Dr. Zuzanna Brzozowska, M.Sc., M.A.
Professional orientation
Zuzanna is a demographer who focuses on fertility and family changes. She received her M.A. in Sociology from Warsaw University, MSc in Demography from Autonomous University of Barcelona and PhD in Economics from Warsaw School of Economics. Her PhD dissertation was a demographic analysis of the link between education and fertility in (post-)socialist Europe.
Research interests
Fertility and family changes, population trends, demographic analysis, education, social stratification, social policy, ideational changes, post-socialist European countries
Personal interests
Reading non-fiction stories; hiking, skiing and cycling; R programming
Selected publications
Brzozowska, Z. (2019). Demographic Techniques: Decomposition and Standardization, Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition (forthcoming).
Van Bavel, J., Klesment, M., Beaujouan, E., Brzozowska, Z., and (in alphabetical order) Puur, A., Reher, D., Requena, M., Sandström, G., Sobotka, T., Zeman, K. (2018). Seeding the Gender Revolution: Women’s education and cohort fertility during the Baby Boom, Population Studies 72(3). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324728.2018.1498223
Zeman, K., Beaujouan, E., Brzozowska, Z., Sobotka, T. (2018). Cohort Fertility Decline in Low Fertility Countries: Decomposition Using Parity Progression Ratios, Demographic Research 38(25). https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol38/25/38-25.pdf
Beaujouan, E., Brzozowska, Z., Zeman, K. (2016). Childlessness Trends in Twentieth-Century Europe: Limited Link to Growing Educational Attainment, Population Studies70(3).
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324728.2016.1206210.
Brzozowska, Z. (2015) Female education and fertility under state socialism in Central- and South-Eastern Europe, Population 70(4),
http://www.cairn-int.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=E_POPU_1504_0731.
Brzozowska, Z. (2014). Fertility and education in Poland during state socialism, Demographic Research 31(12). http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol31/12/31-12.pdf.
Brzozowska, Z. (2014). Births to single mothers: Age- and education-related changes in Poland between 1985 and 2010, Demographic Research 30(52).
http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol30/52/30-52.pdf.