Carla Rowold

Carla Rowold

Research on gender inequalities over the life course

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Wealth inequalities

With Nicole Kapelle:

Exploring relevant life course aspects for (gendered) wealth inequalities in old-age

Gender Pension Gaps

Through which mechanisms are Gender Pension Gaps related to work-family life course patterns or specific aspects of work and family lives?

Children’s family complexity

With Zachary Van Winkle & Martin Gädecke:

Revealing the consequences of children’s family complexity over their childhood

publications

Gender Gaps in Pensions and Health: Germany, France, and Denmark

Published in DIW Economic Bulletin, 2017

With Peter Haan & Anna Hammerschmid: Revealing similar cross-cpuntry patterns in gender gaps in pension income & mental health in Denmark, France & Germany

Recommended citation: Haan, P., Hammerschmid, A. & Rowold, C. (2017). Gender gaps in pensions and health: Germany, France, and Denmark. DIW Economic Bulletin, 7(43), 436-442. https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.567701.de/diw_econ_bull_2017-43-3.pdf

Gender pension gaps in Europe are more explicitly associated with labor markets than with pension systems

Published in DIW Economic Bulletin, 2019

With Anna Hammerschmid: Country-level analysis on the association between the Gender Pension Gap with i) gendered labour market inequalities and ii) characteristics of the pension systems

Recommended citation: Hammerschmid, A., & Rowold, C. (2019). Gender pension gaps in Europe are more explicitly associated with labor markets than with pension systems. DIW Weekly Report, 9(25), 203-211. https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/200224/1/166829947X.pdf

Der Zusammenhang von Familien- und Arbeitsbiografien und Rentensystemen mit dem Gender-Pension-Gap – geschlechtsspezifische Rentenlücken in Europa aus der Lebensverlaufsperspektive

Published in Deutsche Rentenversicherung, 2022

German version of master thesis. Gender Pension Gaps in Ländern, deren Rentensysteme eine starke Referenz zu „typisch männlichen“ Lebensverläufen haben, geprägt durch kontinuierliche Vollzeiterwerbstätigkeit unabhängig vom Familienleben (Italien, Tschechien, West- & Ostdeutschland). Dies generiert nur dort hohe Gender Pension Gaps, wo eine ungleiche Arbeitsaufteilung zwischen den Geschlechtern incentiviert wurde. Die geringen Rentenlücken in Ostd. & Tschechien sind zumindest teils ein Resultat von Institutionen, die mütterliche Vollzeitarbeit ermöglichten.

Recommended citation: Rowold, C.(2022). Der Zusammenhang von Familien- und Arbeitsbiografien und Rentensystemen mit dem Gender-Pension-Gap – geschlechtsspezifische Rentenlücken in Europa aus der Lebensverlaufsperspektive. Deutsche Rentenversicherung, 2, 131-161. https://t.co/wEFeInNAGF

Cohort Change in Family Life Course Complexity of Adults and Children

Published in The Demography of Transforming Families, pp 203–225, 2022

This chapter addresses how family complexity evolved over the life course of adults in the United Kingdom, how it varied by birth cohort, gender, and parenthood status, and most importantly, how it varied across the early life courses of children by birth cohort. Although research on the complexity of family lives is motivated by its potential consequences for children, few studies have assessed to what extent children have been exposed to increased family complexity. We used rich retrospective UKHLS and BHPS data to reconstruct the family histories of adults born across the twentieth century and calculate life course complexity. We then transposed parents’ family sequences to reflect what their children experienced in their first 16 years of life. Our methodological approach provides a broader and more dynamic measure for children’s family life complexity compared to measures used in previous studies, such as a simple count of household transitions. We found an overall increase in life course family complexity over cohorts. Mothers had the most complex family life courses, followed by fathers, childless women and, lastly, childless men. However, differences between parents and childless adults converged across cohorts. By changing the perspective from parents to children, we revealed that children’s family complexity increased dramatically across birth cohorts. The two most recent cohorts of children experienced a considerably higher number of family transitions and greater family unpredictability at young ages compared to older cohorts. We provide conceptual and methodological contributions to spur future research on the consequences of increasing family complexity for children.

Recommended citation: Rowold, C., & Van Winkle, Z. (2023). Cohort Change in Family Life Course Complexity of Adults and Children. In The Demography of Transforming Families (pp. 203-225). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-29666-6_10

An accumulation of gender inequalities in old age? Exploring life course- and gender-sensitive approaches for analysing Gender Pension Gaps

Published in Dissertation, 2023

Dissertation on which mechanisms Gender Pension Gaps are related to work-family life course patterns or specific aspects of work and family lives

Recommended citation: Rowold C (2023) An accumulation of gender inequalities in old age? Exploring life course- and gender-sensitive approaches for analysing Gender Pension Gaps. PhD Thesis. University of Oxford. Available at: 10.5287/ora-nrdgbeegq. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00491241231224226

Life-course-sensitive analysis of group inequalities: Combining sequence analysis with the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition

Published in Sociological Methods & Research, 2024

With Emanuela Struffolino & Anette Fasang: Combination of Multichannel Sequence Analysis with the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition for a more life-course sensitive decomposition of group gaps in outcomes. Applied to Gender Pension Gaps in Italy and Germany

Recommended citation: Rowold, C., Struffolino, E., & Fasang, A. E. (2024). Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition. Sociological Methods & Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241231224226 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00491241231224226

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