13 June 2012 - 16 June 2012
Stockholm, Sweden
European Population Conference 2012
The EPC is a general scientific conference in population studies. At EPC 2012, the theme 'Gender, Policies and Population' receives special attention.
Eleven demographers from the World Population Program were chairing sessions and presenting papers on the links between education and issues such as quality of life, health, fertility, and the ability to adapt to climate change.
SESSION 42: EDUCATION & DEMOGRAPHY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Educational expansion in Latin American countries: has educational attainment inequality narrowed? (Clarissa Rodrigues, Rachel Durham, Bilal Barakat)
SESSION 45: QUALITY OF LIFE & SCHOOLING
Projecting future happy life expectancy by level of education for countries around the world (Wolfgang Lutz, Erich Striessnig)
A global comparison of the relation between older adults’ education and cognitive functioning (Daniela Weber)
SESSION 46: EDUCATION & HEALTH / MORTALITY
The effect of education, adult health and disability in Pakistan: a sub-national perspective (Samir KC, Asif Wazir)
The effect of education and the postponement of the onset of health limitations on the number of people suffering from health impairments in Austria, 2006 to 2051
(Elke Loichinger)
SESSION 68: OLD AGE HEALTH & MORTALITY
National variation in cognitive life cycle development
(Vegard Skirbekk, Daniela Weber, Valeria Bordone)
SESSION 86: CLIMATE CHANGE, VULNERABILITY, ADAPTATION & MIGRATION
Effects of educational attainment on climate risk vulnerability (Erich Striessnig, Wolfgang Lutz)
SESSION 92: EDUCATION & FERTILITY
Unskilled mayors and graduate farmers: educational fertility differentials by occupational status and industry in six European countries (Bilal Barakat, Rachel Durham)
SESSION 102: PROSPECTS FOR FERTILITY DEVELOPMENTS WORLDWIDE
Projection of population by level of educational attainment, age, and sex for Turkey, 2000-2050 (Samir KC, Mustafa Murat Yücesahin)
The future of low fertility: first results from a global survey of experts
(Wolfgang Lutz, Stuart Basten, Tomas Sobotka, Bilal Barakat)
Historical reconstruction of the forces shaping the religious composition of the population of Vienna from 1951 to 2001 (Anne Goujon)