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Jan Van Bavel Master in Sociology, PhD in Social Sciences, Professor of demography Personalia Born in Hoogstraten, Belgium on 19 February 1971 Nationality Belgian Education & qualifications 2001, Ph.D. 11 December, admitted to the degree of Doctor in the Social Sciences by the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium; in 2005 awarded the A. Nerincxprize for best PhD thesis in the Social Sciences for the period 2000-2004 1996 July – August 1996, ‘Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection’, University of Essex (UK). Courses taken: - Mathematics for Social Scientists, parts 2 & 3; - Advanced Regression Analysis; - Analysis of Choice Data & Event History Data 1994, MA. 17 September, admitted to the degree of Master in Sociology by the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. (Grade: Summa cum laude) 1992, BA. 7 July, admitted to the degree of Bachelor in the Social Sciences by the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. (Grade: Magna cum laude) Academic positions 2011 – now Full professor (“hoogleraar”) of Demography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven (KU Leuven); and part-time associate professor in Demography at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) 2005 – 2011 Professor of Methodology and Demography, and Head of research group Interface Demography, Faculty of Economic, Political and Social Sciences & Solvay Business School, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) 2002-2005 Postdoctoral researcher of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO). Research project: The timing and the speed of fertility transitions: the role of social networks, and mechanisms of variation and diffusion. 2002 Postdoctoral researcher of the K.U.Leuven Research Fund. Project: The modern fertility transition as a social-evolutionary process: longitudinal analysis of three birth cohorts. 1999-2001 Research assistant of the Centre for Population and Family Research, Department of Sociology, K.U.Leuven 1995-1999 Junior research fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders ("aspirant FWO". Project: Family formation and development at the onset of the fertility transition: a cohort analysis in the provincial town of Leuven, Brabant, 1846-1910. 1995 Research assistant of the Department of Sociology, K.U.Leuven 1995 Research fellow of the Centre for Research and Consultancy in Care (K.U.Leuven). Project: Two decades of social change and its implications for welfare in Flanders. 1994 Free-lance research fellow of the Clearinghouse for Self-help (a spin-off of the Department of Sociology, K.U.Leuven) Recent research projects and grants - Divorce and Separation in Flanders. An Analysis of Risk and Enabling Factors, Consequences FUNDACIÓN RAMÓN ARECES
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and Policy Implications o 1/9/2009 – 31/8/2013 o Funding: IWT – SBO o Budget: € 2 411 352(total consortium); VUB-part: € 501 930 - Family Situations and Trajectories of Children of Divorce. A Study on the Family Configurations and Well-Being of Children in New Stepfamilies o 1/1/2010 - 31/12/2013 o Funding: FWO-Vlaanderen (G.0342.10) o I am co-promotor with 4 partners, total budget 256 000 euro - EU-FP7 MULTILINKS, How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, wellbeing, and social integration: A multilinks framework o 1/3/2008 – 28/2/2011 o Funding: EU – FP7 o Budget: 1 499 694 € (total consortium budget, eight international partners) o I am co-promotor. Coördinator: NIDI, NL. - The impact of international migration on migrant communities and on demographic processes and structures in the receiving country o 1/1/2008 – 31/12/2012 o Funding: VUB – GOA o Promotor; budget: 744 000 € - Second births in Europe: recent trends and future scenarios o 1/1/2008 – 31/12/2011 o Funding: FWO-Vlaanderen o Promotor; budget: 111 820 € - ESF TransEurope Research Network: Transnationalisation and Changing Life Course Inequality in Europe (www.transeurope-project.org). o June 2006 – June 2011 o Funding: European Science Foundation (ESF) o Budget: €450 000 o Co-promotor and member of Scientific Steering Committee - Globalisation, labour uncertainty and family formation o 1/10/2007 – 30/9/2009 o Funding: FWO - Vlaanderen o Budget: 2 x 2 years pre-doc + 3720 € working - The influence of secularization, romantization, and meritocratization on the demographic transition. o 1/1/2006 - 31/12/2009 o Funding: F.W.O.-Vlaanderen (project 3H050040) o Budget: 122 200 € (working) plus 1 predoc researcher o I am co-promotor (main promotor is Koen Matthijs, K.U.Leuven) - Divorce and separation in Flanders. Risk factors, consequences and policy implications o Van 1/4/2007 tot 31/12/2010 o Funding: Strategisch Basisonderzoek (SBO), IWT o Budget: 2 594 715 € (VUB: 581 150 €) o I am promotor in a consortium with UA, UGent, KULeuven and the Research Unit of the Flemish Government
