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56
Citations
12170
World Ranking
1894
National Ranking
74

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Aart C. Liefbroer is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has an extensive publication record primarily in social sciences and psychology. Their research spans 66 publications in social sciences and 26 in psychology, with a focus on various subfields including general health professions, sociology and political science, health, demography, and clinical psychology.

Their work emphasizes topics related to health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, family dynamics and relationships, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, demographic trends and gender preferences, as well as migration, health, and trauma.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Aart C. Liefbroer include:

  • Nynke Smidt
  • Liza A. Hoveling
  • Lluís Mangot-Sala
  • Ute Bültmann
  • Lars Johan Hauge

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • European Sociological Review
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Selected recent papers include:

  • Economic Precariousness and the Transition to Parenthood: A Dynamic and Multidimensional Approach (2022), European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie
  • Growing up in single-parent families and the criminal involvement of adolescents: a systematic review (2020), Psychology Crime and Law
  • The Long-Term Costs of Family Trajectories: Women's Later-Life Employment and Earnings Across Europe (2020), Demography
  • Temporary Employment and Family Formation: An Income or Insecurity Effect? (2021), European Sociological Review
  • Socioeconomic differences in major depressive disorder onset among adults are partially explained by lifestyle factors: A longitudinal analysis of the Lifelines Cohort Study (2022), Journal of Affective Disorders

Aart C. Liefbroer received recognition from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

Best Publications

  • De-standardization of Family-Life Trajectories of Young Adults: A Cross-National Comparison Using Sequence Analysis

    Cees H. Elzinga;Aart C. Liefbroer

  • Towards a new pattern of transition to adulthood

    Francesco C. Billari;Aart C. Liefbroer

  • Who, What, Where, and When? Specifying the Impact of Educational Attainment and Labour Force Participation on Family Formation

    Aart C. Liefbroer;Martine Corijn

  • Unmarried cohabitation and union stability: Testing the role of diffusion using data from 16 European countries

    Aart C. Liefbroer;Edith Dourleijn

  • SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? THE IMPACT OF AGE NORMS ON LEAVING HOME*

    Francesco C. Billari;Aart C. Liefbroer

  • Changes in Family Size Intentions Across Young Adulthood: A Life-Course Perspective

    Aart C. Liefbroer

  • Codebook of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study: a multi-actor, multi-method panel study on solidarity in family relationships. Wave 3, version 1, April 2012

    E.-M. Merz;P.A. Dykstra;M.J.A. Hogerbrugge;A.E. Komter

  • Bringing norms back in: a theoretical and empirical discussion of their importance for understanding demographic behaviour

    Aart C. Liefbroer;Francesco C. Billari

  • Beyond marital status: Partner history and well-being in old age

    Arnold Peters;Aart C. Liefbroer

  • Codebook of the Netherlands kinship panel study

    P.A. Dykstra;M. Kalmijn;T. Knijn;A.E. Komter

  • Social age deadlines for the childbearing of women and men

    F. C. Billari;Alice Goisis;Alice Goisis;A. C. Liefbroer;R. A. Settersten

  • The Impact of Perceived Costs and Rewards of Childbearing on Entry into Parenthood: Evidence from a Panel Study

    Aart C. Liefbroer

  • Codebook of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, a multi-actor, multi-method panel study on solidarity in family relationships, Wave 1.

    P.A. Dykstra;M. Kalmijn;T.C.M. Knijn;A.E. Komter

  • Understanding Diversity in the Meaning of Cohabitation Across Europe

    Nicole Hiekel;Aart C. Liefbroer;Aart C. Liefbroer;Anne Rigt Poortman

  • The effect of parental resources on patterns of leaving home among young adults in the Netherlands

    Jenny De Jong Gierveld;Aart C. Liefbroer;Erik Beekink

  • The Long-Term Consequences of Relationship Formation for Subjective Well-Being

    Judith P. M. Soons;Aart C. Liefbroer;Matthijs Kalmijn

  • The Postponement of Childbearing in Europe: Driving Forces and Implications

    Francesco C. Billari;Aart C. Liefbroer;Dimiter Philipov

  • It Takes Two to Tango, Doesn't It? The Influence of Couple Characteristics on the Timing of the Birth of the First Child.

    M. Corijn;A.C. Liefbroer;J. de Jong-Gierveld

  • The Attitude toward Voluntary Childlessness in Europe: Cultural and Institutional Explanations.

    Eva-Maria Merz;Aart C. Liefbroer

  • Levenslopen in verandering. Een studie naar ontwikkelingen in de levenslopen van Nederlanders geboren tussen 1900 en 1970

    P.A. Dykstra;A.C. Liefbroer

Frequent Co-Authors

Pearl A. Dykstra
Pearl A. Dykstra Erasmus University Rotterdam
Francesco C. Billari
Francesco C. Billari Bocconi University
Matthijs Kalmijn
Matthijs Kalmijn University of Groningen
Jane Klobas
Jane Klobas Murdoch University
Clara H. Mulder
Clara H. Mulder University of Groningen
Jenny de Jong Gierveld
Jenny de Jong Gierveld Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nardi Steverink
Nardi Steverink University Medical Center Groningen
Kène Henkens
Kène Henkens University of Amsterdam
Theo G. van Tilburg
Theo G. van Tilburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Arnstein Aassve
Arnstein Aassve Bocconi University

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