Contributors

Marina A. Adler is Professor of and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, where she has been on the faculty since 1990. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Program, the School of Public Policy, and the Language, Literacy and Culture Program. Her research areas include cross-national gender, work, and family intersections, comparative social and family policies, and the care practices of fathers. Gunnar Andersson is Professor of Demography at Stockholm University and Head of the Stockholm University Demography Unit. He coordinates research projects on Swedish and Nordic register-based demographic research, and is involved in research programmes that focus on family policies and fertility, ageing, migrant trajectories, and residential segregation. Loretta Baldassar is Professor in the Discipline Group of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia, and is Director of the University of Western Australia Social Care and Social Ageing Living Lab. She has published extensively on migration, with a particular focus on families and caregiving. Baldassar is Vice President of the International Sociological Association Migration Research Committee, and a regional editor for the journal Global Networks. She is Co-Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Projects: ‘Ageing and New Media’ (with Raelene Wilding, La Trobe University) and ‘Mobile Transitions: Understanding the Effects of Transnational Mobility on Youth Transitions’ (with Anita Harris, Deakin University and Shanthi Robertson, Western Sydney University). Caroline Berghammer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the (since 2019) and a research scholar at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences (from 2005). Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna (from 2011). Her research focuses on families and employment, family forms, and religion and fertility. Laura Bernardi is Professor of Demography and Sociology of the Life Course at the University of Lausanne. She was deputy director of the Swiss National Center for Competences in Research LIVES (2011–17) and led the research group ‘Culture of Reproduction’ at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock (2003–2009). She is one of the editors in chief of the scientific journal Advances in Life Course Research, and is a co-editor of the Springer book series ‘Life Course and Social Policies’. She is a member of the Research Council at the Swiss National Science Foundation, and of the Scientific Committee of the Swiss Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities. She is Chair of the Scientific Council of the French Institute of Demographic Studies and is a member of the Scientific Council of Swiss Foundation for Social Research. Her research focuses on family demography, family sociology, and the life course.

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Ann Berrington is Professor and Joint Head of the Department of Demography and Social Statistics at the University of Southampton, and leads the Fertility and Family strand of the Centre for Population Change. Her research interests include transition to adulthood and part- nership and fertility dynamics, and how they are associated with socio-economic inequalities across the life course. Jonathan Bradshaw is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of York. There he founded the Social Policy Research Unit, and served two terms as head of department. His current research interests include child well-being, child poverty, and comparative social policy. He is a co-principal investigator of Children’s Worlds (https://isciweb​ ​.org/​). He is also the UK rapporteur for the European Social Policy Network, and is a fellow of the British Academy. Martin Bujard is Research Director and Head of the group ‘Family and Fertility’ at the Federal Institute for Population Research in Wiesbaden, Germany. He is also an external lecturer for sociology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He is a member of the Consortium Board of the Generations and Gender Programme and principal investigator of FReDA, the German family-demographic panel. His research focuses on fertility, assisted reproduction, family sociology, family policy as well as demographic methods and survey design and development. Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. Her research involves econometric modelling in the field of labour, family, and gender economics. She focuses on the empirical exploration of gender-based ine- qualities in the labour markets of Central and Eastern European countries, with a special focus on the impact of fertility and childrearing. Pearl A. Dykstra was appointed Chair of Empirical Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2009. Previously, she held a chair in kinship demography at Utrecht University, and was a senior scientist at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute. Her pub- lications focus on intergenerational solidarity, ageing societies, family change, ageing and the life course, and late-life well-being. She is an elected member and a previous vice president of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and an elected member of Academia Europaea. In 2015, she was appointed a member of the European Commission Chief Scientific Advisors. Josef Ehmer was Professor of Modern History at the University of (1993–2005) and Professor of Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna (2005–15), a position from which he retired in October 2015. Currently, he is an associate fellow at the international research centre Work and the Human Life Cycle in Global History at Humboldt University Berlin, and a member of the scientific commission Demographic Change of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. His research interests include the history of the family and the life course, labour history and the history of work, the history of ageing and old age, the history of migration, population history, and historical demography. Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch is a PhD candidate in sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. She studies same-sex couples’ transitions to parent- hood and the division of labour in Sweden. She earned a master’s degree in gender studies from Uppsala University.

