Debating pressing global and regional population issues

Monday, 30 October 2017

Session 705: Fertility transitions in Africa, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

1. Exploring the Link Between Structural Adjustment Programs, Educational Discontinuities and Stalled Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa • Endale Kebede, Anne Goujon, Wolfgang Lutz

Session 1301-2: Urbanization Patterns, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

2. India’s urban perspective. Factors contributing to the present and future urban development • Markus Speringer, Samir K.C., Marcus Wurzer

Poster Session 9-1: Health, mortality and longevity, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

17. Integration of maternal postpartum services in maternal and child health services in Kaya health district (Burkina Faso): an intervention time trend analysis • Danielle Yugbare Belemsaga, Anne Goujon, Seni Kouanda, Alima Tougri, Abou Coulibaly, Els Duysburgh, Olivier Degomme, Marleen Temmerman 

22. A spatial panel analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of avoidable hospital admissions • Anna-Theresa Renner, Simone Ghislandi

Session 507: Methods using limited, deficient, and defective data, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

2. Expectation of Life at Old Age: Revisiting Horiuchi-Coale and reconciling with Mitra • Dalkhat Ediev

Session 904: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM

4. Education differential in Mortality: Past, Present, and the Future • Samir K.C., Erich Striessnig

Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Session 501-4: 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Discussant: Nandita Saikia

Session 707: 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Discussant: Anne Goujon

3. Predicting Indian fertility in light of education • Samir K.C., Markus Speringer, Marcus Wurzer 

Session 1001-2: Beyond the classical model of demographic transition, 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM

1. Cognition Driven Demographic Transition • Wolfgang Lutz

Session 504: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Discussant: Dilek Yildiz

Poster Session P1-2: Ageing and intergenerational relations, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

9. Production and Transfers through Unpaid Work by Age and Gender: A Comparative Analysis of Austria, Italy and Slovenia • Joze Sambt, Marina Zannella, Bernhard Hammer, Alexia Prskawetz

Poster Session P4: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

8. Religion and Educational Attainment Around the World • Conrad Hackett, David McClendon, Caryle Murphy, Michaela Potancokova, Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk

Poster Session P5-2: Demographic methods and data, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

1. How many old people have ever lived? • Gustav Feichtinger, Dalkhat Ediev, Alexia Prskawetz, Miguel Sanchez-Romero

5. Bayesian reconstruction of populations by age, sex and level of education • Dilek Yildiz, Guy Abel, Anne Goujon, Guillermo Vinue, Samir K.C., Markus Speringer, Michaela Potancokova, Ramon Bauer

Poster Session P13-2: Migration and urbanisation, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

6. Family context of married refuge seeking persons: Who arrived with the partner? Who left children behind? Insights from Syrian and Iraqi persons arriving in Austria in 2015 • Isabella Buber-Ennser, Zakarya AlZalak, Judith Kohlenberger, Bernhard Rengs

Poster Session P14-1: Population and development, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

3. Are the (education) SDGs still unfair to Africa? • Bilal Barakat, Stephanie Bengtsson

Session 502-1: 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

4. SAMPP - An R package for small area multistate population projections • Marcus Wurzer, Samir K.C., Markus Speringer

Session 601: Education and labour force, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

1. Impacts of increasing education and immigration level on the skill level of the labour force • Samuel Vézina, Alain Belanger

Session 911-3: Spatial patterns and determinants of child health, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

3. Child Malnutrition in Uganda: Regional disparities and socio-economic inequalities • Mujaheed Shaikh, Simone Ghislandi

4. Geographical differentials and determinants of excess female under-five deaths in Indian Districts: Evidence from the Census 2011 • Nandita Saikia, Christophe Guilmoto, Vandana Tamrakar, Jayanta Bora

Session 708: Public policy and fertility change, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM

3. What difference does education make? Examining the changing relationship between education and cohort fertility during the fertility transition in Thailand, 1970 – 2010 • Thananon Buathong, Wiraporn Pothisiri, Raya Muttarak, Mujaheed Shaikh

Session 1001-1: Views of fertility, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM 

2. The Mechanics of the Baby Boom. Unveiling the Role of the Epidemiological Transition • Danielle Gauvreau, Patrick Sabourin, Samuel Vézina, Benoît Laplante

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Session 804: Gender differentials in rural-to-urban migration, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

1. Who is moving? Exploring internal migration by gender and education across 58 countries • Guy Abel, Raya Muttarak

1. Modeling educational attainment in a microsimulation projection model for the EU28 • Guillaume Marois, Patrick Sabourin, Alain Belanger

Session P7-3: Fertility, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

2. More schooling, more kids? Education and changing fertility intention in a low fertility context: The case of Thailand • Thananon Buathong, Raya Muttarak, Erich Striessnig, Maria Rita Testa

