Livia Sz. Oláh is Associate Professor of Demography (Ph.D., Stockholm University) at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University with expertise also in law and political science, comparative welfare state research and gender studies. She has published widely on policy impacts on fertility and partnership dynamics, and the interplay of family patterns and gender relations in European societies. Oláh has been a member of the editorial board of several international journals as well as of reference groups on family and demographic issues internationally and in Sweden.