T Leopold
Biographic Data
| ID | 16099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Leopold |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Leopold |
| SIGNATURE | LEOPOLD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5554-3254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 451 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Click, collect, compare: Evaluating a nonprobability web survey for family demography
BACKGROUNDHigh-quality population data are expensive to collect and limited in substantive scope, constraining timely and innovative research. OBJECTIVEWe evaluate nonprobability data from the KINMATRIX survey by comparing it with external data on kinship structure and relationships to kin. METHODSKINMATRIX is a web-based quota survey of over 12,000 younger adults (aged 25-35) in 9 European countries and the United States.Respondents reported ego…
The historical demography of the multigenerational family: Evidence from crowdsourced genealogies
Objective: This research note reconstructs the historical demography of the multigenerational family from preindustrial colonial America (1700) up to the end of the Gilded Age (1910) in the territory of the present-day United States and selected European regions. Background: Knowledge of the demography of multigenerational family ties is limited to the 20th and 21st centuries. By contrast, little is known about the preceding demographic history o…
A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States
Objective To develop a typology of relationship quality for nuclear and extended family relations of younger adults in the United States, accounting for variation across kinship types and racial/ethnic groups. Background Existing typologies of family relationships primarily focus on nuclear ties, often neglecting relations with extended kin. Ties to extended kin are, however, central to many people's lives and may be particularly salient in certa…
A Bounding Approach to Age–Period–Cohort Analysis: A Demonstration Using Public Crime Concerns in Germany
A parallel kinship universe? A replication of Kolk et al. (2023) with Dutch register data on kinship networks
BACKGROUND Kolk et al. (2023) use Swedish register data to provide a detailed numerical account of biological kinship.Applying their approach in other countries is challenging due to high data requirements. OBJECTIVEWe examine whether Kolk et al.'s (2023) findings generalize to another demographically advanced country, the Netherlands, and assess how differences in cohort fertility and divorce rates influence the prevalence of different kin types…
How many children do couples have when they break up? Educational stratification in parity at separation
This study investigated educational differences in parity distribution at separation. Using the Harmonized Histories and GGS-II data sets, we examined unions ending in separation in 1995-2004 and in 2011-20 across 12 countries in Europe and North America, comparing them with a matched group of intact unions. Our analysis revealed a negative educational gradient in parity at separation. The mean number of children at separation decreased with high…
Mapping modern kinship networks: First results from the Kinmatrix survey
ObjectiveThis study presents initial results from the KINMATRIX survey, a large-scale source of ego-centric network data offering an unprecedented level of scope and detail in mapping family relationships.BackgroundResearch on kinship networks is limited by the scarcity of available data. As a result, key phenomena remain insufficiently understood, including the importance of extended kin, contrasts between kinship lines, and cross-national diffe…
Parent–Child Relationships Following Gray Divorce: Stronger Ties With Mothers, Weaker Ties With Fathers
Divorce alters relationships with adult children. A gray divorce tilts adult-child solidarity toward mothers and puts fathers at a higher risk of social isolation. Moreover, the observed gender dynamics underscore the continued influence of gender roles on family dynamics in the aftermath of gray divorce
Reassessing Chronic Strain: A Research Note on Women's Income Dynamics After Divorce and Separation
The economic consequences of divorce and separation for women are commonly associated with the chronic strain model, according to which women's losses are large and persistent. This research note shifts the focus to a crisis model highlighting women's potential of, and routes to, recovery from initial losses. Drawing on German Socio-Economic Panel data (1984–2021) on women in marital and cohabiting unions (N ∼ 27,000 women, N ∼ 3,400 divorces and…
Personality trait similarity in recently cohabiting couples: Partner choice, convergence, or selective breakup
Romantic partners tend to be more similar in self-reported personality traits than would be expected by chance. This similarity can be due to the choice of a similar partner, partners becoming more similar to each other over time, or dissimilar couples breaking up. To examine whether these processes (choice, convergence, or breakup) explain personality trait similarities in couples, we followed a sample of 1,180 German couples ( N = 2,360 individ…
