Fertility and Family
Robust changes are occurring in family structures in modern societies. Postponing motherhood, lower number of children, less weddings and increasing number of divorces, and the increasing number of children with non-married parents, highly contribute to these situation. Our team pursuits to evaluate and investigate possible changes in family dynamics and interpret them accordingly with actual family policies, focusing essentially in the Portuguese case, but also making comparisons with other European countries if pertinent. The life-course perspective is also investigated by analyzing spaces between births and evaluating possible significant variables that contribute to the decision of don’t become a parent.
Ongoing Projects
PARENT: Procreation and Parenthood in the context of low fertility, family change and economic crisis.
PTDC/SOC-SOC/29367/2017 (2018-2021).
Completed Projects
Fertility determinants in Portugal.
funding FFMS (2013-2015).
The double postponement: men and women coping with childbearing intentions in their late 30s and early 40s.
funding FCT (2011-2015).
Fertility in Portugal: a macro(/micro) economic perspective.
funding FCT (2004-2008).
Completed Master Thesis
Tomé, L.P.
A statistical approach to portuguese fertility between 1995 and 2009.
Master in statistical modeling and data analysis, UE (2011).
Completed Doctoral Thesis
Maciel, A.
Low fertility: the late adaptation to estrutural changes and consolidation of preferente for families of low standards?
PhD in Sociology, UE (2015).
Tomé, L.P.
Why Portugal is not replacing genarations? A period and cohort perspective, in a comparative analysis with selected European Countries.
PhD in Sociology, UE (2015).
Mendes, M.F.
Sociodemographic Analysis of Fertility Decline of the Portuguese Population in the 80s.
PhD in Sociology, UE (1982).
