Ohio Population Consortium Announces Webinar on Fertility Goals (3/24/25)

Posted: 3/13/2025 ()

Over the course of the twentieth century, fertility intentions, desires, preferences, and attitudes (fertility “goals”) became key constructs for demographic research on fertility. The increasing focus in the past two decades on reproductive autonomy and reproductive justice highlights women’s (and occasionally men’s) own desires and preferences as the foundational concern for policy and programmatic activity. An upcoming webinar sponsored by the Ohio Population Consortium seek to explore the ways fertility goals have been defined and measured; how they have been used in scientific research and in policy applications; the challenges and limitations of these constructs, both theoretical and empirical; what we learn by analyzing fertility goals; and what is missed by centering individual fertility goals.

What Fertility Goals Tell Us about Fertility Trends
Monday, 24 March 2025 from 16:00 to 17:30 Universal Time (Noon–1:30 pm, EST / 17:00–18:30 CET)

• Éva Beaujouan and Shalini Singh, Department of Demography, University of Vienna
• Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Francis Obare Onyango, Population Council