Kinmatrix: A new data resource for studies of families and kinship
BACKGROUNDHow cohesive are families and how do they respond to their members' needs?How do families transmit advantages and disadvantages within and across generations?Current data confine our answers to these questions to solidarity and transmission in the immediate family, overlooking other relatives who play a significant role in socialization, social integration, social support, and the reproduction of social status and inequality. OBJECTIVET…
Children of Separation: An International Profile
This study offers a comprehensive international overview of children from separated families across 13 countries, with an emphasis on the European context. We investigate changes in the number of children experiencing parental separation over birth cohorts (1960-1989) and changes in their social composition using data from the Generations and Gender Survey and official statistics. Results on absolute numbers highlight the impact of demographic sh…
Spatial distribution of human capital in Romania
Human capital reflects the knowledge, competencies, and health people invest in and accumulate throughout their lives. Therefore, investing in people's health, education, and skills is essential to developing human capital. The evaluation of human capital is very important for understanding the premises for future development at a territorial level and the impact that different development trajectories may have on economic performance and populat…
Why Do Lower Educated People Separate More Often? Life Strains and the Gradient in Union Dissolution
In many Western countries, coresidential unions of lower educated people are less stable than those of higher educated people. A prominent explanation of this gradient in union dissolution holds that the lower educated experience more strain. Evidence for this explanation has been limited by a focus on only the economic dimension of strain and on only one partner in each union. In this study, we broadened the concept of strain to cover multiple l…
Explaining cross‐national differences in leaving home
There are large cross-national differences in the age of leaving home. The literature offers cultural, economic, and institutional explanations for these differences but has not examined all three explanations in one study. We examine these three explanations using data of the European Social Survey (ESS) from 2002 to 2016, supplemented with year-specific macro-level indicators from other data sources. We use a dynamic pseudo-panel design, allowi…
Who benefits most from college? Dimensions of selection and heterogeneous returns to higher education in the United States and the Netherlands
There has been ample debate about heterogeneous returns to a college degree, and so far, findings have been mixed on the question of whether individuals who attend college are also those who benefit most from it (positive selection), whether returns would be larger for those who never went (negative selection), or whether there is heterogeneity in returns at all. We argue that these diverging findings have two sources: First, they may arise from …
A New Look at the Separation Surge in Europe: Contrasting Adult and Child Perspectives
This study contrasts adult and child perspectives on divorce and separation. Based on harmonized retrospective life history data from eight European countries, we study the risk of divorce and separation from the perspective of adult unions and the perspective of children born into these unions. The analysis connects adult and child perspectives, focusing on union cohort changes (1945 to 2005) in the associations between parenthood, education, an…
The Comparative Panel File: Harmonized Household Panel Surveys from Seven Countries
The Comparative Panel File (CPF) harmonizes the world's largest and longest-running household panel surveys from seven countries: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), United Kingdom (BHPS and UKHLS), South Korea (KLIPS), Russia (RLMS), Switzerland (SHP), and the United States (PSID). The project aims to support the social science community in the analysis of comparative life course data. The CPF builds on the Cross-National Equivalent File but offe…
Family size and economic wellbeing following divorce: The United States in comparative perspective
Stepfamily Effects on Early Home‐Leaving: The Role of Conflict and Closeness
Objective This study examined the role of stepfamily experiences on early home‐leaving with detailed measures for stepfamily experiences that capture levels of closeness and conflict, and with a detailed measure for home‐leaving that captures pathways out of the home. Background Young adults raised in stepfamilies leave home and form unions earlier than young adults raised in single‐parent families. Little is known about the reasons for this diff…
Family, Firms, and Fertility: A Study of Social Interaction Effects
Research has indicated that fertility spreads through social networks and attributed this phenomenon to social interaction effects. It remains unclear, however, whether the findings of previous studies reflect the direct influence of network partners or contextual and selection factors, such as shared environment and common background characteristics. The present study uses instrumental variables to improve the identification of social interactio…
