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Objective This study provides the first assessment of changes in women's and men's satisfaction with housework. Background The gender gap in housework time has narrowed, but it remains unknown how subjective evaluations of housework have changed across the “gender revolution” in market and domestic spheres. Method This study used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. A probability ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
81 (2019), 1, 133-144
| Thomas Leopold
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Little is known about how far young adults move when they leave their parental home initially. We addressed this question using data from ten waves (2000 – 2009) of the German Socioeconomic Panel Study on spatial distances calculated by the geo-coordinates of residential moves (N = 1,425). Linear regression models predicted young adults' moving distance by factors at the individual, family, household, ...
In:
Social Science Research
41 (2012), 4, 991-1002
| Thomas Leopold, Ferdinand Geißler, Sebastian Pink
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Theoretical models of the divorce process suggest that marital breakup is more painful in the presence of children. Yet, little is known about the role of children as a moderator of divorce effects on adult well-being. The present study addressed this gap of research based on long-term panel data from Germany (SOEP). Following individuals over several years before and after divorce, we used random-effects ...
In:
Demography
53 (2016), 6, 1717–1742
| Thomas Leopold, Matthijs Kalmijn
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The authors investigated how filial bereavement affects the subjective well-being of adult children. They used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to examine temporal profiles of life satisfaction in 2,760 adult children ages 17–70 who moved through the stages of anticipation of, reaction to, and adaptation to a parent's death. Fixed effects models covering up to 11 yearly measurements ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
77 (2015), 3, 747-760
| Thomas Leopold, Clemens M. Lechner
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This research investigates how family events in adult children’s lives influence the timing of their parents’ financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce and childbirth on the receipt of large gifts from parents. We find increased chances of receiving real estate at marriage ...
In:
Social Forces
90 (2011), 2, 595-616
| Thomas Leopold, Thorsten Schneider
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We compare large inter vivos transfers to bequests using retrospectively surveyed event history data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP). We find the chances of receiving gifts and bequests to depend strongly on the socio-economic position of the parents and on the number of siblings. The same is true for the amount of bequests, but not for the amount of gifts. For women, both the chances ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch - Proceedings of the 9th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
131 (2011), 2, 263-276
| Thomas Leopold, Thorsten Schneider
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Objectives: To examine how changes in wives’ and husbands’ health influenced housework time and domestic outsourcing in retired couples. Method: We estimated fixed-effects models to test hypotheses about the gendered influence of health declines on absolute and relative measures of time spent on routine and nonroutine housework as well as the probability of outsourcing housework. The data were obtained ...
In:
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
75 (2020), 1, 184-194
| Thomas Leopold, Florian Schulz
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This research examined 2 hypotheses about the effect of retirement on couples' division of household labor. The continuity hypothesis posits that the gender gap in household labor remains unaffected by retirement, whereas the convergence hypothesis expects it to close. The authors tested these hypotheses using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 1,302 couples). Fixed ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
77 (2015), 4, 819-832
| Thomas Leopold, Jan Skopek
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To examine how transitions to retirement influenced the division of household labor in dual earner couples. We tested hypotheses about changes (a) between a couple’s pre-retirement and post-retirement stage, and (b) across the transitionalphase during which both spouses retired from the workforce. We estimated fixed-effects models for the effects of the husband’s and the wife’s retirement on changes ...
In:
Journals of Gerontology Series B - Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
73 (2018), 4, 733–743
| Thomas Leopold, Jan Skopek
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The current study argues that women's decision to leave the labor force at the point where their income exceeds their husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., 2015) and more to do with what women think is a fair distribution of relative working hours within the household. Using three nationally-representative data, we show that life satisfaction is ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2016,
(IZA DP No. 10382)
| Anthony Lepinteur, Sarah Fleche, Nattavudh Powdthavee