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New PNAS article published
7 FEB 2019
WIC researchers find that denied childhood educational opportunities contributed to stalled fertility decline in Africa.
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Later fertility in Europe: How far can childbearing be postponed without being forgone?
29 JAN 2019
The team of LATEFERT works on the spread of late fertility in the low fertility countries and explores advantages and limits of childbearing postponement.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Family and Fertility
Age Well Accounts - Policy Brief: The Rush Hour of Life
28 JAN 2019
The AWA team measures the “rush hours of life”: People aged 25 to 54 face responsibilities for their children in addition to paid work.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Population Economics
Russian Demographic Data Sheet 2019
15 JAN 2019
The second edition of the Russian Demographic Data Sheet provides a comprehensive look at key demographic indicators and main population trends for all Subjects of the Russian Federation, including population projection for 2050.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Forecasting and Ageing
Immediate versus delayed detection of Takotsubo syndrome after epileptic seizures
12 DEC 2018
A team, incl. M. Sauerberg, investigates whether patients with immediate and delayed detection of seizure-induced Takotsubo syndrome differ.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Health and Longevity
2018 WU City of Vienna Best Paper Award for Jesus Crespo Cuaresma
12 DEC 2018
Economic Development and Forest Cover: Evidence from Satellite Data.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Population, Environment and Sustainable Development
2018 WU City of Vienna Best Paper Award for Wolfgang Lutz
12 DEC 2018
"Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate."
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Corresponding Research Areas: Population, Environment and Sustainable Development
Disability among India’s elderly much higher than census estimates
7 DEC 2018
In this new paper Nandita Saikia studies chronic morbidity and reported disability among older persons from the India Human Development Survey.
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Dementia, cognition, and healthy and productive aging
30 NOV 2018
Sergei Scherbov was invited to give a presentation at the Annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities Research Conference on Population Aging, 7-8 Dec 2018.
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Walking on a tightrope: The rapid increase in late motherhood
29 NOV 2018
Eva Beaujouan and Tomas Sobotka investigate the consequences of childbearing postponement.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Family and Fertility
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. It is a collaboration among the World Population Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (VID/ÖAW) and the Demography Group and the Research Institute on Human Capital and Development of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).