Educational Reproduction in Germany: A Prospective Study Based on Retrospective Data
This study examines educational reproduction of East and West German men and women born between 1930 and 1950. In a prospective design, we study the importance of mobility and fertility pathways of reproduction, considering not only the social reproduction of education as an attribute but also the demographic reproduction of individuals who carry this attribute. Using data from NEPS and SOEP, we introduce a method that estimates prospective model…
Trajectories of life satisfaction before, upon, and after divorce: Evidence from a new matching approach
The aim of the current study was to compare changes in divorcees' life satisfaction to changes in a control sample of nondivorcees. Prospective longitudinal data came from 33 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Divorcees (n = 787) were propensity-score matched to nondivorcees (n = 1,629) in the year of marriage. In this way, we created a clear starting point and time scale related to different phases of the divorce process. Piecewise …
Divorce and Diverging Poverty Rates: A Risk-and-Vulnerability Approach
ObjectiveThis study offers a new approach to analyzing life course inequalities and applies it to the link between divorce and poverty.BackgroundPrevious research has suggested that divorce drives cumulative inequality between education groups during the life course. Two pathways play a role in this process: the educational gradient in the risk of divorce and the educational gradient in economic vulnerability to divorce. Both pathways should be s…
Teaching Replication to Graduate Students
Replicating published studies promotes active learning of quantitative research skills. Drawing on experiences from a replication course, we provide practical tips and reflections for teachers who consider incorporating replication in their courses. We discuss teaching practices and challenges we encountered at three stages of a replication course: student recruitment, course structure and proceedings, and learning outcomes. We highlight that by …
Gender Differences in the Consequences of Divorce: A Study of Multiple Outcomes
In this study, I examined gender differences in the consequences of divorce by tracing annual change in 20 outcome measures covering four domains: economic, housing and domestic, health and well-being, and social. I used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and fixed-effects panel regression models on a sample of N = 18,030 individuals initially observed in a marital union, N = 1,220 of whom divorced across the observation perio…
The Transition to Parent Care: Costs, Commitments, and Caregiver Selection Among Children
This research traced the process of caregiver selection among adult children longitudinally, investigating how transitions to parent care were influenced by previous constellations of caregiving costs and commitments within sibling groups. The authors used data from 6 waves (1998-2008) of the Health and Retirement Study, selecting a sample of families (N = 641 parents comprising N = 2,452 parent-child dyads) in which they observed at least 1 adul…
Gender Convergence in Housework Time: A Life Course and Cohort Perspective
Knowledge about gender convergence in housework time is confined to changes studied across repeated cross-sections of data. This study adds a dynamic view that links broader social shifts in men’s and women’s housework time to individual life-course profiles. Using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (1985–2015), our analysis is the first to trace changes in housework time across the entire adult life course (ages 20–90) and acr…
Divorce and Diverging Poverty Rates: A Risk-and-Vulnerability Approach
ObjectiveThis study offers a new approach to analyzing life course inequalities and applies it to the link between divorce and poverty.BackgroundPrevious research has suggested that divorce drives cumulative inequality between education groups during the life course. Two pathways play a role in this process: the educational gradient in the risk of divorce and the educational gradient in economic vulnerability to divorce. Both pathways should be s…
Is Divorce More Painful When Couples Have Children? Evidence From Long-Term Panel Data on Multiple Domains of Well-being
Theoretical models of the divorce process suggest that marital breakup is more painful in the presence of children, yet little is known about the role of children as a moderator of divorce effects on adult well-being. The present study addresses this gap of research based on long-term panel data from Germany (SOEP). Following individuals over several years before and after divorce, we investigated whether the impact of divorce on multiple measure…
A New Look at the Separation Surge in Europe: Contrasting Adult and Child Perspectives
