Beata Osiewalska

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Economic Sciences, LabFam

ABOUT ME

Assistant Professor at both the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, and Cracow University of Economics in Poland. As a family demographer and statistician, her research interests encompass family and fertility dynamics, childlessness, fertility intentions, and gender (in)equality, with a particular focus on the socioeconomic conditions affecting families.

AWARDS

2024 – State Decoration: Bronze Medal for Long Service – awarded by the President for exemplary performance of professional duties

2024 – 3rd best poster Award at the “Gender and social inequality in fertility” Conference, Oslo, Norway

2021 – Polish Academy of Sciences’ award in Demography for her thesis-based monograph

2018-2021 – Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the outstanding young researchers

2018-2020 Annual Awards from the Rector of Cracow University of Economics for individual scientific achievements

2017 – Demographic Research Editor’s Choice Award

PUBLICATIONS

Reviewed articles

Osiewalska, B., & Matysiak, A. (2025). Two sides of a coin: The relationship between work autonomy and childbearing. Journal of Marriage and Family, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13066
Jarosz, E., Matysiak, A., & Osiewalska, B. (2024). Mothers’ Parenting Behaviours, Strain, Enjoyment and Subsequent Childbearing. Journal of Family Issues, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X241257235
Osiewalska, B., Matysiak, A., & Kurowska, A. (2024). Home-based work and childbearing. Population Studies, 78(3), 525–545. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2023.2287510
Kurowska, A., Matysiak, A., & Osiewalska, B. (2023). Working from home during Covid-19 pandemic and changes to fertility intentions among parents. European Journal of Population, 39(1), 32.
Jarosz, E., Matysiak, A., & Osiewalska, B. (2023). Maternal Free Time: A Missing Element in Fertility Studies. Population and Development Review, 49(4), 801-828.
Osiewalska, B. (2018). Partners’ Empowerment and Fertility in Ten European Countries. Demographic Research, 38(49): 1495-1534.
Osiewalska, B. (2017). Childlessness and fertility by couples’ educational (in)equality in Austria, Bulgaria and France. Demographic Research, 37(12): 325-362.
Osiewalska, B. (2017). Wykształcenie par a (bez)dzietność w Polsce [Couples’ education and their number of children in Poland]. Studia Demograficzne [Demographic Studies], 2(172)/2017: 71-96.
Testa, M.R., Bordone, V., Osiewalska, B., Skirbekk, V. (2016). Are daughters’ childbearing intentions related to their mothers’ socioeconomic status? Demographic Research, 35(21): 581-616.
Osiewalska, B. (2015). Couple’s socioeconomic resources and completed fertility in Poland. Studia Demograficzne [Demographic Studies], 1(167): 31-60.
Osiewalska, B. (2013). Transmission of Fertility Pattern in Mother-Daughter Relation – Bayesian view (a case study of Austria). Studia Demograficzne [Demographic Studies], 1(162): 3-35.
Osiewalski, K., ZAJĄC, B. (2011). Bayesowskie porównanie modeli zachowań prokreacyjnych [Bayesian comparison of reproductive models]. Prace i Materiały Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego pt. Metody Badań i Interpretacja Procesów Demograficzno-Społecznych, 2:21-39.

Osiewalski, J., Osiewalska, B. (2017). A Bivariate Model of the Number of Children and the Age at First Birth [in:] M. Papież, S. Śmiech (eds.), The 11th Professor Aleksander Zelias International Conference on Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-Economic Phenomena: Conference Proceedings (p. 261-269). Foundation of the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow.
Osiewalska, B. (2012). Przejmowanie wzorca płodności matek przez generacje córek w Polsce – podejście bayesowskie [Intergenerational transmission of fertility pattern in Poland – bayesian approach] [in:] J. Kurkiewicz (ed.), Przemiany demograficzne w Polsce – uwarunkowania i konsekwencje, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie, Kraków.
Osiewalski, K., ZAJĄC, B. (2010). Krzywe cząstkowych współczynników zgonów – modele wygładzania [Death rates curves – smoothing models] [in:] Społeczne i Ekonomiczne Konsekwencje Zmian Procesów Demograficznych: referaty część I, Zeszyty Naukowe Sekcji Analiz Demograficznych, 22:77-86.
Osiewalski, K., ZAJĄC, B. (2009). Zastosowanie rozkładu Kumaraswamy w konstrukcji tablic dalszego oczekiwanego trwania życia [Kumaraswama distribution in lifetables construction] [in:] M. Gazińska (red.), Zmiany Struktur Demograficznych i ich Konsekwencje dla Przyszłego Rozwoju, Zeszyty Naukowe Sekcji Analiz Demograficznych, 20a:132-142.

Skirbekk, V., Osiewalska, B., Bowen, C.E. (2020). Value change and fertility decline in Norway. Report for the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services.
Osiewalska, B. (2016). Do highly educated partners have fewer children than their lowly educated counterparts? [in:] I.E. Kotowska, A. Matysiak, M. Mynarska (eds.), From leaving parental home to retire. Life paths of Poles in the light of Generation and Gender Survey (p. 22), Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw.
Osiewalska, B. (2016). Do couples in which the woman is higher educated than the man have fewer children? [in:] I.E. Kotowska, A. Matysiak, M. Mynarska (eds.), From leaving parental home to retire. Life paths of Poles in the light of Generation and Gender Survey (p. 23-24), Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw.
Wałaszek, M., OSIEWALSKA, B., Antończak, K., Chrześcijanek, A., Guzik, E. (2013). Młodzi na rynku pracy. Analiza statystyczna wskaźników ujętych w modelu monitorowania sytuacji osób młodych na rynku pracy [Youth on the labour market. Statistical analysis of youth labour market conditions]. Wojewódzki Urząd Pracy w Krakowie, Kraków.

