Blog posts
Scientists from the Wittgenstein Centre have published short blog posts on many different platforms. They are centred around the topics: Climate change and demography, COVID-19, Demographic Data, Economic aspects and aging societies, Education, Fertility and family, Life expectancy and health, and Migration.
Climate change and demography
- Global migration and the complex interplay between environmental and social factors
Blog post by Venla Niva, 26 November 2021
- The Cercedilla Manifesto: Advocating for more environmentally and socially sustainable research meetings
Blog post by Raquel Guimaraes and colleague, 14.05.2020
- Greening through schooling: How education influences pro-environmental behavior
Blog post by Roman Hoffmann, 17 January 2020
- The Damaging Myth of Individual Culpability
Blog post by Alison Heslin, 14 November 2018
- Learn from the past, prepare for the future
Blog post by Roman Hoffman, 3 April 2017
- What you probably don’t know about higher education in sub-Saharan Africa
Blog post by Anne Goujon, 27 January 2017
- Interview: Defining the future(s)
Blog post by Samir KC, 25 November 2016
- Female-headed households hit harder by climate change
Blog post by Raya Muttarak, 21 September 2016
- A Demographic Perspective on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Blog post by Erich Striessnig, 06 July 2015
- Interview: Population characteristics and the climate
Blog post by Erich Striessnig, 11 May 2015
- How to save lives – and money – by addressing India’s air pollution
Blog post by Erich Striessnig, 19 December 2013
COVID-19
- How COVID-19 complicates the journey for climate migrants
Blog post by Lisa Thalheimer, 19 August 2020
- The hidden burden of pandemics, climate change and migration on mental health
Blog post by Lisa Thalheimer and colleague, 27 July 2020
- Wo bleibt die Zeit? Bezahlte und unbezahlte Arbeit von Frauen und Männern in der Corona-Krise
Blog post by Caroline Berghammer and colleague, 15 June 2020
- The female face of COVID-19 infections in Europe
Blog post by Tomas Sobotka, 05 June 2020
- Wie gut gelingt Homeschooling in der Corona-Krise?
Blog post by Caroline Berghammer, 28 May 2020
- Die Corona-Krise verändert die Beziehungsqualität: in vielleicht unerwarteter Weise
Blog post by Caroline Berghammer and colleague, 20 May 2020
- Alles traditioneller? Arbeitsteilung zwischen Männern und Frauen in der Corona-Krise
Blog post by Caroline Berghammer, 08 May 2020
- Work-Life Balance in der Corona-Krise
Blog post by Caroline Berghammer, 29 April 2020
- COVID-19: An unprecedented shock to social and economic systems
Blog post by Erich Striessnig, 15 April 2020
- Familienkonflikte in der Corona-Krise
Blog post by Caroline Berghammer, 08 April 2020
- Reducing COVID-19 vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean
Blog post by Raquel Guimaraes, 08 April 2020
- Explaining the COVID-19 outbreak and mitigation measures
Blog post by Raya Muttarak, 10 March 2020
Demographic Data
- Big challenges and big data – Making climate-induced migration visible with machine learning
Blog post by Fabian Stephany, 7 March 2022
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Using Twitter data for demographic research
Blog post by Dilek Yildiz, 15 January 2018
- Counting the Nepalese
Blog post by Samir KC, 14 February 2017
- Population: How Many People Will Live in Africa in 2100?
Blog post by Samir KC, 11 October 2015
- Will the world reach 10 billion people?
Blog post by Wolfgang Fengler and Samir K.C., 4 September 2015
- Towards a Catholic North America in 2062?
Blog post by Anne Goujon, 16 April 2015
- Journey of your life: Demography for the demos
Blog post by Samir K.C., 16 April 2015
- 9 billion or 11 billion? The research behind new population projections
Blog post by Wolfgang Lutz, Bill Butz, Samir K.C., Warren Sanderson, and Sergei Scherbov, 23 September 2014
- The future of social change
Blog post by Anne Goujon, 20 June 2014
Economic aspects and aging societies
- Exploring the macro-level efficiency of health care systems
By Michael Kuhn, 9 March 2022
- Gender (Im)Balance. Intergenerational transfers over the lifetime for men and women in Europe
By Bernhard Binder-Hammer, Sonja Spitzer, Lili Vargha, and Tanja Isteni?, 28 April 2020
- Europe Is Destined to Age—but Not to Suffer the Consequences
Blog post by Nicholas Gailey, 24 January 2020
- Mitigating the labour market consequences of population ageing in the EU
Blog post by Guillaume Marois, Patrick Sabourin, Alain Bélanger, 14 October 2019
- Is 75 the new 65? Wealthy countries need to rethink what it means to be old
Blog post by Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov, 12 April 2019
- What matters more in preventing adult deaths in India?
