Work-family Policies: Socioeconomic Outcomes and Policy Learning (A06)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 374666841

Increasingly, work-family policies are recognized as key to mitigating socioeconomic conflicts, yet their effectiveness has only recently been explored in a broader comparative perspective. The A06 project investigates: (1) How do family policies impact women’s and children’s socioeconomic outcomes? (2) When and how do policy actors adopt information on these socioeconomic outcomes, leading to policy learning? Using a mixed-methods approach, the project combines impact evaluation across world regions with comparative case studies on family-policy learning in Global North and South contexts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bremen
• Project Heads: Dr. Sonja Blum, since 1/2026; Professorin Sonja Drobnic, Ph.D., until 12/2025; Professor Dr. Johannes Huinink, until 12/2021; Dr. Keonhi Son, since 1/2026