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2014.11.24 Springer book with HDRI contribution
Springer published Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective (Philipov, Dimiter - Liefbroer, Aart C. - Klobas, Jane E. Eds.) a book presenting the theoretical and methodological developments of a three-year, European Commission-funded project named REPRO. Researchers of our Institute also contributed to the project and Chapter 4 of the book is Spéder, Zsolt - Kapitány, Balázs: Influences on the Link Between Fertility Intentions and Behavioural Outcomes.
2014.11.19 Poster prize
Our colleague Lili Vargha has won the first prize of the Dirk Berg-Schlosser Award for best poster. The award is bestowed at the Summer School in Methods and Techniques of the Europen Consurtium for Political Research for the best participant poster. The poster - titled Four Levels of Intergenerational Indicators and the Total Support Ratio - presents new indicators of population ageing. It can be accessed on the following link.
2014.09.30 David Coleman lecture
The Danube Institute and the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute cordially invite you to a lecture to be given by David Coleman (University of Oxford) on Population in Central and Eastern Europe: Burdens of the Past and Prospects for the Future. Date: Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 5 pm. Venue: Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Árvay János Room (Budapest, 1024 Budapest, Keleti Károly str. 5-7.) Seats at the lecture are strictly limited, therefore early registration is recommended. Please click here to register for the event.
2014.05.07 EPC 2014
The Hungarian Demographic Research Institute together with the European Association for Population Studies, the organizer and host of the European Population Conference 2014. The conference will be held in Budapest, between 25-28 June 2014. For more information, visit the Conference website: http://epc2014.hu/
2014.04.01 Counting Women's work
The paper written by our colleagues Robert Gal and Lili Vargha in cooperation with Endre Szabo of the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is summarized in a Research in Brief of the Counting Women’s Work (CWW) Project. CWW is a project within the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) research network. It will provide data and analysis to help develop better policies around economic development, care for children and the elderly, investments in human capital, and gender equity in the workplace and the home. Currently it involves nine low- and middle-income countries around the world, namely: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mexico, Senegal, South Africa and Vietnam. The project is coordinated by the University of California, Berkeley; the Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town; and the East-West Center, Honolulu.The Research in Brief can be downloaded here.