Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch

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• Die intergenerationale Reproduktion von Vermögensungleichheit und deren sozio-demographischen Bedingungen in Deutschland

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 04/2023 - 05/2026 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch, Dr. Markus M. Grabka, Prof. Dr. Daniel Schnitzlein

• Die intergenerationale Reproduktion von Vermögensungleichheit und deren sozio-demographischen Bedingungen in Deutschland

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 11/2021 - 05/2026 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch

• Einstein Center for Population Diversity

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  Förderer: Einstein Zentrum Zeitraum: 06/2021 - 05/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch, Andreas Edel, Stefan Liebig, Paul Gellert, Claudia Langenberg

• Einstein Center Population Diversity

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  Förderer: Einstein Zentrum Zeitraum: 04/2024 - 03/2030 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch, Melinda Mills, Heike Solga, Jan Paul Heisig, Christoph Correll, Stefan Liebig, Paul Gellert, Andreas Edel, Prof. Dr. Anette Eva Fasang, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Kluge

• Individuelle Vermögensbildung in Paarbeziehungen: Persönliche Ressourcen und genderspezifische Ungleichheiten in Paarhaushalten

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  Förderer: DFG Nachwuchsgruppe Zeitraum: 03/2021 - 06/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch

• NW/1: Individuelle Vermögensbildung in Paarbeziehungen: Persönliche Ressourcen und genderspezifische Ungleichheiten in Paarhaushalten

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  Förderer: DFG Nachwuchsgruppe Zeitraum: 03/2017 - 06/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch

• NW/2: Individuelle Vermögensbildung in Paarbeziehungen: Persönliche Ressourcen und genderspezifische Ungleichheiten in Paarhaushalten

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  Förderer: DFG Nachwuchsgruppe Zeitraum: 03/2020 - 06/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch

• The Cohabitation Wealth Premium: Comparing France, East and West Germany

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  Förderer: DAAD Zeitraum: 01/2020 - 12/2021 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch

• Population Europe - the network of Europe's leading demographic research centres

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• Science & Startups Berlin

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  • Zuwendung im Rahmen des Programms „exist – Existenzgründungen aus der Wissenschaft“ aus dem Bundeshaushalt, Einzelplan 09, Kapitel 02, Titel 68607, Haushaltsjahr 2026, sowie aus Mitteln des Europäischen Strukturfonds (hier Euro-päischer Sozialfonds Plus – ESF Plus) Förderperiode 2021-2027 – Kofinanzierung für das Vorhaben: „exist Women“
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• Zoologischer Garten Berlin AG

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  • Tiere zum Sprechen bringen. Logistik, Wissenschaft, Präsentation
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• Gesellschaft für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

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  • Workshop Reliable Methods and Mathematical Modeling
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• Centre of Information technologies and Leaning Environments

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  • The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching
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• EUN Partnership AISBL

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  • The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching
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• Anotati Scholi Pedagogikis & Technologikis Ekpedefsis

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  • The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching
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• Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci

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  • The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching
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• Casa Corpului Didactic Cluj

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  • The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching
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• Ernst-Adolf-Eschke-Schule für Gehörlose

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  • Promoting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children's Theory of Mind and Emotion Understanding
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• Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

  2022

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 205 Zitationen · DOI

  This study explores how researchers' analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden the lens to emphasize the idiosyncrasy of conscious and unconscious decisions that researchers make during data analysis. We coordinated 161 researchers in 73 research teams and observed their research decisions as they used the same data to independently test the same prominent social science hypothesis: that greater immigration reduces support for social policies among the public. In this typical case of social science research, research teams reported both widely diverging numerical findings and substantive conclusions despite identical start conditions. Researchers' expertise, prior beliefs, and expectations barely predict the wide variation in research outcomes. More than 95% of the total variance in numerical results remains unexplained even after qualitative coding of all identifiable decisions in each team's workflow. This reveals a universe of uncertainty that remains hidden when considering a single study in isolation. The idiosyncratic nature of how researchers' results and conclusions varied is a previously underappreciated explanation for why many scientific hypotheses remain contested. These results call for greater epistemic humility and clarity in reporting scientific findings.

