Projects

Biological, Individual and Contextual Factors of Fertility Recovery

Project Leader: Eva Beaujouan

Fertility is increasingly determined by the desire and ability to have children at later reproductive ages. This ERC consolidator grant explores the biological, individual and contextual factors related to fertility in the countries where childbearing is being delayed, with an emphasis on ages 30 and above. It links these factors to today’s and tomorrow’s cohort fertility levels.

Picture: (c) Maddalena Carrai for RIVA Illustrations

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Acronym: BIC.LATE
Funding Body: ERC (CoG) - Horizon 2020
Project Number: 101001410
Time Frame: 01.09.2021 - 30.08.2026

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BIRTHLIFE - Births and other life goals: complementarity or competition?

Project Leader: Isabella Buber-Ennser

The project aims to disentangle the correlation structure across individuals’ simultaneous life goals (or intentions) and individuals’ subsequent behaviours (or outcomes).

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Acronym: BIRTHLIFE
Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Project Number: P 31357-G29
Time Frame: 01.03.2019-31.08.2023

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Future Migration Scenarios for Europe

Project Leader: Dilek Yildiz

The project will focus on understanding the patterns, motivations and modalities of migration at multiple geographical scales, from international through regional to the local, and on imagining possible futures.

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Acronym: FUME
Funding Body: EU (Horizon 2020)
Project Number: 870649
Time Frame: 01.12.2019-30.11.2022

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Later fertility in Europe: How far can childbearing be postponed without being forgone?

Project Leader: Eva Beaujouan

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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Acronym: LATEFERT
Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund
Project Number: P31171-G29
Time Frame: 01.01.2019-31.12.2022

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Levels and Trends of Health Expectancy: Understanding its Measurement and Estimation Sensitivity

Project Leader: Marc Luy

Public health policies are assessed on the basis of a structural indicator for “Health Expectancy” (HE). However, HE estimates are extremely sensitive to certain methodological issues. The central aim of LETHE is a systematic exploration of the HE indicator’s sensitivity.

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Acronym: LETHE
Funding Body: ERC (Horizon 2020)
Project Number: 725187 — LETHE — ERC-2016-COG
Time Frame: 01.09.2017-31.08.2023

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Population Dynamics under Global Climate Change

Project Leader: Raya Muttarak

Population and climate change are intricately linked. This ERC project aims to unpack these complexities by undertaking a comprehensive study of how changing climate impacts population trends.

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Acronym: POPCLIMA
Funding Body: ERC (CoG) - Horizon 2020
Project Number: 101002973
Time Frame: 01.01.2022-31.12.2026

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Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy

Project Leader: Guillaume Marois

The overarching aim of this project is to produce comprehensive, multi-perspective and robust quantitative migration scenarios to support various areas of European migration policy, based on the cutting-edge developments in conceptualising, explaining, estimating and forecasting migration.

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Acronym: QuantMig
Funding Body: EU (Horizon 2020)
Project Number: 870299
Time Frame: 01.02.2020-31.01.2023

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Reducing inequality within and across generations

Project Leader: Miguel Sánchez-Romero

This project aims to provide a unified framework for studying and mitigating the economic and demographic consequences of increasing inequality in European countries, also considering the aftermath of the 2008 recession and the Covid19 pandemic.

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Acronym: RIWAG
Funding Body: OeNB Anniversary Fund
Project Number: 18744
Time Frame: March 2022 - August 2024

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Skill loss during parental leave and its role for gender disparities in earnings

Project Leader: Sonja Spitzer

The Skill-PAL project provides a missing puzzle piece for understanding the persistent gender disparities in earnings. It investigates the impact of child-related career interruptions on work-related skills and explores if human capital depreciation during extended parental leave contributes to the gender wage gap. The project is highly relevant in light of demographic change and growing skilled labour shortages, and will further provide important insights for shaping parental leave policies.

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Acronym: Skill-PAL
Funding Body: Austrian Academy of Sciences
Project Number: DATA_2023-39_Skill-PAL
Time Frame: 01.07.2024-30.06.2026

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Sustainable Welfare: Rethinking the roles of Family, Market and State

Project Leader: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

SUSTAINWELL addresses the long-term socio-economic impact of population ageing on European society. SUSTAINWELL aims will be to identify: (i) opportunities arising from longer and healthy life expectancy and in general from the silver economy; (ii) resilient responses from individuals and households (in market and non-market outcomes) and from other actors in society facing the challenges posed by ageing; (iii) the impact of ageing on inequality (both within and between generations), knowing that social cohesion is crucial to face the ageing challenge; (iv) gender and lifecycle balanced policies helping the sandwich-generation to sustain baby-boomers entering retirement, without decreasing fertility nor investment in education. This project is coordinated by Ció Patxot, Universitat de Barcelona.

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Acronym: SUSTAINWELL
Funding Body: European Commission, HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01
Project Number: 101095175
Time Frame: 01.02.23 -31.01.27

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The Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing

Project Leader: Wolfgang Lutz

This project aims to develop new indicators for long-term human wellbeing that include feedbacks from environmental and other changes.

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Acronym: EmpoweredLifeYears
Funding Body: ERC (AdG)
Project Number: 741105
Time Frame: 01.11.2017-31.10.2022

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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.