Quantitative Methods in the
Social Sciences 2
Advances in Quantitative Methods in Family and Fertility Research
15 - 17 October 2009
Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Location: ‘Het Kasteel’, Melkweg 1
PROGRAMME
| Thursday, October 15 | |
| Session chair: Melinda Mills | |
| 8.30 – 9.00 | Coffee and registration |
| 9.00 – 9.15 | Welcome, Melinda Mills (organizer, University of Groningen) and Hans-Peter Blossfeld (chair of Analyzing the Life Course Group, QMSS-2, Bamberg University) |
| 9.15-10.00 |
Some methodological challenges in the analysis of the education-fertility relationship, Oystein Kravdal |
| 10.00-10.45 | Labour market and fertility decisions in the ‘Latin model’ Paulo Barbieri |
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee break |
11.15-12.00 |
Fertility intentions and their determinants in a low fertility country. The case of Poland Ewa Fratczak (Warsaw School of Economics) |
| 12.00-13.30 | Lunch break |
| Session Chair: Sandra Buchholz | |
| 13.30-14.15 | The Impact of Family Background on Economic Status – Lessons from Comprehensive School Reform in Finland Markus Jäntti (Economics, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University and Tuomas Pekkarinen (Helsinki School of Economics) |
| 14.15-15.00 |
Legal and residential partnership status in Europe, Melinda Mills (University of Groningen) and Anne-Rigt Poortman (University of Utrecht) |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.30-16.15 | Speaker to be announced |
| 16.30-17.30 |
Committee Meeting of the Life History Group, QMSS-2 |
| 18.30 | Conference Dinner |
| Friday, October 16 | |
| Session Chair: Hans-Peter Blossfeld | |
| 9.00 – 9.45 | Selection effects in family research, Fiona Steele (University of Bristol, UK) |
| 9.45-10.30 | Selection bias and event history analysis modelling, Juan Ignacio Martinez and Fabrizio Bernardi (UNED, Spain) |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-11.45 | Transitions to Adulthood and Welfare Regimes: an Optimal Matching Analysis of Work-Family Trajectories of Young Adults from 20 European Countries, Flora Chanvril, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, Viviane Le Hay, Laurent Lesnard, and Cécile Vandevelde (SciencesPo, France) |
| 11.45-12.30 | Housing and Life Space Readjustment: A Study of Synchronicity of Life Course Transitions in Germany, Sergi Vidal (University of Bremen, Germany) |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch break |
| Session Chair: Knut Røed | |
| 14.00-14.45 | Starting a family before graduation: a solution to solve women’s conflict between family and employment in Germany? An analysis of the effects of the timing of family formation among academic women in East and West, Michael Ruland and Sandra Buchholz (Bamberg University, Germany) |
| 14.45-15.30 | Marriage and Asset Building, Jennifer A. Holland (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00-16.45 |
Who contacts whom? Education-specific patterns of online mate selection, Jan Skopek and Florian Schulz (University of Bamberg, Germany) |
| 16.45-17.30 | Final discussion |