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New study: Longer parental leave increases smoking long-term
30 JUN 2025
New study by Sonja Spitzer et al. offers important insights into how career interruptions related to childbirth impact long-term health behaviors.
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The Wittgenstein Centre at the PAA Annual Meeting 2025
18 MAR 2025
Researchers from the WIC will present and discuss new research in presentations and poster sessions at PAA 2025.
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Call for Submissions: Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025
28 FEB 2025
Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century. Deadline for submission: 31st May 2025
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Children in 2050: A contribution to the UNICEF's State of the World’s Children Report
31 JAN 2025
IIASA has collaborated with UNICEF to provide advanced data analysis and projections on demographic trends for the 2024 State of the World's Children Report.
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Do lower educated people die earlier?
23 JAN 2025
A recent study by ÖAW researchers investigates the extent to which education drives mortality by studying male Catholic order members living in religious communities.
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What's the secret to a long life?
10 JAN 2025
Many centenarians live in the ‘blue zones’, but the data also shows uncertainties. In this interview, Marc Luy explains how the studies should be categorised and how people can live as long and healthy a life as possible.
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Yidan Prize Foundation spotlights Wolfgang Lutz’s vision on education in new documentary
12 DEC 2024
The Yidan Prize Foundation’s documentary on WIC Founding Director Wolfgang Lutz focuses on his research on education as a driver of human potential, illustrating its impact on shaping a better future.
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Declining Birth Rates: From Pandemic to Inflation
24 OCT 2024
In a recent study, VID researchers analysed the fluctuations in birth rates across 26 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and identified key factors that influenced these trends. Unlike previous historical events, where there was no recovery in birth rates at the end of the pandemic, and a pronounced decline was observed in many countries.
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Climate change impacts internal migration worldwide
15 OCT 2024
A new IIASA-led study has provided the first comprehensive analysis of how climate factors – specifically drought and aridity – affect internal migration.
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New tool provides knowledge on heat stress vulnerability in cities for more targeted adaptation
10 OCT 2024
A new IIASA study proposes a novel way of quantifying and projecting future vulnerability to heat stress in different areas of a city...
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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 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.