Authors and guest editors for this volume | Preface | Introduction | The population aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic in 20 papers: an introduction  | Perspectives | Aspects of a sociology of the pandemic: Inequalities and the life course  | COVID-19, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the global sustainable development project and post-crises demography  | Research Articles | Effects of income inequality on COVID-19 infections and deaths during the first wave of the pandemic: Evidence from European countries | Assessing the generational impact of COVID-19 using National Transfer Accounts (NTAs) | Supplementary material to SÁNCHEZ-ROMERO, Miguel: "Assessing the generational impact of COVID-19 using National Transfer Accounts (NTAs)" | Summary of NTA country profiles (addition to to SÁNCHEZ-ROMERO, Miguel: "Assessing the generational impact of COVID-19 using National Transfer Accounts (NTAs)") | The mathematics of the reproduction number R for Covid-19: A primer for demographers  | Pitfalls and solutions in case fatality risk estimation – A multi-country analysis on the effects of demographics, surveillance, time lags between case reports and deaths and healthcare system capacity on COVID-19 CFR estimates | COVID-19 and relationship quality: Emotional, paid work and organizational spheres  | Narratives of the future and fertility decision-making in uncertain times. An application to the COVID-19 pandemic  | Cognitive schemas and fertility motivations in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic | Human costs of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the major epicentres in Italy  | Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account  | Regional COVID-19 mortality in Brazil by age | Are homicides and robberies associated with mortality due to COVID-19? Lessons from Urban Mexico  | Data &amp; Trends | Assessing excess mortality in Vienna and Austria after the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic | COVID-19 in Hong Kong: Policies and community actions mitigate the effects of age structure and population density | Rapid changes in birth counts in Brazilian major cities during the COVID-19 pandemic | Pregnancies and contraceptive use in four African countries during the COVID-19 pandemic  | Exploring psychological vulnerability and responses to the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece | Supplementary material to XOURAFI, Lydia; SARDI, Polyxeni; KOSTAKI, Anastasia: "Exploring psychological vulnerability and responses to the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece" | Why did care home residents face an elevated risk of death from COVID-19? A demographic perspective using data from Belgium and from England and Wales | Comparing the loss of life expectancy at birth during the 2020 and 1918 pandemics in six European countries

The 2022 special issue is dedicated to the demographic aspects and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first months of 2020, the world was hit by an epidemic emergency of global proportions. Its short- and long-term implications are not yet fully understood, particularly since its duration is still not foreseeable. Nevertheless, the pandemic has spurred social scientists to research the impact of the virus on the society and this in a very short time after the outbreak. 

A large part of the issue is dedicated to the analysis of the infections and the mortality patterns. The papers describe the demographic, social, and economic characteristics that influence the spread of infections and determine the number of deaths, with particular attention to issues of measurement. They analyse different waves of the pandemic, often with a comparative framework across multiple countries and also at the regional level – in Europe and outside of Europe. Some papers consider in more detail the impact of measures taken to contain the spread of the virus, e.g., lockdown. The volume also addresses how the pandemic affected the quality of relationships, the intention and motivation to have children, and realized fertility, using a variety of individual-level and register data. 

In addition to more specific topics, such as the impact of the spread of crime on mortality in Mexico or a comparison of mortality between nursing home residents and the general population in England, Wales, and Belgium, the issue also includes broader reflections on the likely risks facing different communities of individuals and the potential consequences on their life course, also in relation to other recent risks that overlap with the pandemic (climate change, depopulation, recent armed conflicts). 

Demographic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022, Vol. 20

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022, Vol. 20 2022 20 20 

Authors for this Volume | Introduction | Introduction: the relevance of studying fertility across time and space  | Debate | International political economy and future fertility trends | Moving out the parental home and partnership formation as social determinants of low fertility  | “Catching up with ‘compressed modernity”’ - How the values of Millennials and Gen-Z’ers could reframe gender equity and demographic systems  | Future fertility trends are shaped at the intersection of gender and social stratification | The wish for a child | Fertility will be determined by the changing ideal family size and the empowerment to reach these targets | Marriage will (continue to) be the key to the future of fertility in Japan and East Asia  | Review Article | Ultra-low fertility in East Asia: Confucianism and its discontents | Research Articles | Data &amp; Trends | Laggards in the global fertility transition  | Projecting future births with fertility differentials reflecting women’s educational and migrant characteristics | Selected Wittgenstein Centre databases on fertility across time and space | Decomposing changes in first birth trends: Quantum, timing, or variance | What factors support the early age patterns of fertility in a developing country: the case of Kyrgyzstan | Marital fertility decline and child mortality in the Sardinian longevity Blue Zone | Future orientation and fertility: cross-national evidence using Google search

