Fields of interest:
Social indicators, demography, social inclusion and social isolation, sociology of the family
Recent research project:
Latest Publications
Eckhard, Jan. 2020. Gender Differences in the Social Consequences of Unemployment: How Job Loss Affects the Risk of Becoming Socially Isolated. Work, Employment and Society. Early View. 1-18.
Eckhard, Jan. 2020. Social Isolation as a Consequence of Transitions in Partner Relationships: How Formations and Endings of Partner Relationships Affect the Risk of Social Disconnectedness. Journal of Family Research. Early View. 1-50.
Eckhard, Jan, and Johannes Stauder. 2019. Partner Market Opportunities and Union Formation over the Life Course. Population, Space and Place 25.4: e2178.
Eckhard, Jan. 2018: Does Poverty Increase the Risk of Social Isolation? The Sociological Quarterly 59: 338-359.
Eckhard, Jan 2018. Einsamkeit als Folge von Armut und Marginalisierung. In: Thomas Hax-Schoppenhorst (Ed.): Das Einsamkeits-Buch. Göttingen/Bern: Hogrefe Verlag, Pp. 421-433.
Eckhard, Jan. 2018: Indicators of Social Isolation. Social Indicators Research 139.3: 963-988.
Eckhard, Jan and Johannes Stauder. 2017. Migration and the Partner Market – How Gender-Selective Relocations Affect Regional Mating Chances in Germany. European Journal of Population 34.1: 59-86.
For further publications see: http://katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/profil/131668420
Lectures
- Methods of empirical social research
- Comparative analyses of social structure
Courses (selection)
- Social inequality and living conditions in international comparison
- Statistics in economy and social science
- Inferential and multivariate statistics
- Sociology of education
- Personal relationships - structures and change
- Sociology of the family
- Migration and Integration
- Social capital
