Ongoing research project(s)
ULTRALOW Project
Present and future of ultralow fertility societies around the globe: A comparative study of Spain, South Korea and Uruguay
A new project of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) with other participating entities: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Universität Wien, Universidad de la República Uruguay, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Yonsei University, INRS-University Québec.
It has received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant PID2022-141785OB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033/ and by ‘ERDF A way of making Europe’)
This project aims at examining childbearing behaviour, reproductive intentions and perceived constraints using a birth-order-specific approach, as well as contrasting women and men's perspectives in Spain, South Korea and Uruguay, three of the world's lowest fertility countries. The comparison of these so different but so alike countries in terms of lowest-low fertility is both novel and necessary to improve understanding of how cultural, economic and institutional contexts influence childbearing decisions. Some of the hypotheses to be investigated are clearly innovative, since the ultra-low fertility in countries as diverse as Spain, South Korea and Uruguay demands that many of the traditional assumptions and postulates used in demographic theories be reassessed. The ultimate aim of the project is to determine whether, despite different degrees, paces and timing, the Second Demographic Transition paradigm is generalizable beyond the developed world to explain changes in gender relations and in the family, reproductive, educational and employment trajectories of individuals.
The originality of this scientific proposal lies in how fertility and family-related issues will be addressed: (a) using an integrated approach that brings together life course, gender and social stratification focuses; (b) analysing the intersection between individuals’ reproductive biographies with their conjugal, educational and employment biographies; (c) including both women and men in the analysis; and (d) applying event history analysis techniques as statistical tools.
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I-LINK Project
Far apart yet close together in the lowest fertility rankings: A comparative study of family dynamics in South Korea and Spain
A grant awarded by the Spanish National Reseearch Council (CSIC) in the framework of the I-LINK programme for the promotion of CSIC's international scientific collaboration with foreign institutions.
Funding entity: Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (Ref. I-LINK 23040).
Participating entities: CSIC, Princeton University, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Yonsei University.
Duration: 01/01/2024 – 31/12/2025.
Co-IPs: Young-Mi Kim and James Raymo.
Selected previous projects
Principal investigator:
§ Project title: Lowest-Low and Latest-Late Fertility: Here to Stay? An Examination of the 2018 Fertility Survey - LOWFER PROJECT
Funding entity: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain – National R&D&i Plan (Ref. CSO2017-89397-R)
Participating entities: CSIC, UNED, UCM, UPNA, U.República Uruguay.
Duration: 01/01/2018 – 31/12/2021 (Extended 30/09/2022).
Co-PI: Teresa Castro Martín.
§ Project title: The rol of men in family dynamics from an international perspective - MENROLES PROJECT (www.menrolesproject.csic.es/)
Funding entity: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain – National R&D&i Plan (Ref. CSO2013-43482-R).
Participating entities: CSIC, U.Pompeu Fabra, UPNA, U.Zaragoza, U.República Uruguay, INRS-U.Québec, NIDI, U.degli Studi di Torino.
Duration: 01/01/2014 – 31/12/2016 (Extended 31/12/2017).
§ Project title: Reconciliation strategies before and after the first child in Spain
Funding entity: Centre for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (CEACS), Juan March Institute of Social Studies.
Duration: 2010–2011.
Co-PI: Marta Domínguez-Folgueras.
In the research team:
§ Project title: FamiliesAndSocieties – Changing Families and Sustainable Societies: Policy Contexts and Diversity over the Life Course and across Generations - FAMILIESANDSOCIETIES PROJECT (http://www.familiesandsocieties.eu/)
Funding entity: European Commission, 7th Framework Programme (Grant agreement 320116).
Participating entities: 25 universities and research centres in 15 European countries (150 researchers).
Duration: 01/02/2013 – 31/01/2016.
PI: Livia Sz. Oláh (Stockholm University) / Spanish team coordinator: Teresa Castro Martín.
§ Project title: The Spanish Fertility Gap
Funding entity: Welfare Projects La Caixa Foundation.
Participating entities: U. Pompeu Fabra, CSIC.
Duration: 2012 – 2013.
PI: Gösta Esping-Andersen.
§ Project title: Families in Plural: Demographic and Social Implications of Increasing Family Diversification from an International Perspective
Funding entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain – National R&D&i Plan (Ref. SEJ2006-03485/SOCI).
Participating entities: CSIC, U.Carlos III, U.Pompeu Fabra, U.Pablo de Olavide, Hospital Universitario La Paz, United Nations Population Division, U.Princeton, U.Illinois, U.Montreal, El Colegio de México.
Duration: 2010 – 2013.
PI: Teresa Castro Martín.
§ Project title: Co-responsibility before and after the birth of the first child in Spain - TRANSPARENT PROJECT (http://transparent.upf.edu) & (http://www.transparent-project.com/)
Funding entity: Institute for Women, Spain 43/09.
Participating entities: UNED, U.Pompeu Fabra, UDIMA, UPNA, U.Pablo Olavide, U. Girona, CSIC.
Duration: 2009 – 2012.
PI: Teresa Jurado.
§ Project title: Families outside marriage: a socio-demographic analysis of the growing dissociation between sex, partnership, marriage and reproduction
Funding entity: Ministry of Education and Science – National R&D&i Plan (Ref. CSO2009-11883).
Participating entities: CSIC, U.Carlos III, United Nations Population Division, U.Illinois, U.Montreal, U.Florencia, U.Pavia, El Colegio de México, U.Externado Colombia.
Duration: 2006 – 2009.
PI: Teresa Castro Martín.
§ Project title: Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion - EQUALSOC PROJECT; Working group: Unstable Careers and Family Formation in Different Institutional Contexts - FAMNET (https://www.equalsoc.org/)
Funding entity : European Commission, 6th Framework Programme (Grant Agreement Nº 513431).
Participating entities: AIAS-Scholar A’dam, U.Milano-Bicocca, CNRS Paris, CSB Antwerp, ESRI Dublin, MZES Mannheim, Nuffield College Oxford, SOFI Stockholm, U.Tartu, U.Turin, U.Trento, WZB Berlin, U.Pompeu Fabra (227 researchers).
Duration: 01/09/2005 – 31/12/2010.
PI: Robert Erikson.