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Albert Esteve is Director of the Center for Demographic Studies (Barcelona), and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research interests lie in the area of family and household demography, including topics such as marriage, cohabitation, assortative mating, and marriage markets. He leads the research group ‘Demography and Families’ at the Center for Demographic Studies. Marie Evertsson is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. Evertsson is coordinating the GENPARENT project, a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (grant agreement # 771770, ERC-2017-COG). She is Associate Editor of the European Sociological Review. Evertsson’s research centres on gender inequalities in the home and in the labour market, and on how family policies shape (in)equalities in an internationally comparative perspective. Her recent research focuses on the transition to parenthood in same-sex and different-sex couples in the four bigger Nordic countries, the Netherlands, and the USA. Anette E. Fasang is Professor of Sociology at Humboldt University of Berlin. She led the research group ‘Demography and Inequality’ at the WZB Berlin Center (2011–19), and was junior professor of demography at Humboldt University of Berlin (2011–14). Her research focuses on stratification, social demography, life course research, family sociology, and methods for longitudinal data analysis. Allison Geerts is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. She studies same-sex parenthood and the division of labour in the Netherlands. She received her master’s in sociology and social research from Utrecht University, and completed the European Doctoral School of Demography at Sapienza University in Rome. Daniela Grunow is Professor of Sociology specialising in ‘Quantitative Analyses of Social Change’ at the Faculty of Social Science of Goethe University in Frankfurt. She is co-spokesperson of the Frankfurt branch of the BMBF Research Institute Social Cohesion, and is an editor of Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. She has been a princi- pal investigator of several national and international research projects, including the European Research Council project ‘APPARENT – Transition to Parenthood: International and National Studies of Norms and Gender Division of Work at the Life Course Transition to Parenthood’ (2011–16). Her current research and academic activities focus on gender relations, gender ideologies, and their association with social inequality and social cohesion. Andreas Herz is Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hildesheim. He obtained his PhD from the University of Hildesheim based on a study on the transnational social support networks of migrants. His main areas of research are youth, mobility, transna- tionalism, and social networks, in which he applies both quantitative and qualitative methods. He is Speaker of the scientific network on the Qualitative Network Research (founded by the German Research Foundation). Majella Kilkey is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, where she is Co-Director of the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group. Her main research areas are migration, transnational families and care, migration and gender, including masculin- ities and family and migration policies. She has published a number of books on those topics, including Gender, Migration and Domestic Work: Masculinities, Male Labour and Fathering

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He has published on the topics of divorce, newly constituted families, gendered labour careers, and work–life balance. He has edited or co-edited several publications, including Divorce in Europe (2020), Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution (Edward Elgar, 2016), and Lone Parenthood in the Life Course (2017). Bernhard Nauck was Founding Professor of the Department of Sociology at Chemnitz University of Technology (1992–2012), where he served as a research director until 2020. Currently, he is Guest Professor at the Department of Intercultural and International Comparative Educational Sciences of the University of Hamburg (since 2016). His research focuses on family sociology, migration, and the life course, with an emphasis on international and cross-cultural comparisons. Gerda Neyer is a political scientist and demographer. Her research lies at the intersection of gender, welfare states, family policies, and fertility. She has been senior research fellow at the Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe and associate professor at the Department of Sociology, Demography Unit, Stockholm University. Prior to this she was head of the research team on ‘Institutional and Political Approaches of Fertility and Family Dynamics in Europe’ at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, visiting professor at Stanford University, and researcher at the Institute for Demography, Austrian Academy of Science. Rense Nieuwenhuis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University. His research examines how family diversity and social policy affect poverty and economic inequality. Typically, his research is country-comparative, and has a gender perspective. His recent research has focused on single-parent families, how women’s earnings affect inequality between households, and family policy outcomes. Jasmin Passet-Wittig obtained her PhD from the University of Mainz. In her thesis she studied couples’ decision making in regard to fertility treatments. She is a research fellow at the Federal Institute for Population Research in the research group ‘Fertility’. Her current research examines the interrelation of fertility postponement and medically assisted reproduction, infertility and well-being, and the determinants of seeking medically assisted reproduction. Norbert F. Schneider is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Federal Institute for Population Research in Wiesbaden. He teaches as an honorary professor at the Universities of Frankfurt/Main, Mainz, and Vienna. He is Editor in Chief of Comparative Population Studies and Co-Editor of the Journal of Family Research. He was a member of the Expert Commission of the Eighth Family Report in Germany. Currently, he is Vice President of the German Society for Demography. His research focuses on social demography, family sociology, and migration studies. Wendy Sigle has a PhD in economics from Brown University, and is Head of the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her main research areas are fertility and family structure and children’s well-being. She has worked on a variety of issues related to families and family policy in historical and contemporary societies. Her current research explores how critical and feminist theoretical perspectives can contribute to the production of demographic knowledge. As well as being President of the British Society of Population Studies and a trustee of the Population Investigation Committee, she is currently Editor of Population Studies and Associate Editor of Feminist Economics.

