Research Group Leader

Nicole Hiekel

Research Group: Gender Inequalities and Fertility

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Nicole Hiekel leads the Independent Research Group on Gender Inequalities and Fertility at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. Nicole received her PhD in Sociology (2014) from VU University Amsterdam with her dissertation, entitled "The different meanings of cohabitation across Europe". She conducted this research at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in The Hague.

Nicole is an internationally recognized scholar studying, at the intersection of sociology and demography, the interaction of social and gender inequalities with demographic processes in partnership and family life courses. Her research has been published in Demography, European Journal of Population, Population Studies, European Sociological Review and Journal of Marriage and Family.

MPIDR Publications

Hiekel, N.; Kühn, M.:

Gender inequality in childcare and parental mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. Do gender role attitudes matter?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-007. (2023)    

Hiekel, N.; Kühn, M.:

Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of partnership and parenthood status for growing disparities between types of families

Journal of Health and Social Behavior 63:4, 594–609. (2022)    

Hiekel, N.; Kühn, M.:

Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of partnership and parenthood status in growing disparities between types of families.

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-013. (2021)    

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