OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Advances in Life Course Research is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-10-01 to 2023-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens	148
An overview of mixture modelling for latent evolutions in longitudinal data: Modelling approaches, fit statistics and software	89
The impact of job uncertainty on first-birth postponement	34
Is the effect of job uncertainty on fertility intentions channeled by subjective well-being?	26
Grandparenthood in China and Western Europe: An analysis of CHARLS and SHARE	22
Influence of social connections on smoking behavior across the life course	19
The inseparability of human agency and linked lives	19
Intergenerational social mobility and health in Russia: Mind over matter?	16
Different degrees of career success: social origin and graduates’ education and labour market trajectories	15
Unemployment delays first birth but not for all. Life stage and educational differences in the effects of employment uncertainty on first births	14
Who makes the decision to have children? Couples’ childbearing intentions and actual childbearing	14
The impact of economic uncertainty, precarious employment, and risk attitudes on the transition to parenthood	13
Identification of developmental trajectory classes: Comparing three latent class methods using simulated and real data	13
Trends in singlehood in young adulthood in Europe	12
Family formation trajectories across borders: A sequence analysis approach to Senegalese migrants in Europe	12
Trajectories of violent victimization over the life course: Implications for mental and physical health	12
Understanding lone mothers’ high poverty in Germany: Disentangling composition effects and effects of lone motherhood	9
The role of the changing social background composition for changes in inequality of educational opportunity: An analysis of the process of educational expansion in Germany 1950–2010	8
Self-employment as a work-and-family reconciliation strategy? Evidence from Poland	8
Short-term reciprocity between adult children and parents: A within-person investigation of longitudinal data	8
The de-standardisation of the life course in Portugal. A cross-cohort analysis using entropy analysis	8
Is the problem mine, yours, or ours? The impact of unemployment on couples’ life satisfaction and specific domain satisfaction	8
Linked lives, linked retirement? Relative income differences within couples and gendered retirement decisions in Europe	8
Is perception of inability to procreate a temporal phenomenon?	8
Mechanisms of family formation: an application of Hidden Markov Models to a life course process	7

Family demographic processes and in-work poverty: A systematic review	7
Distance and acceptance: Identity formation in young adults with chronic health conditions	7
The subjective life course framework: Integrating life course sociology with gerontological perspectives on subjective aging	7
Differentiated routes to vulnerability: Marital status, children, gender and poverty	6
Gendered employment trajectories and individual wealth at older ages in Eastern and Western Germany	6
Migration, social stratification and dynamic effects on subjective well being	6
Cumulative disadvantage during employment careers – The link between employment histories and stressful working conditions	6
Joint social contact and network overlap of spouses facing later adulthood household transitions in Switzerland	6
Multiple social roles in early adulthood and later mental health in different labour market contexts	6
“Juntos pero no revueltos”: Family residential dependence and care vulnerabilities along the life course	6
Work-family trajectories and health: A systematic review	6
Mental health problems in adolescence, first births, and union formation: Evidence from the Young HUNT Study	6
A lifespan developmental science perspective on trauma experiences in refugee situations	6
Girls’ transition to adulthood and their later life socioeconomic attainment: Findings from the English longitudinal study of ageing	5
The effects of unemployment on fertility	5
Employment trajectories until midlife associate with early social role investments and current work-related well-being	5
Social differentials in the effect of formal childcare on the transition to parenthood?	5
A closer look at labour market status and crime among a general population sample of young men and women	5
The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women	5
First union formation among the children of immigrants: A population-wide study in Norway	5
Parent-child relationships and interracial first union formation in the United States	5
How do reproduction, parenting, and health cluster together? Exploring diverging destinies, life histories and weathering in two UK cohort studies	4
Sibling influence on family formation: A study of social interaction effects on fertility, marriage, and divorce	4
Do socially isolated children become socially isolated adults?	4
'Birds of a feather' - forever? Homogeneity in adult friendship networks through the life course	4
Citizenship and education trajectories among children of immigrants: A transition-oriented sequence analysis	4
Positive and negative risk-taking: Age patterns and relations to domain-specific risk-taking	4
The association between unemployment trajectories and alcohol consumption patterns. Evidence from a large prospective cohort in The Netherlands	4
Better together: Advancing life course research through multi-cohort analytic approaches	4
Linking social class inequalities, labor market status, and fertility: An empirical investigation of second births	4
Work-family life courses and psychological distress: Evidence from three British birth cohort studies	4
Childhood socioeconomic circumstances, social status, and health in older age: Are they related in China?	4
School performance and mortality: The mediating role of educational attainment and work and family trajectories across the life course	4
Lifetime parenthood in the context of single- and multiple-partner fertility	4
Linked lives and convoys of social relations	3
Fading family lines- women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th and 21st Century Northern Sweden	3
Crisis, recession and social resilience: A biographical life course analysis	3
Parity-specific motherhood penalties: Long-term impacts of childbirth on women’s earnings in Japan	3
Looking homeward with the life course: Early origins of adult dwelling satisfaction?	3
Resources, aspirations and first births during the Great Recession	3
A new perspective on the generational structures of families – Generational placements over the life course	3
Gender differences in high-school dropout: Vulnerability and adolescent fertility in Chile	3
Chronic conditions, couple-level factors and union dissolution	3
Brick-by-brick inequality. Homeownership in Italy, employment instability and wealth transmission	3
The life course cube, reconsidered	3
Destandardization in later age spans in Western Germany	3
Palestinian widows in Israel: Between the Hammer and the Anvil	3
Low income dynamics and depression over the life course in South Korea	3
Make up or break up? Partnership transitions among young adults in England and Wales	2
Early retirement as a privilege for the rich? A comparative analysis of Germany and Switzerland	2

Participation in training at older ages: A European perspective on path dependency in life course trajectories	2
Adolescent reproductive attitudes and knowledge effects on early adult unintended and nonmarital fertility across gender	2
Facets of parent–child relations in adulthood and their role in transmitting economic deprivation across generations	2
Multilevel networks and status attainment	2
Limited detraditionalization of intimacy: Growing socioeconomic differences in contraceptive use at first intercourse in Italy	2
Transition milestones and life satisfaction at ages 25/26 among cohorts born in 1970 and 1989–90	2
Women’s greater late-life depression: Traumatic experiences or GxE?	2
Women’s changing work arrangements, career paths, and marital fertility in Japan	2
Not all the same: Swedish teenage mothers’ and fathers’ selection into early family formation trajectories	2
Family formation patterns of children who experienced parental imprisonment	2
Socioeconomic gradients in child development: Evidence from a Chilean longitudinal study 2010–2017	2
The wage penalty for informal caregivers from a life course perspective	2