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Professorship of Demography

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  10. Causes and Consequences of Family Dynamics

Causes and Consequences of Family Dynamics

Content and goals

The decline in fertility accompanied by increased non-marital fertility and delayed childbearing, the decrease in marriage rates and the increase in divorce rates have all contributed to dramatically changing family structures in Europe. Although previous research has studied these demographic changes extensively, we still know little about how union and fertility dynamics evolve over the individual life courses and how life courses within and between generations are linked. In collaboration with the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg (ifb), we study the causes and consequences of fertility and family dynamics in Europe from a life course perspective focusing not only on individual life courses but also on linked lives between children, parents, and grandparents.

Publications

Scenarios for the equal division of paid and unpaid work in the transition to parenthood in Germany. Comparative Population Studies 39(3): 615 - 644.
  • Grunow, Daniela, Florian Schulz & Hans-Peter Blossfeld (2012): Who contacts whom? Educational homophily in online mate selection. European Sociological Review 27(2): 180 - 195.
  • Leopold, T., & T. Schneider (2011): "Family Events and the Timing of Intergenerational Transfers", Social Forces 90(2): 595-616.
  • Leopold, T., & M. Raab (2011): "Short-Term Reciprocity in Late Parent-Child Relationships", Journal of Marriage and Family 73(1): 105-119. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00792.x
  • Leopold, T., & T. Schneider (2011): "Gifts, Bequests, and Social Inequality in West Germany", Schmollers Jahrbuch - Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 131.
  • Leopold, T., & T. Schneider (2010): "Schenkungen und Erbschaften im Lebenslauf. Vergleichende L?ngsschnittanalysen zu intergenerationalen Transfers" (Intergenerational Transfers from a Life Course Perspective. A Longitudinal Comparison of Gifts and Bequests), Zeitschrift für Soziologie 39(4): 258-280.

    • Chapters in Edited Volumes

    • Leopold, T., & M. Raab (2011): "Kurzzeitreziprozit?t in sp?ten Eltern-Kind-Beziehungen", in: Berger, P. A., K. Hank, and A. Toelke (eds.). Reproduktion von Ungleichheit in Arbeit und Familie. Wiesbaden: VS
    • Leopold, T., & T. Schneider (2011): "Intergenerationale Verm?genstransfers und soziale Ungleichheit: Schenkungen und Erbschaften in Westdeutschland", in: Berger, P. A., K. Hank, and A. Toelke (eds.). Reproduktion von Ungleichheit in Arbeit und Familie. Wiesbaden: VS
    • Leopold, T. (2009): "Erbschaften und Schenkungen im Lebenslauf. Eine vergleichende L?ngsschnittanalyse mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel", in: Engelhardt, H. (ed.). Bamberger Beitr?ge zur Soziologie, Band 02. University of Bamberg Press.
    • Raab, M., C. Schmidt, & M. Ruland (2009): "Intergenerationale Austauschbeziehungen und ihre Determinanten. Ein europ?ischer Vergleich", in: Engelhardt, H. (ed.): Bamberger Beitr?ge zur Soziologie, Band 1. University of Bamberg Press.

    Research Reports

    • Schmidt, C., M. Raab, & M. Ruland: "Intergenerationale Austauschbeziehungen im internationalen Vergleich". pp. 143-166 in: Tanja Mühling and Harald Rost (eds.): ifb-Familienreport 2009 - Schwerpunkt Familie in Europa. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung, Familie und Frauen.