LabFam seminar series: Late fertility across the high-income countries
Speaker: Eva Beaujouan, University of Vienna Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
After decades of decline in birth rates at younger ages, childbearing after age 30 has become prominent to explain overall fertility levels in Europe, the English-speaking countries and East Asia. The desire and ability of those who did not have children in their 20s to have them later (“fertility recuperation”) are thus decisive for future fertility levels, and for life satisfaction among those who wish to have children. I will provide an overview of the recent trends towards later childbearing and discuss the implications for individuals as well as for fertility levels
About the speaker: Eva Beaujouan is assistant professor at the University of Vienna. She studies fertility and family change across the high-income countries for women and men, with a focus on the shift towards later fertility. She has been awarded in 2020 an ERC consolidator grant BIC.LATE to study the Biological, Individual and Contextual factors of fertility recovery.