The 2020 volume brings together many perspectives on the past, present and future of fertility. It covers both countries with very high fertility (research on high-fertility countries in Sub-Saharan Africa by D. Shapiro and A. Hinde) and countries with “ultra-low fertility”, especially in East Asia (S. Fukuda). East Asia is also covered in a review article by Y. A. Cheng, who discusses the impact of the lasting influence of Confucian culture on extreme low fertility in the region. The journal includes contributions on historical fertility declines (work by M. Poulain et al. on Sardinia), as well as articles dealing with recent trends and research presenting fertility projections (article on the European Union by M. Potančoková and G. Marois). While many of the articles are empirically oriented, some have a strong methodological (contribution on first birth trends by R. Mogi and D. del Mundo) or theoretical focus (e.g., research on future orientation and fertility by N. Cavalli). Most of the contributions focus on fertility level, but several shed light on changes in fertility timing (e.g., work by K. Kazenin and V. Kozlov). The authors of the Debate (A. Adsera, A. Esteve et al., S. Gietel-Basten, T. Lappegård, A. Rotkirch, W. Lutz and S. Fukuda) discuss the most important factors likely to influence future fertility trends. Finally, the Data &Trends section (K. Zeman and T. Sobotka) gives a brief overview of selected Wittgenstein Centre databases on fertility across time and space.  

Fertility across time and space

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2020, Vol. 18

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2020, Vol. 18 2020 18 18 

Introduction | Introduction: education and fertility in low-fertility settings | Demographic Debate | The future fertility of highly educated women: the role of educational composition shifts and labor market barriers | Education empowers women to reach their personal fertility target, regardless of what the target is | Will highly educated women have more children in the future? Looking at reproductive plans and outcomes | What do men want? The growing importance of men’s characteristics for fertility | Will highly educated women have more children in the future? In Southern Europe, it will largely depend on labour market conditions | Education, gender revolution, and fertility recovery | Review Article | Education and fertility in the context of rising inequality | Refereed Articles | Cross-national differences in the association between educational attainment and completed fertility. Do welfare regimes matter? | The role of values and of socioeconomic status in the education-fertility link among men and women | Pathways to marital and non-marital first birth: the role of his and her education | Differences in partnership and marital status at first birth by women’s and their partners’ education: evidence from Britain 1991–2012 | Do different educational pairings lead to different fertility outcomes? A cohort perspective for the Greek case | Educational field and fertility in western Germany: an analysis of women born between 1955 and 1959 | Fertility and education among British Asian women: a success story of social mobility? | The educational gradient of fertility intentions: a meta-analysis of European studies

The 2017 issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research examines the relationship between education and fertility in low-fertility contexts. The contributions document well the context-specific nature of the link between education and family behaviours, especially with respect to fertility levels, fertility timing, childlessness, non-marital childbearing, and fertility intentions. Besides their common focus on education, many articles apply a comparative perspective that illustrates the variation of education-fertility links. Six studies go beyond the usual focus on women’s fertility by analysing fertility levels or fertility intentions of both women and men, or by adopting a couple perspective to study fertility. Other studies apply a cohort perspective, provide a more detailed look at family size distributions and parity-specific patterns of family building and of reproductive intentions. This volume of the Vienna Yearbook features six invited debate contributions discussing the question of whether highly educated women will have more children in the future. 

