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Life-course scholarship has documented the important role of educational aspirations in status attainment processes but has also revealed that parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations may negatively affect child development. However, it is unclear how parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations evolve over time. Here, we examine (1) the prevalence of mismatching aspirations across ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
67 (2026), 100725, 11 S.
| Jascha Dräger, Kaspar Burger
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Work-limiting disabilities pose a significant risk to the earnings potential and welfare of older workers. While coverage of public disability insurance (DI) systems is almost universal, the risk of becoming dependent on DI varies across occupations. In this paper, I study the value of public DI across different occupations using data from administrative social security records in Germany. I...
11.02.2026| Annica Gehlen
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This paper studies inequality of opportunity (IOp) in individual net wealth in Germany from 2002 to 2019 using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Applying the ex-ante IOp framework, we quantify the share of wealth inequality attributable to immutable circumstances and benchmark it against IOp in gross labour earnings. Relative IOp in net wealth is high—slightly above one half of total wealth inequality—and ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-06-23]
| Daniel Graeber, Johannes König, Viola Hilbert
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Social class origin is closely linked to individuals' labor market outcomes. This study examines the class ceiling—the earnings disadvantage that those from lower-class origins experience within higher-class occupations. We propose that job task segregation, i.e., the non-random selection into different task profiles within granular occupations, contributes to the class ceiling. We study these dynamics ...
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Social Science Research
139 (2026), 103406, 17 S.
| Wiebke Schulz, Philipp M. Lersch
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Während die öffentliche Diskussion über das Bürgergeld seit der Einführung kontrovers verlaufen ist, wurde die Perspektive der Jobcenter-Beschäftigten bislang vernachlässigt – obwohl sie als „street-level bureaucrats“ zentral für die Umsetzung der Reform sind. Vor diesem Hintergrund beleuchtet der Beitrag auf Basis von Daten einer bundesweiten standardisierten Online-Erhebung unter Jobcenter-Beschäftigten, ...
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Sozialer Fortschritt
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-07-31]
| Sarah Bernhard, Fabian Beckmann, Christopher Osiander, Philipp Ramos Lobato, Jürgen Schupp
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Background: Family migration shapes early childhood development (ECD), but the link between parental voluntary versus forced migration experiences and ECD remains underexplored. Germany, with its diverse migration streams, offers an opportunity to investigate this interrelation. Objective: This study examines the link between parental migration status and ECD of children aged 2–4 and investigates ...
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Demographic Research
55 (2026), Art. 8, S. 275-306
| Valeriia Heidemann, Sabine Zinn, Louise Biddle
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While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...
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European Journal of Personality
40 (2026), 4, S. 755–775
| Emilija Meier-Faust, Annelie Schulze, Yannick Martin, Annabell Daniel, Susanne Bergann
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This paper presents comparative information on the strength of the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and literacy skills at ages 6–8, drawing on data from France, Germany, Japan, Rotterdam (Netherlands), the United Kingdom, and the United States. We investigate whether the strength of the association between SES and literacy skills in early-to-mid childhood depends on the operationalization ...
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AERA Open
10 (2026), 1, S. 1-18
| Jascha Dräger, Elizabeth Washbrook, Thorsten Schneider, Hideo Akabayashi, Renske Keizer, Anne Solaz, Jane Waldfogel, Sanneke de la Rie, Yuriko Kameyama, Sarah Kwon, Kayo Nozaki, Valentina Perinetti Casoni, Shinpei Sano, Alexandra Sheridan, Chizuru Shikishima
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Objectives Cumulative advantage is a central concept in life course research. Prior research has primarily focused on one outcome domain, overlooking the possibility that cumulative advantage could extend into other domains–what we refer to as diffusion of cumulative advantage. We build on and extend cumulative inequality theory to conceptualize diffusion and apply it to wealth and health, two domains ...
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The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
81 (2026), 9, gbag115, 11 S.
| Anastasia Lam, Philipp M. Lersch
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This paper examines the gaps in Germany’s data infrastructure for responding to crises, as revealed during COVID-19, and argues that linking the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative health records would strengthen the country’s ability to generate equity-sensitive evidence during future health-related crises. Drawing on evidence from the RKI-SOEP study, we illustrate the added value of combining ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026), im Ersch.[online first: 2026-07-13]
| Alexander Lepe, Ingo Kolodziej, Sabine Zinn