For a full list see CV.
Journal articles
Tamakoshi, Mio and Hannah Zagel (2025): Reproductive Equity Support: A Cross-National Comparison of Medically Assisted Reproduction and Abortion Policies, Social Inclusion 13 [Open Access]
Compans, Marie-Caroline and Hannah Zagel (2025): Medically assisted reproduction and ‘non-normative’ family forms: legislation and public opinion in Europe, European Societies. [Open Access]
Zagel, Hannah, Rohan Khan, Anna Kluge, Mio Tamakoshi, Martin Gädecke (2024): Conceptualizing and measuring state regulation of reproductive processes: The International Reproduction Policy Database, Journal of European Social Policy. [Open Access]
Zagel, Hannah and Emanuela Struffolino (2024): Crisis-proof households? How social policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic imagined work and care in Germany, Journal of Social Policy. [Open Access]
Hornung, Maria, Emanuela Stuffolino und Hannah Zagel (2024). Poverty among migrant, mixed, and non-migrant households: the role of non-teleworkability and single-earnership in Germany. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–28. [Open Access]
Zagel, Hannah (2024): Reproduction policy as life course policy: Normative modelling of reproductive life courses in Germany, in: Special Issue „Social policies as life course policies“, Journal of Social Policy Research/Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 70(1): 31-53 [Online].
Fasang, Anette Eva, Emanuela Struffolino and Hannah Zagel (2023): Household-level Prevalence and Poverty Penalties of Working in Non-teleworkable and Non-essential Occupations: Evidence from East and West Germany in 2019. Journal of Social Policy Research/Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 69(2): 85-117. [Open Access]
Nieuwenhuis, Rense and Hannah Zagel (2022): Housing conditions of single mothers in Europe: the role of housing policies, European Societies 25(2): 181-207 [Open Access].
Zagel, Hannah and Wim Van Lancker (2022): Family policies’ long-term effects on poverty: a comparative analysis for single and partnered mothers, Journal of European Social Policy, 32(2): 166–181 [Open Access].
Zagel, Hannah, Sabine Hübgen, Rense Nieuwenhuis (2021): Diverging trends in single mother poverty across Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom: Toward a comprehensive explanatory framework, Social Forces, 101(2): 606–638 [Open Access].
Struffolino, Emanuela and Hannah Zagel (2021): Limited detraditionalization of intimacy: Growing socioeconomic differences in contraceptive use at first intercourse in Italy. Advances in Life Course Research, [Online (paywalled) – Preprint].
Zagel, Hannah and Nadine Reibling (2020): Choice in maternity care and childcare policies in the Netherlands and Germany, in: Birgit Blättel-Mink (ed.): Gesellschaft unter Spannung. Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020 [Open Acceess].
Zagel, Hannah, Henning Lohmann (2020): Conceptualising state-market-family relationships in comparative research: A conceptual goodness view on defamilization. In: Journal of Social Policy. [Open Access].
Zagel, Hannah (2020): Single mothers’ contact frequency with family and non-family members. In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung | Journal of Family Research. [Online]
Zagel, Hannah, Zachary Van Winkle (2020): Women’s Family and Employment Life Courses Across Twentieth-Century Europe: The Role of Policies and Norms, In: Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society. [Online]
Zagel, Hannah, Richard Breen (2018): Family demography and income inequality in West Germany and the US, Acta Sociologica. [Online]
Lohmann, Henning, Hannah Zagel (2016): Family policy in comparative perspective: the concepts and measurements of familisation and defamilisation, Journal of European Social Policy 26(1): 48-65. [Online]
Zagel, Hannah (2014): Are all single mothers the same? Evidence from British and West German women’s labour market involvement trajectories.”, European Sociological Review 30(1): 49-63. [Online]
Zagel, Hannah, Gitit Kadar-Satat, Myrthe Jacobs, Anthony Glendinning (2013): The effects of early years’ childcare on child emotional and behavioural difficulties in lone and co-parent family situations, Journal of Social Policy 42(2): 235–258. [Online]
Monographs
Zagel, Hannah (2023): Single parenthood in the life course: Family dynamics and inequality in the welfare state, Wiesbaden: Springer. [English translation of 2018 book]
Zagel, Hannah (2018): Alleinerziehen im Lebensverlauf: Familiendynamiken und Ungleichheit im Wohlfahrtsstaat, Wiesbaden: Springer. [Online]
Zagel, Hannah (2013): Timing of single motherhood: implications for employment careers in Great Britain and West Germany, The University of Edinburgh, PhD Dissertation. [Online]
Edited books
Zagel, Hannah (ed.) (2024): Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Analysis, Edward Elgar. [Open Access]
Book chapters
Kluge, Anna, Hannah Zagel (2023): Neue Menstruationspolitik in Spanien, Femina Politica.
Van Lancker, Wim and Hannah Zagel (2022): Family policy research in Europe. In: Nelson, Kenneth, Nieuwenhuis, Rense, Yerkes, Mara (eds.) Social Policy in Changing European Societies. Research Agendas for the 21st Century, Edward Elgar, 34-50 [Open Access].
Zagel, Hannah, Sabine Hübgen (2018): A Life Course Approach to Single Mothers‘ Economic Wellbeing in Different Welfare States. In: Nieuwenhuis, Rense, Laurie Maldonaldo (Hrsg.), The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families, Policy Press. [Open Access]
Handbook Chapters
Lohmann, Henning, Hannah Zagel (2024): Wohlfahrtsstaaten und -regime, in: Böhnke, Petra, Konietzka, Dirk (eds.), Handbuch Sozialstrukturanalyse, Wiesbaden: Springer.
Zagel, Hannah (2023): Family Policy. In: van Gerven, M., Rothmayr Allison, C., Schubert, K. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Springer, Cham. [Online]
Zagel, Hannah (2023): Social policies for lone mothers in Europe: a life course perspective, in: Daly, Mary, Neil Gilbert, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Douglas Besharow (eds.), Oxford International Handbook of Family Policies.
Zagel, Hannah (2023): Familienpolitik, in Arranz Becker, Oliver, Anja Steinbach and Karsten Hank (eds.) Handbuch Familiensoziologie, 2nd Edition, Springer: Wiesbaden.
Fasang, Anette and Hannah Zagel (2023): Lebensverlauf, in Arranz Becker, Oliver, Anja Steinbach and Karsten Hank (eds.) Handbuch Familiensoziologie, 2nd Edition, Springer: Wiesbaden.
Zagel, Hannah, Henning Lohmann (2020): Conceptual approaches in comparative family policy research. In: Nieuwenhuis, Rense, Wim Van Lancker (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, Palgrave Macmillan. [Open Access]
Lohmann, Henning, Hannah Zagel (2018): Comparing Family Policies: Approaches, Methods and Databases. In: Eydal, Gudny, Tine Rostgaard (eds.), Handbook of Child and Family Policy, Edward Elgar. [Online]
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