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- A longitudinal analysis of new forms of family formation based on the census of 1991 and 2001 o 1/1/2007 - 31/12/2010 o Funding: Research council of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel o 1 predoc researcher plus 2750 € per year working - Analysis of the survey on “Cultural shifts in values, attitudes, and behaviours” for the conference "Vlaanderen gepeild! 2007", organized by the Flemish Government; chapter on "The postponement of first births in Flanders" o January 2007 – September 2007 o Funding 12 000 € by the Flemish Government - Single child families and childlessness during the first and second demographic transitions in Europe o 1/1/2006 - 31/12/2008 o Funding: F.W.O.-Vlaanderen ("krediet aan navorsers"), 9000 € working budget Research scholarships - Aspirant F.W.O.-Vlaanderen, 1/10/1995 - 30/9/1999 - Postdoctoral scholarschip awarded by the Research Council of K.U.Leuven, 1/3/2002 31/12/2002 - Postdoctoral scholarship F.W.O.-Vlaanderen, 1/10/2002 - 30/9/2005. - Postdoctoral scholarship F.W.O.-Vlaanderen, 1/10/2005 - 30/9/2008 (declined due to the fact that I was offered a tenured professorship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel).Housing stipend and scholarship for a postdoctoral stay at the Vienna Institute of Demography, awarded by commission for internationalization of the F.W.O.-Vlaanderen, 1/2/2006-31/7/2006 (I declined the scholarship because I was offered a tenured professorship at Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Academic distinctions 2005 : A. Nerincx-prize for the best PhD thesis in the Social Sciences K.U.Leuven, 2000-2004 2003: Second Laureate for the Prize for the Social Sciences, Academische Stichting Leuven 1995 : Prize of the Flemish Sociological Society (Vereniging voor Sociologie) Academic Honours, Invited Talks, Guest Professorships - 12-17 December 2011: Guest Professor at the Winter School in Demographic Transition and Development in Rich and Poor Countries: Continuity and Change, University of Padova. - 2 December 2011: Invited expert at the IIASA / Oxford Argument-Based Demographic Forecasting workshop. "This workshop brings together some of the world's leading scholars on fertility, who will discuss alternative arguments about future fertility developments in the low-fertility countries". - 24-28 October 2011: Visiting professor at the University of Bamberg; lectures given at the Staatsinstitut für Familienforschung and at the Chair of Sociology I. - 10 February 2011: Invited keynote speaker on the International Policy Conference on Generational Interdependencies (EU-FP7), Rotterdam, the Netherlands. - 20 November 2010: Invited commentator on the occasion of a new publication by MIT Press (Tsuya, Noriko O., Wang Feng, George Alter, and James Z. Lee, eds. 2010. Prudence and Pressure. Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900. Cambridge, MA FUNDACIÓN RAMÓN ARECES
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(USA): MIT Press.) in the Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL. - Invited Senior Commentator at the ESF TransEurope Young Researcher Workshop, on "Flexibilization and Changing Life Course Patterns in a Globalizing Europe", University of Turino/European Science Foudation, June 18-19, 2010. - Invited to give a workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, about The modelling of birth spacing before and during the fertility transition, 14 January 2010. - Invited to give a workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Duitsland about random effects event history modelling, part of the course on Research Methods in Historical Demography, 25-29 May 2009. - Invited lecture at the School of Economics and Management, Center for Economic