Conference Changing Gender Inequalities, Changing Families? 7 8 December 2017 Leuven, Belgium Organized in the context of the project Implications of the Shifting Gender Balance in Education for Reproductive Behaviour in Europe (GENDERBALL). Funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement no. 312290 for the GENDERBALL project. Principal Investigator: Jan Van Bavel.
09:00 Conference Registration and Coffee Program Thursday, 7 th of December 09:20 Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of KU Leuven Bart Kerremans (University of Leuven) 09:30 Opening of the Conference Jan Van Bavel (University of Leuven) 10:00 Session 1 Union Formation and Assortative Mating I Chair: Gray Swicegood (University of Leuven and University of Illinois) The reversal of the gender gap in education and its consequences for family life: A review Christine Schwartz (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Educational assortative mating from the 20th into the 21st century in Belgium and Europe Eli Nomes (University of Leuven) and Yolien De Hauw (University of Leuven) 11:00 Coffee Break 11:15 Session 2 Union Formation and Assortative Mating II Chair: Bart Van de Putte (Ghent University) Is the end of educational hypergamy the end of hypergamy? Evidence from Sweden Margarita Chudnovskaya (Stockholm University) The reversal of the gender gap in education and marriage markets: Does the internet contribute to the rise in hypogamous marriages? Gina Potarca (University of Geneva) 12:15 Lunch Break 13:30 Session 3 Union Formation and Assortative Mating III Chair: Colette Van Laar (University of Leuven) How progress in gender equality is changing women s and men s mate preferences Marcel Zentner (University of Innsbruck) Occupational gender segregation, gender norms, and occupational homogamy across Europe André Grow (University of Leuven) The implications of demographic change and educational expansion for Asian marriage markets, 2010 2050 Albert Esteve (Centre d'estudis Demogràfics, Barcelona) 15:00 Coffee Break 15:15 Session 4 Fertility and Parenting I Chair: Karel Neels (University of Antwerp) Partners' educational pairings and fertility across Europe Natalie Nitsche (Vienna Institute of Demography) and Daniele Vignoli (University of Florence) 2
Education and fertility: Individual and couple-level perspectives Alessandra Trimarchi (University of Leuven) 16:15 Coffee Break 16:30 Session 5 Fertility and Parenting II Chair: Piet Bracke (University of Ghent) Education, gender, and cohort fertility in the Nordic countries Marika Jalovaara (University of Turku) Partners involvement in the family and their fertility desires Anna Matysiak (Vienna Institute of Demography) 17:30 End of Day I 19:00 Conference Dinner Location: Heilige Geesttafel, Infirmerie, Faculty Club Friday, 8 th of December 09:30 Session 6 Fertility and Parenting III Chair: Gray Swicegood (University of Leuven and University of Illinois) Education, labor supply and childbearing Trude Lappegård (University of Oslo) Studying care, doing care: Does type of education affect men s involvement in unpaid work? A comparison between Norway, Austria and Poland Teresa Martín-García (Spanish National Research Council) 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Session 7 Family Trajectories Chair: Sofie Vanassche (Artevelde University College Ghent) Cohort trends in family dissolution in Sweden, 1970 2005 Juho Härkönen (Stockholm University) The reversal of the gender gap in education and union stability Christine Schnor (University of Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Lindsay Theunis (University of Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Serial cohabitation in Germany: Determinants and outcomes of complex partnership histories Nicole Hiekel (University of Cologne) 12:30 Lunch Break 14:00 Session 8 Changing Gender Relations and Socio-Economic Inequalities I Chair: Koenraad Matthijs (University of Leuven) The contribution of educational assortative mating to household income inequality across 21 European countries and the United States Iñaki Permanyer Ugartemendia (Centre d'estudis Demogràfics, Barcelona) 3
Partnership status and the wage premium in the U.S., UK, Germany, and Norway: What explains differentials between married and cohabiting adults? Brienna Perelli-Harris (University of Southampton) Four decades of changes in partners' relative incomes: Gender revolution or men s unemployment? Agnese Vitali (University of Southampton) 15:30 Coffee break 15:45 Session 9 Changing Gender Relations and Socio-Economic Inequalities II Chair: Laura Merla (Université Catholique de Louvain) Relative earnings and decision making in couples Martin Klesment (Tallinn University) Towards the gender egalitarian family equilibrium Gøsta Esping-Andersen (Pompeu Fabra University) 16:45 Synopsis and Concluding Remarks Stephanie Coontz (Council on Contemporary Families, USA) 17:15 Closing of Conference Jan Van Bavel (University of Leuven) 17:30 End of Day II 18:30 Belgian Beer Tasting Location: Rectorale Salons, KU Leuven, Naamsestraat 22, 3000 Leuven 4
Participants Last Name First Name Affiliation Boertien Diederik Centre d'estudis Demogràfics, Barcelona Bracke Piet University of Ghent Buysse Isolde University of Leuven Chudnovskaya Margarita Stockholm University Coontz Stephanie Council on Contemporary Families, USA Dekeyser Graziela University of Leuven Esping-Andersen Gøsta Pompeu Fabra University Esteve Albert Centre d'estudis Demogràfics, Barcelona Grow André University of Leuven Padem Gülce University of Leuven Härkönen Juho Stockholm University Hiekel Nicole University of Cologne Jappens Maaike Vrije Universiteit Brussel Janssens Melissa Duet relatiebemiddeling Jalovaara Marika University of Turku Jenkinson Sam University of Leuven Kashyap Ridhi University of Oxford Klesment Martin Tallinn University Lappegård Trude University of Oslo Martín-García Teresa Spanish National Research Council Matsuo Hideko University of Leuven Matthijs Koenraad University of Leuven Matysiak Anna Vienna Institute of Demography Meeussen Loes University of Leuven Merla Laura Université Catholique de Louvain Mertens Nana University of Leuven Neels Karel University of Antwerp Nitsche Natalie Vienna Institute of Demography Nomes Eli University of Leuven Padem Gülce University of Leuven Perelli-Harris Brienna University of Southampton Permanyer Ugartemendia Iñaki Centre d'estudis Demogràfics, Barcelona Ponnet Rika Duet relatiebemiddeling Schnor Christine University of Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel Schwartz Christine University of Wisconsin-Madison Stevens Gillian University of Alberta Swicegood Gray University of Leuven and University of Illinois Theunis Lindsay University of Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel Trimarchi Alessandra University of Leuven Van Bavel Jan University of Leuven Van de Putte Bart Ghent University Van Grootel Sanne University of Leuven Van Laar Colette University of Leuven 5
Van Landschoot Lisa Vrije Universiteit Brussel Vanassche Sofie Artevelde University College Ghent Vitali Agnese University of Southampton Zentner Marcel University of Innsbruck 6