A5005656240- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Social and Demographic Issues in Germany
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Global Health Care Issues
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Health and Medical Studies
- Family Support in Illness
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Policies and Healthcare Reform
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
University of Cologne
2015-2024
Federal Institute for Population Research
2023-2024
Institute of Semitic Studies
2020-2021
LVR-Klinik Köln
2017-2018
The Ohio State University
2017-2018
National Council on Family Relations
2017-2018
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2017-2018
Electoral Commission
2017
Hanover College
2017
German Institute for Economic Research
2001-2014
Introducing findings from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this research complements large number recent U.S. studies on role grandparents caring for their grandchildren. For 10 continental European countries, authors investigate cross-national variations grandparent-provided child care as well differences characteristics providers recipients care. Although they find strong involvement grandchildren's across all also identify significant prevalence...
Using data from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this article continues extends recent cross‐national research on proximity contacts older parents to their children. In addition a brief description geography families 10 continental European countries, determinants intergenerational are examined. Even when microlevel factors controlled for, Mediterranean peoples continue exhibit closer family relations than northern counterparts. I also find noteworthy systematic...
Objective: To contribute to the discussion about potential impact of COVID-19 pandemic on gender (in)equality.
 Background: We focus a core aspect (in)equality in intimate relationships, namely couples’ division housework and childcare, whether this has changed during Corona crisis.
 Method: Our descriptive analysis is based pre-release data from German Family Panel (pairfam; Wave 12) its supplementary web-survey (n=3,108).
 Results: observe no fundamental changes established...
The availability of public day care is often assumed to be crucial the compatibility childrearing and women's employment. This article takes a multilevel perspective in investigating role child childbearing decisions western Germany. Using information on local supply data from German Socio‐Economic Panel, we estimated first second birth risks 1980s 1990s. We found that access informal arrangements increases probability entering parenthood, but did not find any statistically significant...
To provide an overview of the prevalence and profiles grandparents providing childcare to grandchildren in 2 East Asian countries, China South Korea, characterized by similar demographic developments a shared cultural background but having very different contemporary institutional socioeconomic circumstances. We apply logistic models analyze pilot data from Health Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) Korean Aging (KLoSA; Wave 2). Our analytic sample comprises 772 Chinese respondents 4,958...
The contemporary discussion about the growing ‘burden of population ageing’ should not neglect substantial productive potential older people. Using micro-data from 2004 Survey Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), this paper examines relationships between selected socio-demographic characteristics rates participation voluntary work 10 European countries among those aged 50 or more years. analysis reveals a clear spatial pattern, with relatively high Northern low Mediterranean...
Objectives.We estimate comparable prevalence estimates of "successful aging" for 14 European countries and Israel, adding a new cross-nationally comparative perspective to recently published findings the United States.
Families have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown, but barely any research has conducted yet, investigating how COVID-19-related stressors – and, specifically, disruptions in established employment arrangements affected couples' relationship quality. To account more comprehensively for such non-monetary costs of pandemic, present study investigates whether changes partners' situation during crisis particularly home-office short-time work had an immediate impact...
We investigate (a) how the proportion of European grandparents providing childcare changed over a period 15 years, (b) these proportions differ by gender and education, (c) countries not covered in earlier analyses fit into previously identified regional patterns grandparental Europe. Using data from Waves 1, 2, 8 Survey Health, Ageing Retirement Europe (SHARE), our descriptive analysis provides estimates prevalence intensity 26 as well changes therein time across socio-demographically...
Purpose: To investigate the dynamics of volunteering in population aged 50 years or older across 11 Continental European countries. Design and Methods: Using longitudinal data from first 2 waves Survey Health, Ageing Retirement Europe, we run multivariate regressions on a set binary-dependent variables indicating transitions active to inactivity vice versa. Results: Volunteer were affected by both time-invariant individual resources changes individuals' resources. Moreover, found that...
This research investigated the relationship between individuals' present frequency of prayer and various dimensions older adults' physical mental health in nine European countries. Using data from 2004 Survey Health, Ageing Retirement Europe, authors estimated pooled regional multivariate logistic regression models for four dependent variables: self-perceived general health, functional limitations, health. The results showed that population aged 50 years was negatively correlated with all...
Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), our article shows that population aged 50 or older is socially connected several ways. The various dimensions social connectedness turn out to be complementary rather than substitutive, except for relationship between informal relations family relations, which tends characterized by substitution. Our analysis reveals dynamics formal as well tend driven individuals’ resources needs. While associations...
Abstract Exploiting retrospective data from the SHARELIFE project, we investigate long-term associations between early and later life unemployment spells of at least six months in a sample more than 13,000 men women eleven European countries. Our findings provide, first, evidence for significant differences life-course pattern occurrence welfare state regimes. Second, childhood conditions are shown to bear with odds experiencing periods throughout one's employment career. Third, finally, our...
Gender preferences may have substantial implications for a couple's fertility behavior. However, there is only limited empirical research investigating this subject in modern Western societies. In paper, data from the Fertility and Family Surveys
Family policy and fertility: fathers’ mothers’ use of parental leave continued childbearing in Norway Sweden
This article aims to improve our understanding of the societal determinants older people's participation in non-market productive activities. Based on micro-data from Survey Health, Ageing and Retirement Europe, we estimate logistic multilevel models for individuals' engagement formal volunteering, informal helping, caring across 11 countries. The results partially support hypotheses regarding relationship between specific macro-level variables at ages. While measure images aging does not...
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated role of childbearing history in later-life health and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex region. Higher parity is associated with better self-rated West mothers fathers aged 50+, but its relationship East women's physical survival negative. Early motherhood paralleled poorer Germany, whereas late lower psychological well-being Eastern Germany. Moreover, among women, having had a non-marital...