Jenny Chanfreau

Biographic Data

ID376590
NAMEJenny Chanfreau
GIVEN NAMESJenny
FAMILY NAMEChanfreau
SIGNATURECHANFREAU J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0003-3914-5859
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Young Adults’ Relationship Happiness in England During Covid-19

    Open AccessM Sironi, Jenny Chanfreau et al.ARTICLEJournal of Happiness Studies2025

    Given the relevance of romantic relationships for physical and mental health, it is important to be attentive to how younger adults may have experienced COVID-19 and to explicitly differentiate between being in a romantic relationship and living arrangements (i.e. co-residing or not with the partner). Yet most research during the pandemic has focused on older adults, families, or cohabiting partners. This work investigates relationship happiness …

  • What Reproductive Justice Brings to and Requires of The Feminist Economics Project

    Open AccessContributors: Contributors, Wendy Sigle et al.ARTICLEFeminist Economics2025References: 22

    Despite evidence of a growing interest in reproductive justice (RJ) among feminist economists, this interest is nascent. To avoid RJ becoming a buzzword and losing its political and critical edge, it is important to fully grasp what the RJ framework means and brings to research. This Dialogue aims to create a space where the possibility of an interdisciplinary, transnational exchange of knowledge and ideas could be explored and encouraged. It pre…

  • Austerity as reproductive injustice: Did local government spending cuts unequally impact births

    Open AccessLaura Sochas, Jenny ChanfreauARTICLESocial Forces2025References: 7

    Large local government spending cuts in England, spanning over a decade of austerity policies, have severely restricted the universal services and public goods that constitute the environments within which parenting occurs. Drawing on the Reproductive Justice (RJ) framework and conceptualizing spending cuts as restricting the right to parent in safe and healthy environments, we ask whether these cuts constrained people’s right to have children. T…

  • Conceptualizing and Measuring the Contribution of Assisted Reproductive Technologies to Fertility Rates

    Open AccessJenny Chanfreau, A Goisis et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2025Cited by: 1References: 42

    Against the backdrop of the rising use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART), we argue that more reflection on the measurement and conceptualization of the contribution of ART to fertility rates is warranted. First, despite evidence of marked sociodemographic stratification in ART use, research on the ART contribution to fertility rates has largely overlooked how ART contributes differently to fertility levels across sociodemographic groups…

  • Patterns of help and care by adult only children and children with siblings

    Open AccessJenny Chanfreau, A GoisisARTICLEAgeing and Society2024Cited by: 5References: 67

    Adult children with siblings can share caring for older parents but adult only children face this responsibility alone. Given increased longevity and reliance on informal care-giving, as well as an increase in one-child families, there is a need to investigate only children's care-giving further. Using data from three large-scale British birth cohorts, this paper investigates patterns of parent-care, care intensity and wellbeing at ages 38 and 42…

  • Defining and Identifying Only Children: A Research Note on the Concept and Measurement Illustrated With UK Survey Data

    Open AccessJenny Chanfreau, A GoisisARTICLEDemography2024References: 23

    Despite increasing interest in the circumstances and outcomes of only children in the demographic literature, the conceptualization of this group has received limited scholarly attention. This research note argues for greater engagement by demographers and social scientists in the conceptualization and identification of only children by addressing three aims. First, we outline potential definitions of only children, present a framework to guide r…

  • Only Children and Cognitive Ability in Childhood: A Cross-Cohort Analysis over 50 Years in the United Kingdom

    Open AccessA Goisis, Jenny Chanfreau et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2023References: 38

    Only children's uniqueness has intrigued researchers for decades, but many gaps in knowledge remain as to whether only children differ from children who have siblings. We use data from four British birth cohorts (born in 1946, 1958, 1970, 2000-2002) to investigate cross-cohort differences in the composition of only child families and whether the association between being an only child and cognitive ability in childhood has changed over time. Only…

  • The Persistence in Gendering: Work-Family Policy in Britain since Beveridge

    Open AccessJenny ChanfreauARTICLEJournal of Social Policy2023Cited by: 3References: 52

    Understanding the historical policy pathways that have led to the constellation of policies that both reflect and shape the current gender order can reveal reasons for the persistence of gender inequality in paid work and unpaid family care. Bringing together existing research and policy critique with Carol Bacchi's framework of policy as 'gendering practices', this paper focuses on the role of policy as a process that constructs and upholds an u…