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Latest publications:

  • Eskelinen, N., Salonen, L., Kotimäki, S., Lindberg, M., & Härkönen, J. (2026). The very early antecedents of NEET: Understanding the role of birthweight. Journal of Social Policy

  • Bernardi, F., & Ghirardi, G. (2025). Socioeconomic status, genotype, and the differential effects of parental separation on educational attainment. Demography 62(3): 1109-36 https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11968557
  • Brüggemann, O., Lang, J. (2025). Gendered Responses to Unfair Pay: Evidence from a Factorial Survey Experiment among Employees in German Firms. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2025.101064
  • Ciccolini, G. (2025). Who is left behind? Economic status loss and populist radical right voting. Perspectives in Politics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724002858
  • Cuzulan, B., Schultz-Nielsen, M.L., & Fallesen, P. (2025). The Demographic and Socioeconomic Consequences of Restricting Access to Marriage for Young Immigrants in Denmark. Demography.
  • Diehl, C., Lang, J., Brüggemann, O., & Strauß, S. (2025). Is My Wage Fair? Validating Fairness Perceptions Among Women and Men. Socius. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251366126
  • Di Stasio, V. and P. McDonald (2025). “Employers as key gatekeepers in school-to-work transitions: a review of experimental research using factorial surveys and correspondence tests”. In: M. H. J. Wolbers & D. Verhaest (Eds.) Handbook on Education and Work, Elgar Handbooks in Education Series (pp. 375-395). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035309917.00028.
  • Fallesen, P., Passaretta, G., & Jensen, S.S. (2025). Union Dissolution and Children's Educational Achievement: Separating Effects of School and Non-School Environments. European Sociological Review 41(5): 737-54. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf026
  • Frese, J., Härkönen, J., & Hix, S. (2025). Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit. European Journal of Political Research, 64(3), 1519–1532. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12745
  • Ge, T., Van Leeuwen, F. J., Jiang, Q., & Leopold, L. (2025). Mental health in China: Social Change in Life Course Trajectories. Population and Development Review, 51(2), 759–796. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12684
  • Geven, S., & Zwier, D. (2025). Students’ interactional cultural capital and academic performance in test- and teacher-based assessments. The British Journal of Sociology, 76(3), 622–634. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13199
  • Ghirardi, G. (2025). The development of body mass index from adolescence to adulthood: A genotype-family socioeconomic status interaction study. Social Science and Medicine.
  • Ghirardi, G., & Bernardi, F. (2025). Compensating or boosting genetic propensities? Gene-family socioeconomic status interactions by educational outcome selectivity. Social Science Research.
  • Ghirardi, G., & Gioachin, F. (2025). Center-based ECEC closes gaps, others may widen them: A decomposition of how different childcare arrangements shape early educational inequality. Acta Sociologica.
  • Gulczyński, M. (2025). Men in European Union’s Gender Equality Policies. Journal of European Social Policy, 35(1), 40–54. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241284556
  • Gulczyński, M. (forthcoming). Sexism as a Predictor of Political Attitudes and Voting Behaviour. A Systematic Review. Public Opinion Quarterly. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tykcb_v1
  • Gulczyński, M., Köppl–Turyna, M., & Kantorowicz, J. (2025). Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections. Political Studies, 73(4), 1632–1653. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241308098
  • Jacobi, A., Hamjediers, M., & Naujoks, T. (2025). Tailored to Women, Provided to Men? Gendered Occupational Inequality in Access to Flexible Working-Time Arrangements. Social Indicators Research.
  • McErlean, K. (2025). Gender Egalitarianism and Marital Dissolution: Understanding the Bifurcation of the “Gender Revolution” in the United States. Socius, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251372790
  • Nielsen, M. N., Fallesen, P., & Gähler, M. (2025). Parental Union Dissolution and Children's Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Addressing Selection and Considering the Role of Post-Dissolution Living Arrangements. Social Forces.
  • Orderud, H. (2025). Earthquake severity and child nutrition: The Haiti 2010 earthquake. World Development, 193, 107053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.10705
  • Parolin, Z., Schmitt, R.P., Esping-Andersen, G., & Fallesen, P. (2025). The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in Five High-Income Countries. Nature Human Behavior.
  • Riaz, S., & Hamjediers, M. (2025). Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice. British Journal of Political Science.
  • Schaff, F. (2025). The unequal spirit of the Protestant reformation: Particularism and wealth distribution in Early Modern Germany. Journal of Economic Growth 30: 417-460.
  • Strauß, S., Brüggemann, O., & Lang, J. (2025). Who Perceives Lower Wages for Women to be Fair? How Perceptions of the Fairness of Men’s and Women’s Wages Vary by Firm and Workplace Characteristics. European Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf013
  • Stückradt, K., Lancee, B., & Di Stasio, V. (2026). Doing diversity? Analyzing support for diversity policies with a conjoint experiment. Social Science Research, 133, 103262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103262
  • Van Hootegem, A., Rogne, A. F., Cros, C. T., Røgeberg, O., & Lyngstad, T. H. (2025). Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: A combined twin and adoption study. European Sociological Review, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf029
  • Wildeman, C., Roehrkasse, A., Gibbons, A., Sernaker, S., Becker, L., & Fallesen, P. (2025). Two Decades of Child Welfare System Contact in the Global North: A Research Note on Trends in 44 Countries. Demography.
  • Wood, J., Marynissen, L., Nisén, J., Fallesen, P., Neels, K., Trimarchi, A., Dommermuth, L., van Gaalen, R., Kolk, M., & Martikainen, P. (2025). Regional differentiation in women's educational gradients in fertility around the turn of the century. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research.
  • Zwier, D. (2025). Be true to your school: School profiling and school sorting by socio-economic status. Social Science Research, 103239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103239
  • Zwier, D. (2025). One track mind: Secondary effects in school choice and social capital in a stratified system. European Societies. https://doi.org/10.1162/euso_a_00033

