Dr Christina Boll
Head of the Department “The Family and Family Policy”
Professional career and research topics
After training as an industrial clerk, Christina Boll studied economics from 1989 to 1995 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, where she also completed her doctorate in 2010. After receiving her degree in economics in 1995, she first worked as an advisor at the German Savings Bank Association (Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband) and then at the Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. From 2008 to 2019, she headed the research area “Labour, Education and Demography” at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, where she was also Research Director from 2013 to 2019.
Since 2019, Christina Boll has headed the “Family and Family Policy” department at the German Youth Institute in Munich. She has also been a lecturer in economics and business administration subjects at private and state universities since 2001 and has been a visiting professor of economics at the University of Applied Sciences of the Federal Employment Agency since 2017.
Her research focuses on family economics and policy, life course analyses (employment and educational biographies, human capital and income), intergeneration as a transmission of human capital, time use and division of labour among couples, demographic change, employment patterns in times of digitalisation, as well as on employment patterns and labour force potentials of migrants, especially in a family context.