The German Institute for Economic Research warmly invites you to a

DIW 100 Lecture

with a keynote speech by Claudia Goldin

Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

“THE DOWNSIDE OF FERTILITY”

Thursday, November 6, 2025

1.30 p.m. to 3 p.m., followed by coffee & cake

DIW Berlin, Anton-Wilhem-Amo-Str. 58, 10117 Berlin, Elinor Ostrom Hall 1^st floor

THE DOWNSIDE OF FERTILITY

The fertility decline is everywhere in the world today. Moreover, the decline goes decades back in the histories of rich countries. The reasons for the declines from the 1970s to the early 2000s involve greater female autonomy and a mismatch between the desires of men and women. Various constraints that Professor Goldin groups under “matching” problems have caused fertility to be lower than otherwise and imply that fertility has a “downside.”

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and holds the Lee and Ezpeleta Professorship of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University. She was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017 and is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy group. Goldin was awarded the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes.”

AGENDA

Welcome by Marcel Fratzscher, President of DIW Berlin

Keynote Speech by Claudia Goldin

Panel Discussion with Claudia Goldin

Bernd Fitzenberger, Director of the IAB and Professor of Quantitative Labor Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Katharina Wrohlich, Professor of Public Finance, Gender and Family Economics at the University of Potsdam and Head of the Gender Economics Research Group at DIW Berlin

The event will take place in English. We are looking forward to seeing you! Please register by October 30 here for your personal or virtual participation (livestream).

With kind regards,

Your DIW Events Team