  • Blaabæk, E. A., Andersen, L. H., & Fallesen, P. (2024). From Unequal Injuries to Unequal Learning? Socioeconomic gradients in childhood concussions and the impact on children's academic performance. Social Science & Medicine.
  • Blaabæk, E. A., Vigild, D. J., Elwert, F., Fallesen, P., & Andersen, L. H. (2024). Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Charges and Convictions in Mid and Late Adolescence. JAMA Pediatrics.
  • Brüggemann, O. (2024). Employees’ perceptions of internal promotion penalties: the role of gender, parenthood and part-time. European Societies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2023.2270049
  • Brunori, C. (2024), Unhealthy Assimilation or Compositional Differences? Disentangling Immigrants' Mental Health Trajectories with Residence Duration. Population and Development Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12642
  • Canzio, L. I. (2024). Does employability help to cope with job insecurity? An analysis of workers’ wellbeing with Swiss panel data. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 90, 100915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100915
  • Christensen, M. L., Jonassen, A. B., & Fallesen, P. (2024). Income Developments in the Great Recession: Status for the Danish Prime-age Working Population a Decade Following the Onset of the Financial Crisis. Journal of Economic Inequality.
  • Cozzani, M., Fallesen, P., Passaretta, G., Härkönen, J., & Bernardi, F. (2024). The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Fertility and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Spanish Birth Registers. Population and Development Review, 50(S1), 153–176. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12536
  • Di Stasio, V., & de Vries, A. M. (2024). Same religion, different treatment. The role of origin country characteristics in employers’ decisions to hire Muslims. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(10), 2444-2467.
  • Fallesen, P. (2024). Criminal Justice Involvement, Transition to Fatherhood, and the Demographic Foundation of the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime. Acta Sociologica.
  • Fallesen, P., Andersen, L. H., & Elwert, F. (2024). Heterogenous Causal Effects in Family Research: Exploring Potentials and Pitfalls using the Fatherhood Premium in Denmark as an Example. Journal of Marriage and Family.
  • Ferrara, A., Grindel, C., & Brunori, C. (2024). A longitudinal perspective to migrant health: Unpacking the immigrant health paradox in Germany. Social Science & Medicine, 351, 116976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116976
  • Ghirardi, G., Gil-Hernández, C., Bernardi, F., van Bergen, E., & Demange, P. (2024). Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
  • Goisis, A., Fallesen, P., Seiz, M., Salazar, L., Eremenko, T., & Cozzani, M. (2024). Educational gradients in the prevalence of medically assisted reproduction births in a comparative perspective. Fertility & Sterility.
  • Grätz, M., & Härkönen, J. (2024). The Effect of Parental Separation on Educational Achievement: An Instrumental Variable Analysis. Social Science Research, 122, 103040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103040
  • Gulczyński, M., & Cześnik, M. (2024). Wasting public money to buy turnout: quasi-experimental evidence from the Polish battle for fire trucks. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2024.2343379
  • Härkönen, J., & Santacroce, M. (2024). Family influences on intergenerational inequality: Family dynamics and birth order. In Blanden, J., Erola, J., Kilpi-Jakonen, E., & Macmillan, L. (Eds.), Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality, pp. 214–226. Edward Elgar.
  • Iacono, R., Marino, M., & Mollerstrom, J. (2024). Misperceptions, Policy Preferences and Polarization. European Journal of Political Economy, 85, 102578.
  • Janssen, L., Zwier, D., & Van de Werfhorst, H. (2024). Privatization of preschool education: The implications for educational inequalities in cross-national perspective. Acta Sociologica, 67(3), 282–300. https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993231205201
  • Lorijn, S., Zwier, D., Laninga-Wijnen, L., Huisman, M., & Veenstra, R. (2024). A new school, a fresh start? Change and stability in peer relationships and academic performance in the transition from primary to secondary school. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53, 1987–2001. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-01991-y
  • McErlean, K. (2024). Cohabiting couple’s economic organization and marriage patterns across social classes. Journal of Marriage and Family, 86(3), 762–786. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12947
  • Mogensen, H., Tettamanti, G., Elmerdahl Frederiksen, L., Talbäck, M., Härkönen, J., Modig, K., Pedersen, C., Krøyer, A., Hirvonen, E., Kyrönlahti, A., Heyman, A., Holmqvist, A., Hasle, H., Madanat-Harjuoja, L., Malila, N., Winther, J., Erdmann, F., & Feychting, M. (2024). Educational attainment in survivors of childhood cancer in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. British Journal of Cancer, 130, 260–268. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-023-02499-1
  • Pepin, J. R., McErlean, K., Glass, J. L., & Raley, R. K. (2024). Why Are So Many U.S. Mothers Becoming Their Family’s Primary Economic Support? Demography, 61(6), 1793–1817. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11646286
  • Schaff, F. (2024). Urban political structure and inequality: Political economy lessons from Early Modern German cities. Journal of Economic History 84(2): 517-53.
  • Stückradt, K., Jaspers, E., Van Gaalen, R., & Machado, W. (2024). Parents' hourly wages in female same-sex and different-sex couples: The role of partner's gender and employers. Journal of Family Research, 36, 66–84. https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-960
  • Van de Werfhorst, H., Zwier, D., Geven, S., Bol, T., & Haelermans, C. (2024). Inequality in pandemic effects on school track placement and the role of social and academic embeddedness. npj Science of Learning, 9, 71. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00283-1
  • Wiemers, S. A., Stasio, V. D., & Veit, S. (2024). Stereotypes about Muslims in the Netherlands: An intersectional approach. Social Psychology Quarterly, 87(4), 440-460
  • Zwier, D., Kalmijn, M., & Bol, T. (2024). Fatherhood and men’s working hours in a part-time economy. Social Forces, 103(2), 681–702. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae081

