Dr. Eric Widmer (born in Beirut) is an American scholar and educator. He was born in Lebanon where his American mother was on the faculty of the American University in Beirut. He was educated at Deerfield, Williams, and Harvard.

Bridging and binding social capital in family configurations. How much does it cost? Optimization of costs in sequence analysis of social science data. Do older siblings make a difference? The...

Eric D. Widmer I am professor at the the Department of Sociology of the University of Geneva . My long-term interests include intimate ties,family and other interpersonal relations, life course research and social networks.

I am a professor at the the Department of Sociology of the University of Geneva, and a member of the board of directors of LIVES...

I am a professor at the the Department of Sociology of the University of Geneva, and a member of the board of directors of LIVES...

I am professor at the the Department of Sociology of the University of Geneva, and the coleader of NCCR LIVES, a large interdisciplinary research project over 12 years on vulnerability in a life course perspective (https://www.lives-nccr.ch/en).

I am a professor at the the Department of Sociology of the University of Geneva, and a member of the board of directors of LIVES (...

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Eric D. Widmer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva and co-director of NCCR LIVES. This open access book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program on vulnerability across adulthood.