A Hudde
Biographic Data
| ID | 5943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Hudde |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hudde |
| SIGNATURE | HUDDE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8421-9840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Why do young US Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? A closer look at mediators and variation by gender and party
US Americans are divided along party lines, both in politics and personal relationships. While prior research shows a preference for dating co-partisans, it remains unclear why people prefer to date co-partisans and for whom the effects are strongest. Therefore, we examine whether perceived character quality of a potential partner, perceived similarity, and expected social approval mediate the effects of matching and non-matching political party …
Why do partners often prefer the same political parties? Evidence from couples in Germany
Research has demonstrated that couples have similar partisan preferences, a finding associated with political polarization. However, it remains debated to what extent different mechanisms contribute to this homogamy. Analyzing dyadic panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984–2020, we distinguish analytically between (1) direct political matching (i.e., partner selection on matching party preferences); (2) indirect political matching (i…
What You Need to Know When Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More in the Data!”
In life course research, it is common practice to analyze the effects of life events on outcomes. This is usually done by estimating “impact functions.” To date, most studies have estimated yearly impact functions. However, Hudde and Jacob (2023) (hereafter H&J) pointed out that most panel data sets include information on the month of events. Consequently, they proposed exploiting this information by estimating monthly impact functions. In this a…
Parenthood in Europe: Not More Life Satisfaction, but More Meaning in Life
Objective This study contrasts the associations between parenthood and two central components of subjective well‐being: life satisfaction and meaning in life. Background Theoretical arguments and previous research based on qualitative analyses suggest that parenthood might lower life satisfaction but increase meaning in life. This study provides the first test of this idea based on a large‐scale, multicountry analysis, considering heterogeneity i…
Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries
Growing gender differences in political ideology among young people are a major concern because of their potential long-term societal implications. This study examines ideological shifts between young men and women in 32 European countries from 1990 to 2023, and how they are linked to societal levels of gender equality. Using data from several Eurobarometer surveys, we analyse the left–right self-placement of over 466,089 individuals aged 20–29. …
The Rollercoaster of Subjective Well-Being in Times of Multiple Crises: Evidence of Five Waves of Bi-Annual Panel Data of FReDA Survey
In times of polycrisis, such as COVID-19, the Russian war against Ukraine, and inflation, fear and uncertainties challenge many people. While the impact of the pandemic on subjective well-being was thoroughly studied, the medium-term effects and impacts of more recent crises are still to be observed. Based on the first five waves of the bi-annual (and once tri-annual) large-scale panel FReDA, we show the trend of life satisfaction over 16 time po…
The stickiness of unequal housework sharing: Limited effects of couples' ideological pairings
ObjectiveThe study aimed to investigate how couples' ideological pairings, defined as partners' joint attitudes toward gendered housework responsibilities, influence their division of housework.BackgroundDrawing from gender structure theory and integrating sociological concepts of doing and undoing gender with economic resource theories, this study tested an interactional couple-level mechanism to predict changes in housework sharing. It was hypo…
Completed U.S. Fertility by Sex, Cohort, and Education Level
This visualization shows the relationship between completed fertility and education across five decades of cohorts in the United States using data from the General Social Survey. Across these cohorts, the educational gradient of fewer children for those with more education is stronger for women than for men. The gradient has become less steep across cohorts as the gap between people with medium and high levels of education has narrowed. Those wit…
Have cycling-friendly cities achieved cycling equity? Analyses of the educational gradient in cycling in Dutch and German cities
In German cities, higher levels of education increase people’s propensity to cycle. However, it remains unknown whether this effect is restricted to certain contexts, such as cities with low or medium cycling rates, or whether it is a more universal occurrence. This paper develops and tests competing hypotheses on how the effect of education on cycling might depend on the overall cycling level: (a) educational inequalities in cycling could increa…
There’s More in the Data! Using Month-Specific Information to Estimate Changes Before and After Major Life Events
Sociological research is increasingly using survey panel data to examine changes in diverse outcomes over life course events. Most of these studies have one striking similarity: they analyze changes between yearly time intervals. In this article, we present a simple but effective method to model such trajectories more precisely using available data. The approach exploits month-specific information regarding interview and life event dates. Using f…
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events
When people marry or have their first baby, their life satisfaction spikes but fades soon thereafter. Similarly, when people separate from a partner or become widowed, their satisfaction decreases but largely recovers within a few years. I analyse to what degree people who experience these life events expect that their current shift towards joy or misery is temporary vs. long-lasting. Data are from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and are a…
