Doris Hanappi co-leads the Swiss EdLab and the Center’s context measurements, now part of the Zurich Learning Progress Study (LEAPS), since 2020, and leads evidence initiatives in the EU Horizon Project LEARN. She is board member of the Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cluster Switzerland. Her role focuses on advancing the Center’s mission as a leading evidence generator, designing data collection instruments and an education-focused evidence platform, overseeing survey data collection, acquiring funding, and co-leading evidence evaluation training. She believes in the power of evidence to transform education systems and policies that drive children’s learning and development.

Before joining the Jacobs Center, Doris consulted for the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at WHO/HQ and led research activities on family and social demography at UC Berkeley for five years, expanding the outreach of the National Center for Competence in Research LIVES, directed by the University of Lausanne. Throughout her career, she has generated and assessed evidence from large- to small-scale projects in work, family, and education, collaborating with esteemed universities and cantonal bodies. Doris’ professional experience is diverse, gained through roles with organizations such as the Austrian Federal Ministry for Women and Health, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Institute, the Life-Long Learning Institute at UC Berkeley, and the Healthcare Division of GfK (Consumer Research).

Doris holds a Master's in International Commerce, a Master's in Business Administration, and a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Print press (open access)

• Paula Sergeant and Doris Hanappi (2026), "Longitudinal Educational Achievements: Reducing Inequalities (LEARN) Project", Open Access Government January 2026, pp.222-224. Available at https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/longitudinal-educational-achievements-reducing-inequalities-learn-project/203455/ (Accessed: 02 Feb 2026)
• Torabian, J. E., Hanappi, D., & Bernardi, L. (2025). LEARN Brief: Protecting Adolescents' Wellbeing in Europe: Mitigating the Impact of Parental Unemployment Through Educational Policies. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15304218
• Hanappi, D. (2025). Yellow Paper: Mapping the Education Evidence Base: Unlocking Opportunities to Reduce Educational Inequalities. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15268028
• Hanappi, D. (2024). LEARN Brief: Reviewing the Evidence on the SES Gradient in Tracking Decisions. How Context and Institutions Can Cultivate Fair Education Pathways?. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14500568
• Zwier, D., & Hanappi, D. (2024). LEARN Brief: Unseen Currents: How Peers Shape School Choices and Inequality in the Netherlands. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14500599
• Hanappi, D. (2025). LEARN Brief: Mapping the Education Evidence Base: Unlocking Opportunities to Reduce Educational Inequalities. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15304088

Working in progress

• Gomensoro, A., Hanappi, D., Heers, M., Hupka-Brunner, S., & Daum, M. (2025). Social Origin and Institutional Context in Educational Trajectories: Evidence on access to the academic path from the Swiss tracked System. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17951388
• Buchmann, M., Hanappi, D., Kriesi, I. (in progress). Social Inequalities in Swiss Education: The Role of Institutional Structures, Reforms, and Policy Interventions. UCL Press.

Konzeptpapier

• Tomasik, M., Ender , S., Hanappi, D., und Daum M. M. (2023). Fokusmodule A1-4. Zürcher Lernverlaufserhebung.