Demography, Lund University, Sweden, about below-replacement fertility during the interwar period in Europe (1920-1940), 1-2 April 2009. - Invited to give a workshop at the Centre for Population Studies en de Demographic Database van Umeå University, Sweden, The Practice of Birth Control and Historical Fertility Change, April 2008. - Conference Convenor invited by the Council of the European Association for Population Studies for convening sessions around the topic of "Development and Historical Demography" in the European Population Conference, 9-12 juli 2008 in Barcelona. - 30 January 2007 - 30 September 2010: invited member of the board of the Scientific Panel of Historical Demography of the Insternational Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), coorganizing (see http://www.iussp.org/Activities/his3-index.php): o International Seminar on The Emergence of Social Differences in Mortality: Time Trends, Causes, and Reactions, Alghero, Italy 29-30 May 2008 o International seminar on Social Mobility and Demographic Behaviour: A Long Term Perspective, Los Angeles, USA 11-13 December 2008 - 25/5/2007 Invited expert at the Expert Meeting on Integrating Historical and Contemporary Data on Life Courses and Families, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, May 24-25, 2007, Den Haag, NIDI. - Invited speaker for the Workshop on Culture and the Decline of Fertility: Religious Norms, Education, and the Changing Status of Women, Venice International University, Venice, San Servolo, October 2004. - Invited expert commentator at a seminar organized by Posthumus Intitute and the Netherlands Research Institute and Graduate School on Economic and Social History, 9 May 2003. - Guest lecturer at the University of Kazan (Russia), Tempus Exchange Programme, for six
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lectures about family sociology, April 1997. Organization of Conferences & Workshops (past 3 years only) - 2010: Member of the Scientific & Organizing Committee of the Chaire Quetelet 2010 - Stalls, resistances and reversals in demographic transitions. Louvain-la-Neuve, Université Catholique de Louvain, 24-26 november 2010. - 2008: co-initiator and -organizer of the workshop Social Mobility and Demographic Behaviour: A Long Term Perspective, Los Angeles (CA), convened by IUSSP Panel on Historical Demography and hosted by UCLA California Center for Population Research, Los Angeles, 11-13 December 2008. - 2008: Initiator and co-organizer of scientific conference Tussen markt en moraal. Bevolkingskwesties in de Lage Landen tijdens het interbellum, sponsored by the Scientific Research Network on Historical Demography (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen), 29 May 2008, 9.00u – 19.00u in Studio 3, Flagey building, Brussels. - 2007: Member of the Scientific Organising Committee of the international colloquium Demographic Challenges for the 21st century. A state of the art in Demography. Colloquium Organised as a Tribute to the Continuing Endeavours of Prof. Dr. Em. Ron Lesthaeghe in the Field of Demography, Brussels, February 15-16, 2007. Steering committees - 2008 – 2011: member of the Steering Committee of the ESF TransEurope Research Network: Transnationalisation and Changing Life Course Inequality in Europe, “Longitudinal studies comparing life courses and employment careers of men and women under conditions of transnationalization in Europe”, funded by the European Science Foundations (ESF) (www.transeurope-project.org). - 2008 – 2010: member of the steering committee of project “WAGEGAP: towards an explanation of the gender wage gap”, promotor Prof. dr. Luc Sels (K.U.Leuven, faculteit ETEW) en Tom Vandenbrande (HIVA, K.U.Leuven), funded by Belgian Federal Science Policy. - 2008 –2010: member of the steering committee of project “MAPO: Impact of the balancing of work and family on career differences between men and women in Belgium”, promotor prof. dr. Marie-Anne Guerry (VUB), funded by Belgian Federl Science Policy. Supervison of PhD projects - 2010 –: Lindsay Theunis (VUB), "Differential consequences of divorce by SES" - 2009 -: Maaike Jappens (VUB), "Divorce and grandparenthood" (as promotor) - 2005-2009: Arieke Rijken (Utrecht University), “Happy Families, High Fertility? Childbearing Choices in the Context of Family and Partner Relationships” (member of jury; promotors: Prof. dr. G.C.M. Knijn, Prof. dr. A.C. Liefbroer, Prof. dr. A.J.M.W. Hagendoorn), defense was 25 September 2009. - 2008 - : Belinda Wijckmans (VUB), "Divorce and social networks" (as promotor) - 2008 - : Hadewijch Vandenheede (VUB), “Ageing and health among migrant populations:
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diabetes in Belgians of Turkish and Moroccan origin” (as co-promotor). - 2008 - : Hanno Van Eldik (K.U.Leuven), "Multinationals between flexibility and security" (as member of the advisory board) - 2008 - : Joanna Rozanska (VUB), “Second Births in Europe” (as promotor) - 2008 - : Sarah Moreels (K.U.Leuven), “Fertility in a modernising context. Antwerp 18461920” (member of advisory board; promotors are prof. Dr. Koen Matthijs and prof. Dr. Jan Kok) - 2007 - : Mieke Jansen (VUB; Master in Sociology; aspirant FWO), “Globalisation, job insecurity, and family formation” (as promotor) - 2007 - : David De Wachter (VUB; Master in Sociology; aspirant FWO), “A longitudinal analysis of new patterns of family formation based on Belgian census data" (co-promotor) - 2006: Ralf Kapteijn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), " 'Aging societies: human victory or evolutionary trap? "(advisory board, promotors: Prof.dr. Aat C. Liefbroer & prof. dr. G.C. Fleur Thomese). - 2006-2010: Vicky Bastiaenssen (VUB; Master in Sociology), “The influence of social background and social mobility on educational and labour market careers in ethnic minorities in Belgium" (promotor) - 2003-2005: Hanne Van Baelen (K.U.Leuven), " Social and Demographic Reproduction in 19th Century Flanders" (promotor was prof.dr. Koen Matthijs, I was on the advisory board) Formal Research Networks - Co-promotor TransEurope Research Network: Transnationalisation and Changing Life Course Inequality in Europe (www.transeurope-project.org), European Science Foundation (2006-2011) - FWO-Vlaanderen Scientific Research Network on Historical Demography (2006-now, coordinated by Koen Matthijs at K.U.Leuven, http://www.historischedemografie.be/) - International Microdata Access Workgroup (IMAG) (2004-2007) (http://www.irdh.umontreal.ca/imag/members/index.html) - Eurasia Population and Family History Project (1997-2005) (http://www.indiana.edu/~pirt/eap_indx.html) Membership of Scientific Associations - Vlaamse Vereniging voor Sociologie (VVS): 1994 - now - Société de Démographie Historique (SDH): 1996-1997 - Social Science History Association (SSHA): 1997-now - Vereniging Voor Demografie: 2002-now - European Association for Population Studies (EAPS): 2003-now - International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP): 2005-now - Population Association of America (PAA): 2007-now - Gerontological Society of America (GSA): 2011-now Referee Work for Journals - Population and Development Review - Tijdschrift voor Sociologie - European Journal of Population - Continuity and Change: A Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies - Population Studies
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- Sociale Wetenschappen - Journal of Population Economics - Demographic Research - European Journal of Political Research - The History of the Family – An International Quarterly - European Sociological Review - Journal of Biosocial Science Teaching Experience 2005- now Professor of Social Science Research Methods and Demography; lead instructor of the following courses: 1. Introduction to Social Science Research Methods (2BA) 2. Multivariate analysis I (3BA) 3. Multivariate analysis II (Master) 4. Social demography (3BA) 5. Tutorials demographic analysis (Master) 6. Tutorials Social Science Research Methods (2BA) 7. Tutorials multivariate analysis (3BA) 2002-2005 Subtitute lecturer on Social Demography and Population Sociology (K.U.Leuven) 1999-2001 Teaching assistant Social Demography and Population Sociology (K.U.Leuven) 1997-2001 Free-lance teaching assistant Family Sociology and Family History (K.U.Leuven) 1997 Visiting lecturer University of Kazan (Russia) (Tempus Exchange Program) 1996 Teaching assistant Seminar Sociology of Population, Family, and Health Care (K.U.Leuven) Invited lectures in other universities Invited lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, about The modelling of birth spacing before and during the fertility transition, 14 January 2010. Invited lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Duitsland