This study contrasts adult and child perspectives on divorce and separation. Based on harmonized retrospective life history data from eight European countries, we study the risk of divorce and separation from the perspective of adult unions and the perspective of children born into these unions. The analysis connects adult and child perspectives, focusing on union cohort changes (1945 to 2005) in the associations between parenthood, education, an…
Gender and the Division of Labor in Older Couples: How European Grandparents Share Market Work and Childcare
Grandmothers provide far more childcare than grandfathers do. The present study investigated whether, and to what extent, this gender gap was explained by grandparent couples’ division of labor into market work and childcare. The analysis was based on panel data from two waves of the SHARE, comprising respondents from 10 European countries. Linear regression models yielded four main findings. First, the average trade-off between hours of market w…
Parents' Death and Adult Well-being: Gender, Age, and Adaptation to Filial Bereavement
The authors investigated how filial bereavement affects the subjective well-being of adult children. They used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to examine temporal profiles of life satisfaction in 2,760 adult children ages 17-70 who moved through the stages of anticipation of, reaction to, and adaptation to a parent's death. Fixed effects models covering up to 11 yearly measurements per respondent revealed that the negative effects…
The Legacy of Leaving Home: Long-Term Effects of Coresidence on Parent - Child Relationships
This study investigated how early, "on-time," and late home leavers differed in their relations to parents in later life. A life course perspective suggested different pathways by which the time spent in the parental home may set the stage for intergenerational solidarity in aging families. Using fixed-effects models with data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (N = 14,739 parent - child dyads), the author assessed the eff…
Short-Term Reciprocity in Late Parent-Child Relationships
Long-term concepts of parent-child reciprocity assume that the amount of support given and received is only balanced in a generalized fashion over the life course. We argue that reciprocity in parent-child relationships also operates in the short term. Our analysis of short-term reciprocity focuses on concurrent exchange in its main upward and downward currencies, time and money. Fixed-effects models with data from SHARE (N = 8,816 dyads) reveale…
The Delay of Grandparenthood: A Cohort Comparison in East and West Germany
This research explored the delay of grandparenthood in East and West Germany, investigating how the timing and life-course context of this transition have changed across cohorts. The authors estimated the timing of passages into the grandparent role as well as demographic overlap with worker, parent, and filial roles. Data from the German Aging Survey (N = 3,628) revealed a rise of 3 months per birth cohort (1929-1958) in the median age at grandp…
Changing Sibling Relationships After Parents' Death: The Role of Solidarity and Kinkeeping
BackgroundThe solidarity hypothesis predicts a short-term strengthening of sibling relationships after parental death, whereas the kinkeeping hypothesis predicts a long-term weakening of sibling relationships after parental death.MethodHypotheses were tested with fixed effects regression models using four waves of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (2003-2015; N = 3,812 respondents), a nationally representative sample of individuals in the Nethe…
Convergence or Continuity? The Gender Gap in Household Labor After Retirement
This research examined 2 hypotheses about the effect of retirement on couples' division of household labor. The continuity hypothesis posits that the gender gap in household labor remains unaffected by retirement, whereas the convergence hypothesis expects it to close. The authors tested these hypotheses using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 1,302 couples). Fixed effects models revealed that male breadwinners dou…
Family, Firms, and Fertility: A Study of Social Interaction Effects
Research has indicated that fertility spreads through social networks and attributed this phenomenon to social interaction effects. It remains unclear, however, whether the findings of previous studies reflect the direct influence of network partners or contextual and selection factors, such as shared environment and common background characteristics. The present study uses instrumental variables to improve the identification of social interactio…
Education and Health across Lives and Cohorts: A Study of Cumulative (Dis)advantage and Its Rising Importance in Germany
Research from the United States has supported two hypotheses. First, educational gaps in health widen with age-the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis. Second, this relationship has intensified across cohorts-the rising importance hypothesis. In this article, we used 23 waves of panel data (Socio-Economic Panel Study, 1992-2014) to examine both hypotheses in the German context. We considered individual and contextual influences on the associatio…
Family Structure and Early Home Leaving: A Mediation Analysis
