Anne Gauthier

A.M.H. (Anne) Gauthier is an Honorary Professor of Comparative Family Studies at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences of the University of Groningen. She also holds the position of Senior researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), which is affiliated with the University.

Her research expertise focuses on

• Family dynamics and fertility decisions
• Work-family reconciliation policies
• Parental investment in children
• Life-course analysis

She serves as the Scientific Coordinator of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), a longitudinal comparative survey conducted across 20+ countries, emphasizing data quality, infrastructure, and demographic research dissemination.

Key research interests include socio-economic inequalities in health outcomes, the macro-level impacts of family policies, and the interplay between religiosity and fertility intentions. Her work often combines qualitative and quantitative methods, including neural topic modeling for demographic narratives.

She has contributed to projects such as the Families in the Middle (FIM) study in Canada and the USA, and has published extensively on topics ranging from parental leave policies to the demographic implications of neoliberal rhetoric. Her research has been cited in international journals and policy reports, reflecting its influence in demography and family studies.

Additional activities include advising on demographic research infrastructure and collaborating with institutions globally to advance comparative family studies. She coordinates research networks and supports data access initiatives for the GGP to ensure wide academic utilization.