Social & Behavioural Sciences
Pau Baizán is ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, where he teaches demography. Previously, he was research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (2000-2002), doctoral student and teaching assistant at the University of Louvain (1996-1999), where he obtained his PhD in Demography, and research associate at the University of Cambridge (1994-1995).
My research focuses on improving our understanding of the patterns and causes of family formation and dissolution in various social, economic, cultural, and political settings. I investigate questions such as, “What is the impact of changing gender roles on fertility behaviour? To what extent does employment insecurity affect the likelihood to have a child? Why are there socio-economic differentials in parental child care?”.
A second line of research focuses on international migration and seeks to answer such questions as “Does economic restructuring influence international migration? How international migration impacts family dynamics? Does migration lead to an increase in educational investments in the origin countries?”.
- Baizan P 2020, 'Linking social class inequalities, labor market status, and fertility: An empirical investigation of second births'. Advances in Life Course Research 45. 100377.
Honours
Member of the International Advisory Board of NCCR – on the move, a center of excellence in the field of migration and mobility studies, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (nccr-onthemove.ch).
Research Grants
Socio-Demographic Consequences of the Great Recession: Altered Class and Gender Relations? (RECECON), Spanish Ministry of Economy, CSO2016-80484-R. (€ 91,960). PI: Pau Baizan and Clara Cortina.
Invited talks and conference presentations (selection)
Baizan Pau, Wanli Nie. The impact of education on fertility: Chinese women born between 1960 and 1995. International Conference on Family and Fertility. December 4-5, 2020. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).
Mengi Chen, Wanli Nie, Pau Baizan, Guy Abel. Tracing human spatial mobility patterns before, during and after COVID-19 in China. Oral presentation at the conference “Demographic Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences”, 30 November- 1 December, 2020. Conference organized by the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Vienna.
Courses:
“Demographic Changes and Social Dynamics” and "Migration and Society". Master in Sociology and Demography, UPF.