New Publications
"Between Ambition and Uncertainty: What Drives Young Women to Consider Social Freezing?" by Maila Mertens, Jörg Rössel & Nadja Colombini (2025)
Social egg freezing has increasingly become a topic of public discussion in recent years. It means the cryopreservation (freezing) of human unfertilized egg cells, which enables women to postpone pregnancy to a later age. The discussion has often focused on the normative implications of this technological innovation in reproductive medicine and on the reasons that motivate women to use it. Our study analyzes the covariates of the desire to use social freezing. Continue reading
"Who should have (no) children? Results of a vignette experiment in Switzerland" by Larissa Fritsch, Sandra Gilgen & Maila Mertens (2025)
In this study, we test whether same-sex couples and singles seeking to have a child by surrogacy or adoption are viewed more critically compared to different-sex couples. We rely on data from a factorial survey experiment run on a representative sample of the Swiss population. Continue reading