Katarina Boye

Katarina Boye is a Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University's Swedish Institute for Social Research, where she leads the Level of Living Survey 2020 (LNU2020). Her research focuses on family structures, gendered labor division, and work-care balance in both different-sex and same-sex couples.

• Academic affiliation: Swedish Institute for Social Research (Stockholm University)
• Leadership role: Director of nationally representative Level of Living Survey

Key research areas include:

• Parental leave distribution and labor market consequences
• Childcare leave wage penalties
• Gender dynamics in household work
• Comparative analysis of same-sex vs different-sex couples
• Long-term effects of early parenthood on careers

Her recent publications examine pandemic-era work-care renegotiation, longitudinal outcomes of parental leave patterns, and socioeconomic factors in same-sex couple childbearing decisions. She utilizes Swedish population register data and mixed-method approaches.

Selected methodological approaches:

• Discrete-time event history analysis
• Linear probability modeling
• Qualitative in-depth interviews
• Quantitative regression models