M Raab
Biographic Data
| ID | 50556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Raab |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Raab |
| SIGNATURE | RAAB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bamberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3097-1591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
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…
Young adults' gendered trajectories of routine housework time when leaving home
ObjectiveTo examine young adult women's and men's time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household.BackgroundFrom a life-course perspective, establishing an own household is one of the key markers of the transition to adulthood. Leaving home is associated with new responsibilities concerning the organization of everyday life, including routine housework, and provides a new context for gendered behavior.MethodsHours for rou…
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…
Couples’ Money Arrangements in Germany: Visualizing Cohort, Age Group, and Partnership Type Variations
This visualization illustrates patterns of income pooling among German couples using longitudinal data from the German Family Panel (pairfam), examining variations across cohorts born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and among different partnership types. The findings reveal that marriage is much more strongly associated with income pooling than cohabitation or living-apart-together arrangements. A generational shift is evident: Younger cohorts are…
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…
When the last child moves out: Continuity and convergence in spouses' housework time
Objective To examine how mothers' and fathers' time allocation for routine housework changes when the last child moves out of the family household. Background During the transition to the empty nest, parental households are reduced to the situation before parenthood. Mothers and fathers are released from their direct parenting roles and parental time binds. This gradual transition creates a context in which housework time allocation is likely to …
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future
This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four decades ago, with focuses on the developments of SA thus far in the social sciences and on its potential future directions. The application of SA in the social sciences, especially in life course research, has mushroomed in the last decade and a half. Using a lif…
The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany
Pathways to death: The co-occurrence of physical and mental health in the last years of life
Physical and mental health are important markers of quality of life. Little is known about how they unfold in tandem in the last years of life
Childhood Family Structure and Early Family Formation in East and West Germany
This study investigated the association between childhood living arrangements and early family formation in Germany. Drawing on persisting sociocultural differences between East and West Germany, the author examined whether the association of childhood family structure and the transition to adulthood varies in different societal contexts. Data from the German Family Panel showed that children from nontraditional family structures experience impor…
Beyond Transmission: Intergenerational Patterns of Family Formation Among Middle-Class American Families
Research about parental effects on family behavior focuses on intergenerational transmission: that is, whether children show the same family behavior as their parents. This focus potentially overemphasizes similarity and obscures heterogeneity in parental effects on family behavior. In this study, we make two contributions. First, instead of focusing on isolated focal events, we conceptualize parents’ and their children’s family formation holisti…
Sibling Similarity in Family Formation
Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal family-formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way whether sibling similarity exists in family-fo…
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 temporal structure of intergenerational exchange: A within-family analysis of parent–child reciprocity
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…
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional n…
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…
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future
This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four decades ago, with focuses on the developments of SA thus far in the social sciences and on its potential future directions. The application of SA in the social sciences, especially in life course research, has mushroomed in the last decade and a half. Using a lif…
Beyond Transmission: Intergenerational Patterns of Family Formation Among Middle-Class American Families
Research about parental effects on family behavior focuses on intergenerational transmission: that is, whether children show the same family behavior as their parents. This focus potentially overemphasizes similarity and obscures heterogeneity in parental effects on family behavior. In this study, we make two contributions. First, instead of focusing on isolated focal events, we conceptualize parents’ and their children’s family formation holisti…
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 Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany
Sibling Similarity in Family Formation
Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal family-formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way whether sibling similarity exists in family-fo…
The temporal structure of intergenerational exchange: A within-family analysis of parent–child reciprocity
Childhood Family Structure and Early Family Formation in East and West Germany
This study investigated the association between childhood living arrangements and early family formation in Germany. Drawing on persisting sociocultural differences between East and West Germany, the author examined whether the association of childhood family structure and the transition to adulthood varies in different societal contexts. Data from the German Family Panel showed that children from nontraditional family structures experience impor…
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional n…
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…
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…
Pathways to death: The co-occurrence of physical and mental health in the last years of life
Physical and mental health are important markers of quality of life. Little is known about how they unfold in tandem in the last years of life
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement
This article suggests a multidimensional globalization measure, encompassing economic, (socio)technological, cultural and political dimensions of global change. This measure builds on previous work by Dreher, Lockwood and Redoano, the OECD and Kearney, but extends it by additional dimensions and indicators that represent central facets of a genuine sociological concept of globalization. The article first describes in detail the multidimensional 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 temporal structure of intergenerational exchange: A within-family analysis of parent–child reciprocity
Beyond Transmission: Intergenerational Patterns of Family Formation Among Middle-Class American Families
Research about parental effects on family behavior focuses on intergenerational transmission: that is, whether children show the same family behavior as their parents. This focus potentially overemphasizes similarity and obscures heterogeneity in parental effects on family behavior. In this study, we make two contributions. First, instead of focusing on isolated focal events, we conceptualize parents’ and their children’s family formation holisti…
Sibling Similarity in Family Formation
Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal family-formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way whether sibling similarity exists in family-fo…
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…
Childhood Family Structure and Early Family Formation in East and West Germany
This study investigated the association between childhood living arrangements and early family formation in Germany. Drawing on persisting sociocultural differences between East and West Germany, the author examined whether the association of childhood family structure and the transition to adulthood varies in different societal contexts. Data from the German Family Panel showed that children from nontraditional family structures experience impor…
Pathways to death: The co-occurrence of physical and mental health in the last years of life
Physical and mental health are important markers of quality of life. Little is known about how they unfold in tandem in the last years of life
The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future
This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four decades ago, with focuses on the developments of SA thus far in the social sciences and on its potential future directions. The application of SA in the social sciences, especially in life course research, has mushroomed in the last decade and a half. Using a lif…
When the last child moves out: Continuity and convergence in spouses' housework time
Objective To examine how mothers' and fathers' time allocation for routine housework changes when the last child moves out of the family household. Background During the transition to the empty nest, parental households are reduced to the situation before parenthood. Mothers and fathers are released from their direct parenting roles and parental time binds. This gradual transition creates a context in which housework time allocation is likely to …
Couples’ Money Arrangements in Germany: Visualizing Cohort, Age Group, and Partnership Type Variations
This visualization illustrates patterns of income pooling among German couples using longitudinal data from the German Family Panel (pairfam), examining variations across cohorts born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and among different partnership types. The findings reveal that marriage is much more strongly associated with income pooling than cohabitation or living-apart-together arrangements. A generational shift is evident: Younger cohorts are…
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…
Young adults' gendered trajectories of routine housework time when leaving home
ObjectiveTo examine young adult women's and men's time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household.BackgroundFrom a life-course perspective, establishing an own household is one of the key markers of the transition to adulthood. Leaving home is associated with new responsibilities concerning the organization of everyday life, including routine housework, and provides a new context for gendered behavior.MethodsHours for rou…
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…
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…
Sociology (12 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)