• Aufbau der Person

  1970

  Johann Ambrosius Barth eBooks · 98 Zitationen

• The distribution of housing wealth in 16 European countries: accounting for institutional differences

  2016

  Journal of Housing and the Built Environment · 79 Zitationen · DOI

  Housing wealth is the largest source of household wealth, but we know little about the distribution of housing wealth and how institutions have shaped this distribution. Subsidies for homeownership, privatisation of social housing and mortgage finance liberalisation are likely to have influenced the distribution of housing wealth in recent decades. To examine their impact, we describe housing wealth inequalities across occupational classes for two birth cohorts aged fifty and older. The analysis is conducted across 16 European countries with divergent welfare states and housing systems using the fourth wave of the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe (SHARE; 2011/2012). Our results indicate that the expansion of homeownership in a market-based housing system is associated with a more unequal distribution of housing wealth across occupational classes, as an increasing number of 'marginal' owners are drawn into precarious homeownership. Such a pattern is not found in housing wealth accumulation regimes with a less market-based provision of housing. When the state or the family drive homeownership expansion, a de-coupling of labour market income and housing consumption results in a more equal distribution of housing wealth.

• Intergenerational transmission of homeownership in Europe: Revisiting the socialisation hypothesis

  2014

  Social Science Research · 77 Zitationen · DOI

• The Marriage Wealth Premium Revisited: Gender Disparities and Within-Individual Changes in Personal Wealth in Germany

  2017

  Demography · 75 Zitationen · DOI

  This study examines the association between marriage and economic wealth of women and men. Going beyond previous research that focused on household wealth, I examine personal wealth, which allows identifying gender disparities in the association between marriage and wealth. Using unique data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002, 2007, and 2012), I apply random-effects and fixed-effects regression models to test my expectations. I find that both women and men experience substantial marriage wealth premiums not only in household wealth but also in personal wealth. However, I do not find consistent evidence for gender disparities in these general marriage premiums. Additional analyses indicate, however, that women's marriage premiums are substantially lower than men's premiums in older cohorts and when only nonhousing wealth is considered. Overall, this study provides new evidence that women and men gain unequally in their wealth attainment through marriage.

• Employment Insecurity and First-Time Homeownership: Evidence from Twenty-Two European Countries

  2015

  Environment and Planning A Economy and Space · 74 Zitationen · DOI

  Many young people in Europe face employment insecurity, a condition which will likely persist following the global economic downturn that started with the financial crisis of 2007–08. Previous research has shown that employment insecurity impedes the entry into homeownership. It is, however, less clear how this delayed entry into homeownership is filtered by contextual arrangements at the country level. Using longitudinal data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2007–11), we confirm prior findings on the negative effect of employment insecurity across European countries. We also find contextual variations. In more marketised housing provision systems in Northern and Western Europe, where mortgages are readily available to those in secure employment, the negative effect of employment insecurity (relative to having secure employment) on the transition into homeownership is accentuated. In more familialistic systems with strongly regulated labour markets in Southern Europe, the difference between young people in different employment situations is smaller, yet still significant. We find similar-sized differences between those in insecure and secure employment in the Baltic States, but not in the other Eastern and Central European countries, where housing shortages impede the entry into homeownership for young people across different employment positions.

• Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty

  2021

  70 Zitationen · DOI

  This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden the lens to include conscious and unconscious decisions that researchers make during data analysis and that may lead to diverging results. We coordinated 161 researchers in 73 research teams and observed their research decisions as they used the same data to independently test the same prominent social science hypothesis: that greater immigration reduces support for social policies among the public. In this typical case of research based on secondary data, we find that research teams reported widely diverging numerical findings and substantive conclusions despite identical start conditions. Researchers’ expertise, prior beliefs, and expectations barely predicted the wide variation in research outcomes. More than 90% of the total variance in numerical results remained unexplained even after accounting for research decisions identified via qualitative coding of each team’s workflow. This reveals a universe of uncertainty that is hidden when considering a single study in isolation. The idiosyncratic nature of how researchers’ results and conclusions varied is a new explanation for why many scientific hypotheses remain contested. It calls for greater humility and clarity in reporting scientific findings.

