Peer-review journals

Forthcoming:

2025:

•   Arpino, B., Bordone, V., Di Gessa, G., & Krämer, M. D. (2025). Personality Traits and Provision of Grandparental Childcare: Evidence from Europe. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 1–20. Doi: 10.1080/15350770.2025.2558816

•   Glaser, K., & Di Gessa, G. (2025). Grandparental childcare and subjective well-being: The role of activities and reasons for care. Social Science & Medicine, 366, 117711. Doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117711

•  Zanasi, F., & Bordone, V. (2025). The effect of grandparental involvement on grandchildren’s school grades: Heterogeneity by the extended family characteristics. Social Science Research, 125, 103095. Doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103095

2024:

•  Arpino, B. (2024). Students can encourage their grandparents to vaccinate. Nature Aging. Doi: 10.1038/s43587-024-00628-w.

• Brini, E., & Zanasi, F. (2024). (Grand)childlessness and depression across men and women’s stages of later life. Journal of Family Studies, 30(3), 365–396. Doi: 10.1080/13229400.2023.2230970 

• Zanasi, F., & Sieben, I. (2024). Income and educational differences in grandparental childcare: evidence from English grandmothers and grandfathers. Community, Work & Family, 27(2), 188–207. Doi: 10.1080/13668803.2022.2095895

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2023:

•   Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V., & Arpino, B. (2023). Changes in Grandparental Childcare During the Pandemic and Mental Health: Evidence From England. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 78(2), 319–329. Doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbac104

• Zanasi, F., Arpino, B., Bordone, V., & Hank, K. (2023). The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: a research update. European Journal of Ageing, 20(1), 37. Doi: 10.1007/s10433-023-00785-8

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2022:

• Ates, M., Bordone, V. & Arpino, B. (2022) Does grandparental childcare provision affect number, satisfaction and with whom leisure activities are done? Forthcoming in Ageing & Society, 42(10):2370-2392 . Doi: 10.1017/S0144686X2100009X.

• Bordone, V. & Arpino, B. (2022) Is there a rejuvenating effect of (grand)childcare? A longitudinal study on German data. The Journal of Gerontology: Series B, 77(2), 446-455. Doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab021.

• Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V. & Arpino, B. (2022) The role of fertility in the demography of grandparenthood: evidence from Italy. Journal of Population Ageing, 15, 453-471.  Doi: 10.1007/s12062-020-09310-60.

• Di Gessa, G., Glaser, K. & Zaninotto, P. (2022) Is grandparental childcare socio-economically patterned? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing. European Journal of Ageing, 19, 763-774. Doi: 10.1007/s10433-021-00675-x2.

• Zanasi, F., Arpino, B., Pirani, E. & Bordone V. (2022) Work histories and provision of grandparental childcare among Italian older women. Genus, 78(11). Doi: 10.1186/s41118-022-00158-6.

2021:

• Arpino, B., Pasqualini, M. & Bordone, V. (2021) Physically distant but socially close? Changes in non-physical intergenerational contacts at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic among older people in France, Italy and Spain.  European Journal of Ageing, 18, 185-194. Doi: 10.1007/s10433-021-00621-x.

• Arpino, B., Pasqualini, M., Bordone, V., & Solé-Auró, A. (2021). Older people’s non-physical contacts and depression during the COVID-19 lockdown.  The Gerontologist , 61(2), 176–186. 

• Ellwardt L., Hank K. & Mendes de Leon C.F. (2021). Grandparenthood and risk of mortality: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study. Forthcoming in Social Science &Medicine, 268, 113371. Doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113371.

• Pasqualini, M., Di Gessa, G. & Tomassini, C. (2021). A change is (not) gonna come: a 20-year overview of Italian grandparent–grandchild exchanges. Genus, 77(33). Doi: 10.1186/s41118-021-00142-6. 

2020:

• Arpino, B., Bordone, V., & Pasqualini, M. (2020). No clear association emerges between intergenerational relationships and COVID-19 fatality rates from macro-level analyses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 117(32), 19116-19121.

• Arpino B. & Gómez-León, M. (2020) Consequences on depression of combining grandparental childcare with other caregiving  roles. Aging & Mental Health, 24(8), 1263-1270.

• Bordone V., Arpino, B. & Rosina, A. (2020) Forever young? Prevalence and correlates of feeling old, Ageing & Society, 40(8), 1669-1693.

• Di Gessa G., Bordone, V. & Arpino, B. (2020) Becoming a grandparent and its effect on well-being: the role of order of transitions, time, and gender. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 75(10), 2250–2262. 

• Tomassini, C., Zamberletti, J., Lallo, C. & Cavrini, G. (2020). Associations of family and social contact with health among Italian grandparents. Genus, 76(1), 1-22. 