Blog post by Nandita Saikia, 4 February 2019
- Which country is best to live in? Our calculations say it’s not Norway
Blog post by Warren C. Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov and Simone Ghislandi, 7 November 2018
- Turning the tables: policy and politics in an age of ageing
Blog post by Harald Wilkoszewski, Elke Loichinger, and Patrick I. Dick, 18 October 2016
- Living longer: Determining whether we are using our extra years productively
Blog post by Elke Loichinger and Daniela Weber, 17 June 2016
- It’s time to measure 21st century aging with 21st century tools
Blog post by Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov, 4 March 2016
- Research shows old age is getting younger all the time
Blog post by Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov, 16 April 2015
- Unintended But Positive: Five Long-term Consequences of Population Ageing
Blog post by Fanny A. Kluge, Emilio Zagheni, Elke Loichinger, and Tobias C. Vogt, 01 April 2015
- 75 is the new 65, so we should all keep working for longer
Blog post by Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbo, 21 May 2014
- Really, how old are you? The hands never lie
Blog post by Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov, 09 May 2014
- Interview: Exploring stereotypes about older people
Blog post by Katie Bowen and Vegard Skirbekk, 27 November 2013
- Cognitive Function as a Refined Indicator of Aging
Blog post by Vegard Skirbekk, 25 November 2013
Education
- The Role of Education. Comparing Healthy Life Years across 16 European countries
By Markus Sauerberg, 15 July 2021
- The demographic dividend is driven by education, not changes in age structure
Blog post by Wolfgang Lutz, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Nicholas Gailey, 18 November 2019
- Education disruptions in the 1980s contributed to the stalled fertility decline in Africa around 2000
Blog post by Endale Kebede, Anne Goujon, Wolfgang Lutz, Nicholas Gailey, 8 April 2019
- Education in, through, and for sustainable development
Blog post by Stephanie Bengtsson, 24 July 2018
- Recent trends and future prospects in human capital development
Blog post by Anne Goujon, 18 October 2016
- Interview: The role of education in the future of humanity
Blog post by Reiner Klingholz and Wolfgang Lutz, 18 February 2016
- A ‘Recipe for Depopulation’? School Closures and Local Decline in Saxony
Blog post by Bilal Barakat, 12 January 2016
- Why universal secondary education can help fight climate change
Blog post by Raya Muttarak, 10 December 2015
- Education and crime in South Africa
Blog post by Anne Goujon, 10 November 2015
- Why education should top the development agenda
Blog post by Wolfgang Lutz, 24 September 2015
Fertility and family
- First a job, then a family?
By Brian Matthew Buh, 28 January 2022
- Didn’t plan one but got one. Unintended and sooner?than?intended parents in the East and the West of Europe
By Zuzanna Brzozowska, Isabella Buber-Ennser and Bernhard Riederer, 30 July 2021
- Closing the Fertility Gap. A comparative study of 19 European countries and the United States
By Eva Beaujouan and Caroline Berghammer, 3 December 2019
- India’s Unwanted Daughters
Blog post by Nandita Saikia, 4 June 2018
- Marriage or cohabitation means a longer and healthier life
Blog post by Dimiter Philipov, 18 October 2016
- Do Grandparents Benefit from Grandparenting?
Blog post by Valeria Bordone, 23 April 2014
- What is the optimal fertility rate?
Blog post by Erich Striessnig, 27 February 2014
Life expectancy and health
- How healthy are you really?
Blog post by Sonja Spitzer and Daniela Weber, 21 April 2020
- It is worth weighting for better health measures
Blog post by Sonja Spitzer, 29 January 2020
- Is the normalisation of ‘plus-size’ bodies in the UK undermining the battle against obesity?
UK Data Service Blog Post by Raya Muttarak, 4 July 2018
- Do smokers know what they are doing to their life expectancy?
Blog post by Valeria Bordone, 18 August 2017
- What does your walking speed say about your true age?
Blog post by Daniela Weber, 10 February 2016
- Healthy living in hard times?
Blog post by Raya Muttarak, 02 December 2013
- Alcohol, Substance Abuse and Crime Linked to Higher Mortality
Blog post by Vegard Skirbekk, 25 November 2013
Migration
- The impact of migration on the working age population at local level
Blog post by Daniela Ghio, Anne Goujon and Natale Fabrizio, 16 May 2022
- Bilateral international migration flow estimates updated and refined by sex
Blog post by Guy Abel, 14 April 2022
- Why are the refugees who came to Austria in 2015 more educated than expected?
Blog post by Anne Goujon, 13 October 2016
- Migration analysis: A growing priority for policy
Blog post by Luis Castro, 11 March 2016
- Who are the refugees?
Blog post by Zakarya Al Zalak, 21 December 2015
Other
- Cognition-driven demographic transition
Blog post by Wolfgang Lutz, 6 June 2022
- Measuring Improvement in Human Well-being Globally
Blog post by Erich Striessnig, 21 April 2021
- My post doc experience at IIASA
Blog post by Nandita Saikia, 31 July 2019
- Immer mehr Katholiken treten in Österreich aus der Kirche aus – warum eigentlich?
Blog post by Caroline Berghammer, 5 April 2018
- How can happiness research help to build better lives?
Blog post by Anastasia Aldelina Lijadi, 31 October 2017
- Will poverty be eradicated by 2030?
Blog post by Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, 17 May 2017
- My scientific journey with IIASA
Blog post by Anastasia Emelyanova, 10 June 2016
- Ein universitäres Zuhause für die internationale Demografie
Blog post by Wolfgang Lutz, 05 August 2015
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.