Lara Bister

It's great to see IMPRS-PHDS doctoral students, alumni, faculty members, and friends back at @mpidr.bsky.social for our 7th PHDS Academy and three days filled with research presentations, networking, and singing!

Congratulations!! 🥳

Auch wir gratulieren @larabister.bsky.social, Postdoctoral Researcher am Einstein Center Population Diversity, mit etwas Verspätung ganz herzlich zur Auszeichnung! 💐

Deutscher Studienpreis für Lara Bister Die WZB-Forscherin ist für ihre Dissertation von der Körber-Stiftung mit dem ersten Preis in der Sektion Sozialwissenschaften ausgezeichnet worden. In ihrer Arbeit untersuchte sie die...

Was für eine Nachricht! Wir gratulieren WZB-Forscherin Lara Bister zum Deutschen Studienpreis der Körber-Stiftung. Sie untersuchte erstmals die Langzeitfolgen der ostdeutschen Wirtschaftskrise für die sogenannten „Wendekinder“. wzb.eu/de/news/deut...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an @larabister.bsky.social vom @wzb.bsky.social und Christian Ollig vom @bredowinstitut.bsky.social für dir Auszeichnung mit dem Deutschen Studienpreis 2025 der Köber Stiftung! 🥳

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Big congratulations to @larabister.bsky.social, alumna of the EDSD and IMPRS-PHDS programs, on winning first prize in the Social Sciences section of the Körber Foundation's German Thesis Award for her doctoral thesis on economic crises and health!
Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

🚀 Big thanks to:‪ @popresgroningen.bsky.social ‬ @imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social , my colleagues inside and outside these institutions, reviewers and editors at @europeansocreview.bsky.social , @scienceslam.de

🚀 Big thanks to:‪ @popresgroningen.bsky.social ‬ @imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social , my colleagues inside and outside these institutions, reviewers and editors at @europeansocreview.bsky.social , @scienceslam.de

🤔 Our findings emphasise the need for policies, which consider intergenerational spillover effects of adverse life course events within families across diverse cultural, welfare and family settings.

🔎 Main findings:
1️⃣ significant mental health declines linked to children’s unemployment only in mothers
2️⃣ no notable variations in Northern Europe but significant ones in other European countries
3️⃣ significant mental health declines in Southern Europe with onset of the Great Recession in 2008

🔬 How did we study this question? We analysed longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (@share-eric.bsky.social) for nearly 15,000 parents and over 26,000 children from 12 European countries over a decade — before, during, and after the Great Recession of 2008. 🇪🇺

➡️ In short: Yes, especially mothers suffer increased depression risks if their children experience unemployment – the consequences differ, however, across welfare and family support regimes as well as periods of economic recession. 👩‍👦📉

🐣 Another chapter from my dissertation was just published in @europeansocreview.bsky.social – Fanny Janssen (NIDI-KNAW), Tobias Vogt (@popresgroningen.bsky.social @rug.nl) & me we were wondering:

Do #parents suffer too if their adult children experience #unemployment?

OA-🔗: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Es war mir eine große Freude, meine Forschung gestern am IFB in Bamberg vorzustellen. Vielen Dank für die anregende Diskussion und das Interesse!

Zwischen heute erwachsenen „Wendekindern" aus Ost- und Westdeutschland gibt es deutliche gesundheitliche Unterschiede. In den aktuellen WZB-Mitteilungen schreibt
@larabister.bsky.social über Ursachen für die gesundheitlichen Nachteile junger Ostdeutscher.
📰: bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2024...

Details for the #PAA2025 run below, thanks to @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social for organizing 😊 and if you’re a demog runner come join us on Strava! strava.app.link/oxhaD2a5gSb

Implementation of stricter alcohol policies (Finland, mid-1970s), especially alcohol advertising ban, likely protected adolescents at the time from later life alcohol-attributable adverse health.

Preprint out in Epidemiology.
doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001857

Nice, Juha!!

ESR has been crushing it recently.

Yesterday I gave a talk at @imprs-life.bsky.social in Berlin on how siblings shape our personalities. It was a lot of fun to talk about my substantive work for a change!
Slides, in case you're curious: osf.io/xepmk

When someone in the audience is nodding during your talk

Check in on your quantiles, people, they might not be (interpreted) alright.

Excellent paper by Nicolai Borgen, @andreashaupt.bsky.social, and @oyvindw.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

New paper by @larabister.bsky.social, @peibich.bsky.social,
@robertarutigliano.bsky.social using admin data on how parental leave reforms in Germany impacted women's leave length. They find significant influences on uptake for women with strong labor market attachment.
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🔗 tinyurl.com/d3pccpk8

My research group Gender Inequalities and Fertility @mpidr.bsky.social happily hosted Dr. Elena Bastianelli today who presented fascinating findings from a vignette study on the changing family ideals in Italy and Spain.

We have worked on this study since the early days of my PhD, and I am so happy to see it published!
Some changes are impressive: among the 1980s cohort, the probability of not being parent by age 35 is 44% among men and 26% among women (all over EU). ⤵️
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Who is affected by parental leave reforms? Women’s selection into different parental leave lengths across recent policy reforms in Germany - Genus Public parental leave schemes aim to facilitate women’s reconciliation of family and employment after their transition into motherhood. While parental leave policies underwent several reforms over the...

📢 New paper out in @genus.bsky.social on women's selection into different #parentalleave lengths in Germany 🤱💼🇩🇪 /w @peibich.bsky.social & @robertarutigliano.bsky.social
Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s411...

Congrats Pablo. :)

Our colleague @larabister.bsky.social defended her thesis yesterday! Well done Dr. Bister👏🏼
Interested in reading more? pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfil...

Nice Serena! 👏🏻

Non-Binary Gender Economics Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

🚨New working paper!🚨 Non-Binary Gender Economics. Gender econ has almost exclusively measured gender as binary. But 1+ million people in US identify as non-binary. Nat'l Academies + American Psych Assn recommend better measurement of gender v. bio sex. www.nber.org/papers/w32222 Thread: (1/n)