13. Less Feet, Less Footprint: The Relationship Between Environmental Concern and Fertility Intentions • Marina Andrijevic, Erich Striessnig

Poster Session P14-2: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

15. Challenges to meeting the SDG targets of universal upper secondary education in China • Wu Yingji, Samir K.C.  

Session P16: Population, consumption and the environment, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

8. Explaining the Link between Education and Green Behavior in the Philippines: The Role of Knowledge and Climate Change Perception • Roman Hoffmann, Raya Muttarak

Session 501-6: Mortality methods, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

4. Constrained mortality extrapolation to old age: An empirical assessment • Dalkhat Ediev 

Thursday, 2 November 2017

Session 704-1: Fertility preferences and associated factors, 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM

4. Didn’t plan it but got a baby: Mistimed and unintended births among men and women in six European countries • Zuzanna Brzozowska, Isabella Buber-Ennser, Bernhard Riederer, Michaela Potancokova

Session 1502-1: Measuring and Interpreting Social Exclusion: Data and Methods, 08:45 AM - 09:00 AM

2. Visibly absent? Indirect estimation of orphan undercount in household survey data • Bilal Barakat, Stephanie Bengtsson

Session 1601-1: Environmental Change and Migration: Models and Methods, 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Discussant: Raya Muttarak

Session 901-6: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Discussant: Nandita Saikia

7. Probabilistic methods for combining internal migration data • Arkadiusz Wisniowski, Dilek Yildiz, Guillermo Vinue, Guy Abel

Poster Session P9-4: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
27. Differences in Adult Mortality by education, caste and religion in India: Application of modified Orphanhood Method in India Human Development Survey • Jayanta Bora, Nandita Saikia, Marc Luy

Poster Session P13-4: Migration and urbanisation, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

13. Simplifying the complex: Alternative measures of bilateral migration • Wei QI, Guy Abel, Raya Muttarak

22. A comparison of bilateral migration counts by time intervals • Guillermo Vinue, Guy Abel

Session 106: Social pensions: Sustainability, implementation and impacts on old and young, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

2. Inter-Generational Public Transfers in EU-Countries: An Evaluation of Sustainability Using National Transfer Accounts • Bernhard Hammer, Alexia Prskawetz, Robert Gal, Lili Vargha, Tanja Istenic

Session 803-1: Gender and later-life transitions 2, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

4. Gender Inequality in Survival at Older Ages • Warren Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov 

Session 1603: Climate change vulnerability and migration, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM 

1. Examining the link between climate, conflict and cross-border migration using Heckman selection with gravity model • Raya Muttarak, Guy Abel, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Michael Brottrager

Session 1901-1: Policies to enhance the realization of demographic dividend in Africa, 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

2. Investing Early: Building an implementable agenda for Early Childhood Development in Africa within the Sustainable Development Goal framework • Stephanie Bengtsson, Bilal Barakat

Friday, 3 November 2017

Session 509: Projecting populations and demographic components, 08:30 AM - 08:45 AM

2. Probabilistic Population Aging • Warren Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov, Patrick Gerland

Session: 901-1: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Discussant: Raya Muttarak

Poster Session P6-5: Education and labour force, 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM 

4. Education attainment in the 20th century. Using historical data to reconstruct a new global dataset on education • Markus Speringer, Sandra Jurasszovich, Dilek Yildiz, Ramon Bauer, Samir K.C., Anne Goujon

Session 1404: Monitoring development goals, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM

4. A modest proposal for a lean and reliable measure of human development: the Human Life Index • Simone Ghislandi, Warren Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov

Session: () Meeting the challenge of producing skills for a 21st century African labor force

2.The role of education in developing Africa's workforce • Wolfgang Lutz

Session: () Sponsored Research Leader Session: "Our Next World" - Rethinking Demography, organized by the WDA Forum in collaboration with the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufactureres and Associations (IFPMA)

2. Assembling the Jigsaw • Wolfgang Lutz

Session: () Sponsored Research Leader Session: Migration into the European Union: Consequences of alternative migration scenarios on future population composition -- by EC-JRC/IIASA Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration (CEPAM), Monday, 30 October 2017, 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM

Chair: Wolfgang Lutz

Discussant: Phil Rees

1. Introduction to the topic • Wolfgang Lutz, Alessandra Zampier

2. Future population ageing and labor force in the EU under alternative scenarios by age, sex, education and labor force participation rates • Elke Loichinger

3. Projecting the impact of immigration on the population composition in the EU-28 countries: a microsimulation model based of the EU-LFS • Alain Belanger, Guillaume Marois, Patrick Sabourin

4. The effect of alternative migration scenarios on the religious composition of Europe’s populations • Marcin Stankovski. Michaela Potancokov

5. Possible effects of climate change as an additional push factor for migration to Europe • Raya Muttarak, Patrick Sakdapolrak