Dr. Henriette Engelhardt-Wölfler is Full Professor for Population Studies at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg. She was born in 1968 in Bruchsal (Germany) and studied sociology and statistics at the University of Mannheim (Dipl.-Soz., 1992), and at the University of Berne, Switzerland (Dr. rer.soc., 1998, Habilitation, 2005). She worked as Research Scientist at the University of Berne (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences/Sociology) (1992-98), Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin (1998-2000), Max-Planck-Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock (2000-02), and at the Vienna Institute of Demography (2002-06). Her research interests are in the fields of social demography, family demography, epidemiological demography, population aging and causal analysis. Henriette Engelhardt-Wölfler has published about 35 articles in refereed journals such as Population Studies, European Journal of Population, Demographic Research, International Journal of Public Health, European Sociological Review and Ageing & Society on these topics.

Books

Engelhardt, H., Prskawetz, A. and Kohler, H.-P. (eds.) (2009). Causal Analysis in Population Studies: Concepts, Methods, Application. Berlin: Springer.

Engelhardt, H. (2002). Zur Dynamik von Ehescheidungen: Theoretische und empirische Analysen. Berlin: Dunker & Humblot.

Articles and Book Chapters

Engelhardt, H., Buber, I., Skirbekk, V. and Prskawetz, A. (forthcoming). ‘Social involvement, behavioural risks and cognitive functioning among the aged,’ Ageing & Society.

Prskawetz, A., Mamolo, M. and Engelhardt, H. (forthcoming). ‘On the Relation between Fertility, Natality and Nuptiality,’ European Sociological Review.

Lyngstad, T. and Engelhardt, H. (2009). ‘The Influence of Offsprings’s Sex and Age at Parents’ Divorce on the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce, Norwegian First Marriages 1980-2003,’ Population Studies 63(2), pp. 1-13.

Buber, I. and Engelhardt, H. (2008). ‘Children’s impact on the mental health of their older mothers and fathers: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe,’ European Journal of Ageing 5(1), pp. 31-45.

Engelhardt, H., Kögel, T. and Prskawetz, A. (2004). ‘Fertility and Women’s Employment Reconsidered: A Macro-level Time-series Analysis in Developed Countries, 1960-2000,’ Population Studies 58(1), pp. 109-120.

DiPrete, T. A. and Engelhardt, H. (2004). ‘Estimating Causal Effects with Matching Methods in the Presence and Absence of Bias Cancellation,’ Sociological Methods & Research 32(4), pp. 501-528.

Engelhardt, H. and Prskawetz, A. (2004). ‘On the Changing Correlation Between Fertility and Female Employment over Space and Time,’ European Journal of Population 20(1), pp. 35-62.

Diekmann, A. and Engelhardt, H. (1999). ‘The Social Inheritance of Divorce: Effects of Parent’s Family Type in Postwar Germany,’ American Sociological Review 64(6), pp. 783-793.