What's new

• New publication:

Hadewijch Vandenheede, Patrick Deboosere, et al. (2011), Migrant mortality from diabetes mellitus across Europe: the importance of socio-economic change, European Journal of Epidemiology, DOI: 10.1007/s10654-011-9638-6 (online first)

• New publication:

Philip Verwimp & Jan Van Bavel (2011), Schooling, Violent Conflict and Gender in Burundi, Brighton (UK): Households in Conflict Network/University of Sussex.

• New address and telephone numbers:

The Interface Demography has moved to another building. The mailing address is now Pleinlaan 5, 1050 Brussels. All telephone numbers (as well as our fax number) have also changed (see Staff).

• New publication:

Mieke Jansen (2011), Employment insecurity and its repercussions on family formation - A theoretical framework, In Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Dirk Hofäcker, & Sonia Bertolini (eds.), Youth on Globalised Labour Markets. Rising Uncertainty and its Effects on Early Employment and Family Lives in Europe (pp. 39-65). Opladen/Farmington Hills, MI: Barbara Budrich.

• New publication:

Jan Van Bavel & Tom De Winter (2011), Becoming a grandparent and early retirement in Europe, TransEurope Research Network Working Paper 28, Bamberg, Germany.

• Scriptieprijs P.F. Verhulst 2011

Tweejaarlijkse prijs voor de demografie.

• New publication:

Jan Van Bavel, Bart Van de Putte, Sarah Moreels & Koen Matthijs (2011), Family size and intergenerational social mobility during the fertility transition: Evidence of resource dilution from the city of Antwerp in nineteenth century Belgium, Demographic Research, 24(14), 313-344.

    Abstract:
    It has been argued in sociology, economics, and evolutionary anthropology that family size limitation enhances the intergenerational upward mobility chances in modernized societies. If parents have a large flock, family resources get diluted and intergenerational mobility is bound to head downwards. Yet, the empirical record supporting this resource dilution hypothesis is limited. This article investigates the empirical association between family size limitation and intergenerational mobility in an urban, late nineteenth century population in Western Europe. It uses life course data from the Belgian city of Antwerp between 1846 and 1920. Findings are consistent with the resource dilution hypothesis: after controlling for confounding factors, people with many children were more likely to end up in the lower classes. Yet, family size limitation was effective as a defensive rather than an offensive strategy: it prevented the next generation from going down rather than helping them to climb up the social ladder. Also, family size appears to have been particularly relevant for the middle classes. Implications for demographic transition theory are discussed.

  • Link to full text

Jan Van Bavel & Joanna Rozanska-Putek (2010), Second birth rates across Europe: interactions between women's level of education and child care enrolment, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 8 (special issue on "Education and Demography").

• New event:

FLEMOSI: Berekend Vlaanderen

Brussels (Flemish Parliament), January 21, 2011

  • More info (NL)

• New publication:

Jan Van Bavel (2010), The decline of fertility in the nineteenth century. What have we learned since the Princeton project?, in Thierry Eggerickx & Jean-Paul Sanderson (eds.), Chaire Quetelet 2005. Histoire de la population de la Belgique et de ses territoires, Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.

• New lecture series:

Starting October 7, a new lecture series "European Population Issues" is launched and organised by Interface Demography. The lecture series covers a range of themes related to population studies from population ageing, health, to family relations and migration. From October 7 onwards, every Thursday afternoon (14-16 hrs) a renowned European scholar will present state of the art work in their field of expertise. The lectures are all in English and aim at a broad audience including Master students and interested researchers from different disciplines. The full program can be found here.

• New publication:

Patrick Deboosere & Johan Surkyn (2010), De sociale zekerheid, de alfa en de omega van de demografische vergrijzing?, Interface Demography Working Paper 2010-3, Vakgroep SOCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• New publication:

Patrick Deboosere, Didier Willaert, Benjamin Wayens & Pierre Kummert (2009), Les Bruxellois et la perception de l'environnement. Analyse de l'impact du profil des répondants et des caractéristiques du tissu urbain sur la perception que les bruxellois ont de leur environnement, Research report.

• New publication:

Didier Willaert (2010), De recente internationalisering van het Brussels gewest en de Vlaamse Rand, Interface Demography Working Paper 2010-2, Vakgroep SOCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• New publication:

J. Van Bavel (2010), Choice of study discipline and the postponement of motherhood in Europe: the impact of expected earnings, gender composition and family attitudes, Demography, 47(2), 439-458.

