Contributors Marina A. Adler is Professor of Sociology 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 University of Vienna (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. viii Norbert F. Schneider and Michaela Kreyenfeld - 9781788975544 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/01/2021 06:55:12AM via free access Contributors ix 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 Salzburg (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. Norbert F. Schneider and Michaela Kreyenfeld - 9781788975544 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/01/2021 06:55:12AM via free access x Research handbook on the sociology of the family 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 Social Science 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