• Family formation, parental background and young adults’ first entry into homeownership in Britain and Germany

  2018

  Housing Studies · 62 Zitationen · DOI

  Although previous research shows that family dynamics and parental socio-economic status influence the timing of young adults’ first entry into homeownership, much less is known about how the role of family factors may vary across countries with different housing systems. In this paper, we use panel survey data from Britain and Germany to compare how family life course careers and parental socio-economic background influence young adults’ initial entry into homeownership in these two divergent national contexts. The results show that in Britain, first-time homeownership transitions are tightly synchronised with partnership formation. By contrast, in Germany first moves into homeownership typically occur later around or after the arrival of children. Parental owner-occupation accelerates entry into homeownership in both contexts, while the effects of other parental characteristics are relatively muted. Furthermore, the results highlight how individual socio-economic factors are critical determinants of entering owner-occupation. This is particularly true in Britain where there is a strong socio-economic gradient in first-time homeownership transitions.

• Falling Out of Love and Down the Housing Ladder: A Longitudinal Analysis of Marital Separation and Home Ownership

  2014

  European Sociological Review · 60 Zitationen · DOI

  We analyse the interdependence between marital separation and home ownership. Past research showed that separations reduce the likelihood of owning a home. We add to this literature by allowing partners to be aware of the risk of separation in our empirical analysis. We analyse (i) residential moves to owned and rented dwellings and (ii) the selection processes between ownership and separation. We also assess differences by gender and for two different institutional contexts, Britain and Germany. Drawing on results from two longitudinal surveys (British Household Panel Survey and Socio-Economic Panel Study, 1991–2008), we find that separation is negatively associated with ownership. Part of this effect is explained by lower prior investments in ownership by those who separate, but the effect is partly a direct consequence of separation. Although ownership rates increase again after repartnering, these rates do not reach the levels of the first marriage. Although the effect of separation has a universal character, substantial differences in housing markets allow ex-partners in Britain to maintain relatively high levels of ownership after a separation, while ownership rates fall dramatically in Germany.

• Change in Personal Culture over the Life Course

  2023

  American Sociological Review · 56 Zitationen · DOI

  Prior literature finds stability in personal culture, such as attitudes and values, in individuals’ life courses using short-running panel data. This work has concluded that lasting change in personal culture is rare after formative early years. This conclusion conflicts with a growing body of evidence for changes in personal culture after significant life course transitions, drawing on long-running panel data. To integrate these conflicting findings, the current study develops and applies a life course adaption model of personal culture, accounting for early imprinting and the continued possibility for change. Drawing on rich data from six long-running panel studies from five countries (BHPS, HILDA, PSID, SHP, SOEP, UKHLS) and 428 measures of personal culture, I test the theoretical expectations using mixed-effects modeling and an individual participant data meta-analysis. Results support the life course adaption model. Although lasting, non-transitory, within-individual changes in personal culture are relatively small compared to stable between-individual differences, I find strong support for the proposition that individuals change persistently in their personal culture as they move through the life course. These changes are partly dependent on prior biographical experiences. Finally, personal culture fluctuates substantially from year to year. Change in personal culture is increasingly varied for younger birth cohorts.

• Homeownership, saving and financial wealth: a comparative and longitudinal analysis

  2018

  Housing Studies · 50 Zitationen · DOI

  The finding that homeowners own more non-housing wealth than tenants is well known. We examine whether the higher financial wealth of owners can be partly explained with increases in saving when becoming a homeowner in two distinct institutional contexts. Using longitudinal data for the UK (British Household Panel Survey) and Germany (Socio-Economic Panel Study), we find that homeowners save more and are financially wealthier than tenants. However, when controlling for time-constant selection into homeownership, upon entering homeownership households reduce their probability to save in Germany and reduce their average saving rate in Germany and the UK. For Germany, there is some evidence that processes of homemaking (family formation and home improvement) lead to less saving. For the UK, we find no evidence that increasing home equity over time discourages saving. Finally, tenants do not compensate for their lack of housing wealth by accumulating more non-housing wealth over time. This disadvantage for tenants seems more pronounced in the UK compared to Germany.

