Zsolt Spéder
Biographic Data
| ID | 3879243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zsolt Spéder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zsolt |
| FAMILY NAME | Spéder |
| SIGNATURE | SPEDER Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hungarian Demographic Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0480-5944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Cumulative risk, center-based childcare and socio-emotional difficulties in early childhood
BACKGROUNDAlthough center-based childcare attendance under age 3 is widespread in Europe, there is mixed evidence on its impact on children's socio-emotional well-being. OBJECTIVEThis study examines whether attendance at Hungarian center-based childcare and the timing of entry into such care influenced the development of socio-emotional difficulties in children growing up during the COVID-19 pandemic.We pay particular attention to the impact of c…
Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions in a Comparative Perspective
This is the first large-scale comparative study to search for macro-level determinants of the realization of short-term fertility intentions across European countries. Using the unique follow-up feature of the Generations and Gender Survey and adopting rigorous definitions of intentions and outcomes, it reports on the level of fulfilment and finds clear heterogeneity across European countries. Using a multilevel, multivariate approach, it examine…
A Quarter Century of Change in Family and Gender-Role Attitudes in Hungary
Our study examines how attitudes towards family and gender roles have changed since the ultimate collapse of communism in Hungary. With respect to evaluating the effects of the regime change, it is important to note that Hungary is unique in having pre-transition measures on attitudes from the International Social Survey Program. In analyzing the nature of value shifts, an arithmetic method that decomposes the changes into population turnover and…
Termékenységi mintaváltás – a családalapí- tás átalakulásának demográfiai nyomvona- lai Magyarországon
Leíró demográfiai elemzési eszközökkel mutatjuk be, hogy az elmúlt negyedszázadban hazánkban megtapasztalt termékenységcsökkenés a termékenységi gyakorlat átfogó megváltozásának az eredménye. A teljes kép felrajzolásához elengedhetetlen a jól ismert változás, a halasztás bemutatása, ám túllépünk azon, hogy a mintaváltást kizárólag a korai gyermekvállalásról a késői gyermekvállalásra való áttéréssel írjuk le. A gyermekvállalási magatartás heteroge…
Fertility of Roma Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe
We analyse Roma fertility in four neighbouring countries in Central and Eastern Europe with a large Roma minority: in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Serbia. The sources of data are the respective national population censuses from 2011. Fertility is measured at the birth cohort level as the average number of children ever born. We make an international comparison of the fertility of Roma and non-Roma majority population women on the basis of compl…
Cash support vs. tax incentives
Following steep falls in birth rates in Central and Eastern European countries during the economic and institutional restructuring of the early 1990s, governments made substantial efforts to stop or at least reduce the fertility decline. In Hungary, parents with three or more children could benefit from specific new policy measures: the flat-rate child-rearing support paid from the youngest child's third to eighth birthdays (signalling recognitio…
Educational Enrolment, Double-Status Positions and the Transition to Motherhood in Hungary
Failure to Realize Fertility Intentions
Are Conceptions of Adulthood Universal and Unisex? Ages and Social Markers in 25 European Countries
Despite ample research on behavioral aspects of the transition to adulthood, few comparative studies have focused on “subjective” facets. Using data from the European Social Survey, we probe similarities and differences in conceptions of adulthood for men and women in twenty-five European countries. We examine perceptions of the age of adulthood and the importance of four social markers (leaving home, having a full-time job, living with a partner…
Réalisation et évolution des intentions de fécondité dans quatre pays européens
Dans quelle mesure les intentions d’avoir un enfant dans un intervalle de temps donné sont-elles réalisées ? Cet article compare quatre pays européens de taille moyenne qui représentent différents régimes de fécondité : les Pays-Bas et la Suisse à l’Ouest, la Hongrie et la Bulgarie à l’Est. En utilisant les données harmonisées de quatre enquêtes de panel effectuées en deux vagues entre 2000 et 2007, on peut construire une typologie des intentions…
Realization, Postponement or Abandonment of Childbearing Intentions in Four European Countries
Réalisation et évolution des intentions de fécondité en trois ans dans quatre pays européens Dans quelle mesure les intentions d’avoir un enfant dans un intervalle de temps donné sont-elles réalisées ? Cet article compare quatre pays européens de taille moyenne qui représentent différents régimes de fécondité : les Pays-Bas et la Suisse à l’Ouest, la Hongrie et la Bulgarie à l’Est. En utilisant les données harmonisées de quatre enquêtes de panel …
