Dimitri Mortelmans - Divorce in Europe: New Insights in Trends, Causes and Consequences of Relation Break-ups

is associate professor of Sociology at Stockholm University. Her current research interests comprise the effects of social stratification, social policy, and social change on demographic patterns. Her research has involved both comparative and microlevel analyses of fertility and mortality trends. Much of her past research involved post-socialist countries.

is sociologist working at the Centre for Demographic Research in Barcelona. He is interested in issues related to family dynamics and inequality and has published in journals such asDemography,European Sociological Review, andJournal of Marriage and Family.

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Groningen. She studies the consequences of parental divorce on the structure of relationships among parents, children, grandparents, aunts/uncles, and stepfamily members, for which she collected family network data.

PhD, serves as the director of Economic Research Department in the Israeli National Insurance Institute (NII). She is the editor of the national poverty and social gaps report and the annual report of the NII. Her main research interests are poverty and inequality, mobility, and labor market. She holds a PhD in Labor Studies from Tel Aviv University.

(twitter: @pfallesen) is a senior researcher at the Rockwool Foundation in Copenhagen, Denmark, and an associate professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden. His research interests include family demography, child welfare, mental health, and criminal justice contacts. His recent work deals with timing and causes of divorce, how changes in welfare benefits affect family stability, and the efficacy of medical treatment of behavioral disorders on childrens long-term outcomes.

is a sociologist at the Office for Population Studies at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. His research focuses on the postdivorce adaptation processes with the connection to the social reproduction, stratification, and gender topics.

is professor of Sociology at Stockholm University. His research interests include family sociology and ethnic and gender inequality on the labor market. More specifically, he studies the effects of divorce and separation for children and adults; the occurrence and extent of employer discrimination by ethnicity, gender, and parenthood; and the effects of parenthood for mens and womens careers and wages.