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SZABÓ, Laura
Research Fellow

Research fields

• Expert of demographic data analysis from Population Censuses and Vital Statistics
• Subjective well-being
• Fertility: childlessness
• Ethnic demography: fertility

Contact

e-mail: szabo@demografia.hu
tel: +36-1-345-6176

Research activities:

• Population Census – fertility and demographic behaviour analysis of total population, using total sample of individual level national population censuses 1970-2016, Hungary
• Microcensus - contributor of the development of the questionnaire of the Microcensus 2016, in the fields of subjective well-being and disability

o    Laura Szabó (2004). Relationship of personal social support network and subjective well-being among non-disabled and disabled people. Poster presentation at International Positive Psychology Summit Conference, Washington, USA, 2004, September
o    Laura Szabó (2004). Relationship of personal social support network and subjective well-being among non-disabled and disabled people. Paper presentation at SUNBELT XXIV Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2004 May

• Fertility: childlessness:
  o    SZABÓ, Laura, Balázs KAPITÁNY, Adél ROHR (2016). U - shape link between education and childlessness in Hungary - a new Central European phenomenon. EAPS Poster at European Population Conference 2016, Mainz. EAPS Poster Award.
  
• Fertility, ethnic demography, fertility of minorities:
   o    SZABÓ Laura, Igor KISS, Zsolt SPÉDER and Branislav SPROCHA (2017). Fertility of minorities in Eastern and Central European countries: similarities or dissimilarities?  Paper presentation at the The Fertility of Migrants and Minorities Workshop, February 6-8, 2017, Leibniz University Hannover.
  o    SZABÓ Laura, Igor KISS, Zsolt SPÉDER and Branislav SPROCHA (2018). Fertility of minorities in Eastern and Central European countries. Paper presentation at the European Population Conference, June 6-9, 2018, Vrije Universiteti Brussel.
• Migration: Left behind children. http://www.mtakti.hu/file/download/HLM2016/231.pdf
• Cohort' 18 longitudinal birth cohort study: parenting.
  Kopcsó Krisztina - Szabó Laura (2019). Influence of maternal education on prenatal parenting: initial findings of Cohort '18. Poster presentation at 19th European Conference on Developmental Psychology.

Publications

Nitsche, N., Jasilioniene, A., Nisén, J., Li, P.; Kniffka, M. S., Schöley, J., Andersson, G., Bagavos, C., Berrington, A., Čipin, I., Clemente, S., Dommermuth, L., Fallesen, P., Galdauskaite, D., Jemna, D., Lerch, M., Mcdonnell, C., Muller, A., Neels, K., Pötzsch, O., Ramiro, D., Riederer, B., Te Riele, S., Szabó, L., Toulemon, L., Vignoli, D., Zeman, K., Žnidaršič, T. (2022): Pandemic babies? Fertility in the aftermath of the first COVID-19 wave across European regions, MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-027.

Veroszta, Zsuzsanna – Boros, Julianna – Kapitány, Balázs – Kopcsó, Krisztina – Leitheiser, Fruzsina – Sándor, Nikolett Gabriella – Szabó Laura, Spéder Zsolt (2022): Infancy in Hungary – Report on the Second Wave of the Cohort ’18 – Growing Up In Hungary. Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare, No. 40. Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest.

Veroszta, Zsuzsanna - Boros, Julianna - Kapitány, Balázs - Kopcsó, Krisztina - Leitheiser, Fruzsina - Szabó, Laura - Spéder, Zsolt (2021). Pregnancy in Hungary. Report on the First Wave of the Cohort ’18 - Growing Up In Hungary. Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare, No. 39. Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest.

Szabó, Laura – Boros, Julianna – Fábián, Ildikó – Gresits, Gabriella – Hortobágyi, Anna – Balázs Kapitány, Balázs – Kis, Réka – Kopcsó, Krisztina – Leitheiser, Fruzsina –  Rohr, Adél – Spéder, Zsolt – Veroszta, Zsuzsanna (2021): Growing up in Hungary - Cohort ’18 Hungarian Birth Cohort Study. Technical report 2. Prenatal wave. Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare, No. 38. Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest.

