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Department of Social Sciences

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Tamakoshi, Mio and Hannah Zagel (2025): Reproductive Equity Support: A Cross-National Comparison of Medically Assisted Reproduction and Abortion Policies, Social Inclusion 13.

Zagel, Hannah, Rohan Khan, Anna Kluge, Mio Tamakoshi, Martin Gädecke (2025): Conceptualizing and measuring state regulation of reproductive processes: The International Reproduction Policy Database, Journal of European Social Policy.

Compans, Marie-Caroline and Hannah Zagel (2025): Medically assisted reproduction and ‘non-normative’ family forms: legislation and public opinion in Europe, European Societies.

Hornung, Maria, Emanuela Stuffolino and 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.

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.

Zagel, Hannah (2024):"Reproduction Policy as Life Course Policy. Normative Modeling of Reproductive Life Courses in Germany". In: Journal for Social Reform, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 31-53.

Fasang, Anette Eva/Struffolino, Emanuela/Zagel, Hannah (2023):"Household-level Prevalence and Poverty Penalties of Working in Non-teleworkable and Non-essential Occupations. Evidence from East and West Germany in 2019". In: Journal of Social Reform, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 85-117.

Nieuwenhuis, Rense/Zagel, Hannah (2023):"Housing Conditions of Single Mothers in Europe. The Role of Housing Policies". In: European Societies, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 181-207 (published online in advance 11.9.2022).

Zagel, Hannah/Van Lancker, Wim (2022):"Family Policies' Long-Term Effects on Poverty. A Comparative Analysis of Single and Partnered Mothers". In: Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 166-181.

Zagel, Hannah/Van Winkle, Zachary (2022):"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, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 446-476. (published online in advance 03.01.2020)

Edited volume

Books

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): Single parenthood in the life course: Family dynamics and inequality in the welfare state, 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]

Book chapters

Lohmann, Henning, Hannah Zagel (2024): Welfare States and Regimes, in: Böhnke, Petra, Konietzka, Dirk (eds.), Handbuch Sozialstrukturanalyse, Wiesbaden: Springer.

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 (2023): "Family Policy." In: Minna van Gerven/Christine Rothmayr Allison/Klaus Schubert (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Living Reference Work. Cham: Springer, pp. 1-6 (published online 23.06.2023)

Zagel, Hannah (2023):"Social Policies for Lone Mothers in Europe. A Life-Course Perspective". In: Mary Daly/Birgit Pfau-Effinger/Neil Gilbert/Douglas J. Besharov (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over The Life Course. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 716-735.

Van Lancker, Wim/Zagel, Hannah (2022):"Family Policy Research in Europe". In: Kenneth Nelson/Rense Nieuwenhuis/Mara A. Yerkes (Eds.): Social Policy in Changing European Societies. Research Agendas for the 21st Century. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 34-49.

Other publications

Kluge, Anna E./Zagel, Hannah (2023):"New menstruation policy in Spain". In: femina politica - Journal for feminist political science, vol. 32, p. 1, pp. 124-127.

Zagel, Hannah (2023):"Reproduction as a policy field". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 1=No. 179, Online-Supplement.

Zagel, Hannah/Khan, Rohan/Kluge, Anna E./Tamakoshi, Mio/Gädecke, Martin (2023):"Comparing reproductive policies across countries. A new international database". In: Forum Sexuality Education and Family Planning - Information Service of the Federal Center for Health Education, H. 1, pp. 28-33.

Zagel, Hannah/Gädecke, Martin/Khan, Rohan/Kluge, Anna/Tamakoshi, Mio (2023): "International Reproduction Policy Database (IRPD)." (unpublished)

Zagel, Hannah (2022):"The war as a crisis of reproductive health". In: Krieg in Europa - Ursachen und Folgen/War in Europe - Causes and Consequences, 15.06.2022.