  • Aradhya, S., Grotti, R., & Härkönen, J. (2023). Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants. European Sociological Review, 39(3), 433–448. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac071
  • Batruch, A., Geven, S., Kessenich, E., & van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2023). Are tracking recommendations biased? A review of teachers’ role in the creation of inequalities in tracking decisions. Teaching and Teacher Education, 103985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103985
  • Billingsley, S., Härkönen, J., & Hornung, M. (2023). The sensitivity of family dynamics to economic and social turbulence: A descriptive overview in 11 post-socialist countries, 1970–2010. Comparative Population Studies, 48, 493–522. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bib-cpos-2023-19en4
  • Ferrara, A. (2023). Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant–native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France. European Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac050
  • Ferrara, A., & Brunori, C. (2023). Immigrant generation, gender, and citizenship: Evidence on educational track choices from Italy. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2218047
  • Hogendoorn, B., & Härkönen, J. (2023). Single motherhood and multigenerational coresidence in Europe. Population and Development Review, 49(1), 105–133. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12540
  • Härkönen, J., Jalovaara, M., Lappalainen, E., & Miettinen, A. (2023). Double disadvantage in a Nordic welfare state: A demographic analysis of the single parent employment gap in Finland, 1987–2018. European Journal of Population, 39(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-023-09651-w
  • Plavgo, I., & Bernardi, F. (2023). Trends and determinants of intergenerational educational inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa for birth cohorts 1974 to 2003. Social Forces, online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380407231210279
  • Porthan, E., Lindberg, M., Härkönen, J., Scheinin, N. M., Karlsson, L., Karlsson, H., & Ekholm, E. (2023). Childhood trauma and fear of childbirth: Findings from a birth cohort study. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 26, 523–539. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-023-01328-x
  • Schaff, F. (2023). Warfare and economic inequality: Evidence from preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800). Explorations in Economic History 89(2):
  • Cozzani, M., & Härkönen, J. (2023). The influence of early health on educational and socioeconomic outcomes. In Hoffmann, R. (Ed.), Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course, pp. 292–306. Edward Elgar.

