September 2026
New article on kinship in Black and White families in the US
The study appears in the September 2026 issue of the American Journal of Sociology.
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April 2026
Successful PhD defence
Kateryna Sytkina defended her PhD thesis, “Critical life events: Parental death, parental separation, and forced migration,” which is partly based on KINMATRIX data.
Read the thesisMarch 2026
Workshop: Understanding Kin Relations
The ECSR Network Workshop aimed to broaden conceptualizations of kin relations as well as explain the transmission of advantage and disadvantage through family networks.
Read more on LinkedInOctober 2025
KINMATRIX newsletter launched
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Data now accessible via GESIS
The KINMATRIX data have been released via the GESIS data archive. Registered users can download the data free of charge.
Data accessNovember 2024
Mapping modern kinship networks
First results from the KINMATRIX survey have been published open access in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Read the articleOctober 2024
A new data resource for studies of families and kinship
A comprehensive description of the KINMATRIX data has been published open access in Demographic Research.
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