Carla Rowold

Event card with two speech bubbles and teal coloured background. FemQuant Meet & Mingle. Everyone welcome! Wednesday 17 December 2025 11:00 (EST)/ 16:00 (GMT)/ 17:00 CET)

Join us in December for our last event in 2025, an informal online Meet & Mingle. There's a loose structure, but in brief: we hang out for about an hour and chat about feminist quantsy stuff we're working on/ thinking about. More info + link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Do you want to present your work-in-progress sequence analysis paper at our webinar series? The call is out for presenting from Jan. 2026! Please apply and share! sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

LIVE NOW! the sequence analysis webinar!
Two great talks from Satu Helske on hidden markov models and Stefan Andrade on robust clustering

Zoom link on sequenceanalysis.org

🔎Here you find the full call: www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...

💫Looking forward to your submissions!

📢 Call for Abstracts
Join us at the Family Diversity & Health Workshop June 29-30 2026 in Berlin!

We welcome submissions on intersections of health & family research, especially using register data. 🌏

🫶 No participation fees & hotel costs are covered.
📨 Send us your abstracts by Jan 31 2026

How is separation after childbirth linked to the labour earnings trajectories of mothers in Sweden and West Germany? Are there differences by mothers’ socioeconomic position?

👉 New paper by @sschmauk.bsky.social & A.-K. Nylin!

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

The next sequence analysis webinar will take place on Thursday Nov 13 at 4pm CET

Two great talks from Satu Helske on hidden markov models and Stefan Andrade on robust clustering

Zoom link on sequenceanalysis.org

Vacancies Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities

🚨Job alert!🚨

Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health is recruiting 2 postdocs. Join our team and investigate social inequalities in health!

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

#postdoc #demography #socialsciences #socialdata

❓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...

Study reveals elevated mortality risk for single parents, with single fathers at particularly high risk | Tilburg University A new study by Tilburg University and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research reveals that single parents in Denmark face significantly higher mortality risks than their partnered counterpar...

I’m excited to share our new publication in @readdemography.bsky.social 🥳 written w/ @angelacar.bsky.social, J. Caputo, L. Ahrenfeldt, @annaoksuzyan.bsky.social

👉 Read the full paper here lnkd.in/enf3Duvg

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/pres...

YouTube video by FemQuant FemQuant Seminar: Invisible Biases, Unequal Outcomes

Thank you to everyone who attended last week’s FemQuant seminar! If you missed it, you can watch the recording of the presentation by @crowold.bsky.social here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WK...

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study examines the association between accumulated family complexity and mental and physical health in mid-adulthood, with a focus on gender differences. Background While research o...

New paper out in @jmfncfr.bsky.social with @minekuhn.bsky.social and @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social. We use (weighted) sequence complexity indices to estimate mental + physical health in mid-adulthood. Results (again) highlight the vulnerability of single mothers.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Sociology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover).

Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome.

🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

Such a great paper and important finding:
🔎 Do mothers’ occupation-specific skills shape children’s development?

✅ Yes! When mothers move into jobs with higher skill demands, their kids show stronger skills.

Great to see it out, huge congrats, Ali! 💫

🔈Finally, you can hear a summary of the paper (and another chapter of my dissertation) next week at the @femquant.bsky.social seminar 😊

🗓️ 18 Sept 📍Online
Check time in your time zone & register 👇

femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

🙏 Many thanks for helpful feedback to: @emstruffolino.bsky.social, @nhiekel.bsky.social, @svidal.bsky.social, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social, @katjamoe.bsky.social, @matstud.bsky.social, @mhamjediers.bsky.social & Maximilian Sprengholz, @cmonden.bsky.social, the editor and reviewers, and many others 🫶

🔭 For future research:
- Apply to other inequalities (e.g., intersectionality, wealth, wages)
- For 🚻inequalities: valuable in conservative contexts for capturing the structural drivers of life-course-sensitive inequalities
→ Particularly useful as life courses become more complex in younger cohorts

🏛️In conservative welfare states like 🇩🇪 & 🇳🇱, life-course experiences severely differ across genders

- Pension systems value unpaid care far less than paid work → structural penalties
- Highlights how conservative systems shape & devalue gendered life courses

📊 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

📊 Key finding I — Feature selection:
✔️ Care work:
→ among the top pension predictors
→ more important than full-time employment duration
→ especially relevant for women’s pensions & GPG

🔎 Sensitivity tests: when including gender, it’s the strongest pension predictor in both countries!

🛠 Methods:

- Life Course Feature Selection: ranks key life-course predictors of pension income
- In combi with the feature selection, Ñopo decomposition quantifies how *gender-exclusive* life-course patterns shape the GPG, addressing the lack of common support in gender-segregated life courses

📚 Research focuses on full-time employment duration

- But life courses are increasingly complex
- Considering life-course complexities like timing and order of family interruptions is vital for policy design & evaluation
- The study contributes to debates on which life-course elements matter most

Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

💫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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Seminar Series The FemQuant seminar series brings together researchers from across the social sciences who explore the combination of feminist research commitments and quantitative research methods.  We aim …

Researching inequalities among older adults? Interested in uncovering gender biases in quantitative research? Join us for a FemQuant seminar where @crowold.bsky.social will discuss Invisible Biases & Unequal Outcomes.
🗓️ 18 Sept 📍Online
Check time in your time zone & register 👇

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

Publication alert 🚨
@katjamoe.bsky.social‬ @claraoverweg.bsky.social‬ and I investigate the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth for East and West German women born between 1937 and 1989.

Remember to send in your abstracts for our working group on "New social policies for changing labour markets" at the Finnish Social Policy Conference (October 23-24 in Helsinki). Deadline for submissions: September 1.

📝New @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social working paper

Why are students from elite high schools much more likely to go to high ranked university courses than equally qualified students from the state sector? 🤔

w @opmc1.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social & Jo Blanden

econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:ce...

⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...