Seven Decades of Gender Differences in German Voting Behavior
This article describes long-term changes in gender differences in voting behavior in Germany, using a globally unique data source: information from real ballots. Compared with self-reports in available surveys, actual votes counted by gender and age groups have three advantages: neither representativeness issues nor social desirability bias, a huge sample, and coverage of seven decades, beginning in 1953. Besides party-specific voting patterns, I…
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of Covid-19
We analyze data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, including a pre-pandemic baseline and seven survey waves between May 2020 and September 2021. Fixed effects panel regression models are run over more than 11,000 individuals, distinguishing among women and men with young children (<5 years), older children (5-15 years), or no children in the household. We hypothesize that declines in life satisfaction during the first lockdown are sharper …
Family inequality: On the changing educational gradient of family patterns in Western Germany
Objective: A comprehensive and thorough investigation of the key trends in family patterns in Western Germany. Methods: Descriptive analyses of educational differences in marital status, cohabitation, partnerlessness, and children in the household in Western Germany from 1976 to 2019. We analyze unique data from the German Microcensus with information from more than 1.7 million individuals. Results: In the 1970s, men with higher education were mo…
It's the mobility culture, stupid! Winter conditions strongly reduce bicycle usage in German cities, but not in Dutch ones
Cycling is healthy, cheap, and environmentally sustainable, but these benefits remain unexploited if many people only cycle in summer but not in winter. Seasonal differences in cycling are small in Dutch cities but relatively large in German cities. This paper tests whether this is because seasonal conditions are more moderate in the Netherlands or because German cyclists are more sensitive to temperature, rain, and daylight hours. After discussi…
Partisan Affect in Times of Fractionalization: Visualizing Who Likes Whom in Germany, 1977 to 2020
This data visualization describes the warmth of feelings that supporters of all major parties in Germany hold toward their own and all other major parties and how these feelings changed between 1977 and 2020. Data are from more than 700,000 respondents of the study Politbarometer. People have colder feelings toward ideologically more distant parties, and supporters of all other parties hold strongly negative feelings toward the radical right-wing…
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities
Cycling is an environmentally sustainable social practice that contributes to liveable cities and provides affordable and healthy transport. People with lower education could particularly benefit from cycling, as they tend to fare worse regarding finances and health. However, in bivariate analyses, those with lower education cycle less. This article discusses the social meaning of cycling and investigates whether the education-cycling association…
The unequal cycling boom in Germany
Over the last two decades, cycling in Germany has increased by more than 40%. This paper analyses how this overall increase is broken down by group, characterised by residence (rural and smaller towns vs. medium-sized and larger cities) and education (high vs. low). It analyses (1) how the composition of the population changes according to these groups, (2) how cycling behaviour develops within these groups, and (3) how the changes in composition…
Gender Role Attitudes Cannot Explain How British Couples Responded to Increased Housework Demands during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Previous research has shown that gender role attitudes can predict changes in couples' housework division over critical life events, but these studies might have suffered from endogeneity because such life events are anticipated and may be affected by gender role attitudes. In contrast, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was a truly exogenous shock that hit couples unexpectedly. Estimating fixed-effects regression models, the author…
Intra-Couple (Dis)Similarity in Gender Role Attitudes and the Transition to Parenthood in Germany
This paper tests whether couples in which partners hold dissimilar gender role attitudes are less likely to have a first child together compared to couples in which both partners share similar attitudes. The study contributes to micro-level research on gender role attitudes and fertility, which has examined the content of one partner's attitudes, but not the fit of both partners' views. We analyse unique panel data from the German Family Panel (p…
Homogamy in Gender Role Attitudes Among Young Couples: Evidence from Germany
Romantic partners’ similarity in gender role attitudes affects important outcomes such as sharing of housework, relationship stability, or fertility. However, there is little knowledge about how similar romantic partners are in these attitudes. Using dyadic panel data from German couples (sourced from pairfam), this study puts the degree of homogamy in gender role attitudes among young couples into perspective by comparing real couples with two t…
Societal Agreement on Gender Role Attitudes and Childlessness in 38 Countries
Intra-Couple (Dis)Similarity in Gender Role Attitudes and the Transition to Parenthood in Germany
This paper tests whether couples in which partners hold dissimilar gender role attitudes are less likely to have a first child together compared to couples in which both partners share similar attitudes. The study contributes to micro-level research on gender role attitudes and fertility, which has examined the content of one partner's attitudes, but not the fit of both partners' views. We analyse unique panel data from the German Family Panel (p…
Societal Agreement on Gender Role Attitudes and Childlessness in 38 Countries
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of Covid-19
