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/...
Feminicide is reshaping Mexico’s demographic future. Between 2000 and 2019, nearly 50,000 women were murdered. #Feminicide #Mexico #Demography #GenderViolence
Young men aren't the whole story. Our new preprint on antifeminist attitudes across Europe by gender and age 👇
Last week, I received the Kurt-Rothschild-Prize for Economic Research in the Austrian Parliament for my research on poverty risk within couples and my efforts to make my findings accesible to a broader public. Many thanks to the Karl-Renner-Institut for recognizing my work :-)
📣 CfP im Rahmen der 15. Armutskonferenz (27.-29.04.2026, Salzburg)
Der Call richtet sich an Nachwuchsforschende aus Armuts- und Ungleichheitsforschung, die ihre Master-, PhD- oder vergleichbaren Projekte in einem offenen Rahmen präsentieren+diskutieren möchten.
Deadline für Abstracts: 16.11.2025
📠 New paper out!
It explores how gendered career patterns among couples around first birth intersect with changes in individual poverty risk, i.e. under the assumption of no income pooling.
Read it OA here: doi.org/10.1016/j.al...
Volume 53 - Article 24 | Pages 753–772
www.demographic-research.org
Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e
❓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...
The Austrian Socio-Economic Panel #ASEP launched its Call for Open Modules
ASEP-data can be linked to administrative data from @statistik.at
Deadline July 31, 2026
www.statistik.at/asep
Demographic Research
European Sociological Review
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Our new preprint on gender equality attitudes among Gen Z 👇
Matthias Reiter-Pázmándy
excited to share that I've started a postdoctoral position at the Chair of Family and Work (@katjamoe.bsky.social) at the University of Bamberg this month! I’m looking forward to be a part of the great research community here - and I’ve already become a big fan of the German Mensa system :-)
Christina Siegert
1/4 🗣️ Has feminism gone too far? In a new preprint with @stinasiegert.bsky.social, we analyze how agreement with this statement might vary across genders and age groups in Europe.
Read the full preprint here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Christina Siegert
🚨 Are Gen Z gender gaps in gender equality attitudes really as pronounced as perceived?
In a new preprint w/ @stinasiegert.bsky.social , we analyzed 82k+ young adults across 24 European countries.
👉 Read here: osf.io/6h9gd_v1