• Parenthood, Gender, and Personal Wealth

  2017

  European Sociological Review · 50 Zitationen · DOI

  This study examines the association between parenthood and the growth of personal wealth of women and men over time. We argue that parenthood creates unique restrictions and opportunity structures for mothers and fathers in terms of personal wealth accumulation. Using rich data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002, 2007, 2012; N = 28,650 individuals), we apply random-effects growth curve models to test our expectations. We find that mothers’ personal wealth growth rates are lower compared to childless women and compared to fathers. A considerable share of this association can be explained by discontinuous employment experiences of women in Germany, a context with a dominant male-breadwinner model. The wealth accumulation of mothers is additionally depressed by early first births and non-marital births. For men, parenthood is not generally associated with wealth accumulation, but we identify variation in the association with regard to the timing of and marital status at first birth. These results reveal a substantial motherhood wealth penalty previously hidden in analyses of household-level wealth, thereby contributing to our understanding of gender inequalities in economic well-being over the life course.

• The Accumulation of Wealth in Marriage: Over-Time Change and Within-Couple Inequalities

  2020

  European Sociological Review · 49 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract This study examines the accumulation of personal wealth of husbands and wives and investigates the development of within-couple wealth inequalities over time in marriage. Going beyond previous research that mostly studied the marriage wealth premium using household-level wealth data and that conceptualized marriage as an instantaneous transition with uniform consequences over time, we argue that entry into marriage is a gendered life-course event that dynamically shapes husbands’ and wives’ wealth accumulation. Using high-quality data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we apply fixed-effects regression models to describe wealth accumulation within marriage. We find evidence that wealth premiums are lower during early years of marriage, but increase steadily thereafter. The premium is mostly concentrated in housing wealth. Results from supplementary analyses with limited data, however, suggest that the premium may not be causal for men. Regarding within-couple wealth inequalities, we find a pronounced within-couple wealth gap prior to marriage during pre-marital cohabitation. This gap remains stable over time in marriage. In contrast to findings regarding income, our study indicates that the institution of marriage may not amplify within-couple wealth inequalities further.

• Place Stratification or Spatial Assimilation? Neighbourhood Quality Changes after Residential Mobility for Migrants in Germany

  2012

  Urban Studies · 49 Zitationen · DOI

  Neighbourhoods provide unequal resources and opportunities. Past research has shown that migrants are less able to move to more resourceful neighbourhoods. For Germany, cross-sectional evidence shows that migrants live in worse neighbourhoods on average, but no longitudinal analysis of changes in neighbourhood quality after residential mobility has been conducted. The present paper closes this gap and tests the place stratification model and the spatial assimilation model. Data from the German Socio-economic Panel and the MICROM dataset are used for the years 2000–09. The data are analysed using fixed-effects panel regression. The analysis shows that Turkish households are less able to improve their neighbourhood quality through moves compared with German households, while households with other ethnic backgrounds do not differ significantly from the native population.

• Cohort Changes in the Level and Dispersion of Gender Ideology after German Reunification: Results from a Natural Experiment

  2020

  European Sociological Review · 40 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract Modernization theorists’ ‘rising tide hypothesis’ predicted the continuous spread of egalitarian gender ideologies across the globe. We revisit this assumption by studying reunified Germany, a country that did not follow a strict modernization pathway. The socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) actively fostered female employment and systematically promoted egalitarian ideologies before reunification with West Germany and the resulting incorporation into a conservative welfare state and market economy. Based on nationally representative, pooled cross-sectional data from the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) from 1991 to 2016, we apply variance function regression to examine the impact of German reunification—akin to a natural experiment—on the average levels and dispersion of gender ideology. The results show: (i) East German cohorts socialized after reunification hold less egalitarian ideologies than cohorts socialized in the GDR, disrupting the rising tide. (ii) East German cohorts hold more egalitarian ideologies than West German cohorts, but the East-West gap is less pronounced for post-reunification cohorts. (iii) Cohorts in East Germany show higher conformity with gender ideology than their counterparts in West Germany; yet conformity did not change after reunification. (iv) Younger cohorts in West Germany show higher conformity with gender ideology than older cohorts.