We analyze data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, including a pre-pandemic baseline and seven survey waves between May 2020 and September 2021. Fixed effects panel regression models are run over more than 11,000 individuals, distinguishing among women and men with young children (<5 years), older children (5-15 years), or no children in the household. We hypothesize that declines in life satisfaction during the first lockdown are sharper …
Partisan Affect in Times of Fractionalization: Visualizing Who Likes Whom in Germany, 1977 to 2020
This data visualization describes the warmth of feelings that supporters of all major parties in Germany hold toward their own and all other major parties and how these feelings changed between 1977 and 2020. Data are from more than 700,000 respondents of the study Politbarometer. People have colder feelings toward ideologically more distant parties, and supporters of all other parties hold strongly negative feelings toward the radical right-wing…
Family inequality: On the changing educational gradient of family patterns in Western Germany
Objective: A comprehensive and thorough investigation of the key trends in family patterns in Western Germany. Methods: Descriptive analyses of educational differences in marital status, cohabitation, partnerlessness, and children in the household in Western Germany from 1976 to 2019. We analyze unique data from the German Microcensus with information from more than 1.7 million individuals. Results: In the 1970s, men with higher education were mo…
Gender Role Attitudes Cannot Explain How British Couples Responded to Increased Housework Demands during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Previous research has shown that gender role attitudes can predict changes in couples' housework division over critical life events, but these studies might have suffered from endogeneity because such life events are anticipated and may be affected by gender role attitudes. In contrast, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was a truly exogenous shock that hit couples unexpectedly. Estimating fixed-effects regression models, the author…
Homogamy in Gender Role Attitudes Among Young Couples: Evidence from Germany
Romantic partners’ similarity in gender role attitudes affects important outcomes such as sharing of housework, relationship stability, or fertility. However, there is little knowledge about how similar romantic partners are in these attitudes. Using dyadic panel data from German couples (sourced from pairfam), this study puts the degree of homogamy in gender role attitudes among young couples into perspective by comparing real couples with two t…
There’s More in the Data! Using Month-Specific Information to Estimate Changes Before and After Major Life Events
Sociological research is increasingly using survey panel data to examine changes in diverse outcomes over life course events. Most of these studies have one striking similarity: they analyze changes between yearly time intervals. In this article, we present a simple but effective method to model such trajectories more precisely using available data. The approach exploits month-specific information regarding interview and life event dates. Using f…
Seven Decades of Gender Differences in German Voting Behavior
This article describes long-term changes in gender differences in voting behavior in Germany, using a globally unique data source: information from real ballots. Compared with self-reports in available surveys, actual votes counted by gender and age groups have three advantages: neither representativeness issues nor social desirability bias, a huge sample, and coverage of seven decades, beginning in 1953. Besides party-specific voting patterns, I…
The unequal cycling boom in Germany
Over the last two decades, cycling in Germany has increased by more than 40%. This paper analyses how this overall increase is broken down by group, characterised by residence (rural and smaller towns vs. medium-sized and larger cities) and education (high vs. low). It analyses (1) how the composition of the population changes according to these groups, (2) how cycling behaviour develops within these groups, and (3) how the changes in composition…
The stickiness of unequal housework sharing: Limited effects of couples' ideological pairings
ObjectiveThe study aimed to investigate how couples' ideological pairings, defined as partners' joint attitudes toward gendered housework responsibilities, influence their division of housework.BackgroundDrawing from gender structure theory and integrating sociological concepts of doing and undoing gender with economic resource theories, this study tested an interactional couple-level mechanism to predict changes in housework sharing. It was hypo…
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events
When people marry or have their first baby, their life satisfaction spikes but fades soon thereafter. Similarly, when people separate from a partner or become widowed, their satisfaction decreases but largely recovers within a few years. I analyse to what degree people who experience these life events expect that their current shift towards joy or misery is temporary vs. long-lasting. Data are from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and are a…
It's the mobility culture, stupid! Winter conditions strongly reduce bicycle usage in German cities, but not in Dutch ones
Cycling is healthy, cheap, and environmentally sustainable, but these benefits remain unexploited if many people only cycle in summer but not in winter. Seasonal differences in cycling are small in Dutch cities but relatively large in German cities. This paper tests whether this is because seasonal conditions are more moderate in the Netherlands or because German cyclists are more sensitive to temperature, rain, and daylight hours. After discussi…
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities
Cycling is an environmentally sustainable social practice that contributes to liveable cities and provides affordable and healthy transport. People with lower education could particularly benefit from cycling, as they tend to fare worse regarding finances and health. However, in bivariate analyses, those with lower education cycle less. This article discusses the social meaning of cycling and investigates whether the education-cycling association…
Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries
Growing gender differences in political ideology among young people are a major concern because of their potential long-term societal implications. This study examines ideological shifts between young men and women in 32 European countries from 1990 to 2023, and how they are linked to societal levels of gender equality. Using data from several Eurobarometer surveys, we analyse the left–right self-placement of over 466,089 individuals aged 20–29. …
Completed U.S. Fertility by Sex, Cohort, and Education Level
This visualization shows the relationship between completed fertility and education across five decades of cohorts in the United States using data from the General Social Survey. Across these cohorts, the educational gradient of fewer children for those with more education is stronger for women than for men. The gradient has become less steep across cohorts as the gap between people with medium and high levels of education has narrowed. Those wit…
Societal Agreement on Gender Role Attitudes and Childlessness in 38 Countries
Homogamy in Gender Role Attitudes Among Young Couples: Evidence from Germany
Romantic partners’ similarity in gender role attitudes affects important outcomes such as sharing of housework, relationship stability, or fertility. However, there is little knowledge about how similar romantic partners are in these attitudes. Using dyadic panel data from German couples (sourced from pairfam), this study puts the degree of homogamy in gender role attitudes among young couples into perspective by comparing real couples with two t…
The unequal cycling boom in Germany
Over the last two decades, cycling in Germany has increased by more than 40%. This paper analyses how this overall increase is broken down by group, characterised by residence (rural and smaller towns vs. medium-sized and larger cities) and education (high vs. low). It analyses (1) how the composition of the population changes according to these groups, (2) how cycling behaviour develops within these groups, and (3) how the changes in composition…
Gender Role Attitudes Cannot Explain How British Couples Responded to Increased Housework Demands during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Previous research has shown that gender role attitudes can predict changes in couples' housework division over critical life events, but these studies might have suffered from endogeneity because such life events are anticipated and may be affected by gender role attitudes. In contrast, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was a truly exogenous shock that hit couples unexpectedly. Estimating fixed-effects regression models, the author…
Intra-Couple (Dis)Similarity in Gender Role Attitudes and the Transition to Parenthood in Germany
This paper tests whether couples in which partners hold dissimilar gender role attitudes are less likely to have a first child together compared to couples in which both partners share similar attitudes. The study contributes to micro-level research on gender role attitudes and fertility, which has examined the content of one partner's attitudes, but not the fit of both partners' views. We analyse unique panel data from the German Family Panel (p…
It's the mobility culture, stupid! Winter conditions strongly reduce bicycle usage in German cities, but not in Dutch ones
Cycling is healthy, cheap, and environmentally sustainable, but these benefits remain unexploited if many people only cycle in summer but not in winter. Seasonal differences in cycling are small in Dutch cities but relatively large in German cities. This paper tests whether this is because seasonal conditions are more moderate in the Netherlands or because German cyclists are more sensitive to temperature, rain, and daylight hours. After discussi…
Partisan Affect in Times of Fractionalization: Visualizing Who Likes Whom in Germany, 1977 to 2020
This data visualization describes the warmth of feelings that supporters of all major parties in Germany hold toward their own and all other major parties and how these feelings changed between 1977 and 2020. Data are from more than 700,000 respondents of the study Politbarometer. People have colder feelings toward ideologically more distant parties, and supporters of all other parties hold strongly negative feelings toward the radical right-wing…
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities
Cycling is an environmentally sustainable social practice that contributes to liveable cities and provides affordable and healthy transport. People with lower education could particularly benefit from cycling, as they tend to fare worse regarding finances and health. However, in bivariate analyses, those with lower education cycle less. This article discusses the social meaning of cycling and investigates whether the education-cycling association…
There’s More in the Data! Using Month-Specific Information to Estimate Changes Before and After Major Life Events
Sociological research is increasingly using survey panel data to examine changes in diverse outcomes over life course events. Most of these studies have one striking similarity: they analyze changes between yearly time intervals. In this article, we present a simple but effective method to model such trajectories more precisely using available data. The approach exploits month-specific information regarding interview and life event dates. Using f…
Do they think that joy and misery are temporary? Comparing trajectories of current and predicted life satisfaction across life events
When people marry or have their first baby, their life satisfaction spikes but fades soon thereafter. Similarly, when people separate from a partner or become widowed, their satisfaction decreases but largely recovers within a few years. I analyse to what degree people who experience these life events expect that their current shift towards joy or misery is temporary vs. long-lasting. Data are from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and are a…
Seven Decades of Gender Differences in German Voting Behavior