An ample body of research has shown that young adults from non-intact families are more likely to leave the parental home at an early age than young adults from intact families. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. We drew on prospective longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to examine why young adults from non-intact families are more likely to leave home early. Based on the fe…
Who becomes a grandparent - and when? Educational differences in the chances and timing of grandparenthood
Despite recent advances, the demographic understanding of grandparenthood remains limited
The temporal structure of intergenerational exchange: A within-family analysis of parent–child reciprocity
How far do children move? Spatial distances after leaving the parental home
Trajectories of life satisfaction before, upon, and after divorce: Evidence from a new matching approach
The aim of the current study was to compare changes in divorcees' life satisfaction to changes in a control sample of nondivorcees. Prospective longitudinal data came from 33 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Divorcees (n = 787) were propensity-score matched to nondivorcees (n = 1,629) in the year of marriage. In this way, we created a clear starting point and time scale related to different phases of the divorce process. Piecewise …
Religious Attendance Buffers the Impact of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction: Longitudinal Evidence from Germany
This research used longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to examine whether religious attendance buffers the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction. Fixed effects models following 5,446 individuals up to three years after the transition to unemployment yielded two central findings. First, higher frequency of religious attendance was associated with smaller drops in life satisfaction. Second, only those who atten…
Explaining cross‐national differences in leaving home
There are large cross-national differences in the age of leaving home. The literature offers cultural, economic, and institutional explanations for these differences but has not examined all three explanations in one study. We examine these three explanations using data of the European Social Survey (ESS) from 2002 to 2016, supplemented with year-specific macro-level indicators from other data sources. We use a dynamic pseudo-panel design, allowi…
Educational Reproduction in Germany: A Prospective Study Based on Retrospective Data
This study examines educational reproduction of East and West German men and women born between 1930 and 1950. In a prospective design, we study the importance of mobility and fertility pathways of reproduction, considering not only the social reproduction of education as an attribute but also the demographic reproduction of individuals who carry this attribute. Using data from NEPS and SOEP, we introduce a method that estimates prospective model…
Does Diversity Pay? A Replication of Herring (2009)
In an influential article published in the American Sociological Review in 2009, Herring finds that diverse workforces are beneficial for business. His analysis supports seven out of eight hypotheses on the positive effects of gender and racial diversity on sales revenue, number of customers, perceived relative market share, and perceived relative profitability. This comment points out that Herring's analysis contains two errors. First, missing c…
The Comparative Panel File: Harmonized Household Panel Surveys from Seven Countries
The Comparative Panel File (CPF) harmonizes the world's largest and longest-running household panel surveys from seven countries: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), United Kingdom (BHPS and UKHLS), South Korea (KLIPS), Russia (RLMS), Switzerland (SHP), and the United States (PSID). The project aims to support the social science community in the analysis of comparative life course data. The CPF builds on the Cross-National Equivalent File but offe…
Schenkungen und Erbschaften im Lebenslauf / Intergenerational Transfers from a Life Course Perspective: Vergleichende Längsschnittanalysen zu intergenerationalen Transfers / A Longitudinal Comparison …
Schenkungen eignen sich besonders gut, um innerfamiliale Solidarität und Transfers aus einer Lebenslaufsperspektive zu untersuchen, da sie - im Gegensatz zu Erbschaften - zeitlich nicht festgelegt und rechtlich kaum reguliert sind. Wir konzipieren Schenkungen als Übertragungen, die von ökonomischen Bedürfnissen der Beschenkten, aber auch von immateriellen Aspekten familialer Beziehungen bestimmt werden. Anhand retrospektiv erhobener Daten aus dem…
Family Events and the Timing of Intergenerational Transfers
This research investigates how family events in adult children's lives influence the timing of their parents' financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce and childbirth on the receipt of large gifts from parents. We find increased chances of receiving real estate at marriage and in subsequent years, at childbirth, but n…
Short-Term Reciprocity in Late Parent-Child Relationships
