The Life Expectancy Monitoring Tool to Evaluate Progress towards Mortality Improvements
Seminar
Monitoring changes in health and mortality allows policymakers to prioritise steps towards healthier populations. The effect of a cause of death on life expectancy can be measured by comparing life expectancy with and without that cause operating. A more realistic approach is to simply reduce the…
Climate migration in Australia: Level and socio-economic predictors
Seminar
Recent climate disasters serve as a reminder of the growing—yet overlooked—risk of climate-induced displacement in the Global North. This paper contributes to a nascent literature on climate migration in high-income countries by extending the evidence to a new context: Australia. Applying…
Have it all? Fertility and Gender-Attitudinal Pairings in Germany
Seminar
Linkages between gender dynamics and fertility have been much discussed in demography. The ‘gender revolution’ framework argues that fertility will remain low as long as women’s growing participation in the public sphere is accompanied by sticky gender rigidity in the private sphere, leading to…
Technology and the Future of Work: A Sceptical View of the Impending Job Apocalypse
Lecture
It seems that the emergence of each new technology sets off a new panic about an impending job apocalypse. The rapid disappearance of jobs is expected to produce widespread social disruptions and even social chaos. Solutions include a four-day workweek and a guaranteed annual income. Numerous…
How the Government Convinced Indonesians to have Smaller Families
Seminar
In Indonesia, the national family planning program that started in the 1970s has been championed as the success of fertility decline, from around six births per woman back then, which dropped to near replacement level in the 2020s. The Indonesia family planning program utilises community…
Mortality in a Humanitarian Setting
Seminar
This is a Thesis Proposal Review (TPR) on childhood mortality among self-settled Mozambican refugees in Agincourt, South Africa. The presentation will focus on three key thematic areas: the application of the healthy immigration effect theory on childhood mortality among refugees; the effect of the…
Indonesian Contraceptive Mix: Policy Failure or Policy Denial?
Seminar
In 2010 Hull and Moseley were asked by UNFPA and the Indonesian Family Planning Program (BKKBN) to advise on ways to "revitalise" the contraceptive delivery system across the Indonesian Archipelago. One of the key recommendations was to reduce reliance on injectables in the contraceptive mix. This…