This article describes long-term changes in gender differences in voting behavior in Germany, using a globally unique data source: information from real ballots. Compared with self-reports in available surveys, actual votes counted by gender and age groups have three advantages: neither representativeness issues nor social desirability bias, a huge sample, and coverage of seven decades, beginning in 1953. Besides party-specific voting patterns, I…
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of Covid-19
We analyze data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, including a pre-pandemic baseline and seven survey waves between May 2020 and September 2021. Fixed effects panel regression models are run over more than 11,000 individuals, distinguishing among women and men with young children (<5 years), older children (5-15 years), or no children in the household. We hypothesize that declines in life satisfaction during the first lockdown are sharper …
Family inequality: On the changing educational gradient of family patterns in Western Germany
Objective: A comprehensive and thorough investigation of the key trends in family patterns in Western Germany. Methods: Descriptive analyses of educational differences in marital status, cohabitation, partnerlessness, and children in the household in Western Germany from 1976 to 2019. We analyze unique data from the German Microcensus with information from more than 1.7 million individuals. Results: In the 1970s, men with higher education were mo…
Completed U.S. Fertility by Sex, Cohort, and Education Level
This visualization shows the relationship between completed fertility and education across five decades of cohorts in the United States using data from the General Social Survey. Across these cohorts, the educational gradient of fewer children for those with more education is stronger for women than for men. The gradient has become less steep across cohorts as the gap between people with medium and high levels of education has narrowed. Those wit…
Have cycling-friendly cities achieved cycling equity? Analyses of the educational gradient in cycling in Dutch and German cities
In German cities, higher levels of education increase people’s propensity to cycle. However, it remains unknown whether this effect is restricted to certain contexts, such as cities with low or medium cycling rates, or whether it is a more universal occurrence. This paper develops and tests competing hypotheses on how the effect of education on cycling might depend on the overall cycling level: (a) educational inequalities in cycling could increa…
Why do partners often prefer the same political parties? Evidence from couples in Germany
Research has demonstrated that couples have similar partisan preferences, a finding associated with political polarization. However, it remains debated to what extent different mechanisms contribute to this homogamy. Analyzing dyadic panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984–2020, we distinguish analytically between (1) direct political matching (i.e., partner selection on matching party preferences); (2) indirect political matching (i…
What You Need to Know When Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More in the Data!”
In life course research, it is common practice to analyze the effects of life events on outcomes. This is usually done by estimating “impact functions.” To date, most studies have estimated yearly impact functions. However, Hudde and Jacob (2023) (hereafter H&J) pointed out that most panel data sets include information on the month of events. Consequently, they proposed exploiting this information by estimating monthly impact functions. In this a…
Parenthood in Europe: Not More Life Satisfaction, but More Meaning in Life
Objective This study contrasts the associations between parenthood and two central components of subjective well‐being: life satisfaction and meaning in life. Background Theoretical arguments and previous research based on qualitative analyses suggest that parenthood might lower life satisfaction but increase meaning in life. This study provides the first test of this idea based on a large‐scale, multicountry analysis, considering heterogeneity i…
Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries
Growing gender differences in political ideology among young people are a major concern because of their potential long-term societal implications. This study examines ideological shifts between young men and women in 32 European countries from 1990 to 2023, and how they are linked to societal levels of gender equality. Using data from several Eurobarometer surveys, we analyse the left–right self-placement of over 466,089 individuals aged 20–29. …
The Rollercoaster of Subjective Well-Being in Times of Multiple Crises: Evidence of Five Waves of Bi-Annual Panel Data of FReDA Survey
In times of polycrisis, such as COVID-19, the Russian war against Ukraine, and inflation, fear and uncertainties challenge many people. While the impact of the pandemic on subjective well-being was thoroughly studied, the medium-term effects and impacts of more recent crises are still to be observed. Based on the first five waves of the bi-annual (and once tri-annual) large-scale panel FReDA, we show the trend of life satisfaction over 16 time po…
The stickiness of unequal housework sharing: Limited effects of couples' ideological pairings
ObjectiveThe study aimed to investigate how couples' ideological pairings, defined as partners' joint attitudes toward gendered housework responsibilities, influence their division of housework.BackgroundDrawing from gender structure theory and integrating sociological concepts of doing and undoing gender with economic resource theories, this study tested an interactional couple-level mechanism to predict changes in housework sharing. It was hypo…
Why do young US Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? A closer look at mediators and variation by gender and party
US Americans are divided along party lines, both in politics and personal relationships. While prior research shows a preference for dating co-partisans, it remains unclear why people prefer to date co-partisans and for whom the effects are strongest. Therefore, we examine whether perceived character quality of a potential partner, perceived similarity, and expected social approval mediate the effects of matching and non-matching political party …
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