Testa, M.R., Bordone, V., OSIEWALSKA, B., Skirbekk, V. (2016) Intergenerational transmission of fertility in selected European countries: the role of mother’s socio-economic status. VID Working Paper No 1/2016.
Osiewalska, B. (2015) Couple socioeconomic gender equality and fertility: A Bayesian analysis. CPC Working Paper 62, ESRC Centre for Population Change, UK.

2025 PAA Annual Meeting 2025, Washington DC, USA, CLICK AND CRADLE: Exploring the Link Between Working from Home and Birth Risks in Europe (poster)

2024 European Population Conference, Edinburgh, UK, Work and Childbearing in the XXI Century: When Large Work Autonomy Meets High Job Demands

2024 Conference “Gender and social inequality in fertility”, Oslo, Norway, Two sides of a coin: Unveiling the relationship between work autonomy and childbearing in the UK (poster)

2023 Workshop on Life Events, Cologne, Germany, Labfam Individual Biographies

2023 ECSR Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, Work and childbearing in the XXI century: when large work autonomy meets high job demands

2023 RC28 Spring Meeting, Paris, France, Work autonomy and fertility

2023 PAA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, Work autonomy and fertility (poster)

2023 Invited RAS ONS UK seminar, online, The role of home-based work for women around childbearing

2022 BSPS conference, Winchester, UK, The role of home-based work for return to employment after birth

2022 PAA Annual Meeting 2022, Atlanta, USA, When are women who work from home more likely to have children?

2022 European Population Conference, Groningen, the Netherlands, When are women who work from home more likely to have children?

2021 After the Pandemic: Working from Home Conference, online, Are women who work from home more likely to have children?

2021 British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Conference, online, OSIEWALSKA B., Matysiak A., Kurowska A., Home-based work and childbearing.

2019 PH Seminar, Oslo, Skirbekk V., OSIEWALSKA B., Social values and fertility change in Norway.

2018

BSPS Conference, Winchester, Osiewalska B., Micro-level gender inequality and fertility in Europe.

PAA 2018 Annual Meeting, Denver, Osiewalska B., Does a couple’s empowerment profile shape fertility? The review of ten European countries.

2017

BSPS Conference, Liverpool, OSIEWALSKA B., Testa M.R., Couple’s socioeconomic status and fertility intentions in Europe.

4th GGP User Conference, Berlin, Osiewalska B., Childlessness and fertility by couples’ educational pairings in selected European countries.

PAA Annual Meeting, Chicago, OSIEWALSKA B., Testa M.R., Couple’s socioeconomic status and female fertility intentions.

2016

BSPS Conference, Winchester, Osiewalska B., Childlessness and fertility by partners’ educational (in)equality in Austria, Bulgaria and France.

European Population Conference, Meinz, Osiewalska B., Couple power relations and fertility.

PAA Annual Meeting, Washington, Osiewalska B., The power of a spouse and fertility of a couple – a comparison of France and Poland.

2015

“Education and Reproduction in Low-Fertility Settings” Conference, Vienna, Osiewalska B., Couple socioeconomic gender equality and fertility in selected European countries.

3rd GGS User Conference, Vienna, Osiewalska B., Couple’s socioeconomic resources and completed fertility in Poland.

BSPS Conference, Leeds, Osiewalska B., Fertility and socioeconomic gender equality between a couple: a Bayesian approach.

2014

European Population Conference, Budapest, Testa M. R., Bordone V., OSIEWALSKA B., Skirbekk V., Intergenerational transmission of fertility in six European countries: the role of mother’s socioeconomic status.

QUETELET SEMINAR: Fertility, childlessness and the family: A pluri-disciplinary approach, Louvain-la-Neuve, Osiewalska B., Fertility and socioeconomic equality in a couple. Bayesian analysis in case of selected European countries.

2013

2nd GGP User Conference, Milano, Osiewalska B., Transmission of fertility pattern in mother-daughter relation in Austria – Bayesian view.

GRANTS

National Science Centre

National Science Centre
INTERNAL GRANTS

PRELUDIUM: Couples’ childlessness and parenthood as a result of male and female socioeconomic status in selected European countries – Bayesian approach. Principal Investigator.

The project proposal received 3rd place in the all-Poland competition in social sciences panel.

2019

Fertility and childlessness in Europe – socioeconomic and cultural conditions, Cracow University of Economics, grant for young researchers. Principal Investigator.

2018

Socioeconomic determinants of couple fertility intentions, Cracow University of Economics, grant for young researchers. Principal Investigator.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

fertility, childlessness, the interplay between professional and family careers, the impact of new technologies on procreative behaviour and intentions, gender roles

RESEARCH GATE

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

ORCID

Beata Osiewalska

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Economic Sciences, LabFam

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