Storyteller & Social Scientist
On 1 March 2014, I joined the faculty of the Department of Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton (UK) as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer). In addition to the Lectureship appointment, I will be a faculty affiliate of the ESRC Research Centre for Population Change (CPC) and the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI).... Continue Reading →
Title: Ideal ages for family formation among immigrants in Europe Authors: Jennifer A. Holland and Helga de Valk Journal: Advances in Life Course Research, 18(4): 257-69 DOI 10.1016/j.alcr.2013.08.002 Abstract: This paper investigates ideal ages for marriage and parenthood among immigrants from over 160 countries origins living in 25 European countries. Ideals regarding the timing of... Continue Reading →
Title: Love, Marriage, then the Baby Carriage? The timing of marriage and childbearing in Sweden Author: Jennifer A. Holland Journal: Demographic Research, 29(11), 275-306. DOI 10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.11 Abstract: BACKGROUND Some scholars claim that marriage is an outmoded institution, decoupled from the childbearing process in Sweden. However, it is likely that the presence of children is still... Continue Reading →
Title: The Employment of Turkish Second Generation Women in Europe in Comparative Perspective Authors: Jennifer A. Holland and Helga de Valk Publication: NEUJOBS Working Paper D 18.4. Brussels: European Commission, 7th Framework Program. Abstract: Over the next 50 years, population aging will contribute to a dramatic decline in the European working age population. One important... Continue Reading →
Along with my co-author Kenneth Wiik, I have been invited to become a collaborator on the Research Council of Norway funded project "Family dynamics, fertility choices and family policy" at Statistics Norway (PI: Trude Lappegård; project no. 202442/S20). The project will partially fund our work on "Pathways into Family Life among Migrant and Majority Populations... Continue Reading →
My article "Love, Marriage, then the Baby Carriage? The timing of marriage and childbearing in Sweden" has been accepted for publication in Demographic Research, an online, peer-reviewed journal of population science. I am particularly pleased that this work will be available in Open Access format under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (2.0 Germany). Demographic... Continue Reading →
My article "Home and Where the Heart Is: Marriage Timing and Joint Home Purchase" is now available in the US National Institutes of Health PubMed Central database. Of course, if you're a print-version purist, you can also find the original version of from the European Journal of Population (via Springer). Holland, J. A. (2012). Home... Continue Reading →
I was pleased to have the opportunity to organize a session on "International and Domestic Migration, Children and Families" at the upcoming 2013 meetings of the Population Association of America. I had a large number of high quality submissions addressing a host of sub-topics-- it was extremely challenging to narrow down the selection to only... Continue Reading →
The European Association of Population Studies (who, along with the local organizing committee, put on the bi-annual European Population Conference) are very committed to cultivating the next generation of Population Scientists. To this end, a Career Mentoring Event is organized at each EPC. This year I had the pleasure of organizing the event, which took place... Continue Reading →
On Thursday, June 14, 2012, I presented work conducted as part of my postdoctoral research position at the European Population Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The paper, entitled "Timing preferences for family formation among immigrant and majority groups in Europe," is a collaboration with Helga de Valk of NIDI and the Free University Brussels. Using data... Continue Reading →
Jennifer A. Holland 