• Wetzel, M. & Hank, K. (2020). Grandparents’ Relationship to Grandchildren in the Transition to Adulthood. Forthcoming in: Journal of Family Issues, 41(10),  1885-1904 .

• Zanasi, F. & Sieben, I. (2020). Grandmothers’ Transition to Retirement: Evidence from Italy. Polis, 2, 281–308.

• Zanasi, F., Sieben, I. & Uunk, W. (2020). Work history, economic resources, and women’s labour market withdrawal after the birth of the first grandchild. European Journal of Ageing, 17, 109–118.

2019:

• Arpino, B. & Solé-Auró, A. (2019) Education inequalities in health among older European men and women: the role of active aging. Journal of Aging and Health, 31(1), 185-208. 

• Bordone, V. & Arpino, B. (2019) Grandparenthood, grandparenting and depression in 18 European countries. ZfF–Zeitschrift für Familienforschung/Journal of Family Research, 31(2).

2018:

• We organized a Special Section on Grandparenthood in Europe in the European Journal of Ageing (Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2018) including the following articles from our group:

  • Glaser K. & Hank K. (2018) Grandparenthood in Europe (Editorial). European Journal of Ageing, 15(3), 221–223.

  • Albertini M. & Tosi M. (2018) Grandparenting after parental divorce: The association between non-resident parent-child meetings and grandparenting in Italy. European Journal of Ageing, 15(3): 277-286. 

  • Arpino B., Bordone V. & Balbo N. (2018) Grandparenting, education and subjective wellbeing of older Europeans. European Journal of Ageing, 15(3), 251–263.

  • Glaser, K., Stuchbury, R., Price D., Di Gessa, G., Ribe, E. & Tinker, A. (2018) Trends in the prevalence of grandparents living with grandchild(ren) in selected European countries and the United States. European Journal of Ageing, 15(3), 237-250.

  • Hank, K., Cavrini, G., Di Gessa, G. & Tomassini, C. (2018) What do we know about grandparents? Insights from current quantitative data and identification of future data needs. European Journal of Ageing, 15(3), 225-235.

  • Zamberletti, J., Cavrini, G. & Tomassini, C. (2018). Grandparents providing childcare in Italy. European Journal of Ageing, 15(3), 265-275. 

• Arpino, B., Gumà, J. & Julià, A. (2018) The demography of grandparenthood: the role of life histories. Demographic Research, 39(42), 1105–1150.

• Bordone, V., Evandrou, M. & Vlachantoni, A. (2018) Ethnicity and grandparental childcare in the UK. Ageing & Society, 40(4), 713-734.

2017:

• Arpino, B. & Bordone, V. (2017) Regular provision of grandchild care and participation in social activities. Review of Economics of the Household, 15(1), 135-174. 

• Bordone, V., Arpino, B. & Aassve, A. (2017) Patterns of grandparental child care across Europe: the role of the policy context and working mothers’ need. Ageing & Society, 37(4), 845-873.

2016:

• Bordone V. & Arpino B. (2016) Do grandchildren influence how old you feel? Journal of Aging and Health, 28(6), 1055-1072.

• Di Gessa G., Glaser K. & Tinker A. (2016) The impact of caring for grandchildren on the health of gGrandparents in Europe: a lifecourse approach. Social Science & Medicine, 152, 166–175.

• Di Gessa, G., Glaser, K., Price, D., Ribe, E., & Tinker A. (2016) What drives national differences in intensive grandparental childcare in Europe? Policy Brief. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72(3), e2–e3.

2015:

• Di Gessa G., Glaser K. & Tinker A. (2015) The health impact of intensive and nonintensive grandchild care in Europe: New evidence from SHARE. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 71(5), 867-879.

• Di Gessa G., Glaser K., Price D., Ribe E. & Tinker A. (2015) What drives national differences in intensive grandparental childcare in Europe? The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 71(1), 141–153. 

2014:

• Arpino B. & Bordone V. (2014) Does grandparenting pay off? The effect of childcare on grandparents’ cognitive functioning. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76(2), 337-351.

• Arpino B., Pronzato C. & Tavares L.P. (2014) The effect of grandparental support on mothers’ labour market participation: an instrumental variable approach, European Journal of Population, 30, 369–390.

• Ko P.-C. & Hank K. (2014) Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in China and Korea: Findings From CHARLS and KLoSA, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 69 (4), 646-651.

Older publications:

• Aassve A., Arpino B. & Goisis A. (2012) Grandparenting and mothers’ labour force participation: A comparative analysis using the Generations and Gender Survey, Demographic Research, 27(3), 53-84. 

• Hank, K. & Buber, I. (2009) Grandparents Caring for Their Grandchildren: Findings from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Journal of Family Issues, 30 (1), 53-73.