Research

Research topics: health inequalities, gender, life course, employment trajectories, working conditions, unpaid care work

Peer-reviewed publications

Beaufils, C., Chung, H. (in press). “Home Advantage or Hidden Strain? The Mental Health Effects of Working from Home Across Gender, Childcare Status, and Occupational Class Before and Since the Pandemic.”, Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Beaufils, C., Geiger, B., & Glaser, K. (2025). “Employment responses to a partner’s disability onset (“care shock”): Do working conditions matter?“, The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 80(4). Link

Beaufils, C., Wiernik, E., & Cambois, E. (2024). “Mind the glass ceiling: The gender gap in how depressive symptoms after age 55 relate to earlier career mobility in CONSTANCES”, Social Science & Medicine, 362, 117446. Link

Beaufils, C. (2024). “Interruptions de carrière et santé des mères après 50 ans : Le rôle de la position sociale. Une étude à partir des données de la cohorte Constances”, Population, 79(2), 233–270. → English version: Beaufils, C. (2024). “Career breaks and mothers’ health after age 50: Does social position matter? Evidence from the Constances cohort”, Population, 79(2), 233–270. Link

Beaufils, C. (2024). “Les trajectoires d’emploi marquées par l’inactivité professionnelle : Quels liens avec la santé des mères aux âges élevés ? Une approche biographique par méthodes mixtes”, Revue française de sociologie, 65(1–2), 35–70. → English version: Beaufils, C. (2024). “Discontinuous employment trajectories and mothers’ health in later life: A mixed methods and life course approach”, Revue française de sociologie, 65(1–2), 35–70. Link

Beaufils, C., Barbuscia, A., & Cambois, E. (2023). “Women’s employment–family trajectories and well-being in later life: Evidence from France”, Journal of Aging and Health, 35(7–8), 577–592. Link

Beaufils, C. (2023). “Les retraits féminins du marché du travail : Un fait social invisibilisé au sein de la catégorie statistique de l’inactivité professionnelle”, Revue Quételet, 10(1), 1–25. Link

Reports

Beaufils, C., Chung, H., & Yuan, S. (2025). Tradwife: Between Myths and Realities. Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, King’s College London. Link

Working papers

Beaufils, C., Colineaux, H., Kelly-Irving, M., Delpierre, C., Cambois, E. “Career Mobility and Allostatic Load After Age 55: Evidence from the CONSTANCES Cohort.”

Rahal, M., Alcade, E., Silberzan, L., Beaufils, C. “Routes to Self-Perceived Health: How Do Occupation and Gender Matter?”

Cimelli, L., Beaufils, C., Courtin, E., Cambois, E. “Association Between Extended Childcare Leave Scheme and Later Life Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from the French CONSTANCES Cohort.”

Cimelli, L., Beaufils, C., Courtin, E., Cambois, E. “Are Family-Work Friendly Policies All Good for Women’s Health? Long Parental Leave and Mental Health.”

Dissemination

Beaufils, C., Wiernik, E., & Cambois E. (2024). “Breaking the glass ceiling: a cost for women’s mental health” Study result, Constances Cohort. .

Beaufils, C. (2023). “For women, career breaks are linked to health issues later in life”, La Santé en action, n°463, p.23-24. Link

Beaufils, C. (2023). Report of intervention at the roundtable “Women’s health at work”, French Senate delegation for women’s rights. Link

Beaufils, C. (2023). “Did you know… that the articulation of women’s work and family trajectories before age 50 is associated with their chances of aging in good health”, Figure of the month, French Institute on Longevity, Ageing and Aging (ILVV). Link

Beaufils, C. (2023). “Do family-friendly policies lead to long-term wellbeing?”, Worklife blog, International Centre for Life Course Studies. Link

PhD Thesis

L’inactivité professionnelle au cours du parcours de vie : un déterminant social de la santé des femmes aux âges élevés ? [Non-employment across the life course : a social determinant of women’s health in later life ?] Link

Supervisors : Olivia Samuel (Université Paris-Saclay) and Emmanuelle Cambois (Ined)