Social age deadlines for the childbearing of women and men
BACKGROUND: This study examines whether social age deadlines exist for childbearing in women and men, how they vary across countries, whether they are lower than actual biological deadlines and whether they are associated with childbearing at later ages and the availability of assisted reproduction techniques (ARTs). METHODS: This study is based on the European Social Survey, Round 3 (2006-2007), which covers 25 countries. Data were gathered on s…
How are Time-Dependent Childbearing Intentions Realized? Realization, Postponement, Abandonment, Bringing Forward
Hungary
In this study, we demonstrate from different angles that Hungarian fertility basically decreased between 1965 and 2005, but also clearly fluctuated, and showed different patterns in the different periods within this epoch. As a result, the clear commun
Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)
The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations and Gender Programme designed to improve understanding of demographic and social development and of the factors that influence these developments. This article describ
Societal Transition, Policy Changes and Family Formation
Soon, later, or ever? The impact of anomie and social capital on fertility intentions in Bulgaria (2002) and Hungary (2001)
We use survey data from Bulgaria and Hungary to investigate the determinants of whether women intend to have a first or a second child and, if so, whether they intend to have the child within the ensuing 2 years or later. These determinants differ significantly by the order and timing of the intended birth. The variables used include measures of anomie and social capital and these appear to be among the factors that determine both whether to have…
Rudiments of recent fertility decline in Hungary
Our study describes fundamental changes in childbearing behavior in Hungary. It documents current postponement of entry into motherhood (first birth) and uncovers signs of delay in second birth. We place the behavioral modifications into historical tim
Poverty Dynamics in Hungary during the Transformation
In western social science poverty research has long been a well-established field of research. However, in the former socialist countries, not only poverty research, but even the word ‘poverty’ was excluded from the scientific and public debate (Andorka 1995). Of course it does not mean that there was no research carried out on the most disadvantageous strata of the society (see e.g. Böhm 1981;Bokor 1985), but it had to be referred to as ‘multipl…
Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)
The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations and Gender Programme designed to improve understanding of demographic and social development and of the factors that influence these developments. This article describ
Soon, later, or ever? The impact of anomie and social capital on fertility intentions in Bulgaria (2002) and Hungary (2001)
We use survey data from Bulgaria and Hungary to investigate the determinants of whether women intend to have a first or a second child and, if so, whether they intend to have the child within the ensuing 2 years or later. These determinants differ significantly by the order and timing of the intended birth. The variables used include measures of anomie and social capital and these appear to be among the factors that determine both whether to have…
How are Time-Dependent Childbearing Intentions Realized? Realization, Postponement, Abandonment, Bringing Forward
Hungary
In this study, we demonstrate from different angles that Hungarian fertility basically decreased between 1965 and 2005, but also clearly fluctuated, and showed different patterns in the different periods within this epoch. As a result, the clear commun
Societal Transition, Policy Changes and Family Formation
Failure to Realize Fertility Intentions
Are Conceptions of Adulthood Universal and Unisex? Ages and Social Markers in 25 European Countries
Despite ample research on behavioral aspects of the transition to adulthood, few comparative studies have focused on “subjective” facets. Using data from the European Social Survey, we probe similarities and differences in conceptions of adulthood for men and women in twenty-five European countries. We examine perceptions of the age of adulthood and the importance of four social markers (leaving home, having a full-time job, living with a partner…
Realization, Postponement or Abandonment of Childbearing Intentions in Four European Countries
Réalisation et évolution des intentions de fécondité en trois ans dans quatre pays européens Dans quelle mesure les intentions d’avoir un enfant dans un intervalle de temps donné sont-elles réalisées ? Cet article compare quatre pays européens de taille moyenne qui représentent différents régimes de fécondité : les Pays-Bas et la Suisse à l’Ouest, la Hongrie et la Bulgarie à l’Est. En utilisant les données harmonisées de quatre enquêtes de panel …