over random effects event history modelling in het kader van de cursus Research Methods in Historical Demography, 25-29 mei 2009 (http://www.imprs-demogr.mpg.de/courses/09ss/173.htm). Invited lecture at the School of Economics and Management, Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University, Sweden, about below-replacement fertility during the interwar period in Europe (1920-1940), 1-2 april 2009. Invited lecture at the Institute for European Studies, Brussels (www.ies.be): "The statistical analysis of duration data in the social and political sciences", Research Colloquium – Quantitative Methods, Tuesday 5 Feb 2008. Posthumus Institute, lecture about the fertility transition in Europe for PhD students, 9 mei 2003, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands Research Institute and Graduate School on Economic and Social History UCL (België), Institut de Démographie, doctoraatsseminarie “Fertility control before the demographic transition: old questions, new methods, better answers?”, 17 juin 2004. List of publications See separate document and see http://soc.kuleuven.be/web/liriasitem/6/27/eng/u0002662 Selection of recent media attention (in Dutch) - "Eén kind, schoon kind. Eenkindgezinnen zijn in opmars, maar blijven omstreden", interview in
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De Standaard, zaterdag 25 september 2010. - Berichtgeving over het onderzoek over de historische evolutie van geboortebeperking in NRC Handelsblad van 29 mei 2010 ("Bewuste planning van geboortepauzes in de negentiende eeuw") - Interview in VRT Radio 1 programma De Ochtend van 7 augustus 2009, 8u15 over de relatie tussen de Human Development Index en vruchtbaarheidscijfers. - Interview in VRT Radio 1 programma Peeters & Pichal van 14 januari 2009 over het uitstel van eerste geboorten. (Fragment na ongeveer 1u26’) - Interview bij een documentaire over vruchtbaarheidsverschillen in Europa voor het Journaal van de Noorse Openbare omroep (www.nrk.no) van zondagavond 12 januari 2009, zie http://www1.nrk.no/nett‐tv/indeks/155619 (de reportage start na 31’20 minuten). (realplayervideo) - “Voor zesde jaar op rij meer bevallingen in Vlaanderen”, in Gazet van Antwerpen, 5 januari 2009. - “De ooievaar heeft meer werk. Evolutie vruchtbaarheid in Vlaanderen”, berichtgeving over vruchtbaarheidsonderzoek in Weliswaar. Vakblad voor professionals in de welzijns- en gezondheidszorg, december 2008, p.9. (.PDF) - Interview op VRT Radio 2 over de grotere stijging van het aantal geboorten in Limburg in vergelijking met andere provincies in 2007, donderdag 25 september 2008. - “Gezinnen willen weer meer kinderen”, verwijzing naar mijn onderzoek in De Standaard 27 juni 2008, pp.4-5. - “Demografische studiedag belicht het interbellum”, interview in Campuskrant van 14 mei 2008, p.7. - Interview met Q-Music en 4FM over de nieuwe bevolkingsprojecties van het Federaal Planbureau, 8 mei 2008 om 20u05. - "Steeds meer mannen krijgen kinderen op latere leeftijd", kort interview in Het Nieuwsblad, 27 maart 2008, pp. 32-33. - "Trouwen is een optie geworden", interview in De Standaard van 8 maart 2008, p.20 (weekendbijlage), met gastprofessor Stephanie Coontz n.a.v. een lezing georganiseerd door Interface Demography. -"Geboortecijfer in Vlaanderen blijft stijgen", berichtgeving en interview in De Morgen, 3 januari 2008, p. 5. - "Universiteiten zoeken uit waarom zoveel mensen scheiden", berichtgeving en kort interview over project "Scheiding in Vlaanderen", De Morgen, 27 november 2007, p.9. - "Universiteiten brengen echtscheiding in Vlaanderen in kaart", berichtgeving over project "Scheiding in Vlaanderen", Gazet van Antwerpen, 26 november 2007. - Interview in De Goeiemiddag Show van Studio Brussel op 25 oktober 2007 om 12u05 over recente vruchtbaarheidsontwikkelingen in Vlaanderen en Europa. - "Vruchtbare Vlaamse vrouwen zorgen voor kleine babyboom", interview in De Morgen, 25 oktober 2007, p.2. - "Werk versnelt moederschap", berichtgeving over onderzoek naar uitstel van moederschap in Vlaanderen in De Standaard, 19 september 2007, p.2 - Interview over de stijging van het geboortecijfer in het Brusselse Gewest op FM Brussel op 9 augustus 2007 om 13:10u. - "Vrouwen willen meer kinderen", interview in De Standaard van 9 augustus 2007, p. 6. - “Almaar meer geboortes. Er worden nu al vijf jaar op rij meer kinderen geboren in Vlaanderen.
