Hannah ZagelHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin | HU Berlin · Department of Social Sciences
Hannah Zagel
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Hannah Zagel currently works at the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hannah does research in Social Policy, Quantitative Social Research and Social Stratification.
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May 2014 - February 2016
January 2013 - April 2014
September 2009 - December 2012
Publications
Publications (27)
Family policy is not easily conceptualized or measured in comparative research. Previous approaches are
highly diverse and have yielded mixed empirical results in terms of placing countries’ family policy profiles in
the international landscape and mapping their trajectories. This article reviews the long-standing discussion
of the familization and...
Single motherhood is often discussed as a reason for women’s non-employment. This article investigates women’s employment
trajectories during and after single motherhood in the welfare state contexts of Britain and West Germany. Sequence analysis
is applied to longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (N = 329) and the German Socio-...
With targeted childcare initiatives and welfare-to-work programmes policy-makers have sought to address employment activation of lone mothers and negative outcomes for children in lone parent households. The present study examines non-parental childcare use and maternal employment among children living in lone and co-parent family situations at age...
The Oxford International Handbook of Family Policy has two main aims: to identify key developments globally in regard to the forms and modalities of relevant policies, and to take a critical look at the developments regarding those policies. The overall goal is to uncover the extent to which concerns about the family and the role and practices of p...
Die Lebensverlaufsperspektive erlaubt es, grundlegende Fragen zum Wandel von Familienstrukturen, intergenerationalen Beziehungen und den Wechselwirkungen von Familie mit anderen Lebensbereichen zu erschließen. In diesem Beitrag skizzieren wir Ursprünge und Konzepte der Lebensverlaufsforschung im Hinblick auf familiale Prozesse und führen in forschu...
This study investigates housing conditions of single mothers in the context of housing policies. We study single mothers’ probability to experience housing deprivation, overcrowded housing, overburdening costs of housing, and neighbourhood problems across European countries. We consider the structural consequences of home ownership rates, and polic...
This paper investigates links between social inequality and reproductive behavior. It complements the extensive research on the stratification of young adults' life chances in education and the labor market by considering changes over time in the stratification of contraceptive use at first intercourse by parental background. We seek to understand...
This study investigates whether generous family policies at the transition to parenthood reduce single and partnered mothers’ economic disadvantages later in the life course. Previous research usually focused on the immediate effects of family policies and disregards potential longer-term effects. In this study, we suggest taking a life-course pers...
To explain single-mother poverty, existing research has either emphasized individualistic, or contextual explanations. Building on the prevalences and penalties framework (Brady et al. 2017), we advance the literature on single-mother poverty in three aspects: First, we extend the framework to incorporate heterogeneity among single mothers across c...
This paper investigates links between social inequality and reproductive behavior. It complements the extensive research on the stratification of young adults' life chances in education and the labor market by considering changes over time in the stratification of contraceptive use at first intercourse by parental background. We seek to understand...
This study evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of defamilization as a concept for analysing state-market-family relationships in comparative perspective. A paradox has emerged around defamilization in the last decade; its use in empirical large-N research has grown markedly despite mounting criticism in theoretical discussions. Applying criteria...
This paper investigates changes in the stratification of contraceptive use at first intercourse by gender and parental background to understand how young people’s sexual intimate behavior around contraception detraditionalized, and whether this was limited to particular groups. We study Italy 1950-2006, which shows strong regional and class dispari...
Existing studies on single mothers’ social contacts often examine small selective samples and are mostly cross-sectional. The lack of high-quality longitudinal survey data on this subject constrains the possibility to draw more generalizable conclusions. This paper exploits panel data to investigate whether transitions to single motherhood affect c...
This article examines longitudinal patterns of work–family reconciliation across Europe and whether the influence of defamilizing policies on those patterns is contingent on the normative context. Data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement and sequence analysis are used to reconstruct and analyze women’s family and employment life course...
Income inequality has grown in many countries over the past decades. Single country studies have investigated how trends in family demography, such as rising female employment, assortative mating and single parenthood, have affected this development. But the combined effects have not been studied sufficiently, much less in a comparative perspective...
Der hauptsächliche Fokus von Forschung und Politik zum Thema Alleinerziehen ist die ökonomische Situation von alleinerziehenden Müttern und ihren Kindern. Dies ist traditionell der Bereich, in dem der Wohlfahrtsstaat unterstützend in das Familienleben eingreift. In Deutschland stehen Alleinerziehenden unterschiedliche familienpolitische Leistungen...
Die bisherige Forschung zeigt negative Konsequenzen des Alleinerziehens für den sozioökonomischen Status und das Wohlbefinden sowohl von Müttern als auch von ihren Kindern. In diesem Abschnitt wird ein Überblick über die Befunde aus der Literatur hinsichtlich der sozialen Position von Alleinerziehenden gegeben.
Makrostrukturelle Bedingungen beeinflussen die Art und das Ausmaß zu dem Alleinerziehen mit heterogenen Risiken verbunden ist. Dieser Zusammenhang wird im Folgenden aufgegriffen. Die Beziehung zwischen individuellen Lebensverläufen und Makrokontexten wurde in der Lebensverlaufsforschung einerseits mit Bezug auf die allgemeineren historischen Beding...
Dieses Buch zeigt, dass Alleinerziehen als heterogene Lebensform verstanden werden muss, um die damit verbundenen Lebensbedingungen umfassend bewerten zu können. Motiviert ist der vorgestellte Ansatz durch die Diskrepanz zwischen den in der Literatur dominierenden theoretischen Konzepten des Alleinerziehens und Erklärungen zu ihrer sozialen und öko...
Das Bild von Alleinerziehen in Öffentlichkeit und Forschung wird von unterschiedlichen Definitionsansätzen geprägt. Diese sollen im Folgenden diskutiert werden. Die Abgrenzung des Begriffs ist besonders wichtig, da es keine einheitliche Definition von Alleinerziehen gibt.
Der starke Fokus der Forschung und Politik auf das ökonomische Wohlbefinden Alleinerziehender überdeckt die möglichen Auswirkungen der Lebensform auf andere Lebensbereiche. Ein weit geringerer Teil der empirischen Forschung widmet sich bisher dem sozialen Wohlbefinden, wie der Einbindung in soziale Netzwerke. Auch als sozialpolitisches Ziel steht d...
Dieses Buch analysiert theoretisch und empirisch, warum einige alleinerziehende Mütter weniger benachteiligt sind als andere. Es wird argumentiert, dass Alleinerziehen mit unterschiedlichen Risiken verbunden ist, je nachdem an welchem Abschnitt im Lebensverlauf es erlebt wird, und welche institutionelle Absicherung die jeweilige Phase des Lebensver...
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This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers.
At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such as child income support, childcare services, parental leave, and leave to provide care to frail and elderly family members. The chapters evaluate their impact in improving children’s development and equal opportunities, promoting gender equality, regulating fertility, productivity and economic inequality, and take an intersectional perspective related to gender, class, and family diversity.
The editors conclude by presenting a new research agenda based on five major challenges pertaining to the levels of policy implementation (in particular globalization and decentralization), austerity and marketization, inequality, changing family relations, and welfare states adapting to women’s empowered roles.
Single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment, and policies, which in combination further complicate their lives.
This edited book - multi-disciplinary and comparative in design - shows evidence from over 40 countries, along with detailed case studies of Sweden, Iceland, Scotland, and the UK. It covers aspects of well-being that include poverty, good quality jobs, the middle class, wealth, health, children’s development and performance in school, and reflects on social justice.
Leading international scholars challenge our current understanding of what works and draw policy lessons on how to improve the well-being of single parents and their children.