Rudiments of recent fertility decline in Hungary
Our study describes fundamental changes in childbearing behavior in Hungary. It documents current postponement of entry into motherhood (first birth) and uncovers signs of delay in second birth. We place the behavioral modifications into historical tim
Fertility of Roma Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe
We analyse Roma fertility in four neighbouring countries in Central and Eastern Europe with a large Roma minority: in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Serbia. The sources of data are the respective national population censuses from 2011. Fertility is measured at the birth cohort level as the average number of children ever born. We make an international comparison of the fertility of Roma and non-Roma majority population women on the basis of compl…
A Quarter Century of Change in Family and Gender-Role Attitudes in Hungary
Our study examines how attitudes towards family and gender roles have changed since the ultimate collapse of communism in Hungary. With respect to evaluating the effects of the regime change, it is important to note that Hungary is unique in having pre-transition measures on attitudes from the International Social Survey Program. In analyzing the nature of value shifts, an arithmetic method that decomposes the changes into population turnover and…
Cash support vs. tax incentives
Following steep falls in birth rates in Central and Eastern European countries during the economic and institutional restructuring of the early 1990s, governments made substantial efforts to stop or at least reduce the fertility decline. In Hungary, parents with three or more children could benefit from specific new policy measures: the flat-rate child-rearing support paid from the youngest child's third to eighth birthdays (signalling recognitio…
Educational Enrolment, Double-Status Positions and the Transition to Motherhood in Hungary
Réalisation et évolution des intentions de fécondité dans quatre pays européens
Dans quelle mesure les intentions d’avoir un enfant dans un intervalle de temps donné sont-elles réalisées ? Cet article compare quatre pays européens de taille moyenne qui représentent différents régimes de fécondité : les Pays-Bas et la Suisse à l’Ouest, la Hongrie et la Bulgarie à l’Est. En utilisant les données harmonisées de quatre enquêtes de panel effectuées en deux vagues entre 2000 et 2007, on peut construire une typologie des intentions…
Poverty Dynamics in Hungary during the Transformation
In western social science poverty research has long been a well-established field of research. However, in the former socialist countries, not only poverty research, but even the word ‘poverty’ was excluded from the scientific and public debate (Andorka 1995). Of course it does not mean that there was no research carried out on the most disadvantageous strata of the society (see e.g. Böhm 1981;Bokor 1985), but it had to be referred to as ‘multipl…
Societal Transition, Policy Changes and Family Formation
Soon, later, or ever? The impact of anomie and social capital on fertility intentions in Bulgaria (2002) and Hungary (2001)
We use survey data from Bulgaria and Hungary to investigate the determinants of whether women intend to have a first or a second child and, if so, whether they intend to have the child within the ensuing 2 years or later. These determinants differ significantly by the order and timing of the intended birth. The variables used include measures of anomie and social capital and these appear to be among the factors that determine both whether to have…
Rudiments of recent fertility decline in Hungary
Our study describes fundamental changes in childbearing behavior in Hungary. It documents current postponement of entry into motherhood (first birth) and uncovers signs of delay in second birth. We place the behavioral modifications into historical tim
Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)
The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations and Gender Programme designed to improve understanding of demographic and social development and of the factors that influence these developments. This article describ
Hungary
In this study, we demonstrate from different angles that Hungarian fertility basically decreased between 1965 and 2005, but also clearly fluctuated, and showed different patterns in the different periods within this epoch. As a result, the clear commun
How are Time-Dependent Childbearing Intentions Realized? Realization, Postponement, Abandonment, Bringing Forward
Social age deadlines for the childbearing of women and men
BACKGROUND: This study examines whether social age deadlines exist for childbearing in women and men, how they vary across countries, whether they are lower than actual biological deadlines and whether they are associated with childbearing at later ages and the availability of assisted reproduction techniques (ARTs). METHODS: This study is based on the European Social Survey, Round 3 (2006-2007), which covers 25 countries. Data were gathered on s…