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De Vlaamse vrouw krijgt nu gemiddeld 1,74 kinderen. Het is van 1980 geleden dat het vruchtbaarheidscijfer zo hoog was. De kinderopvang kan die groei niet slikken”, berichtgeving in De Standaard, 28 juni 2007, p.4. - "Te weinig geboortes, te weinig opvang": vermelding van onderzoek naar vruchtbaarheidsevolutie in Vlaanderen in Het Nieuwsblad, 28 juni 2007, p.6. - “Met de 4x4 naar de bakker om de hoek rijden, dat is een milieumisdrijf. Kinderen krijgen is een universeel mensenrecht”, interview in Het Laatste Nieuws, 8 mei 2007, p.8. - “Meer maar ook betere opvang”, verwijzing naar mijn onderzoek over de relatie tussen arbeidsmarktparticipatie van vrouwen en vruchtbaarheid in Het Nieuwsblad, 12 februari 2007, p.18. - “De terugkeer van de grote gezinnen?”, interview en reportage in Plus-magazine, januari 2007, nr. 223 (2007/01), pp. 24-27. Ook verschenen in het Frans: “Le retour des grandes familles?” - “Er worden meer kinderen geboren in streken waar veel vrouwen werken”, interview op middagnieuws van radio 4FM, 12 oktober 2006. - VRT TV-journaal 29 juni 2006, “Geboorten in Vlaanderen in 2005” (alle TV-journaals van die dag) - VTM TV-nieuws 29 juni 2006, “Het geboortecijfer in 2005” (13u). - VRT Radionieuws (diverse bulletins) van 29 juni 2006 over de stijging van het vruchtbaarheidscijfer. - VRT Radio 1 interview in De Wandelgangen, 29 juni 2006. - “Meer werkende vrouwen betekent meer baby’s in de regio”, De Standaard, 12 oktober 2006, p.17. - “Meer geboortes waar meer vrouwen werken”, Het Volk, 12 oktober 2006, p.1, pp. 2-3. - “Meer werkende vrouwen, meer baby’s”, Het Nieuwsblad, 12 oktober 2006, pp.2-3. - “Minder kinderen voor werkloze Limburgse vrouwen”, Het Belang van Limburg, 11 oktober 2006, p.1. - “Limburgse vrouwen minder op arbeidsmarkt en in kraambed”, Het Belang van Limburg, 11 oktober 2006, p.7. - “Demograaf Jan Van Bavel: ‘Een trendbreuk maar nog geen trend’”, De Morgen, 6 september 2006, p.4. - “Vlaamse vrouw krijgt sneller kind”, De Standaard, 30 juni 2006, p.7. - “Jonge vrouwen krijgen meer kinderen”, De Morgen, 30 juni 2006, p.18. - “Vlaamse vrouw begint vroeger aan kinderen”, Het Nieuwsblad, 30 juni 2006, p.11. - “Weer meer geboorten. Moeder iets jonger bij eerste bevalling”, Gazet van Antwerpen, 30 juni 2006, p.7. - “Vlaamse vrouw begint vroeger aan kinderen”, Het Volk, 30 juni 2006, p.11. - “Vrouwen willen weer kinderen voor hun 30ste”, Het Laatste Nieuws, 30 juni 2006, p.7. - “Vlamingen krijgen meer en iets jonger kinderen”, Het Belang van Limburg, 30 juni 2006, p.7. - “Werkende moeders krijgen meer kinderen”, Jobat (bijlage bij De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, De Gentenaar), 13 mei 2006, p.1. - “Europeanen willen zich niet meer vermenigvuldigen. Lage geboortecijfers, maar mogelijkheden om kinderrijkdom te stimuleren zijn volgens demografen beperkt”, Het Financieele Dagblad (FD.nl), 21 januari 2004. (Nederlandse financiële krant)
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