• New publication:

I. Stirbu, A.E. Kunst, M. Bopp, M. Leinsalu, E. Regidor, S. Esnaola, G. Costa, P. Martikainen, C. Borrell, R. Kalediene, J. Rychtarikova, B. Artnik, P. Deboosere & J.P. Mackenbach (2009), Educational inequalities in avoidable mortality in Europe, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

• New publication:

Jan Van Bavel (2010), Subreplacement fertility in the West before the baby boom: past and current perspectives, Population Studies, 64(1): 1-18.

• New publication:

Jan Van Bavel, Pearl Dykstra, Belinda Wijckmans & Aart C. Liefbroer (2010), Demographic change and family obligations, Deliverable 4.2 of the MULTILINKS EU-FP7 project, How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A multilinks framework, 37 pp.

• New publication:

Belinda Wijckmans & Jan Van Bavel (2010), Divorce and intergenerational family obligations. Past research and current patterns in the Netherlands, Interface Demography Working Paper 2010-1, Vakgroep SOCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• New publication:

Jan Van Bavel & Jan Kok (2010), A mixed effects model of birth spacing for pre-transition populations. Evidence of deliberate fertility control from nineteenth century Netherlands, The History of the Family. An International Quarterly, 15.

• New publication:

Mieke Jansen, Dimitri Mortelmans & Laurent Snoeckx (2009), Repartnering and (re)employment: strategies to cope with the economic consequences of partnership dissolution, Journal of Marriage and Family, 71(5): 1271-1293.

• New publication:

Hadewijch Vandenheede & Patrick Deboosere (2009), Type 2 diabetes in Belgians of Turkish and Moroccan origin, Arch Public Health, 67: 62-87.

• New publications:

Jan Van Bavel & Jan Kok (2009), Social control and the intergenerational transmission of age at marriage in rural Holland, 1850-1940, Population - English Edition, 64(2): 343-360.

Jan Van Bavel & Jan Kok (2009), Contrôle social et transmission intergénérationelle de l'âge au mariage en Hollande rurale de 1850 à 1940, Population - édition française, 64(2): 379-396.

• New publication:

Joanna Rozanska-Putek, Maaike Jappens, Didier Willaert & Jan Van Bavel (2009), Recoding the Regions of the European Social Survey into the NUTS 1 Regional Classification. Illustration: regional indicators of intergenerational solidarity, Interface Demography Working Paper 2009-6, Vakgroep SOCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• New publication:

Didier Willaert (2009), Verhuisbewegingen vanuit en naar de Vlaamse Rand rond Brussel, Interface Demography Working Paper 2009-5, Vakgroep SOCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• New publication:

Belinda Wijckmans, Maaike Jappens & Jan Van Bavel (2009), Echtscheiding en sociaal kapitaal in Vlaanderen, pp. 298-333, in Vlaanderen gepeild! 2009, Jan Pickery (red.), Brussel: Studiedienst van de Vlaamse Regering.

• New publication:

Patrick Deboosere, Ron Lesthaeghe, Johan Surkyn, Didier Willaert, Paul-Marie Boulanger, André Lambert & Louis Lohlé Tart (2009), Huishoudens en gezinnen in België, Monografieën Sociaal-Economische Enquête 2001, nr. 4, ADSEI & Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid.

• New publication:

Mieke Jansen, Belinda Wijckmans & Jan Van Bavel (2009), Divorce and the cumulated fertility of men and women across Europe, Interface Demography Working Paper 2009-1, Vakgroep SOCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• New publication:

Patrick Deboosere (2009), De rol van de sigaret in de verschillen in levensverwachting tussen mannen en vrouwen, Interface Demography Working Paper 2009-4, Vakgroep SOCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• New publication:

Patrick Deboosere & Sylvie Gadeyne (2009), Sterfterisico's naar beroep in België, Interface Demography Working Paper 2009-3, Vakgroep SOCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• New publication:

Jan Van Bavel & Vicky Bastiaenssen (2009), De recente evolutie van de vruchtbaarheid in het Vlaamse Gewest: update 2008, Interface Demography Working Paper 2009-2, Vakgroep SOCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• Symposium:

Ouderen in Vlaanderen en Europa: over welvaart, welzijn en zorg.

Brussels, March 5, 2009


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