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Tineke Fokkema has been appointed as the new endowed chair of 'Ageing, Families and Migration' at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). It is the first professorship in the Netherlands to focus on diversity within the population of older migrants, especially in relation to social issues and well-being.
On 10 April, Professor in Demography Fanny Janssen from the University of Groningen and NIDI, received the prestigious 2018 Allianz European Demographer Award, which was handed out in at the Allianz Forum in Berlin.
Monday 16 April 2018 Leonie Elsenburg defended her Ph.D. thesis entiteld 'Adverse life events and overweight in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood', a study assessing the relation between adverse early childhood life events and overweight and obesity in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.
Even though the mean age at childbirth has increased in all countries in the recent decades, a nonnegligible proportion of women still give birth at a very early age. The GGP data reveal a sharp East-West European contrast, with much higher percentages of women experiencing early childbearing in the East than in the West.
Over the past decades family formation behaviour has diversified in Europe. The traditional pathway in family formation was: first leave the parental home, then marry, after which have the first child, and experience all three events before the age of 30. There is a large decrease across cohorts in the percentage following such a traditional pathway.
Netspar, Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement, awarded an individual young talent grant for multidisciplinary research on the self-employed and retirement to NIDI researcher Marleen Damman.
Winida Albertha wins the NIDI-NVD Master Thesis Award 2017 and Paul Sellies received the NVD Poster award 2017.
Prof. dr. Anne Gauthier has been awarded the IUSSP-Mattei Dogan Foundation Award for Comparative Research in Demography.
Population Studies, a Journal of Demography published a special issue on the Science of Choice guest edited by Frans Willekens (NIDI), Jakub Bijak (University of Southampton), Anna Klabunde (MPIDR) and Alexia Prskawetz (IIASA/VID/WU).
NIDI Honorary Fellow Nico van Nimwegen has been elected as Secretary-General and Treasurer on the 2018-2021 Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).
Thursday 5 October 2017 Ilse Rooijackers defended her Ph.D. thesis entiteld 'Migrant family matters. Comparing patterns of intergenerational solidarity and partner separation in the Netherlands'.
Partnership arrangements for families with disabled children vary across countries in Europe. Analysis of GGP data reveals that disabled children in almost all countries are more likely to live in a one-parent household.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant worth up to 250,000 euros to 154 researchers who have recently obtained their doctorate. NIDI researcher Marleen Damman has been awarded a Veni grant for her research proposal "Retirement of the solo self-employed".
NIDI researcher Yuliya Hilevych has been awarded a Rubicon grant for her project "The ART of Conception Before Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Infertility Identities in Britain, c.1945-1980" by the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Social mobility is a long standing issue in social research. The GGP offers extensive comparable data on this topic and a window into the complex dynamics that make up social mobility.
The oldest person ever was the Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122. Researchers at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and the University of Groningen (UG) claim that her record will be broken this century. The results of their research are published in Nature.
Joanne Muller has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to do research in the United States this coming Fall semester.
Prof. dr. Clara Mulder, professor of Demography and Space at the University of Groningen and also affiliated researcher at NIDI, has been appointed as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
There are stark differences between Eastern and Western European countries in contraceptive use. Among partnered individuals age 18-45, the use of traditional contraceptives is higher in Eastern Europe while being close to zero in Western Europe. In contrast, the use of modern contraceptives is much more prevalent in Western Europe.
NIDI researcher Ellen Dingemans has been awarded a Rubicon grant for her research proposal "Paid work after retirement in Europe". With the Rubicon grant she'll do her research at the University of Manchester.
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