COSTPOST

"Costs and Gains to Postponement: How Changes in the Age of Parenthood Influence the Health and Well-being of Children, the Parents, and Populations"

Coordinatore	LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙305˙599 €
EC contributo	1˙305˙599 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2013-StG
Funding Scheme	ERC-SG
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-02-01   -   2019-01-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE  Organization address address: Houghton Street 1 city: LONDON postcode: WC2A 2AE contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Maureen Cognome: Green Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7107 5227	UK (LONDON)	hostInstitution	1˙305˙599.60
2	LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE  Organization address address: Houghton Street 1 city: LONDON postcode: WC2A 2AE contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Mikko Cognome: Myrskyla Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 955 7345 Fax: +44 207 955 6187	UK (LONDON)	hostInstitution	1˙305˙599.60

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Advanced maternal and paternal ages are associated with a range of negative offspring outcomes, and have been estimated to have population-level health effects comparable to those of obesity. This project analyses the health and well-being consequences of fertility postponement, focusing on three previously unanswered questions. Project A assesses the causality of the advanced parental age-offspring outcomes association. The existing literature is largely associational. Using innovative methods that allow me to control for previously unanalysed factors, I test the causality of this association and produce new estimates for the population level health impact of advanced parental age. Project B focuses on the role of the environment. Since health improves over cohorts, can postponement of parenthood – which means that the child is born to a later cohort – improve offspring outcomes? Moreover, does the environment influence the young parental age effect on the offspring? Project C analyses the implications of postponed parenthood on parental subjective well-being, which is critical for both child and parental health, but has not been analysed before.

Each of the three sub-projects has the potential for producing ground-breaking results with important policy implications and large impact on both demography and on other disciplines. Project A either confirms that the social process of fertility postponement is an important public health threat, or shows that the health effects of postponement have been grossly overestimated. Project B may revolutionise the way postponement is seen: if the cohort trend hypothesis is found to be true, the assumption that postponement has a positive effect on offspring outcomes at the individual level will be confirmed. Project C provides an innovative analysis of a neglected outcome that is critically related to child health and will advance our knowledge of the motivation for fertility postponement.'