Provisional programme


- date : nom, institution, sujet

AY 2023-2024

A. First semester

1. 10 October - Bruno Schoumaker - Université catholique de Louvain (DEMO) - Fertility dynamics by educational level and disruptions in educational progress: Unraveling the link between education and fertility stalls in Sub-Saharan Africa

2. 14 November - Luisa Fadel - Université catholique de Louvain (DEMO) - With the father or the mother? Determinants of parent-child coresidence after union dissolution

3. 28 November - Mireille Le Guen - Université catholique de Louvain (DEMO) and INED - Contraceptive use among immigrants and descendants of immigrants in France

4.19 December - Irma Elo - UPenn - The impact of COVID-19 on US mortality

5. 9 January - Philippe Bocquier, Ashira Menashe-Oren, and Carren Ginsburg - DEMO - Integrating Sequence Analysis into Eventh History Analysis: An Application to Migration Histories

B. Second semester

1. 30 January - Chaimae Drioui - DEMO - Fertility Preferences and Outcomes in Morocco: Does Women’s Empowerment Matter in Actual-ideal Gap?

2. 13 février - Kassoum Dianou - DEMO - Assessing the validity of mobile phone surveys for mortality data collection: a case study from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

3. 12 March : Louise Caron - INED (confirmed). "How Inherited Residential Environments Shape Socioeconomic Outcomes: Evidence from Immigrant and Native Families over Three Generations", avec Mathieu Ichou (INED), Haley McAvay (University of York) & Rosa Weber (INED & Stockholm University)

4. 2 April - Marine Quennehen - CIRFASE/UCLouvain. Devenir père avant 25 ans : Quel passage à la vie adulte pour les hommes issus des classes populaires en situation d'incarcération ? (Becoming a father before the age of 25: What is the transition to adulthood for incarcerated working-class men?)

6. 30 April - Josue Begu - DEMO - Effects of origin contexts and migration policies on the re-emigration of Sub-Saharan African migrants living in Belgium

7. 21 mai : Jean-Paul Sanderson, Thierry Eggerickx & Yoann Doignon on cholera

8. 4 June - Bruno Masquelier and Bruno Schoumaker - DEMO - UCLouvain - A new method for estimating child mortality from paternal reports

9. 25 June: Françoise Bartiaux and Philippe Bocquier - DEMO - War, energy poverty, and capabilities: the case of Georgia, with Ute Dubois (ISG International Business School) and Tutana Kvaratskhelia (Think Tank World Experience for Georgia) -- CONFIRMED


July - prof. from University of Montreal (Tom Legrand ?)



AY 2024-2025

Marco Tosi - September (from Damiano)

Economics: David de la Croix, Luca Pensieroso (from Christine) -- Denise to send email

Maybe Fanny d'Hondt on discriminations ?

Next year : Sorana Toma, Rafael Costa