The five-year ACC project received €1 million funding through the European Research Council's "European Starting Independent Researcher Grant."
Understanding the age variation in productivity and how to improve senior workers skills and capacities are paramount for aging countries. Aging and cohort change alter values and belief structures. A better understanding of these changes is needed to improve the capacity to develop more targeted policies that relate to societal aging and other demographic change.
The ACC project focuses on two major topics:
ACC researches how demographic behavior affects the distribution of beliefs and attitudes within the population More
Aging is affecting countries more profoundly than ever before, making it important to understand the skills and capacities of the over-50s. More
Caroline Berghammer, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Laura Romeu Gordo, Anne Goujon, Brian J. Grim, Conrad Hackett, Melissa Hardy, Eric Kaufmann, Samir KC, Elke Loichinger, Erling Lundevaller, Éric Caron Malenfant, Victoria Schreitter, Emma Terama, Muhammad Asif Wazir, Jovan Zamac
Fertility-reducing dynamics of women's social status and educational attainment
Asian Population Studies, 8(3):251-264 (November 2012) (Published online 10 August 2012) More
The end of secularization in Europe?: A socio-demographic perspective
Sociology of Religion, 73(1):69-91 (Spring 2012) (Published online 8 August 2011) More
American political affiliation, 2003-43: A cohort component projection
Population Studies, 66(1):53-67 (March 2012) (Published online 8 November 2011) More
The religious composition of the Chinese Diaspora, focusing on Canada
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51(1):173-183 (Published online 5 March 2012) More
Variation in cognitive functioning as a refined approach to comparing aging across countries
PNAS, 109(3):770-774 (17 January 2012) (Published online 19 December 2011) More
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