
Zafer BuyukkececiMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research · Laboratory of Economic and Social Demography
Zafer Buyukkececi
Doctor of Philosophy
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This study presents initial results from the KINMATRIX survey, a large‐scale source of ego‐centric network data offering an unprecedented level of scope and detail in mapping family relationships.
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Research on kinship networks is limited by the scarcity of available data. As a result, key phenomena remain insufficiently underst...
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With rising grey divorce rates, older individuals face heightened risk of social isolation, highlighting the significance of adult children as a vital source of solidarity in the absence of a spouse. Simultaneously, grey divorce may undermine parent-adult child relationships and weaken the core of the family safety net of older persons. T...
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This study explores how life transitions, such as cohabitation, marriage, separation/divorce, and childbearing, affect three dimensions of full‐sibling relationships (contact, intimacy, and conflict).
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Sibling relationships shape family dynamics and context, providing enduring support and affection as the longest‐lasting relati...
Despite Egypt's economic growth and educational expansion, gender inequalities and a lack of economic opportunities for young adults persist. Existing studies on social change in Egypt often rely on aggregate trend indicators or focus on isolated point-in-time work or family outcomes. This study adopts a life course perspective to (1) trace cohort...
This study maps early adulthood family life courses from ages 15 to 28 and tests whether they are causally linked to neighbourhood conditions with an instrumental strategy in the United States using Add Health data. Results show that the risk of sorting into pathways typified by early childbearing regardless of relationship status was higher in dis...
The changing macro-level relationship between fertility and development (i.e., the standard of living, health and education) from negative to positive for the most advanced economies has received considerable attention recently. Using aggregate data, we compare the relationship between fertility and development in Western countries with the Middle...
This study focused on individuals' re-partnering behavior following a divorce and asked whether divorcees influence each other's new union formation. By exploiting the System of Social statistical Datasets (SSD) of Statistics Netherlands, I identified divorced dyads and examined interdependencies in their re-partnering behavior. Discrete-time event...
The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting health, social, mental, and economic well-being worldwide, and taking precautions and cooperation is crucial at the individual level. Using data from various sources, this study examines crosscountry differences in anxiety levels and behavioral responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Specifically, I investigate how ec...
This study examined social interaction effects on family formation and dissolution, asking whether fertility, marital, and divorce behavior spread in the sibling network. Using panel data from the German SOEP (1984 – 2016; N = 4,521 individuals), we estimated discrete-time event history models with random effects at the individual to examine whethe...
Research has indicated that fertility spreads through social networks and attributed this phenomenon to social interaction effects. It remains unclear, however, whether the findings of previous studies reflect the direct influence of network partners or contextual and selection factors, such as shared environment and common background characteristi...
In this book, we study demographic developments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In the past, the demographic developments in the Middle East and North Africa have been described as "peculiar" and "unique". In particular, the development of fertility got attention from a western point of view because it did not show the sharp decline wit...