Michaela Potancokova

Michaela Potančoková joined the World Population (POP) Program as a Research Scholar in June 2012. She collaborates with the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington, D.C. Her current research focuses on differential fertility by religion and education, and changes in education and religion around the world.

Dr. Potančoková is a demographer. She earned her PhD from the Charles University in Prague in 2009. Dr. Potančoková took part in the 2004/2005 Winter Semester Program at the International Max Planck Research School for Demography in Rostock, Germany and received an RTN stipend at the Population Research Centre at the University of Groningen in 2005.

She is associated with the Demographic Research Centre in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she worked as research scholar until February 2011. Her prior work focused on family formation, fertility developments and reproductive health in Slovakia, as well as the application of qualitative research methods in demography.


Last update: 13-JUL-2012

Bauer,R. Potancokova,M. Goujon,A. KC,S. (2012)

Populations for 171 Countries by Age, Sex, and Level of Education around 2010: Harmonized Estimates of the Baseline Data for the Wittgenstein Centre Projections ... More