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Jan Skopek is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on family and social stratification, social demography, the life course, cross-national comparisons, and quantitative methodology. He is a co-editor of several books on gender and educational inequalities, and has published in internationally renowned journals such as the Journal of Marriage and Family, Demography, Social Forces, and the European Sociological Review. Tomáš Sobotka leads the research group ‘Fertility and Family’ at the Vienna Institute of Demography/Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Human Global Capital. He is also an external lecturer at the Charles University in Prague. He has helped to launch and expand several data repositories, including the Human Fertility Database (www​.humanfertility.org).​ His research focuses on global low fertility and family changes, family policies, fertility data and measurement, childlessness, migration, population and family change in Europe, and assisted reproduction. Oriel Sullivan is Professor of Sociology of Gender in the Institute of Education Department of Social Science, University College London, and Co-Director of the Economic and Social Research Council-funded Centre for Time Use Research, which is the home of the Multinational Time Use Study. Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of chang- ing gender relations and inequalities, informed by cross-national trends in housework and child-care time. She has published extensively in this area, and is the author of Changing Gender Relations, Changing Families: Tracing the Pace of Change (2006), a theoretical and empirical investigation of the (uneven) trend towards increasing gender equality in the domestic sphere. Jan Van Bavel is Professor of Demography and Family Sociology at KU Leuven. In 2005–11, he headed the Interface Demography research unit of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. At the end of 2011, he joined the Centre for Sociological Research at KU Leuven. His research addresses long-term trends in fertility, family formation, and union dissolution from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In 2012, he was awarded a starting grant by the European Research Council. In 2019, he was appointed to the Antoon Van Dyck Chair as Guest Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. Gil Viry is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the role of space and spatial mobilities in family and personal relationships, social inclusion, and the life course. His approach to family life in space and time involves examining the spatiality of personal networks and mobility biographies using social network and sequence analysis. He is currently leading several interdisciplinary projects that use advanced methods of social network analysis to analyse the geography of personal networks. Since 2013, he has led the Social Network Analysis in Scotland Research Group. Eric D. Widmer is Professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Geneva, and a member of the board of directors of NCCR LIVES. His long-term interests include intimate ties, family and other interpersonal relations, life course research, and social networks. Eric Widmer has developed an approach to families as configurations of interdependencies, always on the move in the life course. Eric Widmer has been conducting over the years a series of empirical research on couples, siblings, blended families, mobile families, etc.

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Raelene Wilding is Associate Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, where she has been teaching and researching since 2007. She uses qualitative and collaborative participatory methods to explore the familial contexts and intimate experiences of migrants and refugees in urban and rural settings, and to document the impact of new technologies on the social isolation of older adults. Her research is located at the intersections of theories of relationships, intimacy, emotions, transnational families, care, and the social impacts of new technologies. Her most recent book is Families, Intimacy and Globalization (2018). Ulrike Zartler is Associate Professor of Family Sociology at the University of Vienna, and specialises in childhood, youth, and family sociology. Her research focuses on divorce, single-parent families, and family transitions. She is also engaged in the sociological analysis of family and childhood , and in researching the impact of mediatisation on families and young people. Ulrike Zartler is particularly interested in the development of innovative quali- tative methods in the area of family and childhood studies. Currently, she is conducting a study on the Covid-19 situation and its implications for family lives.

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