• The Variability of Occupational Attainment: How Prestige Trajectories Diversified within Birth Cohorts over the Twentieth Century

  2020

  American Sociological Review · 35 Zitationen · DOI

  This study develops and applies a framework for analyzing variability in individuals’ occupational prestige trajectories and changes in average variability between birth cohorts. It extends previous literature focused on typical patterns of intragenerational mobility over the life course to more fully examine intracohort differentiation. Analyses are based on rich life course data for men and women in West Germany born between 1919 and 1979 from the German Life History Study and the German National Educational Panel Study ( N = 16,854 individuals). Mixed-effects growth-curve models with heterogeneous variance components are applied. Results show that birth cohorts systematically differ in their variability; cohorts who entered the labor market in the late 1950s and 1960s and experienced mostly closed employment relations have exceptionally homogenous trajectories. Earlier and later cohorts, who experienced more open employment relations, are more heterogeneous in their trajectories. Cohorts with higher variability at labor market entry are characterized by persistently strong intracohort differentiation. Women’s variability within employment is similar to men’s but markedly increases once employment interruptions are considered.

• Birth cohort, ageing and gender ideology: Lessons from British panel data

  2018

  Social Science Research · 34 Zitationen · DOI

• Individual Wealth and Subjective Financial Well‐being in Marriage: Resource Integration or Separation?

  2017

  Journal of Marriage and the Family · 33 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract Economic wealth is mostly assumed to be a household‐level resource that is pooled by spouses in married couples. Using comprehensive data on the individual wealth of both spouses in married couples from the German Socio‐Economic Panel Study ( N = 13,623 individuals), the author tests this assumption. To this end, the associations between individuals' wealth and their spouses' wealth with individuals' subjective financial well‐being are examined. Results show that women's financial well‐being is equally associated with their own individual wealth and their spouses' wealth in older birth cohorts. In younger birth cohorts, women's financial well‐being is more strongly associated with their own individual wealth than with their spouses' wealth. For men from all birth cohorts, their own individual wealth is more strongly related to their financial well‐being than is their spouses' wealth. These findings suggest that wealth is not generally and fully pooled and that individual ownership matters within married couples in Germany.

• Family migration in a cross-national perspective: The importance of institutional and cultural context

  2017

  Demographic Research · 32 Zitationen · DOI

  Migration rates of dual-earner couples are lower than those of male-breadwinner couples. We revisit this issue using a cross-national comparative perspective and examine heterogeneity in the role of female employment in couple relocations. We propose a the

• Family Migration and Subsequent Employment: The Effect of Gender Ideology

  2015

  Journal of Marriage and the Family · 32 Zitationen · DOI

  A substantial body of evidence shows gender asymmetry in family migration, with women more likely to leave employment following migration than men. Gender ideologies, although yet not tested directly, have been proposed as one determinant for these asymmetries. Analyzing longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2008) on 3,333 dual‐earner couples with dyadic multilevel regression models, the author examined whether the association of family migration with subsequent employment is moderated by the gender ideologies of both partners. The existing literature is enriched by illustrating that women's gender ideologies do not moderate the association, but women with egalitarian partners are less likely to leave employment after family migration than those with traditional partners. No significant effects for men were found. Even after controlling for both partners' gender ideologies and relevant control variables, a substantial gender difference in the risk of leaving employment after family migration remains, meriting further research.

• Gender and Changes in Household Wealth after the Dissolution of Marriage and Cohabitation in Germany

  2020

  Journal of Marriage and the Family · 30 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract Objective To document how changes in household wealth following the dissolution of marriage and cohabitation differ by gender in Germany. Background Marital property regimes usually prescribe that both partners receive a share of the couple's wealth following a divorce. The dissolution of cohabiting unions is not governed by marital property regimes in most countries, including Germany. Because men, on average, legally own a larger share of couple wealth than women, gender differences in household wealth might be more pronounced following the dissolution of cohabitation as compared to marriage. Method The analysis consists of individual fixed effects regression models using longitudinal data from the German socio‐economic panel ( N = 18,131 individuals) for the years 2002 to 2017. Results The dissolution of marriage is negatively related to the accumulation of wealth over time and effect sizes are similar for men and women. The dissolution of cohabiting unions is related to losses in wealth for women but not for men. Models accounting for various postdissolution factors suggest that an unequal division of household wealth produces these gender differences after the dissolution of cohabitation. Conclusion Whereas the dissolution of marriage lowers household wealth for men and women alike, there are gender differences in how the dissolution of cohabiting unions affects the accumulation of wealth. Union dissolution therefore has the potential to contribute to gender inequality in household wealth.

