Lili Vargha
@lilivargha.bsky.social
Postdoc @University of Vienna @ifswien.bsky.social, EC fellow @wfrn.bsky.social | previously postdoc @Humboldt Uni Berlin @humboldt-foundation.de
Demography, social demography, life course, economic lifecycle, paid & unpaid work, care, child costs, dataviz
Demography, social demography, life course, economic lifecycle, paid & unpaid work, care, child costs, dataviz
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Lili Vargha
@lilivargha.bsky.social
· Oct 7
❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE?
✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.
✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.
✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social early-career fellows! It's been such a privilege to review the 200+ excellent applications + huge congratulations to our elected fellows!
The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development!
wfrn.org/news/announc...
The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development!
wfrn.org/news/announc...
Announcing the 2026 WFRN Early Career Fellowship Recipients - Work and Family Researchers Network
The WFRN Welcomes 2026 Early Career Fellowship Recipients! To date, 170 early-career scholars have participated in the WFRN’s Early Career Fellowship Program. This program is designed to deliver a var...
wfrn.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social early-career fellows! It's been such a privilege to review the 200+ excellent applications + huge congratulations to our elected fellows!
The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development!
wfrn.org/news/announc...
The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development!
wfrn.org/news/announc...
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Awww @wfrn.bsky.social - it's been so amazing and inspiring working with our talented ECFs.
My time as a Work and Family Researchers Network Early-Career Fellow is soon coming to an end, and I’m very grateful for the academic care.
A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.
A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Awww @wfrn.bsky.social - it's been so amazing and inspiring working with our talented ECFs.
My time as a Work and Family Researchers Network Early-Career Fellow is soon coming to an end, and I’m very grateful for the academic care.
A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.
A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My time as a Work and Family Researchers Network Early-Career Fellow is soon coming to an end, and I’m very grateful for the academic care.
A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.
A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.
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It was very nice indeed to visit Vienna for a little while, and I am happy it was productive as well. Thank you very much for hosting! Now it's time to write.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
It was very nice indeed to visit Vienna for a little while, and I am happy it was productive as well. Thank you very much for hosting! Now it's time to write.
It was really nice having you @mischewu.bsky.social as a visiting research fellow! Also the best timing ever: We still have some days to finish our abstract for #EPC2026 Bologna 🍝
📢 Incoming Research Fellow: Maximilian Reichert (13.–17.10.2025)
We’re happy to welcome Max Reichert @mischewu.bsky.social from Erasmus University Rotterdam!
His work explores how family dynamics and social policy interact across the life course.
t.ly/8iHUL
We’re happy to welcome Max Reichert @mischewu.bsky.social from Erasmus University Rotterdam!
His work explores how family dynamics and social policy interact across the life course.
t.ly/8iHUL
Incoming Research Fellow: Maximilian Reichert (13.-17.10.2025)
A warm welcome to Maximilian Reichert, visiting from Rotterdam!
t.ly
October 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It was really nice having you @mischewu.bsky.social as a visiting research fellow! Also the best timing ever: We still have some days to finish our abstract for #EPC2026 Bologna 🍝
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Demographers & sociologists assemble!
I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged.
#sociology #demography
I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged.
#sociology #demography
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Demographers & sociologists assemble!
I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged.
#sociology #demography
I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged.
#sociology #demography
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New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.
It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets.
Thread 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets.
Thread 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.
It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets.
Thread 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨💼💰👩💼 are by studying many local labour markets.
Thread 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE?
✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.
✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.
✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
October 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE?
✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.
✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.
✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Are you a social scientist that wants to learn R?
Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful!
I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work.
github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...
Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful!
I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work.
github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...
September 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Are you a social scientist that wants to learn R?
Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful!
I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work.
github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...
Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful!
I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work.
github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...
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🚨 Our new paper (w/ Kausiki Sarma) on housework & marital violence in India is just out!
We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance.
@sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance.
@sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Mundane and the Extreme: Women’s Experiences of Housework and Marital Violence in India - Kausiki Sarma, Yang Hu, 2025
Mainstream theories tend to consider housework a form of labor and its gendered division a result of resource exchange or bargaining and an act of “doing gender...
journals.sagepub.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🚨 Our new paper (w/ Kausiki Sarma) on housework & marital violence in India is just out!
We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance.
@sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance.
@sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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The private cost of children in the U.S. is at least twice as high as conventional estimates suggest.
#feministeconomics
www.dollarsandsense.org/the-underest...
#feministeconomics
www.dollarsandsense.org/the-underest...
The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”
Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.
www.dollarsandsense.org
September 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The private cost of children in the U.S. is at least twice as high as conventional estimates suggest.
#feministeconomics
www.dollarsandsense.org/the-underest...
#feministeconomics
www.dollarsandsense.org/the-underest...
