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  • Attitudes towards women's employment in international comparison - An analysis based on the ISSP (BA/MA)
  • Changing gender role perceptions over time (BA)
  • Gender role perceptions of mothers and fathers depending on the gender of their children (BA/MA)
  • Do young men become more conservative over time, while women tend to become more liberal? (BA)
  • Partnership dynamics in old age - re-partnering after divorce or widowhood at retirement age. An analysis based on data from the Ageing Survey (MA)
  • Discrimination against men when choosing a partner? The 1991-93 cohort in East and West Germany - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • The significance of ethnic homogamy for the relationship quality of people with and without a migration background - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • How does the marriage type influence the network satisfaction of people with and without a migration background? An empirical analysis based on SHARE (MA)
  • The importance of marriage and family over time: Are there signs of retraditionalisation? (BA/MA)
  • To what extent do couples who met online or face-to-face differ in terms of social structure? (BA/MA)
  • To what extent do couples who met online or face-to-face differ in terms of their family formation process? (MA)
  • Is betrothal experiencing a renaissance: What significance is ascribed to it? (BA)
  • Family Policy and Fertility: A Complex Interrelationship: A Literature Review (BA)
  • Teenage pregnancies in international comparison - prevalence and causes: A literature review (BA)
  • Social inequality and fertility (MA)
  • The influence of one's own number of siblings on the desire to have children and the number of children one has, as a function of socio-structural characteristics - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • What influence do diverging ideas about the desire to have children within the partnership have on relationship stability? - An analysis based on the data from Pairfam (MA)
  • On the stability of the desire to have children over the life course - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • Socialisation determinants of voluntary childlessness - An analysis based on data from pairfam (BA/MA)
  • Expectations of life with children and their influence on fertility behaviour - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • Demographic characteristics and stability of information on infertility in couples - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • The transition to the third child and its socio-structural determinants - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • What influences the assessment of the fairness in the division of housework? (BA)
  • Wishes and expectations regarding the organisation of parental leave - An analysis based on the ALLBUS (BA)
  • Fathers and homework supervision - An analysis based on the 2012/13 time use data (BA)
  • Partnership division of labour in the household and in childcare: Are there systematic differences between one's own assessment and the partner's assessment? - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • How much time do parents spend with their children? Analyses of the gender-specific use of time by mothers and fathers based on the 1991/92, 2001/02 and 2012/13 Time Use Surveys (MA)
  • The participation of daughters and sons in housework - An analysis based on the time use data 1991/92, 2001/02 and 2012/13 (MA)
  • On the use of digital media in families - An analysis based on time use data 2001/02 and 2012/13 (MA)
  • The transition to adulthood (BA)
  • Biological and non-biological children in the lives of women and men - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • The health outcomes of children with separation experience compared to children in intact families - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)
  • Grandparental support and the transition to the second/third child - An analysis based on data from pairfam (MA)

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