• Gendered employment trajectories and individual wealth at older ages in Eastern and Western Germany

  2020

  Advances in Life Course Research · 26 Zitationen · DOI

• The Effect of Regional Gender-Role Attitudes on Female Labour Supply: A Longitudinal Test Using the BHPS, 1991–2007

  2019

  European Sociological Review · 25 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract Despite considerable variation in gender-role attitudes across contexts and its claimed influence on female labour supply, studies provide little support for a contextual gender-role attitude effect. In this study, we reassess the contextual gender-role attitude effect on female labour supply because earlier studies are hampered by two shortcomings: (a) they are cross-nationally comparative, which makes it difficult to distinguish contextual attitude from institutional effects; (b) they are cross-sectional, which may bias the contextual attitude effect. We aim to overcome these shortcomings by performing longitudinal panel analyses on data from the British Household Panel Survey 1991–2007, comparing 138 counties within the United Kingdom. Our fixed-effects regressions report no significant and substantial association of regional, egalitarian gender-role attitudes with individual women’s labour supply, a finding which both holds for women’s probability to be active in the labour market and employed women’s working hours, and for women with and without (young) children. Female labour supply appears to be much stronger associated with women’s own and partners’ gender-role attitudes, in particular for women with (young) children.

• Parental Separation during Childhood and Adult Children’s Wealth

  2020

  Social Forces · 23 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract This study examines the association between parental separations during childhood and economic wealth of adult children. We provide a new test of this relationship and address two unresolved debates in the literature concerning (1) the pathways linking parental separation and adult children’s wealth and (2) the relevance of the timing of exposure. We use data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey on 16,652 individuals and estimate mixed effects models after matching to predict adult children’s wealth. We find that parental separation is associated with about 46 percent less net wealth for adult children. The negative association is limited to adult children who experienced parental divorce before age 15. The association does not differ between children who experienced parental divorce before age 6 and between age 6 and 14. We identify reduced education and earning capacities, unstable family structures among adult children and less future-oriented time preferences as likely mechanisms through which parental separation influences adult children’s wealth.

• Distributive Justice in Marriage: Experimental Evidence on Beliefs about Fair Savings Arrangements

  2020

  Journal of Marriage and the Family · 22 Zitationen · DOI

  Objective This study examines fairness perceptions of experimentally manipulated savings arrangements in couples (i.e., distribution of control and ownership of savings) to identify distributive justice principles in marriage. Background Theoretically, competing norms about individual ownership rights and autonomy (equity principle) and marital sharing (equality principle) in interaction with gender ideology (entitlement principle) may explain how individuals perceive the fairness of different savings arrangements, but these explanations have not been tested against each other yet. Method In a nationally representative factorial survey experiment, implemented in the German GESIS Panel, 3,948 respondents evaluated the fairness of randomly presented savings arrangements ( N = 19,648 evaluations). Results Respondents rated equal control as more important than equal ownership to establish fairness in marriage. The ownership of savings does not seem to be directly linked to control, providing evidence against the equity principle. Inequality in ownership is rated fairer if it is in favor of the husband, whereas inequality in control is rated fairer if it is in favor of the wife. This suggests that gender is an ascriptive characteristic according to which resources should be allocated (entitlement principle). Conclusion The results indicate that the ideal of marital sharing is widespread, but is rather accomplished by equal control than by equal ownership. Individuals' fairness perceptions of inequality in marriage are gendered, that is, depend on whom inequality favors.

• Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

  Einstein Center for Population Diversity

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• Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

  Die intergenerationale Reproduktion von Vermögensungleichheit und deren sozio-demographischen Bedingungen in Deutschland

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• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover

  Die intergenerationale Reproduktion von Vermögensungleichheit und deren sozio-demographischen Bedingungen in Deutschland

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• Population Europe - the network of Europe's leading demographic research centres

  Einstein Center for Population Diversity

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Name

Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch

Titel

Prof. Dr.

Fakultät

Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Institut

Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

Arbeitsgruppe

Soziologie der Sozialpolitik (S)

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