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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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