Realization, Postponement or Abandonment of Childbearing Intentions in Four European Countries
Réalisation et évolution des intentions de fécondité en trois ans dans quatre pays européens Dans quelle mesure les intentions d’avoir un enfant dans un intervalle de temps donné sont-elles réalisées ? Cet article compare quatre pays européens de taille moyenne qui représentent différents régimes de fécondité : les Pays-Bas et la Suisse à l’Ouest, la Hongrie et la Bulgarie à l’Est. En utilisant les données harmonisées de quatre enquêtes de panel …
Are Conceptions of Adulthood Universal and Unisex? Ages and Social Markers in 25 European Countries
Despite ample research on behavioral aspects of the transition to adulthood, few comparative studies have focused on “subjective” facets. Using data from the European Social Survey, we probe similarities and differences in conceptions of adulthood for men and women in twenty-five European countries. We examine perceptions of the age of adulthood and the importance of four social markers (leaving home, having a full-time job, living with a partner…
Réalisation et évolution des intentions de fécondité dans quatre pays européens
Dans quelle mesure les intentions d’avoir un enfant dans un intervalle de temps donné sont-elles réalisées ? Cet article compare quatre pays européens de taille moyenne qui représentent différents régimes de fécondité : les Pays-Bas et la Suisse à l’Ouest, la Hongrie et la Bulgarie à l’Est. En utilisant les données harmonisées de quatre enquêtes de panel effectuées en deux vagues entre 2000 et 2007, on peut construire une typologie des intentions…
Failure to Realize Fertility Intentions
Educational Enrolment, Double-Status Positions and the Transition to Motherhood in Hungary
Cash support vs. tax incentives
Following steep falls in birth rates in Central and Eastern European countries during the economic and institutional restructuring of the early 1990s, governments made substantial efforts to stop or at least reduce the fertility decline. In Hungary, parents with three or more children could benefit from specific new policy measures: the flat-rate child-rearing support paid from the youngest child's third to eighth birthdays (signalling recognitio…
Termékenységi mintaváltás – a családalapí- tás átalakulásának demográfiai nyomvona- lai Magyarországon
Leíró demográfiai elemzési eszközökkel mutatjuk be, hogy az elmúlt negyedszázadban hazánkban megtapasztalt termékenységcsökkenés a termékenységi gyakorlat átfogó megváltozásának az eredménye. A teljes kép felrajzolásához elengedhetetlen a jól ismert változás, a halasztás bemutatása, ám túllépünk azon, hogy a mintaváltást kizárólag a korai gyermekvállalásról a késői gyermekvállalásra való áttéréssel írjuk le. A gyermekvállalási magatartás heteroge…
Fertility of Roma Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe
We analyse Roma fertility in four neighbouring countries in Central and Eastern Europe with a large Roma minority: in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Serbia. The sources of data are the respective national population censuses from 2011. Fertility is measured at the birth cohort level as the average number of children ever born. We make an international comparison of the fertility of Roma and non-Roma majority population women on the basis of compl…
A Quarter Century of Change in Family and Gender-Role Attitudes in Hungary
Our study examines how attitudes towards family and gender roles have changed since the ultimate collapse of communism in Hungary. With respect to evaluating the effects of the regime change, it is important to note that Hungary is unique in having pre-transition measures on attitudes from the International Social Survey Program. In analyzing the nature of value shifts, an arithmetic method that decomposes the changes into population turnover and…
Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions in a Comparative Perspective
This is the first large-scale comparative study to search for macro-level determinants of the realization of short-term fertility intentions across European countries. Using the unique follow-up feature of the Generations and Gender Survey and adopting rigorous definitions of intentions and outcomes, it reports on the level of fulfilment and finds clear heterogeneity across European countries. Using a multilevel, multivariate approach, it examine…
Cumulative risk, center-based childcare and socio-emotional difficulties in early childhood
BACKGROUNDAlthough center-based childcare attendance under age 3 is widespread in Europe, there is mixed evidence on its impact on children's socio-emotional well-being. OBJECTIVEThis study examines whether attendance at Hungarian center-based childcare and the timing of entry into such care influenced the development of socio-emotional difficulties in children growing up during the COVID-19 pandemic.We pay particular attention to the impact of c…
Sociology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Fertility (8 works) · Psychology (7 works)