Refereed Articles

• Hanappi, Doris, and Oliver Lipps. 2019.” Job Insecurity and Parental Well-Being: The Role of Parenthood and Family Factors”. Demographic Research Vol. 40 (31):897-932 (Special Issue).
• Hanappi, Doris, and Isabella Buber-Ennser. 2017. “When Paid Work Matters for Fertility Intentions and Subsequent Behavior: Evidence from Two Waves of the Austrian Gender and Generation Survey.” Comparative Population Studies Vol(42): 219-254.
• Hanappi, Doris, V.-A. Ryser, L. Bernardi, and J.-M. LeGoff. 2017. “Changes in Employment Uncertainty and the Fertility Intention-Behavior Link: An Analysis based on the Swiss Household Panel Data.” European Journal of Population 33(3): 381-407. doi: 10.1007/s10680-016-9408-y.
• Hanappi, Doris, V.-A. Ryser, and L. Bernardi  2016. “The Role of Attitudes to Maternal Employment in the Relationship between Job Quality and Fertility Intentions.” Journal of Research in Gender Studies 6(1): 192-219.
• Hanappi, Doris, L. Bernardi, and D. Spini. 2015. “Vulnerability as a Heuristic for Interdisciplinary Research: Assessing the Thematic and Methodological Structure of Empirical Life Course Studies.” Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 6(1): 59–87.
• Salamin, X. and Doris Hanappi. 2014. “Women and International Assignments: A Systematic Literature Review Exploring Textual Data by Correspondence Analysis.” Journal of Global Mobility 2(3): 343–74, doi: 10.1108/JGM-09-2013-0058.
• Hanappi, Doris. 2011. “Economic Action, Fields, and Uncertainty.” Journal of Economic Issues 25(4): 785–803.
• Hanappi, Doris. 2007. “Early Careers of Managers and Young Professionals: An Integrative Approach to Contemporary Careers.” German Journal of Human Resource Research (ZfP) 21(4): 390–3.
• Hanappi, Doris, V.-A. Ryser, and L. Bernardi. 2014. “Coping Strategies under Uncertain, Precarious Employment Conditions in Switzerland.” Working Paper No. 12, FamiliesAndSocieties, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Spini. D., Doris Hanappi, L. Bernardi, M. Oris, and J.-F. Bickel. 2013. “Vulnerability Across the Life Course: A Theoretical Framework and Research Directions.” ISSN number 2296-1658, LIVES Working Papers, Lausanne, Switzerland. doi:10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2013.27.
• Hanappi, Doris, V.-A. Ryser, L. Bernardi, and J.M. LeGoff (2012). “Precarious Work and the Fertility Intention-Behavior Link: An Analysis Based on the Swiss Household Panel Data.” ISSN number 2296-1658, LIVES Working Papers, 2012/17, Lausanne, Switzerland. doi:10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2012.17.
• Hanappi, Doris 2011. “Field, Habitus, and Economic Reason: Prospects for Conceptualizing Economic Action.” ISSN number 2296-1658 LIVES Working Papers, 2011/6, Lausanne, Switzerland. doi:10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2011.6.
• Hanappi, Doris 2010. “An Integrative Approach to Early Managerial and Professional Careers in Post-Industrial Labor Markets: Predictors for Career Success and First Job.” ISSN number 2296-1658, LIVES Working Papers, 2011/2, Lausanne, Switzerland. doi:10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2011.2.

Authored Book

• Hanappi, Doris 2007. Early Careers of Managers and Young Professionals: An Integrative Approach to Contemporary Careers. Munich: Rainer Hampp.

Book Contributions

• Girardin, N., Hanappi, D., and J.-M. Le Goff (2019). Couples’ alignment of pre-birth plans and post-birth realities in Switzerland: Non-normative adaptation to the one and a half earner model. In Grunow D., and Evertsson, M. (eds.). New Parents in Europe. London: Edward Elgar: 128-146.
• Buber-Ennser I., Hanappi D. (2018) Household position, parenthood, and self-reported adult health. Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Austrian Generations and Gender Survey. In: Doblhammer G., Gumà J. (eds) A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe. Springer, Cham, pp. 155-190.
• Spini, D., Hanappi, D., and L. Bernardi (2017). La vulnérabilité: Un concept au carrefour des disciplines. In D. Jousset, Boles, J. – M., & Jouquan, J., Penser l’humain vulnérable. De la philosophie au soin (First., Pp. 69-76). Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
• Bühlmann, F., N. Girardin, Doris Hanappi, J.M. Le Goff, and I. Valarino, (2016). “Constructions of Motherhood and Fatherhood in Switzerland” In: Transition to Parenthood in Europe: Analyzing Gender and Labor Divisions (eds.) D. Grunow, M. Evertsson. London: Edward Elgar.
• Hanappi, Doris 2014. “Field Theory: Taking Bourdieu to Envisioned Futures.” Pp. 161–173 in Advances in Heterodox Economics: Re-Thinking the Work of Pierre Bourdieu edited by A. Christoforou and M. Lainé. London and New York: Routledge.
• Hanappi, Doris 2013. “Precarious Work: Agenda and Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility.” Pp. 1880–1885 in Encyclopaedia of Corporate Social Responsibility, edited by S.O. Idowu, N. Capaldi, L. Zu, & A. Das Gupta. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8.