  • Passaretta, G., & Skopek, J. (2021). Does Schooling Decrease Socioeconomic Inequality in Early Achievement? A Differential Exposure Approach. American Sociological Review. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00031224211049188

  • Jonsson, M., Härkönen, J., Ljungman, P., Nordberg, P., Ringh, M., Hirlekar, G., Rawshani, A., Herlitz, J., Ljung, R., & Hollenberg, J. (2021). Inequalities in income and education are associated with survival differences after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - a nationwide observational study. Circulation, 144(24), 1915-1925.

  • Lindberg, M., Nolvi, S., Härkönen, J., Aatsinki, A.-K., Karlsson, L., Karlsson, H., & Uusitupa, H.-M. (2021). Associations between maternal socioeconomic, psychosocial and seasonal factors, infant characteristics and human milk cortisol concentrations. American Journal of Human Biology, 33(6), e23561.

  • Espadafor, M., & Martínez, S. (2021). The negative consequences of sports betting opportunities on human capital formation: Evidence from Spain. PLoS ONE, 16(10), e0258857. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258857

  • Cozzani, M., Triventi, M., & Bernardi, F. (2021). Maternal Stress and Pregnancy Outcomes. Evidence from a Natural Experiment: the 2004 Madrid Train Bombing. European Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcab045

  • Bernardi, F., Cozzani, M., & Zanasi, F. (2021). Social inequality and the risk of living in a nursing home: implications for the COVID-19 pandemic. Genus. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-021-00119-5

  • Borgonovi, F., Ferrara, A., & Piacentini, M. (2021). Performance decline in a low-stakes test at age 15 and educational attainment at age 25: Cross-country longitudinal evidence. Journal of Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.08.011

  • Watson, D., Grotti, R., Whelan, C. T., & Maître, B. (2021). Welfare Regime Variation in the Impact of the Great Recession on Deprivation Levels: A Dynamic Perspective on Polarisation vs Convergence for Social Risk Groups, 2005–2014. Journal of Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421000210

  • Bernardi, F., & Cozzani, M. (2021). Soccer Scores, Short-Term Mood and Fertility. European Journal of Population. doi:10.1007/s10680-021-09576-2

  • Cozzani, M., Aradhya, S., Goisis, A., The cognitive development from childhood to adolescence of low birthweight children born after medically assisted reproduction—a UK longitudinal cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab009

  • Bernardi, F., & Gil-Hernández, C. J. (2021). The Social-Origins Gap in Labour Market Outcomes: Compensatory and Boosting Advantages Using a Micro-Class Approach. European Sociological Review, 37(1), 32-48. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa034

  • Härkönen, J., Brons, M. D., & Dronkers, J. (2021). Family forerunners? Parental separation and partnership formation in 16 countries. Journal of Marriage and Family, 83(1), 119-136.

  • Morosow, K., Jalovaara, M., & Härkönen, J. (2021). Cash-for-care use and union dissolution in Finland. Journal of Marriage and Family, 83(1), 209-227.

  • Kotimäki, S., Härkönen, J., Karlsson, L., Karlsson, H., & Scheinin, N. (2020). Educational differences in prenatal anxiety and depressive symptoms and the role of childhood circumstances. SSM – Population Health, 12, 100690. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827320302279

  • Monti, A. F., Mussino, E., Drefahl, S., & Härkönen, J. (2020). Over-coverage in population registers leads to bias in demographic estimates. Population Studies, 74(3), 451-469. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2020.1724224
  • Skopek, J., & Passaretta, G. (2020). Socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement from infancy to adolescence: The case of Germany. Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaa093

  • Brandén, M., Aradhya, S., Kolk, M., Härkönen, J., Drefahl, S., Malmberg, B., Rostila, M., Cederström, A., Andersson, G., & Mussino, E. (2020). Residential context and COVID-19 mortality among adults aged 70 years and older in Stockholm: a population-based, observational study using individual-level data. The Lancet Healthy Longevity. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-7568(20)30016-7

