Dr. Chen-Hao Hsu

Chen-Hao Hsu holds a doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Bamberg (Dr. rer. pol. 2024). He also studied International Business (B.A. 2014) and Sociology (M.A. 2016) at the National Taiwan University. From 2017 to 2019, he worked as a research assistant at the Academia Sinica (Taiwan). From 2019 to 2023, he was the sholarship holder of the DAAD Graduate Study Scholarship Program for his docotral study at the University of Bamberg (dissertation title: "Employment Instability, Family Formation, and Motherhood Penalties: Comparative and Life Course Perspectives", committee: Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel, Prof. Dr. Henriette Engelhardt-W?lfler, and Prof. Dr. Stefani Scherer). From 2021 to 2023, he worked as a research associate at the ERC-funded SECCOPA project ("The Socio-Economic Consequences of Temporary Employment: A Comparative Panel Data Analysis"). Since October 2023, he works for the DFG-funded project "Women’s Agency and Fertility in Egypt" at the Professorship of Demography at the University of Bamberg. Besides research activities, he also offers graduate-level courses including applied panel data analysis and multilevel analysis at the Chair of Methods of Social Empirical Research at the University of Bamberg.

• Family demography, especially the economic causes and consequences of family formation.
• Labor market research, especially the impact of precarious employment and unemployment.
• Couple relationship and wellbeing.
• Comparative studies, especially in East Asia and Europe.
• Panel data analysis and quantitative causal inference

Hsu, C.-H., & Engelhardt, H. (2024). On the Relationship between Telework and Health in Germany: Causal or Selection Effects? Forthcoming in Socius, 10, 23780231241245227. doi.org/10.1177/23780231241245227.

Hsu, C.-H., & Engelhardt, H. (2024). A Precarious Path to Partnership? The Moderating Effects of Labour Market Regulations on the Relationship Between Unstable Employment and Union Formation in Europe. European Journal of Population, 40 (12). doi.org/10.1007/s10680-024-09698-3.

Hsu, C.-H. (2023). How women’s employment instability affects birth transitions: The moderating role of family policies in 27 European countries. European Sociological Review, jcad037. doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcad037.

Hsu, C.-H. (2022). Work and fertility in Taiwan: How women’s and men’s career sequences associate with fertility outcomes? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. doi.org/10.1332/175795921X16379265590317