Book (Contribution) Reviews

• Hanappi, Doris 2015. Precarious Work: Agenda and Implications for Corporate Social Responsibilityby Pierre-Michel Menger. Journal of Economic Issues 49(3):881–883.
• Hanappi, Doris 2014. Review of Gendered Tradeoffs. Family, Social Policy, and Economic Inequality in Twenty-One Countries by Becky Pettit and Jennifer L. Hook. European Journal of Population, 30(1):115–117. doi:10.1007/s10680-013-9302-9.
• Hanappi, Doris 2015. Review of “Parental leave in Spain: use, motivations and implications.” In: Family Continuity and Change (ESA-Research Network: Family and Intimate Lives). Publisher: tba.

Non-scientific Outreach

• Angst um den Arbeitsplatz beeinflusst die Familienplanung Anxiety about losing one’s job influences family planning (March 17 2017):
  • http://diepresse.com/home/wirtschaft/eco1848/5185159/Angst-um-Arbeitsplatz-beeinflusst-Familienplanung#    (VIDEO)
  • http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/top_news/880084_Angst-um-Arbeitsplatz-beeinflusst-Familienplanung.html
  • http://www.tt.com/home/12752881-91/angst-um-arbeitsplatz-beeinflusst-familienplanung.csp
  • https://mobil.news.at/a/angst-um-arbeitsplatz-beeinflusst-familienplanung-8036145
  • http://www.kleinezeitung.at/international/panorama/5185144/Studie_Angst-um-Arbeitsplatz-beeinflusst-Familienplanung
  • http://www.nachrichten-aktuell.eu/artikel/beeinflusst-der-job-die-familienplanung/862808
• Mehr Angst um den Job, weniger Kinder – More job insecurity less children (March 17, 2017):
  • http://mobil.derstandard.at/2000054343628/Mehr-Angst-um-den-Job-weniger-Kinder
  • http://www.oeaw.ac.at/oesterreichische-akademie-der-wissenschaften/die-oeaw/article/wie-jobangst-die-familienplanung-beeinflusst/
• Jobverlust stielt Kinderwunsch – Job loss steals fertility intentions (WZ, March 17, 2017): http://www.wienerzeitung.at/themen_channel/wissen/mensch/880201_Jobverlust-stiehlt-Kinderwunsch.html
• The changing link between fertility, gender, and career in Europe. Evidence from Switzerland (PopDigest by Population Europe, 2016) http://population-europe.eu/pop-digest/changing-link-between-fertility-gender-and-career-europe[accessed by June 13 2016]
• Patchworkeltern und Alleinerzieher fühlen sich weniger gesund  (derStandard, 2016)
  http://mobil.derstandard.at/2000026732110/Studie-Alleinerziehende-fuehlen-sich-weniger-gesund[accessed by June 13 2016]
• Alleinerzieher weniger gesund (Wiener Zeitung online, 2016)
  http://www.wienerzeitung.at/themen_channel/wissen/mensch/788988_Alleinerzieher-weniger-gesund.html [accessed by June 13 2016]
• Patchworkeltern und Alleinerzieher fühlen sich öfter krank (Kleine Zeitung, 2016) http://www.kleinezeitung.at/s/chronik/oesterreich/4878194/Familie_Patchworkeltern-und-Alleinerzieher-fuhlen-sich-ofter-krank[accessed by June 13 2016]
• Patchworkeltern und Alleinerzieher fühlen sich weniger gesund (Tiroler Tageszeitung online, 2016) http://www.tt.com/home/10833610-91/studie-patchworkeltern-und-alleinerzieher-f%C3%BChlen-sich-weniger-gesund.csp [accessed by June 13 2016]
• Patchworkeltern und Alleinerzieher fühlen sich öfter krank  (Salzburger Nachrichten, 2015) https://www.sn.at/panorama/oesterreich/patchworkeltern-und-alleinerzieher-fuehlen-sich-oefter-krank-art-56742 [accessed by June 13 2016]