Balancing work and family: western Europe versus eastern Europe • Beatrice-Elena Manea, Faculty of Social Sciences, Brno

A new hypothesis for explaining the mortality gap between eastern and western Germany • Marc A. Luy, University of Rostock

Union formation, marriage and first birth: convergence across cohorts in Austria, Hungary, northern Italy and Slovenia? • Marija Mamolo, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Western and eastern Europe: demographic change in the 20th century • Alain Monnier, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)