About
Ester Lazzari is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Demography at the University of Vienna. Her research examines the social, psychological, and biological processes that shape fertility behaviour in high-income societies, focusing on factors such as infertility, mental health, relationship dynamics, and social age norms for childbearing. Overall, her work seeks to identify the proximate and broader mechanisms that influence individuals' ability to realise their childbearing aspirations and how these factors may generate inequalities in family formation.
Dr. Lazzari is an Understanding Society Fellow and the Principal Investigator of the project "The Influence of Chronic Stress-Related Biomarkers on the Fertility Trajectories of Men and Women". She serves as an editorial board member of Population Research and Policy Review and as an expert advisory committee member for the Youth Reproductive Choices Survey of the United Nations Population Fund.
Areas of Expertise
- Fertility and reproductive health
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Health and reproduction
- Social inequalities in family formation
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Affiliation: University of Vienna E-Mail: [email protected]
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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.