Long-term concepts of parent-child reciprocity assume that the amount of support given and received is only balanced in a generalized fashion over the life course. We argue that reciprocity in parent-child relationships also operates in the short term. Our analysis of short-term reciprocity focuses on concurrent exchange in its main upward and downward currencies, time and money. Fixed-effects models with data from SHARE (N = 8,816 dyads) reveale…
The Legacy of Leaving Home: Long-Term Effects of Coresidence on Parent - Child Relationships
This study investigated how early, "on-time," and late home leavers differed in their relations to parents in later life. A life course perspective suggested different pathways by which the time spent in the parental home may set the stage for intergenerational solidarity in aging families. Using fixed-effects models with data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (N = 14,739 parent - child dyads), the author assessed the eff…
How far do children move? Spatial distances after leaving the parental home
The temporal structure of intergenerational exchange: A within-family analysis of parent–child reciprocity
Gender and the Division of Labor in Older Couples: How European Grandparents Share Market Work and Childcare
Grandmothers provide far more childcare than grandfathers do. The present study investigated whether, and to what extent, this gender gap was explained by grandparent couples’ division of labor into market work and childcare. The analysis was based on panel data from two waves of the SHARE, comprising respondents from 10 European countries. Linear regression models yielded four main findings. First, the average trade-off between hours of market w…
The Transition to Parent Care: Costs, Commitments, and Caregiver Selection Among Children
This research traced the process of caregiver selection among adult children longitudinally, investigating how transitions to parent care were influenced by previous constellations of caregiving costs and commitments within sibling groups. The authors used data from 6 waves (1998-2008) of the Health and Retirement Study, selecting a sample of families (N = 641 parents comprising N = 2,452 parent-child dyads) in which they observed at least 1 adul…
The Demography of Grandparenthood: An International Profile
This comparative study addressed three open questions about the demography of grandparenthood in contemporary societies: First, at what age do people become grandparents? Second, how is grandparenthood sequenced with other transitions in later life? Third, how long is the grandparent life stage? To answer these questions, we analyzed retrospective data from the United States (NSFH) and 24 European countries (GGS, ESS, DEAS). Using survival method…
Religious Attendance Buffers the Impact of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction: Longitudinal Evidence from Germany
This research used longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to examine whether religious attendance buffers the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction. Fixed effects models following 5,446 individuals up to three years after the transition to unemployment yielded two central findings. First, higher frequency of religious attendance was associated with smaller drops in life satisfaction. Second, only those who atten…
Convergence or Continuity? The Gender Gap in Household Labor After Retirement
This research examined 2 hypotheses about the effect of retirement on couples' division of household labor. The continuity hypothesis posits that the gender gap in household labor remains unaffected by retirement, whereas the convergence hypothesis expects it to close. The authors tested these hypotheses using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 1,302 couples). Fixed effects models revealed that male breadwinners dou…
Parents' Death and Adult Well-being: Gender, Age, and Adaptation to Filial Bereavement
The authors investigated how filial bereavement affects the subjective well-being of adult children. They used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to examine temporal profiles of life satisfaction in 2,760 adult children ages 17-70 who moved through the stages of anticipation of, reaction to, and adaptation to a parent's death. Fixed effects models covering up to 11 yearly measurements per respondent revealed that the negative effects…
The Delay of Grandparenthood: A Cohort Comparison in East and West Germany
This research explored the delay of grandparenthood in East and West Germany, investigating how the timing and life-course context of this transition have changed across cohorts. The authors estimated the timing of passages into the grandparent role as well as demographic overlap with worker, parent, and filial roles. Data from the German Aging Survey (N = 3,628) revealed a rise of 3 months per birth cohort (1929-1958) in the median age at grandp…
Retirement and Changes in Housework: A Panel Study of Dual Earner Couples
Although the findings on changes after retirement support the time availability hypothesis, gender construction theories still take precedence in explaining the division of household labor over the life course
Is Divorce More Painful When Couples Have Children? Evidence From Long-Term Panel Data on Multiple Domains of Well-being
