The Wittgenstein Centre applies multidisciplinary research to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics, assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being and focusing on the following research themes: •
Human reproduction •
Education policy and planning •
Migration and
education • Health and
mortality • Cognitive
ageing • Modelling human capital formation •
Human capital data lab •
Population dynamics and ageing • Differential disaster vulnerability • Economics of ageing and labour markets Recent research results of the centre's scientists, in particular on educational attainment by age and sex in 195 countries but also on trends in fertility, mortality, migration, and educational level for the world's regions are summarized in a 2014
Oxford University Press publication edited by Wolfgang Lutz, William P. Butz and Samir KC:
World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The data that this study is based on is freely available by way of the
Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer which allows to select and download global
population projections broken down by country, region, sex, age, time periods and a number of other indicators (see link below). == References ==