  • Härkönen, J., & Sirniö, O. (2020). Educational transitions and educational inequality: A multiple pathways sequential logit model analysis of Finnish birth cohorts 1960-85. European Sociological Review, 36(5), 700-719. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa019

  • Porthan, E., Lindberg, M., Ekholm, E., Scheinin, N. M., Karlsson, L., Karlsson, H., & Härkönen, J. (2020). Parental divorce in childhood does not independently predict maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20, 520. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03299-7

  • Settersten, R. A., Jr., Bernardi, L., Härkönen, J., et al. (2020). Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens. Advances in Life Course Research, 45, 100360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100360

  • Jonsson, M., Lungman, P., Härkönen, J., Van Nieuwenhuisen, B., Møller, S., Ringh, M., & Nordberg, P. (2020). Relationship between socioeconomic status and incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is dependent on age. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74(9), 726-731. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-213296

  • Bucca, M., & Urbina, D. (Forthcoming). Lasso regularization for selection of log-linear models: an application to educational assortative mating. Sociological Methods and Research. 2019 Clifford Clogg Best Paper award from the American Sociological Association’s section on Methodology. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0049124119826154

  • Molina, M., Bucca, M., & Macy, M. (2019). It's not just how the game is played, it's whether you win or lose. Science Advances, 5(7). Vol. 5, no. 7. Media coverage: New York Times, Washington Post, New Scientist, Science Daily, Cornell Chronicle, and others. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaau1156

  • O'Reilly, J., Grotti, R., & Russell, H. (2019). Are some sectors more "youth friendly" than others? Employment regimes, sectors, and gender disparities in the Great Recession. Human Resource Management Journal, 29, 490-508. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12242

  • Grotti, R., & Cutuli, G. (2018). xtpdyn: A community-contributed command for fitting dynamic random-effects probit models with unobserved heterogeneity. The Stata Journal, 18(4), 844-862. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1536867X1801800406

  • Gil-Hernández, C. J. (2019). Do well-off families compensate for low cognitive ability? Evidence on social inequality in early schooling from a twin study. Sociology of Education, 92(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040719830698

  • Bernardi, F., & Boertien, D. (2019). Same-sex parents and children’s school progress: An association that disappeared over time. Demography. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0759-3

  • Bernardi, F., Boertien, D., & Geven, K. (2018). Childhood family structure and the accumulation of wealth across the life course. Journal of Marriage and Family, 81(1), 230-247.

  • Gil-Hernández, C. J., Bernardi, F., Luijkx, R., & Salazar, L. (December, 2019). Intergenerational social mobility in Spain between 1945 and 2006: Social fluidity without educational equalization? In R. Breen & W. Mueller (Eds.), Education and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe and the United States. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

  • Jonsson, M., Härkönen, J., Ljungman, P., Rawshani, A., Nordberg, P., Svensson, L., Herlitz, J., & Hollenberg, J. (2018). Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with area-level socioeconomic status. Heart. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2018-313838

  • Bernardi, F., & Triventi, M. (2018). Compensatory advantage in educational transitions: Trivial or substantial? A simulated scenario analysis. Acta Sociologica. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699318780950

  • Boertien, D., Bernardi, F., & Härkönen, J. (2018). Family Structure and Socioeconomic Inequality of Opportunity in Europe and the United States. unequal family lives, 165.

  • Bernardi, F., Hertel, F. R., & Yastrebov, G. (2018). A U-turn in inequality in college attainment by parental education in the US? Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 58, 33-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2018.09.003

  • Albertini, M., Gähler, M., & Härkönen, J. (2018). Moving back to "mamma"? Divorce, intergenerational coresidence, and latent family solidarity in Sweden. Population, Space and Place, e2142.https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2142

  • Brons, M. D., & Härkönen, J. (2018). Parental Education and Family Dissolution: A Cross-National and Cohort Comparison. Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(2), 426-443.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12461

  • Boertien, D., & Härkönen, J. (2018). Why does women’s education stabilize marriages? The role of marital attraction and barriers to divorce. Demographic Research, 38, 1241-1276. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.41

  • Härkönen, J., Lindberg, M., Karlsson, L., Karlsson, H., & Scheinin, N. M. (2018). Education is the strongest socio-economic predictor of smoking in pregnancy. Addiction, 113(6), 1117-1126. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14158

  • Lee, N., Morris, K., & Kemeny, T. (2018). Immobility and the Brexit vote. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 11(1), 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx027

  • Gil-Hernández, C. J., & Gracia, P. (2018). Adolescents' educational aspirations and ethnic background: The case of students of African and Latin American migrant origins in Spain. Demographic Research, 38, 577-618. https://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.23

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  • Härkönen, J. (2018). Single mother poverty: How much do educational differences in single motherhood matter? In Nieuwenhuis, R. & Maldonado, L. (Eds.), The Triple Bind of Single Parent Families (pp. 31-50). Policy Press.