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📊 Key findings II — Decomposition:
- Prior studies overestimated compositional share of GPGs
- My results:
→ GPG driven by gender-exclusive life-course experiences
→ Main reason = lack of male counterparts for low rewarded unpaid care work
→ Earlier & longer care spells = highest pension penalty
- Prior studies overestimated compositional share of GPGs
- My results:
→ GPG driven by gender-exclusive life-course experiences
→ Main reason = lack of male counterparts for low rewarded unpaid care work
→ Earlier & longer care spells = highest pension penalty
September 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📊 Key findings II — Decomposition:
- Prior studies overestimated compositional share of GPGs
- My results:
→ GPG driven by gender-exclusive life-course experiences
→ Main reason = lack of male counterparts for low rewarded unpaid care work
→ Earlier & longer care spells = highest pension penalty
- Prior studies overestimated compositional share of GPGs
- My results:
→ GPG driven by gender-exclusive life-course experiences
→ Main reason = lack of male counterparts for low rewarded unpaid care work
→ Earlier & longer care spells = highest pension penalty
Congrats congrats congrats for all winners🎉🎉🥳🥳
I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷♀️
I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷♀️
Congratulations to Chen-Hao Hsu @uni-bamberg.de
for winning the 2nd place #ECSR PhD prize #ECSR2025 🥳🥳🥳
for winning the 2nd place #ECSR PhD prize #ECSR2025 🥳🥳🥳
September 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Congrats congrats congrats for all winners🎉🎉🥳🥳
I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷♀️
I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷♀️
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💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps
Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re
doi.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Last week I had the pleasure presenting at #ECSR2025 and meeting many old and new friends 🥳 Stay tuned, preprints are soon coming from longitudinal linked lives approaches using group-based multi-trajectory modeling 🚀
September 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Last week I had the pleasure presenting at #ECSR2025 and meeting many old and new friends 🥳 Stay tuned, preprints are soon coming from longitudinal linked lives approaches using group-based multi-trajectory modeling 🚀
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📅 Our @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and team is represented at the ECSR Conference 3–5 September in Cologne! Presenting research on education & infant health, poverty after first birth, mating market inequalities, and parents’ long-term earnings. #ECSR2025 #Demography #Inequality
t.ly/g1X03
t.ly/g1X03
Team Steiber at the ECSR Conference 3–5 September in Cologne
Team Steiber is represented at the conference “Demography and Social Inequality”.
www.soz.univie.ac.at
August 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
📅 Our @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and team is represented at the ECSR Conference 3–5 September in Cologne! Presenting research on education & infant health, poverty after first birth, mating market inequalities, and parents’ long-term earnings. #ECSR2025 #Demography #Inequality
t.ly/g1X03
t.ly/g1X03
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Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.
#research #hiring
#research #hiring
We’re hiring!
Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶
🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...
#hiring #openvacancies
Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶
🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...
#hiring #openvacancies
Senior researcher or doctoral researcher
The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term senior researcher or doctoral researcher position from 1....
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August 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.
#research #hiring
#research #hiring
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We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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ich habe eine gute (PostDoc-)Stelle zu vergeben
100 % E13, zunächst 1 Jahr, ziemlich sicher aber sehr viel länger
ab 1.12.2025
Soziologie & Gender Studies
deadline: 15.09.2025
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...
100 % E13, zunächst 1 Jahr, ziemlich sicher aber sehr viel länger
ab 1.12.2025
Soziologie & Gender Studies
deadline: 15.09.2025
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d)
job-portal.lmu.de
August 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
ich habe eine gute (PostDoc-)Stelle zu vergeben
100 % E13, zunächst 1 Jahr, ziemlich sicher aber sehr viel länger
ab 1.12.2025
Soziologie & Gender Studies
deadline: 15.09.2025
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...
100 % E13, zunächst 1 Jahr, ziemlich sicher aber sehr viel länger
ab 1.12.2025
Soziologie & Gender Studies
deadline: 15.09.2025
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...
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A Perspective on Making “Invisible” Care Visible Through Time Use Data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A Perspective on Making “Invisible” Care Visible Through Time Use Data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods
Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
July 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods
Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
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The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities.
Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...
Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...
2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference - Work and Family Researchers Network
ABOUT THE EVENT
Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. The WFRN will host preconference events on June 17, including ...
wfrn.org
June 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities.
Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...
Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...
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My first PhD article has been published!
🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.
🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.
#Published: "Flexible working time arrangements and work-life conflict: The role of gender and housework" by @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social & Susanne Strauß (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My first PhD article has been published!
🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.
🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.
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New study from my PhD thesis—supervised by @pablogracia.bsky.social—out in Journal of Marriage and Family!
📝 It examines how changes in paid work and housework following birth shape first-time mothers’ and fathers’ mental health trajectories.
Read here (Open access): doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121
📝 It examines how changes in paid work and housework following birth shape first-time mothers’ and fathers’ mental health trajectories.
Read here (Open access): doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examines the role of changes in paid work and housework time on first-time mothers' and fathers' mental health trajectories. Background The transition into parenthood is a key...
doi.org
May 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
New study from my PhD thesis—supervised by @pablogracia.bsky.social—out in Journal of Marriage and Family!
📝 It examines how changes in paid work and housework following birth shape first-time mothers’ and fathers’ mental health trajectories.
Read here (Open access): doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121
📝 It examines how changes in paid work and housework following birth shape first-time mothers’ and fathers’ mental health trajectories.
Read here (Open access): doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121