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Firl, Katrin
Data and Research on Society
Family Surveys

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  • - Until 2021, Dual Master's in "Social Inequality and Demography" at the University of Cologne and University of Groningen
  • - Since 2023, Doctoral Candidate at the University of Mannheim
  • - Since 2024, Research Associate at FReDA – The German Family Demography Panel Study

    • Research

    Projects

    Retrad
    Re-traditionalization of gender roles as a reaction to the corona crisis?

    Publications

    Journal article

    Müller, Nora, Theresa Nutz, Katrin Firl, and Lara Guse. 2026 (Forthcoming). "The ContraIndex: A multidimensional measure of contraceptive returns net of labor." Empirische Pädagogik: .

    Firl, Katrin. 2024. "Changing Attitudes? Investigating the Link between Couples’ Pandemic Behavior, Cognitive Dissonance, and Gender Role Attitudes in Germany." Zeitschrift für Soziologie 53 (3): 298-313. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2024-2019.

    Working and discussion paper

    Müller, Nora, Theresa Nutz, Katrin Firl, and Lara Guse. 2025. The ContraIndex: A multidimensional measure of contraceptive returns net of labor. doi: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ngdez_v4.

    Firl, Katrin, Nora Müller, and Theresa Nutz. 2025. Who bears the burden? Couples’ resources, gender ideology and women’s contraceptive labor in Germany. doi: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qtvzu_v1.

    Data/Software

    Bujard, Martin, Tobias Gummer, Karsten Hank, Franz J. Neyer, Reinhard Pollak, Norbert Schneider, Katharina Spiess, Christof Wolf, Irina Bauer, Simon Börlin, David Bretschi, Katja Brüggemann, Pablo Christmann, Rüdiger Edinger, Felicitas Eigenbrodt, Katrin Firl, Frembs Lena Claudia, Katharina Groß, Tanja Kunz, Detlev Lück, Robert Naderi, Elias Naumann, Theresa Nutz, Anne-Sophie Oehrlein, Kerstin Ruckdeschel, Lisa Schmid, Almut Schumann, Nina Schumann, Annika Stein, Carolin Thönnissen, and Emely Ullrich. 2024. FReDA - The German Family Demography Panel Study. GESIS, Köln. ZA7777 Datenfile Version 4.1.0. doi: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14398.

    Presentation at a conference

    Firl, Katrin, Nora Müller, and Theresa Nutz. 2025. "Who bears the burden? Couples' resources, gender ideology, and women's contraceptive labor in Germany." ECSR Consortium for Sociological Research Conference, Universität zu Köln, Köln, 2025-09-03.

    Firl, Katrin, Nora Müller, and Theresa Nutz. 2025. "Who bears the burden? Couples' resources, gender ideology, and women's contraceptive labor in Germany." DGS-Kongress, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, 2025-09-24.

    Firl, Katrin, and Anna Hebel. 2024. "Does Gender Ideology Matter? Pre-pandemic Gender Role Attitudes and the Division of Housework and Childcare during COVID-19 in Germany." Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie - Familiensektion, Staatsinstitut für Familienforschung an der Universität Bamberg (ifb), 2024-05-17.

    Firl, Katrin, Nora Müller, and Theresa Nutz. 2024. "What Drives Couples’ Contraceptive Choices? Within-Couple Predictors of the Division of Contraceptive Labor." European Sociological Association , Porto, Portugal, 2024-08-29.

    Firl, Katrin, Nora Müller, and Theresa Nutz. 2024. "Within-Couple Power Dynamics, Gender Ideology and the Division of Contraceptive Labor - Evidence from Germany." British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Conference, Bath, UK, 2024-09-08.

    Firl, Katrin. 2023. "Re-traditionalization of Gender Roles? Investigating the Link between Couples' Pandemic Behavior and Gender Role Attitudes in Germany." Kritische Zeiten - Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, 2023-07-05.

    Presentation not at a conference

    Firl, Katrin. 2022. "Re-traditionalization of Gender Roles as a Reaction to the Corona Crisis? Investigating the Link between Couples' Pandemic Behavior and Gender Role Attitudes in Germany." VolkswagenStiftung: Corona Crisis and Beyond, Xplanatorium Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, 2022-12-05.