@lilivargha
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
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 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/...
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Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
📢 New dataset for researchers!
The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024.
🔗 eplp-dataset.org
Congrats @jeinhoff.bsky.social 🎉🎉🥳🥳!
German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
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...
Awww @wfrn.bsky.social - it's been so amazing and inspiring working with our talented ECFs.
Special thanks to my mentor @spattersearch.bsky.social for her generous guidance and support. I’m thrilled that we’ll keep working together on our global gender care gap project!
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.
Here is a figure how much care and domestic work is transferred to others by all age groups (including young children): younger girls in high-fertility countries contribute more and at earlier ages journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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 🍝
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
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/...
❓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...
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...
🚨 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'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...
Here are some comparative estimates from around the world: public + private market + private nonmarket (time costs) costs of raising a child. Work with Gretchen Donehower onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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...
📊 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
Congrats congrats congrats for all winners🎉🎉🥳🥳
I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷♀️
💫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 🚀
📅 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
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
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...
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...
A Perspective on Making “Invisible” Care Visible Through Time Use Data
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....