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Max Planck Studies in Demography

Wednesday, 13 July 2016: 09:00-10:30
Location: Elise Richter Saal (Main Building)
RC41 Sociology of Population (host committee)

Language: English

The modern demographic patterns of the industrialized world are unprecedented and challenging. Mortality decline has gone far beyond expected lower limits. Fertility tends to stabilize at low levels and is characterized by late motherhood and substantial childlessness. These principal and unexpected changes and their consequences are in the very focus of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. 

  • The session will present four studies related to features and consequences of the demographic change. It will include a study devoted to components and causes of convergence-divergence of the human lifetime, which goes parallel to continuous increase in the human lifespan. 
  • Another study will be looking at how expansion of education, dynamic fertility and family patterns and changes in health at older ages influence onset and duration of the working life. 
  • As normative pressure for childbearing and against childlessness weakens, it is important to see to what extent children contribute to individual well-being. This is addressed by a study on factors that influence the relationship between happiness of parents and their fertility. 
  • Increase in maternal and paternal ages at birth leads to a concern about health effects to the offspring due to the fertility postponement. Strength of respective health effects and underlying mechanisms are investigated in an analysis of links between parental age and health outcomes in children.

INVITED SESSION NOT OPEN FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION.

Session Organizer:
Vladimir SHKOLNIKOV, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
Posters:
Fertility postponement could reduce child mortality: Evidence from 228 Demographic and Health Surveys covering 77 developing countries
Kieron BARCLAY, London School of Economics, United Kingdom; Mikko MYRSKYLA, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
Education and longevity: a demographic perspective
Domantas JASILIONIS, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany; Vladimir SHKOLNIKOV, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
The Importance of Parental Happiness for Understanding Low Fertility
Rachel MARGOLIS, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Mikko MYRSKYLA, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany