Work package 2

Diverse family configurations – Life goals and life course transitions

Co-leaders: Dimitri Mortelmans (UA) & Ariane Pailhé (INED)

This work package focuses on the dynamic evolution of family constellations and on non-standard families, pursuing two objectives:

To take a dynamic life course perspective to study the genesis, evolution, dissolution
and recomposition of families in Europe.
To study the prevalence of non-standard family forms in Europe.

Participating partners:

Austrian Academy of Sciences/Vienna Institute of Demography (OEAW-VID)
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPG)
University of Antwerp (UA)
Institut National D’etudes Demographiques (INED)
The University of Liverpool (Liverpool)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Vaestoliitto RY (PRI)
University of Padova – Department of Statistical Sciences (UNIPD)