Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

Project

Long-Term Perspectives on Crisis and Fertility

Mathias Lerch, Aiva Jasilioniene, Lydia Veronica Palumbo, Christina Bohk-Ewald (MPIDR / University of Helsinki, Finland); in Collaboration with Sebastian Klüsener (Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany)

The project aims to explore continuities and discontinuities in the age- and parity-specific effects of economic crises on fertility and marriage over the long term across different institutional and welfare-state contexts. Detailed Description

Research Keywords:

Data and Surveys, Fertility Development, Projections and Forecasting

Region keywords:

Europe, Germany, OECD countries

Publications

Lerch, M.:

Fertility and union formation during crisis and societal consolidation in the Western Balkans

Population Studies 72:2, 217–234. (2018)

Pifarré i Arolas, H.:

A cohort perspective of the effect of unemployment on fertility

Journal of Population Economics 30:4, 1211–1239. (2017)

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Research

Department Myrskylä
Fertility and Well-Being
Population Health
Research Group: Labor Demography
Department Zagheni
Digital and Computational Demography [Migration, Aging, the Environment]
Joint Research Labs
Demographic Data
Statistical Demography
Independent Research Groups
Research Group: Lifespan Inequalities
Research Group: Kinship Inequalities
Research Group: Gender Inequalities and Fertility