Sandrine Metzger

13 Department members at the FACES 2026 conference in Munich Last week, 13 members of our Department presented their research at the FACES conference ("Families and Challenges in Evolving Societies in the D-A-CH Region and beyond“) in Munich, hosted by the Deut...

We are thrilled about this strong representation of our Department at the #FACES2026 conference in Munich last week! 🚀 #Sociology #SociologyOfTheFamily #FamilyScience @univie.ac.at @nadiasteiber.bsky.social @lilivargha.bsky.social @metzgers.bsky.social

New publication: @linatobler.bsky.social and I find that trends in educational (mis)matches in the US were largely driven by changes in educational supply and demand.

No Partner, No Children? Union Formation, Assortative Mating, and Educational Inequalities in Fertility in Germany - European Journal of Population European Journal of Population - Education is linked to whether and with whom individuals form partnerships. However, it is largely unclear how educational differences in union formation and...

📢 New publication together with @nhiekel.bsky.social: Our results show that in West Germany, but not in East Germany, highly educated women and less educated men are less likely to have children, partly because they are less likely to have a partner.

doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Portrait of Julia Leesch

👋A warm welcome to Julia Leesch @julialeesch.bsky.social, (MPI for #DemographicResearch) visiting from Rostock for 2 weeks to work with Prof. Nadia Steiber @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and Sandrine Metzger @metzgers.bsky.social on #LifeCourse research.
Learn more ➡️ t.ly/jQp2d
@univie.ac.at #Sociology

Educational hypogamy and gender equality within couples: a review of competing hypotheses and evidence from the Generations and Gender Survey Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e

New in ESR
Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions?
🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples!
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

🚀 2-year Postdoc opportunity with me on older adults, digital technologies & wellbeing.

Flexible location/remote-friendly

Deadline 9 Oct, 13:00 CEST

Details & how to apply (both ITA/ENG):

www.stat.unipd.it/procedura-se...

#Postdoc #Ageing #Demography #DigitalInequality

Spatial Variation in the Educational Gradient of First Motherhood in Spain: Occurrence and Timing Several studies have analyzed the relationship between educational attainment and fertility across countries, identifying significant differences. However, these works often overlook intra-country va....

PAPER ALERT🚨

With greats @cristinasuero.bsky.social and @fabriberna.bsky.social, we explore how the ed. gradient in the occurrence and timing of first motherhood varies across Spanish provinces (NUTS3).

#OA publication at Population, Space and Place: doi.org/10.1002/psp.70106

Want to know more?👇

⭐🎓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...

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.

Big congratulations, so well deserved!!👏👏👏

Who gets the privilege of free time? Across Europe, fathers enjoy more leisure time than mothers, especially in Southern and Eastern countries. New research across 13 countries shows persistent gender gaps in parental leisure. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

🆕📄Journal of Marriage and Family w/ M. Jacob📄

Parenthood in Europe: Not More Life Satisfaction, but More Meaning in Life

Previous research in soc was very focused on satisfaction & happiness.
BUT: many find meaning equally or more important than happiness.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<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...

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

Delayed transitions to adulthood and assisted reproduction: A study of educational differences in Spain Transitions to adulthood are increasingly delayed in low-fertility countries, particularly among highly educated women, with significant implications …

🚨 New publication out!

Together with M.C. Compans and Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social, we explore how late transitions to adulthood relate to the use and outcomes of assisted reproduction.
Curious? Have a look! 📄✨

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Data problems with the Hungarian EU-SILC, a tale for all researchers to look at histograms (of raw variables or composite indicators) before doing any analysis: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...

Five Decades of Marital Sorting in France and the United States – The Role of Educational Expansion and the Changing Gender Imbalance in Education Over the past half-century, higher education expansion and changing gender imbalances in education have reshaped the educational composition of the pa…

📢 We find that shifts in the gender imbalance in education promoted rising hypogamy and declining hypergamy. Yet, if the gender-education association had remained constant, educational expansion would have also led to changes in hypogamy and hypergamy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Our professor Nadia Steiber @nadiasteiber.bsky.social spoke with Stephanie H. Murray (The Atlantic) about hypogamy.

Find out more about Steiber's research project: "The Rise of Hypogamy and its Consequences for Family Life"
➡️ tinyurl.com/2s3ppvt5

🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

Team Steiber at the GIF Conference 19–21 March in Rostock Team Steiber is represented at the conference “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity”.

Team Steiber at the GIF Conference 19–21 March in Rostock

Team Steiber is represented at the conference “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity”.
Further information can also be found on our website: t.ly/2X0AX

Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave?

My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.

👏👏👏 well deserved!

2nd position⬇️

📢The Vienna Institute of Demography is seeking a Postdoc to join Demography of Austria Research Group

📍 Location: Vienna, Austria
📅 Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

➡️https://oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/VID/VID192PD124_.pdf
@oeaw.bsky.social

I would also be happy to join the list! Thank you for making it :)

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Strains of intensive parenting lower second birth risks:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

One more week to apply for this postdoc position to work with me at @unipd.bsky.social
Deadline: December 6, 1:00pm (CET)

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective To examine young adult women's and men's time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household. Background From a life-course perspective, establishing an own househol...

I am happy to share my paper about "Young adults' gendered trajectories of routine housework time when leaving home" that I did with @raabm.bsky.social in JMF (@ncfr.bsky.social). Please spread the word! doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

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Thanks Iván🥲🥲
Hope you are doing well!!

Thank you so much Kat! Hope to see you soon again in Dublin!

Very happy to have passed my PhD Viva today! 🎉

Huge thank you to Alice Goisis and Jan Skopek for being such amazing examiners, and providing very helpful and insightful feedback!
Also a big thank you to my supervisor @pablogracia.bsky.social for his incredible support all throughout my PhD!