DEMOS – bulletin on population and society, May/June 2026, Volume 42, Special Issue 4: The ambivalent childbearing motivations among young adults Across Europe and many other parts of the world, people are having fewer children than in the past. This longlasting trend suggests that something deeper is changing: not just economic conditions, but also […]
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 117, is now available. Read about the last updates from the GGP, like the GSS Connect Webinar on Czechia Wave 2, GGP vacancies, the FReDA Wave 4 Data Release, and more: GGP Newsletter May 2026.
Dirk Jan van de Kaa passed away in The Hague, The Netherlands on 22 May 2026 at the age of 93 years. He was survived by his wife Jacomien, his daughter Marjan, and his son Jan Hein. Dirk van de Kaa was the founding father of contemporary Dutch demography and a pilar of the scientific […]
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 116, is now available. Read about the last updates from the GGP, like the GSS launch in Lithuania, SoGreen and INFRA4NextGen project updates, and more: GGP Newsletter April 2026.
The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 6-9 May 2026. The Population Association of America’s annual meeting is the premier conference of demographers and social and health scientists from the United States and abroad. Here demographers at all career stages are afforded the […]
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 115, is now available. Read about the last updates from the GGP, like the User Syntax Repository, the 4th German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) Summer School in Berlin and more: GGP Newsletter March 2026.
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 114, is now available. Read about the Wave 3 Call for Survey Questions, the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) User Conference, the Gender and Generations Survey (GGS) presentations at the Dutch Demography Day and more: GGP Newsletter February 2026.
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 113, is now available. Read about the GGP User Guide Survey, the Wave 3 Call for Survey Questions, the Harmonized Histories Data Release and more: GGP Newsletter December & January 2025/2026.
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 112, is now available. Read about the 8th GGP User Conference, the SoGreen new tools for sustainability research, new team members and more: GGP Newsletter October & November 2025.
The Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD) invites you to join the 18th edition of the Dutch Demography Day on Wednesday 4 February 2026, in the Academy Building of Utrecht University (Domplein). At the conference, the most recent findings in the field of population studies will be presented, including family and fertility, migrants and migration, health, mortality […]
Friday 17 October 2025 Juul Spaan successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘New horizons in later life: Motives, family ties and return of international retirement migrants‘ at the University of Groningen. With increased life expectancy and growing prosperity, retirement is increasingly seen as a phase of new opportunities. Particularly since the 1980s, more and more […]
To promote the study of population and to especially encourage young researchers in the field, the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute NIDI and the Netherlands Demographic Society NVD yearly bestow the NIDI-NVD Master Thesis Award for the best master thesis in the field of the interdisciplinary study of population/demography. The NIDI-NVD Master Thesis Award carries a […]
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 111, is now available. Read about the GGS Teaching Dataset, new Harmonized Histories releases, new team members and more: GGP Newsletter September 2025.
The European Population Conference 2026 will convene in Bologna, Italy, from 3-6 June 2026. EPC 2026 is organized by the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) in collaboration with the University of Bologna. Important dates For more information on the conference visit the EAPS website.
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 110, is now available. Read about GGP at the International Population Conference (IPC 2025) in Brisbane and the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference in Utrecht, new team members and more: GGP Newsletter July & August 2025.
The newsletter of the Generations & Gender Programme, GGP Newsletter no. 109, is now available. Come see the GGP at ESRA in July, read about the GGP Council of Partners’ meetings, new team members and more: GGP Newsletter June 2025.