  • Bernardi, F., Chakhaia, L., & Leopold, L. (2017). ‘Sing me a song with social significance’: The (mis) use of statistical significance testing in European sociological research. European Sociological Review, 33(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw047

  • Bernardi, F., & Boertien, D. (2017). Non-intact families and diverging educational destinies: A decomposition analysis for Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. Social science research, 63, 181-191.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.09.004

  • Grätz, M., & Bernardi, F. (2017). Parental responses to disadvantageous life events: the month of birth penalty in England. Social Inequality Across the Generations: The Role of Compensation and Multiplication in Resource Accumulation, 68.

  • Bernardi, F., & Boertien, D. (2017). Explaining conflicting results in research on the heterogeneous effects of parental separation on children’s educational attainment according to social background. European Journal of Population, 33(2), 243-266.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-017-9417-5

  • Härkönen, J., Bernardi, F., & Boertien, D. (2017). Family dynamics and child outcomes: An overview of research and open questions. European Journal of Population, 33(2), 163-184.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-017-9424-6

  • Giuliani, G., & Duvander, A. Z. (2017). Cash‐for‐care policy in Sweden: An appraisal of its consequences on female employment. International Journal of Social Welfare, 26(1), 49-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12229

  • Gil-Hernández, C. J., Marqués-Perales, I., & Fachelli, S. (2017). Intergenerational social mobility in Spain between 1956 and 2011: The role of educational expansion and economic modernisation in a late industrialised country. Research in social stratification and mobility, 51, 14-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2017.06.002

  • Education, Occupation and Social Origin. A Comparative Analysis of the Transmission of Socio-Economic Inequalities
    Edited by Fabrizio Bernardi (European University Institute) and Gabriele Ballarino (University of Milan)
    This innovative book takes a comparative approach to the social origin–education–destination triangle (OED), looking at the intergenerational transmission of advantage in 14 countries. The intention is to debate the claim that education is the ‘great social equalizer’. The contributors examine the relation between family background, education and occupational achievement over time and across educational levels, focusing on the relationship between individuals’ social origins and their income and occupational outcomes. It will be of interest to academics and students of social policy and those interested in social inequalities and their reproduction over time.
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  • Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality. An international perspective
    Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Nevena Kulic, Jan Skopek and Moris Triventi
    The fourth book in the eduLIFE Lifelong Learning Series, to be published by Edward Elgar, provides a cross country comparison of access to early education and childcare, and an evaluation of its short and long term effects on individuals from different social backgrounds.
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  • Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality
    Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buccholz, Jan Skopek and Moris Triventi
    The third book in the eduLIFE Lifelong Learning series, to be published by Edward Elgar, focuses on educational differentiation in secondary education and short- and longer-term consequences on social inequality in educational opportunities, achievement and final educational attainment
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  • Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys – The Example of the National Educational Panel Study
    Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, J.von Maurice, M. Bayer and Jan SkopekThis book, published by Springer, addresses a broad array of pressing challenges of longitudinal surveys and provides innovative solutions to methodological problems based on the example of the National Educational Panel Studies (NEPS).

  • Gender, Education, and Employment: An International Comparison of School-To-Work Transitions
    Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi, and Sandra Buchholz
    The second book in the eduLIFE Lifelong Learning series, 'Gender, Education, and Employment', has just been published by Edward Elgar. This book asks whether or not women have been able to convert their educational success into gains on the labor market. 
  • Adult Learning In Modern Societies Published by Edward Elgar
    Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Daniela Vono de Vilhena and Sandra Buchholz
    The first book in the eduLIFE Lifelong Learning series, 'Adult Learning In Modern Societies', has just been published by Edward Elgar. This book will be of great use to both academics and policymakers with an interest in adult learning, sociology, education and inequality, and labor economics.

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