Family and Children | Population Europe

Determinants and measures of early development in the Growing up in Hungary study

Thu Dec 15

The webinar will present the Growing up in Hungary – Cohort ’18 birth cohort study, a longitudinal research programme of the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, launched in 2018 on a representative sample of 10% of pregnant women in Hungary.

25/11/2022

Are two languages better than one?

School trajectories of bilingual children in France

Serena Vigezzi (SDU), Sébastien Grobon (COR and CES-Sorbonne), Delphine Remillon (INED) and Lidia Panico (INED) analyse the school trajectories of adults living in France since childhood, comparing individuals who spoke more than one language at home when they were 5 years old with those who did not.

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23/11/22

ERC Announced Starting Grant 2022 Principal Investigators

This week, the European Research Council announced the Principal Investigators for their ERC Starting Grants 2022. With a total of €636m in funding, the ERC aims to support emerging scientific talent across Europe.

Family and Household in Social Policy Webinar Series 2022

The nest redefined: Global family changes

Fri Dec 2

In this webinar, Dr Liu highlights theoretical and substantive knowledge on family demography from a cross-national perspective.

11/11/2022

Are ideals and norms related to fatherhood equal in Europe?

Individual attitudes towards reproductive decisions and the exercise of fatherhood in Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK

Teresa Martín-García (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), Marta Seiz (National University of Distance Learning, UNED) and Teresa Castro-Martín (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC) explored ideals and norms related to fatherhood in five European countries: Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

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09/11/22

Pregnancy in Hungary - Report on the first wave of the Cohort '18 - Growing up in Hungary

Read and download the full report

This longitudinal research project aims to describe what it is like as a child to grow up in Hungary and what the influencing factors are.

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07/11/22

BIOSFER-Team led by MPIDR Director Mikko Myrskylä Receives ERC Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) rewarded a 14 Million Euro Synergy Grant for a period of six years to BIOSFER.

03/11/2022

Without a child or partner

The effects of kinless-ness on loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bruno Arpino (University of Florence), Christine Mair (University of Maryland), Nekehia Quashie (University of Rhode Island) and Radoslaw Antczak (SGH Warsaw School of Economics) analysed data on more than 35,000 adults aged 50 and older to examine if unpartnered and childless older adults reported more loneliness and how that changed over the course of the pandemic.

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31/10/2022

Understanding delayed parenthood

Having children at an older age has different effects for the careers of women and men

Jessica Nisén (University of Turku), Maarten J. Bijlsma (University of Groningen), Pekka Martikainen (University of Helsinki), Ben Wilson (Stockholm University) and Mikko Myrskylä (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) investigated how educational and labour market trajectories of women and men depend on the timing of parenthood.

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Labour market trajectories of teenage mothers- and fathers – a sibling comparison study

Thu Nov 10

Teenage parenthood is thought to have long term consequences for the life trajectory of young parents, with the responsibilities of small children restricting the time available to parents to invest in education and establish social networks at this crucial life course stage.

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