CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
2024 –
Full Professor, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
2020 –
Founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Labour Market and Family Dynamics (LABFAM)
2020 –
Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant “Globalization-and Technology-Driven Labour Market Change and Fertility” (LABFER)
2020 –
Secretary General and Treasurer, European Association of Population Studies
2021 –
Editor-In-Chief Central European Economic Journal (CEEJ)
2021 –
Member of the Editorial Board, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
2012 –
Member of the Council of Advisors of Population Europe
PAST APPOINTMENTS
2017 – 2022
2015 – 2017
Deputy Editor at Demography (journal of Population Association of America)
Editor of the Book Review Section in European Journal of Population
2012 –2019
Member of the Editorial Board in Studia Demograficzne (Polish demographic journal)
2015 –2019
Member of the IUSSP Panel on Subjective well-being and demographic events, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
2009 –2019
International Collaborator of the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe
EDUCATION
2017
Habilitation in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
2009
PhD in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
2006
European Research Master of Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
2003
Master degree in Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
2003
Master degree in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
PAST EMPLOYMENT AND FELLOWSHIPS
2020 – 2024
2013 – 2019
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Nov 2008 – Jan2009
Doctoral Fellow at the Laboratory of Population and Policy, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
Oct 2006 – March 2007
Doctoral Fellow at the International Max Planck Research School of Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany.
2005 – 2006
PhD student at the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany.
2003 – 2009
Research Assistant, Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
2003 – 2005
Research Assistant at the Gdańsk Research Institute on Market Economies, Warsaw, Poland
MOST IMPORTANT PRIZES AND AWARDS
2018
The Dirk van de Kaa Award for Social Demography for outstanding achievements in social demography by an individual scholar, granted by European Association for Population Studies.
2017
Recognition within the “Change the World, One Article at a Time” Initiative of the Springer Nature for the article “Country-specific conditions of work and family reconciliation. An Attempt at Quantification” published in the European Journal of Population (co-author D. Węziak-Białowolska)
2013
Prize of the National Science Centre of Poland for the best young researcher in the field of arts, humanities and social sciences, 2013
2012
Prize of the Rector of the Warsaw School of Economics for the book ‘Interdependencies between fertility and women’s labour supply’. Dordrecht: Springer
2011
Prize of the Rector of the Warsaw School of Economics for the scientific achievements
2010
Scientific Award of the Ministry of Science and Tertiary Education for the best young researchers, 2010
2009
Scientific Scholarship granted by the Polish weekly magazine Polityka, 2009
2007 – 2008
Scientific Scholarship START granted by the Foundation for Polish Science
EXPERIENCE IN ATTRACTING RESEARCH FUNDING
2020-2025
Globalization- and Technology-Driven Labour Market Change and Fertility (LABFER), ERC Consolidator Grant 2019, Amount: 1,998,000 EUR
2022-2025
Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families (rEUsilience), Horizon Europe project, PI of the Polish team, Polish budget: ~ 400,000 EUR
2022-2023
The role of home-based work for career prospects of men and women: an experimental study for Poland and the United Kingdom, internal funding of the University of Warsaw, amount granted ~ 25,000 EUR
2019-2024
Polish Returns 2019, funding of the National Agency of Academic Exchange (NAWA) for establishing a research team upon the return to Poland after at least two-year long research stay abroad
2010 – 2013
Family Change and Subjective Well-being (FAMWELL), financed by the National Centre for Research and Development (Poland) within a Programme LEADER, directed to young researchers (max 4 years after the PhD) for establishing a research team. Amount granted: 250 000 EUR
2011 – 2013
Family Change in Italy and Poland (FAMCHIP), collaborative project with University of Florence financed by National Science Centre in Poland. Amount granted: 100,000 EUR; PI: Irena E. Kotowska; My role: initiation of the grant and preparation of the grant proposal together with D. Vignoli (University of Florence)
2011 – 2012
Women’s self-employment in Poland: A strategy for combining work and childcare? Research Grant funded by CERGE-EI Foundation within the Global Development Network, Co-Principal Investigator (with M. Mynarska)
PARTICIPATION IN OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS (most important)
International
2020-2024
Short and long-term effects of the COVID-19 outbreak policy responses for partners’ division of paid and unpaid work and their labour market outcomes (FAMILYDEMIC). Funding agency: National Science Centre, Poland, PI: A. Kurowska.
