Blog Posts
18 November 2019 - N-IUSSP
The demographic dividend is driven by education, not changes in age structure
Wolfgang Lutz, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Nicholas Gailey
14 October 2019 - N-IUSSP
Mitigating the labour market consequences of population ageing in the EU
Guillaume Marois, Patrick Sabourin, Alain Bélanger
31 July 2019 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
My post doc experience at IIASA
12 April 2019 - The Conversation
Is 75 the new 65? Wealthy countries need to rethink what it means to be old
Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov
8 April 2019 - N-IUSSP
Education disruptions in the 1980s contributed to the stalled fertility decline in Africa around 2000
Endale Kebede, Anne Goujon, Wolfgang Lutz, Nicholas Gailey
4 February 2019 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
What matters more in preventing adult deaths in India?
14 November 2018 - Data for Progress
The Damaging Myth of Individual Culpability
7 November 2018 - The Conversation
Which country is best to live in? Our calculations say it’s not Norway
Warren C. Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov and Simone Ghislandi
24 July 2018 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Education in, through, and for sustainable development
4 June 2018 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
India’s Unwanted Daughters
15 January 2018 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Using Twitter data for demographic research
31 October 2017 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
How can happiness research help to build better lives?
18 August 2017 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Do smokers know what they are doing to their life expectancy?
17 May 2017 - WU blog
Will poverty be eradicated by 2030?
3 April 2017 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Learn from the past, prepare for the future
Roman Hoffman
14 February 2017 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Counting the Nepalese
27 January 2017 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
What you probably don’t know about higher education in sub-Saharan Africa
25 November 2016 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Interview: Defining the future(s)
2 November 2016 - blog.population-europe.eu
When in Rome
Helga de Valk and Valeria Bordone
18 October 2016 - blog.population-europe.eu
Turning the tables: policy and politics in an age of ageing
Harald Wilkoszewski, Elke Loichinger, and Patrick I. Dick
18 October 2016 - Cambridge Core Blog
Recent trends and future prospects in human capital development
18 October 2016 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Marriage or cohabitation means a longer and healthier life
13 October 2016 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Why are the refugees who came to Austria in 2015 more educated than expected?
21 September 2016 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Female-headed households hit harder by climate change
21 June 2016 - blog.population-europe.eu
Once a European, always a European
17 June 2016 - Population Insights
Living longer: Determining whether we are using our extra years productively
Elke Loichinger and Daniela Weber
10 June 2016 - IIASA Alumni
My scientific journey with IIASA
11 March 2016 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Migration analysis: A growing priority for policy
4 March 2016 - The Conversationand reposted by blog.iiasa.ac.at
It’s time to measure 21st century aging with 21st century tools
Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov
18 February 2016 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Interview: The role of education in the future of humanity
Reiner Klingholz and Wolfgang Lutz
10 February 2016 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
What does your walking speed say about your true age?
12 January 2016 - OpenPop.com
A ‘Recipe for Depopulation’? School Closures and Local Decline in Saxony
21 December 2015 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Who are the refugees?
10 December 2015 - UNESCO World Education Blog and reposted by blog.iiasa.ac.at
Why universal secondary education can help fight climate change
10 November 2015 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Education and crime in South Africa
11 October 2015 - The Globalist and reposted by blog.iiasa.ac.at
Population: How Many People Will Live in Africa in 2100?
24 September 2015 - agenda.weforum.org and reposted by blog.iiasa.ac.at
Why education should top the development agenda
4 September 2015 - brookings
Will the world reach 10 billion people?
Wolfgang Fengler and Samir K.C.
05 August 2015 - blog.wu.ac.at
Ein universitäres Zuhause für die internationale Demografie
06 July 2015 - OpenPop.org
A Demographic Perspective on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
11 May 2015 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Interview: Population characteristics and the climate
16 April 2015 - The Conversation
Research shows old age is getting younger all the time
Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov
16 April 2015 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Towards a Catholic North America in 2062?
16 April 2015 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Journey of your life: Demography for the demos
01 April 2015 - blog.population-europe.eu
Unintended But Positive: Five Long-term Consequences of Population Ageing
Fanny A. Kluge, Emilio Zagheni, Elke Loichinger, and Tobias C. Vogt
23 September 2014 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
9 billion or 11 billion? The research behind new population projections
Wolfgang Lutz, Bill Butz, Samir K.C., Warren Sanderson, and Sergei Scherbov
20 June 2014 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
The future of social change
21 May 2014 - The Conversation
75 is the new 65, so we should all keep working for longer
Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov
09 May 2014 - The Conversation
Really, how old are you? The hands never lie
Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov
23 April 2014 - OpenPop.org
Do Grandparents Benefit from Grandparenting?
27 February 2014 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
What is the optimal fertility rate?
19 December 2013 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
How to save lives – and money – by addressing India’s air pollution
02 December 2013 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Healthy living in hard times?
27 November 2013 - blog.iiasa.ac.at
Interview: Exploring stereotypes about older people
Katie Bowen and Vegard Skirbekk
25 November 2013 - OpenPop.org
Alcohol, Substance Abuse and Crime Linked to Higher Mortality
Vegard Skirbekk
25 November 2013 - OpenPop.org
Cognitive Function as a Refined Indicator of Aging
Vegard Skirbekk
PUBLICATIONS
Lutz W (2019). World Population Trends and the Rise of homo sapiens literata. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-19-012
Bora J, Saikia N 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6735-6157, & Lutz W (2019). Revisiting the causes of fertility decline in Bangladesh: Family planning program or female education? IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-19-011
Gietel-Basten S & Scherbov S ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0881-1073 (2019). Is half the world’s population really below ‘replacement-rate’? PLoS ONE 14 (12): e0224985. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0224985.
Steiber N (2019). Intergenerational educational mobility and health satisfaction across the life course: Does the long arm of childhood conditions only become visible later in life? Social Science and Medicine 242: e112603. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112603.
Striessnig E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5419-9498, Gao J, O'Neill B, & Jiang L (2019). Empirically-based spatial projections of U.S. population age structure consistent with the shared socioeconomic pathways. Environmental Research Letters 14 DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ab4a3a.