Theoretical models of the divorce process suggest that marital breakup is more painful in the presence of children, yet little is known about the role of children as a moderator of divorce effects on adult well-being. The present study addresses this gap of research based on long-term panel data from Germany (SOEP). Following individuals over several years before and after divorce, we investigated whether the impact of divorce on multiple measure…
Do Immigrants Suffer More From Job Loss? Unemployment and Subjective Well-being in Germany
This study asks whether immigrants suffer more from unemployment than German natives. Differences between these groups in pre-unemployment characteristics, the type of the transition into unemployment, and the consequences of this transition suggest that factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are more concentrated in immigrants than in natives. Based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Pa…
Does Diversity Pay? A Replication of Herring (2009)
In an influential article published in the American Sociological Review in 2009, Herring finds that diverse workforces are beneficial for business. His analysis supports seven out of eight hypotheses on the positive effects of gender and racial diversity on sales revenue, number of customers, perceived relative market share, and perceived relative profitability. This comment points out that Herring's analysis contains two errors. First, missing c…
Who becomes a grandparent - and when? Educational differences in the chances and timing of grandparenthood
Despite recent advances, the demographic understanding of grandparenthood remains limited
Explaining Gender Convergence in Housework Time: Evidence from a Cohort-Sequence Design
This study connects two lines of research—trend studies on social change in housework time and life-course studies on individual- and couple-level change in housework time. This novel approach allowed us to link the macro-level trend of gender convergence in housework time to the micro-level mechanisms underlying it. Using long-running panel data (SOEP), we implemented a cohort-sequence design that followed two birth cohorts (1960 and 1975) of We…
Gender Convergence in Housework Time: A Life Course and Cohort Perspective
Knowledge about gender convergence in housework time is confined to changes studied across repeated cross-sections of data. This study adds a dynamic view that links broader social shifts in men’s and women’s housework time to individual life-course profiles. Using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (1985–2015), our analysis is the first to trace changes in housework time across the entire adult life course (ages 20–90) and acr…
Health and Housework in Later Life: A Longitudinal Study of Retired Couples
The results demonstrate the relevance of health status for the performance of housework in retired couples. The evidence attests to the resilience of couples during later-life stages in which health issues may severely inhibit domestic productivity
Family Structure and Early Home Leaving: A Mediation Analysis
An ample body of research has shown that young adults from non-intact families are more likely to leave the parental home at an early age than young adults from intact families. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. We drew on prospective longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to examine why young adults from non-intact families are more likely to leave home early. Based on the fe…
Gender Differences in the Consequences of Divorce: A Study of Multiple Outcomes
In this study, I examined gender differences in the consequences of divorce by tracing annual change in 20 outcome measures covering four domains: economic, housing and domestic, health and well-being, and social. I used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and fixed-effects panel regression models on a sample of N = 18,030 individuals initially observed in a marital union, N = 1,220 of whom divorced across the observation perio…
Education and Health across Lives and Cohorts: A Study of Cumulative (Dis)advantage and Its Rising Importance in Germany
Research from the United States has supported two hypotheses. First, educational gaps in health widen with age-the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis. Second, this relationship has intensified across cohorts-the rising importance hypothesis. In this article, we used 23 waves of panel data (Socio-Economic Panel Study, 1992-2014) to examine both hypotheses in the German context. We considered individual and contextual influences on the associatio…
Teaching Replication to Graduate Students
Replicating published studies promotes active learning of quantitative research skills. Drawing on experiences from a replication course, we provide practical tips and reflections for teachers who consider incorporating replication in their courses. We discuss teaching practices and challenges we encountered at three stages of a replication course: student recruitment, course structure and proceedings, and learning outcomes. We highlight that by …
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