in presence and online as a Webex conference.

Federal Institute for Population Research
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4
65189 Wiesbaden, Germany

Please let us know if you would like to participate in presence: prs@bib.bund.de

For further questions please contact Dr. Inga Laß.

Online Access

Link: https://destatis.webex.com/meet/bibprs

Meeting ID Number: 2731 430 1678

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