Sociologist and empirical researcher, interested in families, life courses, time use and inequality.
Senior Researcher at the State Institute for Family Research and Private Lecturer for Sociology at the University of Bamberg, Germany, affiliated with the Institute for Sociology, Editor and Managing Director of the Journal of Family Research.
Descriptive findings/data visualizations:
How many hours per week do the mother and father work when the youngest child is … years old? (OSF, 2026)
Selected attitudes towards the division of labor in heterosexual couples in Germany, 2023. (OSF, 2026)
Update of the analysis in “Trends in children’s gendered housework performance” (OSF, 2025)
Recent preprints:
Convergence and continuity of time use for housework and childcare in German couples, 1991-2022 (SocArXiv, 2026)
From leaving home to parenthood: Sibling bonds through household and family formation (SocArXiv, 2026)
Time spent alone or together, household type, and loneliness: Descriptive evidence from Germany (SocArXiv, 2026)
Recent publications include:
A research note on the cohabitation gradient in parents’ childcare time in Germany (Journal of Time Use Research, 2025, open access)
Young adults’ gendered trajectories of routine housework time when leaving home (Journal of Marriage and Family, 2025, open access)
Couples’ money arrangements in Germany: Visualizing cohort, age group, and partnership type variations (Socius, 2024, open access)
Once upon a time:
Mothers’, fathers’ and siblings’ housework time within family households (Journal of Marriage and Family, 2021, open access)
Gender convergence in housework time: A life course and cohort perspective (Sociological Science, 2018, open access)
What determines change in the division of housework over the course of marriage? (International Sociology, 2012)