Education and fertilitiy in low-fertility settings

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2017, Vol. 15

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2017, Vol. 15 2017 15 15 

Authors for this volume | Introduction | Reproductive decision-making: towards improved theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches | Demographic Debate | Is the Theory of Planned Behaviour an appropriate model for human fertility? | Comparing the TPB and the T-D-I-B framework | The Theory of Planned Behaviour: considering drives, proximity and dynamics | Theories on fertility intentions: a demographer's perspective | The Theory of Planned Behaviour as a model of reasoning about fertility decisions | On the usefulness of the Theory of Planned Behaviour for fertility research | Reflections on Morgan and Bachrach's critique | Further reflections on the Theory of Planned Behaviour and fertility research | Refereed Articles | Differences between fertility desires and intentions: implications for theory, research and policy | Uncertainty in fertility intentions in Britain, 1979-2007 | Fertility preferences: what measuring second choices teaches us | Couples' childbearing behaviour in Italy: which of the partners is leading it? | The influence of the family network on the realisation of fertility intentions | Intergenerational transmission of fertility intentions and behaviour in Germany: the role of contagion | Educational differentials in fertility intentions and outcomes: family formation in Flanders in the early 1990s | Family policies, norms about gender roles and fertility decisions in France and Germany | Baby longing and men's reproductive motivation | Does parenthood increase happiness? Evidence for Poland | Data &amp; Trends (non-refereed contributions) | Design and implementation of an online weekly journal to study unintended pregnancies | Couple disagreement about fertility preferences and family-friendly policy measures in the Czech Republic

The 2011 issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research explores reproductive decision-making, focusing on theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches to fertility preferences, fertility norms and motivations, family policies and actual fertility from individual, couple and aggregate perspectives. The contributions address various aspects of fertility decisions, including individual choices, couple interactions, societal influences, gender norms, and policy impacts. Most contributions stem from the REPRO project (“Reproductive decision making in a macro–micro approach”) on the antecedents and outcomes of fertility intentions. They tackle the complexity that emerges from the interaction between individual (including couple-level) and aggregate-level factors which jointly determine fertility decisions and the related birth outcomes. Many contributions are grounded in the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) by Ajzen and Fishbein, which is also critically assessed in the eight invited contributions in the “Demographic Debate” section. 

Reproductive decisionmaking

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2011, Vol. 9

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2011, Vol. 9 2011 9 9 

Authors for this Volume | Introduction | The search for a demography of education: some thoughts | Demographic Debate | Education will be at the heart of 21st century demography | The Literacy Myth: literacy, education and demography | Mass schooling, empowerment, and demographc and economic outcomes: a note of dissent | Refereed Articles | The causes of educational differences in fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa | Education and childlessness: the relationship between educational field, educational level, employment and childlessness among Greek women born in 1955-1959 | Postponement and recuperation of Belgian fertility: how are they related to rising female educational attainment? | Second birth rates across europe: interactions between women's level of education and child care enrolment | Convergence or divergence of educational disparities in mortality and morbidity? The evolution of life expectancy and health expectancy by educational attainment in Austria in 1981-2006 | Education or wealth: which matters more for reducing child mortality in developing countries? | The effect of education on adult mortality and disability: a global perspective | Education and health: theoretical considerations based on a qualitative grounded theory | Persistence and change of the relative difference in educational attainment by ethno-cultural group and gender in Canada | The demography of education in Brazil: inequality of educational opportunities based on Grade Progression Probability (1986-2008) | The IIASA-VID reconstructions and projections of educational attainment by age and sex for 120 countries, 1970-2000

The 2010 issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research looks at the connections between education and demography, with a broader ambition of developing the subfield of the “demography of education”. The volume opens with three “Demographic Debate” contributions that arrive at contrasting conclusions about the “impact” of education on population dynamics and heterogeneity. Partly, this disagreement revolves around the question: how much does it matter whether education “causes” the demographic heterogeneity and how much it is merely a signal of some deeper underlying “cause” of heterogeneity. The articles in this volume address the relationship between education and fertility (looking at childlessness, fertility level, and fertility timing), education and wealth disparities in mortality and morbidity, measurement of education progression, and education disparities in ethno-cultural groups. The volume also introduces The IIASA-VID global reconstructions and projections of educational attainment by age and sex.

 

Education and demography

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Tomáš Sobotka

Produkte

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022, Vol. 20

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2020, Vol. 18

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2017, Vol. 15

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2011, Vol. 9

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010, Vol. 8