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Invitation • 02.09.2024BiB Population Research Series
Globally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago. Why have birth rates fallen, and how will low fertility affect our shared future? The BiB invites you to the lecture series on September 25 from 11:00 to 12:15. Prof. Vegard Skirbekk presents his paper “Decline and Prosper”.
Professor Skirbekk is founding principal researcher at the Center for Fertility and Health at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), and holds Professorships at the University of Oslo in Norway and Columbia University in the USA. He has received numerous grants and awards including two ERC grants (including a new ERC Advanced Grant), an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health on causes of dementia, and has a leading role in several large EU and USA consortiums.
Abstract
Globally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago. Why have birth rates fallen, and how will low fertility affect our shared future? This presentations discusses the evolution of childbearing across different populations and how fertility is related to (changes in) our reproductive capacity, contraception, education, religion, partnering, policies, economics, assisted reproduction, and catastrophes. It will explore the future of family size and its impact on human welfare, women‘s empowerment and the environment. The presentation argues that low fertility is on the whole a good thing, while recognizing the challenges of population aging and “coincidental” childlessness. This presentation seeks to give a balanced, integrative examination of one of the most important issues of our time - Decline and Prosper drives home the fact that we must ultimately adapt to a world with fewer children.
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 (BiB)
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4
65189 Wiesbaden, Germany
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Online Access
Link: https://destatis.webex.com/meet/bibprs
Meeting ID Number: 2731 430 1678
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Background
In our BiB Population Research Series, we address current topics in population research and in related disciplines. Scientists from Germany and abroad present results from their research work in English.