2014 – 2017
Fertility and Reproduction in 21st Century Europe (EURREP), ERC Starting Grant (PI: T. Sobotka), Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
2013 – 2016
Families and Societies – Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations, 7th EC Framework Programme.
2004 – 2009
Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe (RECWOWE) funded by the EC 7th Framework Program
2004 – 2007
The Insecure Perspectives of the Low Skilled in the Knowledge Society (LOWER3), workpackage on gender and the labour market, under the EC 6th Framework Program
2002 – 2005
Population Policy Acceptance (PPA) Study. The Viewpoint of Citizens and Policy Actors Regarding the Management of Population Related Change (DIALOG) under the EC 5th Framework Program.
National
2009 – 2012
Generations and Gender Programme, 1st round – Poland, project financed by the Ministry of Science and Tertiary Education, conducted at the Institute of Statistics and Demography – Warsaw School of Economics.
2009 – 2010
Employment from the life course perspective, Poland project financed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy in cooperation with Institute for Structural Studies.
2005 – 2007
Structural and cultural determinants of women’s labour force participation in Poland, financed by the Ministry of Science.
2005 – 2007
Economic and educational activity of women and their care duties, funded from the European Social Fund, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.
ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
2023
Member of the Organising Committee, 21st ESPAnet Annual Conference 2023, University of Warsaw, Poland
2022
Member of the Organising Committee, Understanding Demographic Change, national conference of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 13-14.06.2022
2022
Organiser of the Family Life and the Changing World of Work Conference, organised at the University of Warsaw jointly with University of Florence, 15-16.09.2022
2019 – 2020
Convenor of the Fertility Theme at the European Population Conference, Padova 24-27.06.2020 (cancelled due o COVID-19)
2019
Organiser of the scientific session at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting PAA 2019, Austin/Texas, 10-13.04.2019
2017
Member of the Organising Committee of the international workshop ”Integrating Subjective Well-being in the Demographic Agenda” side meeting to the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Chicago 26.04.2017
2013
A member of the organizing committee of the international conference “Comparing families: does international perspective help?”, Warsaw School of Economics, 17-18.12.2013
2013
A member of the organizing committee of the 2nd Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) User Group Conference, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy, 24 and 25. 10. 2013
2013
Member of the Organising Committee of the national conference „New patterns of family formation in Poland: their causes and consequences on subjective well-being”, Warsaw School of Economics, 18.06.2013
2012
Convenor of the Fertility Theme in the European Population Conference, Stockholm 13-16.06.2012.
