Friday, June 27 / 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM   •   Lecture Room I

Session 71:
Special thematic session on fertility transition: opportunities and threats

Chair: Tomas Sobotka, Vienna Institute of Demography

  1. Where have all the children gone? A study of the social determinants of fertility postponement: the case of Hungary since 1988 • Vanessa Lehner, Princeton University

  2. How did changes in female educational structure affect fertility in state socialism? Evidence from seven Central and South Eastern European countries • Zuzanna Brzozowska, Vienna Institute of Demography and Warsaw School of Economics

  3. Educational expansion, “double status positions” and the transition to motherhood in Hungary • Zsolt Spéder, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute ; Tamás Bartus, Corvinus University of Budapest and Demographic Research Institute, Budapest

  4. Fertility in formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe: the role of family policies affecting childbearing • Tomas Frejka, Independent Consultant ; Stuart A. Basten, University of Oxford

  5. Having the next child in times of economic crisis? Mobile and non-mobile eastern Germans around unification • Anja Vatterrott, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Michaela Kreyenfeld, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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