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COVID-19 and the human right to education
23 NOV 2020
Schools also fulfill an important social as well as emotional function (Interview with Wolfgang Lutz in German)
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Vacancy: Postdoc position in the project Economic Consequences of Population Decline-ECOPOD
10 NOV 2020
The Vienna Institute of Demography (part of the Wittgenstein Centre) is looking for a postdoc to join the team.
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Vacancy: Postdoc position in the research group Fertility and Family
10 NOV 2020
The Vienna Institute of Demography (part of the Wittgenstein Centre) is looking for a postdoc to join the team.
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Summer heat: Vienna is disproportionately affected
2 NOV 2020
Which population groups suffer most? (Interview with Roman Hoffman in German)
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COVID-19 could cause declines in life expectancy in 2020 in severely affected areas
17 SEP 2020
A new analysis published in PLOS ONE shows that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause a short-term decline in life expectancy in many regions of the world.
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Trends and patterns of fertility in former Yugoslavia
15 SEP 2020
In this paper Krystof Zeman and colleagues analyse similarities and differences between former Yugoslav countries with regard to cohort fertility behaviour.
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New paper published in Nature Climate Change
14 SEP 2020
Roman Hoffmann and colleagues show how environmental change influences migration and how economic and sociopolitical factors shape the relationship.
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New IIASA Research Group Leadership
10 SEP 2020
Raya Muttarak and Samir KC will be among the new research leadership at IIASA from January 2020.
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The cross-sectional average length of healthy life
2 SEP 2020
In this new paper published in Population Health Metrics, Markus Sauerberg, Michel Guillot and Marc Luy introduce a new summary measure of population health.
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Projecting sex ratio at birth by Indian states
21 AUG 2020
In a new paper published in PLOS ONE, Samir KC and colleagues project 6.8 million missing female births in India from 2017 to 2030.
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The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Department of Demography of the University of Vienna, the World Population Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (VID/ÖAW).