Szabó, Laura; Kiss, Igor; Šprocha,  Branislav ; Spéder, Zsolt (2021):  Fertility of Roma Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Comparative Population Studies.Vol. 46 (2021): 387-424.

Szabó, L. (2020): The relationships between childlessness and aducational attainment among women born between 1920 and 1979 in Hungary. Demográfia English Edition, 63(5), 5-39.

Szabó, L.; Kocsis, K.; Gábriel, D.; Kulcsár, L.; Obádovics, Cs. (2021): Population structures: sex and age composition. In: Kocsis, K.; Kovács, Z.; Nemerkényi, Zs.; Gercsák, G.; Kincses, Á.; Tóth, G. (szerk.) National atlas of Hungary: volume 3. Society Budapest, Magyarország: Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (2021) 191 p. pp. 58-63.

Szabó, L.; Kocsis, K.; Branyiczkiné, Géczy G.; Makay, Zs.; Monostori, J. (2021): Population structures: marital status and households. In: Kocsis, K.; Kovács, Z.; Nemerkényi, Zs.; Gercsák, G.; Kincses, Á.; Tóth, G . (szerk.) National atlas of Hungary: volume 3. Society Budapest, Magyarország: Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (2021) 191 p. pp. 64-69.

Péti, M., Szabó, L., Obádovics, C., Szabó, B., & Csécsi, D. (2021). Analyzing Ethnocentric Immigration through the Case of Hungary–Demographic Effects of Immigration from Neighboring Countries to Hungary. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 8(4), 128-153.

Laura, Szabó (2021): Mixed-ethnic partnerships and ethnic reproduction among Roma women in Hungary. Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare. 37. (Aug. 2021).

Laura Szabó, Igor Kiss, Branislav Sprocha and Zsolt Spéder 2020. Fertility of Roma minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare. 34 (Sep. 2020). DOI:https://doi.org/10.21543/WP.2020.34.

Veroszta, Zs.- Kopcsó, K. - Boros, J. - Kapitány, B. - Szabó, L. - Spéder, Zs. (2020): Tracking the development of children from foetal age: an introduction to Cohort ’18 Growing Up in Hungary. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

Nisén, J., Klüsener, S., Dahlberg, J., Dommermuth, L., Jasilioniene, A., Kreyenfeld, M., Lappegård, T., Li, P., Martikainen, P., Neels, K., Riederer, B.,  Te Riele, S., Laura Szabó, Trimarchi, A., Viciana, F., Wilson, B. and Myrskylä, M. (2020) Educational Differences in Cohort Fertility Across Sub-national Regions in Europe. European Journal of Population 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-020-09562-0

Makay, Z., & Szabó, L. (2019). Divorce. In Monostori, Judit – Őri, Péter – Spéder, Zsolt (eds.): Demographic Portrait of Hungary, 2018. Report on the conditions of the Hungarian population. Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest: 31–47.

Lengyel, G., & Szabó, L. (2019). The Political Elite and Trust in EU Institutions after the Crisis. A Comparative Analysis of the Hungarian Case. Elites and People: Challenges to Democracy (Comparative Social Research, Vol. 34), Emerald Publishing Limited, 91-111.

Boros, Julianna, Krisztina Kopcsó,  Zsuzsanna Makay and Laura Szabó (2018).  Child health and development in Cohort '18.  In Veroszta Zsuzsanna (ed.): Technical report. Growing Up in Hungary – Cohort ’18. Hungarian birth cohort study. Prenatal research, preparational phase. Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare, No. 30, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest, 26–34.

Szabó, Laura (2018): Testing the questionnaires: the pilot survey. In: Veroszta, Zsuzsanna (eds.)(2018): Technical report. Growing Up in Hungary - Cohort ’18 Hungarian birth cohort study. Prenatal research, preparational phase.  Working Papers on Population, Family and Welfare no.30. HDRI, Budapest. pp.30-37.

Szabó Laura – Kiss Igor – Spéder Zsolt – Sprocha Branislav 2018 Fertility of minorities in Central and Eastern European countries. Evidences from national censuses 2011 in case of Roma population.

Blaskó, Zs. - Szabó, L. (2016): Migrants with left-behind children in Hungary. In: Zsuzsa Blaskó - Károly Fazekas (Eds.): The Hungarian Labour Market 2016. Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, 2016.

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