INVITED SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS
2023
Technology, labour market change and fertility, keynote presentation at the 7th Generations and Gender User Conference, SGH Warsaw School of Economics 13-15.09.2023
2023
Structural Labour Market Change and Fertility, invited presentation at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 12.06.2023
2023
Structural Labour Market Change and Fertility, keynote presentation at the conference „Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe: State-Of-The-Art and Prospects”, University of Florence, 25-26.05.2023
2023
Interdependencies between family and labour market dynamics, keynote presentation ECSR Spring School, University of Torino, Italy, 29.03.2023
2023
Automation, long-term structural changes in the labour market and fertility, presentation at the PHRG Seminar, University of St Andrews, UK, 13.01.2023 (co-authors: Daniela Bellani and Honorata Bogusz)
2022
Digitalisation, changing demand for skills and gender inequality in earnings, seminar at the Department of Sociology, Umea University, 18.11.2022 (co-authors: Wojciech Hardy and Lucas Van Der Velde)
2022
Digitalisation, changing demand for skills and gender inequality in earnings, Interdisciplinary Seminar in Empirical Social Science, University of Warsaw, 25.10.2022 (co-authors: Wojciech Hardy and Lucas Van Der Velde)
2022
Are women who work from home more likely to have babies? Evidence from the UK, Center for Population Change Seminar, University of Southampton, 24 February 2022 (co-authors: B. Osiewalska, A. Kurowska)
2021
Are women who work from home more likely to have babies? Evidence from the UK, presentation at the LINES / LIVES Internal Seminar, University of Lausanne 12.10.2021 (co-authors: B. Osiewalska, A. Kurowska)
2021
Digitalisation, changing demand for skills and the gender wage gap – keynote presentation at the dynamics of Inequality Across the Life Course Final Conference, Brussels, 21-22.10.2021 (in collaboration with W. Hardy and L. van der Velde)
2019
Men’s involvement in the family and fertility: what about men’s opportunity costs? Invited presentation at the seminar series of the Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics & Public Policy, Bocconi University, Milano, 16.09.2019 (with A. Rybińska)
2019
Men’s involvement in the family and fertility: what about men’s opportunity costs? Invited presentation at the seminar series of the Population and Health Research Group, University of St Andrews, 14.05.2019 (with A. Rybinska)
2019
Do family policies affect fertility? – invited presentation at the research seminar “Global Population Challenges”, Department of Demography, Charles University, Prague, 29.04.2019
2018
Evidence-based family policies as a response to the demographical challenges in Europe, invited presentation at the plenary session at the conference “Regional symposium on evidence-based family policies. Implications of Gender and Generations Survey data in the UNECE Region”, UNFPA, UNECE & UNICEF & the Government of Belarus, Minsk 20-21.03.2018
2017
Partners’ involvement in the family and their fertility desires, invited presentation at the conference “Changing Gender Inequalities, Changing Families?”, Centre for Sociological Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, 7-8.12.2017 (with A. Rybinska)
2017
Self-Employment as a Work-and-Family Reconciliation Strategy?, invited presentation at the conference “Low Fertility, Labor Market, and Family: Factors, Outcomes, and Policy Implications”, East-West Center, Honolulu, US, 20-21.11.2017 (with M. Mynarska)
2017
Potential of GGS data for international comparative research – keynote speech at the Polish Gender and Generations Conference, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw 26.06.2017 (with T. Sobotka and D. Vignoli)
2016
The Impact of the Great Recession on Fertility in Europe, invited presentation at the colloquium, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, 21.12.2016 (with T. Sobotka and D. Vignoli)
2016
The Impact of the Great Recession on Fertility in Europe, keynote speech at the workshop “Old and new families facing the new century’s challenges”, University of Padua, Padua 16.12.2016 (with T. Sobotka and D. Vignoli)
2016
Use of GGS Data in Comparative Family Research, invited presentation at “Generations and Gender Programme: Methodology and Data Use Conference”, UNFPA & UNICEF, Minsk, 28.11.2016
2016
The Impact of the Great Recession on Fertility in Europe, invited presentation at the colloquium, Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics & Public Policy, Bocconi University, Milano, 15.02.2016 (with T. Sobotka and D. Vignoli)
2013
Diverse pathways to childlessness over the life course, invited presentation at the colloquium, Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna 02.07.2013 (with M. Mynarska, A. Rybinska, V. Tocchioni, D. Vignoli)
2012
Which family model makes couples more happy – dual earner or male breadwinner?, invited presentation at the 46th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, Rome, 20-22.06.2012 (with A Baranowska-Rataj)
2010
Women’s employment in an adverse institutional setting: does it discourage childbearing? invited presentation at the Rostocker Ring Conference, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, 1.07.2010 (with D. Vignoli)
2009
Interdependencies between fertility and women’s labour supply, invited presentation at the colloquium, Department of Statistics and Demography, University of Florence, Italy, 27.05.2009