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Sociologist & Social Demographer | Postdoc at ECPD @einsteinberlin.bsky.social & @wzb.bsky.social 🇩🇪 | Affiliated with Bocconi University 🇮🇹 & @pophel.bsky.social 🇫🇮 | 🪄 Health, Family, Life Course & Child Disability | she/her

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Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Jul 16

🐣 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/...

Average Marginal Effects of Children’s Unemployment on their Parents’ Depression Risk Overall and over the Great Recession Phases for Fathers and Mothers; Source: Data obtained from SHARE (Börsch-Supan et al., 2013); Note: Average marginal effects of children’s unemployment on their parents’ depression risk for the overall observation period (left) and over the Great Recession phases (right) estimated for fathers and mothers from pooled and fixed-effects linear regression models (Tables S6). All estimates are provided in Table S8.

Average Marginal Effects of Children’s Unemployment on their Parents’ Depression Risk Overall and for Great Recession Phases for Fathers and Mothers and by Country Groups; Source: Data obtained from SHARE (Börsch-Supan et al., 2013); Note: Average marginal effects of children’s unemployment on their parents’ depression risk for the overall observation period (left) and over the Great Recession phases (right) estimated for fathers and mothers from pooled and fixed-effects linear regression models and stratified by country groups of Northern (Panel A), Central-Western (Panel B), Southern (Panel C) and Central-Eastern European countries (Panel D). All estimates are provided in Table S8.

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WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

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...

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Leibniz-Gemeinschaft @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de · Aug 4

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! 🥳

👉 www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/ne...
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IMPRS-PHDS @imprs-phds.bsky.social · Aug 5

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...

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚀 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

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚀 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

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Jul 16

🤔 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.

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Jul 16

🔎 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

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Jul 16

🔬 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. 🇪🇺

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Jul 16

➡️ 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. 👩‍👦📉

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Jul 16

🐣 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/...

Average Marginal Effects of Children’s Unemployment on their Parents’ Depression Risk Overall and over the Great Recession Phases for Fathers and Mothers; Source: Data obtained from SHARE (Börsch-Supan et al., 2013); Note: Average marginal effects of children’s unemployment on their parents’ depression risk for the overall observation period (left) and over the Great Recession phases (right) estimated for fathers and mothers from pooled and fixed-effects linear regression models (Tables S6). All estimates are provided in Table S8.

Average Marginal Effects of Children’s Unemployment on their Parents’ Depression Risk Overall and for Great Recession Phases for Fathers and Mothers and by Country Groups; Source: Data obtained from SHARE (Börsch-Supan et al., 2013); Note: Average marginal effects of children’s unemployment on their parents’ depression risk for the overall observation period (left) and over the Great Recession phases (right) estimated for fathers and mothers from pooled and fixed-effects linear regression models and stratified by country groups of Northern (Panel A), Central-Western (Panel B), Southern (Panel C) and Central-Eastern European countries (Panel D). All estimates are provided in Table S8.

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

Florian Schulz @flociologist.bsky.social · Jul 2

@larabister.bsky.social ifb.bayern.de/aktuelles/in... #sociology#demography

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WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · Feb 10

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...

Bild der Berliner Mauer zum Mauerfall mit Verweis auf die WZB-Studie zur Gesundheit der Wendekinder

Zitatkachel mit Bild von Lara Bister

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Monica Alexander @monjalexander.bsky.social · Apr 3

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

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Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health @pophel.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Apr 7

Nice, Juha!!

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · Dec 19

ESR has been crushing it recently.

European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · Dec 19

Reminder: From 1st Jan. 2025, the deposit of replication packages will be condition for publication in ESR!

Find out more at:

academic.oup.com/esr/pages/General_Instructions

General Instructions

Submission of Papers The European Sociological Review publishes original research articles in all fields of Sociology. Submissions should usually be around 8,0

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Nov 29

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

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Nov 26

When someone in the audience is nodding during your talk

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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · Nov 18

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/...

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GENUS @genus.bsky.social · Oct 4

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.
👇
🔗 tinyurl.com/d3pccpk8

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Oct 15

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.

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Valeria Ferraretto @vferraretto.bsky.social · Oct 2

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...

Demographic Research - The transition to adulthood in Europe at the intersection of gender and parental socioeconomic status (Volume 51 - Article 23 | Pages 723–762)

Volume 51 - Article 23 | Pages 723–762

www.demographic-research.org

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Oct 2

📢 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...

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...

Lara Bister @larabister.bsky.social · Oct 2

Congrats Pablo. :)

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Population Research Centre Groningen @popresgroningen.bsky.social · Jun 4

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