Research Group

Gender Inequalities and Fertility

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Publications

Dierker, P.; Ophir, A.; Hiekel, N.:

From dating to marriage: changes in short-term fertility intentions across partnership transitions

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-010. (2026)

Leesch, J.; Hiekel, N.:

No partner, no children? Union formation, assortative mating, and educational inequalities in fertility in Germany

European Journal of Population 42:8, 1–24. (2026)

Mazzeo, F.; Hiekel, N.; Vitali, A.:

Joint pot or separate purses? Unpacking the cohabitation-marriage gap in income pooling across Europe

Journal of Family Research 38, 23–46. (2026)

Tobler, L.; Leesch, J.:

Workers, jobs, and how they are matched: a decomposition of US labor market trends in educational mismatch

Social Science Research 135:103311, 1–15. (2026)

Begall, K.; Hiekel, N.:

Examining the gender equality-fertlity paradox in three Nordic countries

Population and Development Review 51:2, 858–888. (2025)

Ferraretto, V.; Hiekel, N.; Vitali, A.:

Non-cohabiting partners’ economic characteristics and the transition to living together in Germany: a couple-level perspective

European Journal of Population 41:25, 1–28. (2025)

Leesch, J.; Skopek, J.:

Five decades of marital sorting in France and the United States: the role of educational expansion and the changing gender imbalance in education

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 97:101044, 1–15. (2025)

Arnolfo, S.; Hiekel, N.:

Pathways of family change: a typology of multipartnered fertility life courses in five Northern European countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-005. (2024)

Hiekel, N.; Kühn, M.:

Lessons from the pandemic: gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany

Demographic Research 51:3, 49–80. (2024)

Leesch, J.; Skopek, J.:

Five decades of marital sorting in France and the United States: the role of educational expansion and the changing gender imbalance in education

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2024)

Mazzeo, F.; Hiekel, N.; Vitali, A.:

Joint pot or separate purses? Unpacking the cohabitation-marriage gap in income pooling across Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-024. (2024)

Mazzeo, F.; Schwartz, C.; Scherer, S.; Vitali, A.:

Trends in women's educational advantage and divorce in East and West Germany

Comparative Population Studies 49, 317–336. (2024)

Robbins, N.:

Is “being there” enough? Father’s instrumental support and union dissolution among disadvantaged families

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-030. (2024)

Robbins, N.:

Time and money: parental leave generosity and first-time parents’ uptake of leave across 23 European countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-031. (2024)

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)

Research

Conference / Call for Papers

Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity

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