We are very happy to have received extra funding for further research on South Korea and Spain within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)’s programme for the promotion of international scientific collaboration between the CSIC and foreign institutions. This is the I-LINK grant 23040 «Far apart yet close together in the lowest fertility rankings: A comparative study of family dynamics in South Korea and Spain».
The duration is 2 years, from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2025.
Four members of the ULTRALOW Project form the I-LINK team: Teresa Martín García (PI), CSIC; Teresa Castro Martín, CSIC; Joeun Kim, KDI School of Public Policy and Management; and Young-Mi Kim, Yonsei University; together with Héctor Cebolla (CSIC) and James Raymo (Princeton University).
The grant is mainly aimed at the exchange of researchers between the different universities and research centres to strengthen and improve academic collaboration on the issue of very low fertility in South Korea and Spain.
We are very grateful to CSIC for this commitment to a very relevant topic. The comparison of these so different but so alike countries in terms of lowest-low fertility is both novel and necessary to improve understanding of how cultural, economic and institutional contexts influence family and childbearing decisions.
