Family Policies seminar

The Family Policies seminar, coordinated by Montserrat Botey and Laudine Carbuccia, provides a central forum for discussion on the links between social and family policies, childcare arrangements and the factors that determine women's career paths. The seminar meets approximately once a month during the semester, with three to four sessions per semester. Each session is structured around presentations of recent research followed by in-depth discussions, sometimes with a discussant.

Previous seminars have featured Leanna Katz, Léa Dubreuil, Pierre Pora and Keonhi Son, whose work has focused respectively on the rise of private equity in the childcare sector, maternal preferences for home-based childcare and labour supply, the penalties associated with parenthood among immigrant populations in France, and work-family challenges in the Global South. The seminar is interdisciplinary in nature. It brings together researchers from different disciplines in an informal setting, allowing them to present work at various stages of progress. It thus aims to strengthen an interdisciplinary network and encourage future research collaborations on family policies and professional equality.

Are you interested in presenting? Contact us at laudine.carbuccia@sciencespo.fr and montserrat.botey@sciencespo.fr.

Upcoming sessions

• 24/09/2026: Family Structure and Children's Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Parent-Child Communication and Conflict, with Claire Mariano (CRIS - Sciences Po / Institute of Social Sciences)

Past sessions   

• 18/06/2026: Couples' Education Fields and Child-Related Career Costs, with Rosa Weber (Stockholm University)
• 28/05/2026: Constrained Articulation: A Grounded Theory of Identity Recomposition at Return to Work After Maternity Leave, with Charline Darmaillacq (LPPS - Université Paris Cité)
• 19/03/2026: Fertility in Europe: drivers and open questions, with Angela Greulich (CRIS / PRESAGE - Sciences Po)
• 19/02/2026: Breast is best? Negotiating baby-feeding norms, with Marta Dominguez-Folgueras (CRIS - Sciences Po)
• 17/09/2025: Hidden’ Work-Family Challenges in the Global South: A Systematic Review of Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses, avec Keonhi Son (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research)
• 12/06/2025: Traditional Views, Egalitarian Views, and the Child Penalty: Insights from Immigrant Populations in France, avec Dominique Meurs (INED, PSE, Paris Nanterre) et Pierre Pora (Insee, Crest, Ined) — discussant: Hélène Périvier (OFCE - Sciences Po)
• 08/04/2025: The Rise of Private Equity in Childcare: A Legal Institutionalist Story of Its Causes and Responses
• 04/03/2025: Mothers’ Preferences to Care for a Child at Home and Maternal Labor Supply, avec Léa Dubreuil (CREST)