Volume 24 - Article 6 | Pages 175–178  

Preface to the Rostock Debate on Demographic Change

By Laura Bernardi, Pascal Hetze

This article is part of the Special Collection 9 „Rostock Debate on Demographic Change“

Abstract

The first Rostock Debate on Demographic Change, which took place on February 21, 2006, centered on the following question: Should governments in Europe push much more aggressively for gender equality to raise fertility? The four debaters were Laurent Toulemon from the Institut National d’Etudes Demograhiques (France), Dimiter Philipov from the Vienna Institute of Demography (Austria), Livia Oláh from Stockholm University (Sweden), and Gerda Neyer from the Max Planck Institute (Germany)

Author’s Affiliation

• Laura Bernardi - Université de Lausanne, Switzerland EMAIL
• Pascal Hetze - Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Germany EMAIL

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