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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Technological change fuels economic growth, but its impact on wage inequality remains contested. This study presents a unified empirical framework that isolates the effects of new technologies such as automation and AI on the entire wage distribution. We develop a continuous and task-sensitive automation index and propose a distributional counterfactual-based method. Applying the approach to...
10.02.2027| Juan Palomino, Universidad Complutense Madrid
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In this paper, we combine Census data with death records to examine the relationship between income inequality and race-specific mortality across 5,565 municipalities in Brazil. We find that overall income inequality is strongly associated with Non-White mortality but not with White mortality. To understand this disparity, we decompose the Gini coefficient and find that the racial income gap accounts ...
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World Development
202 (2026), 107340, 15 S.
| Gedeão Locks, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study intragenerational wealth rank mobility, investigating three dimensions: (i) wealth mobility over the life cycle, (ii) heterogeneity in mobility among subgroups and wealth components, and (iii) commonalities and differences across divergent country contexts. We use data from Germany (SOEP, N= 12,380 individuals), Norway (administrative register data, N=3,460,602), and Britain (BHPS, N=7,910; ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
106 (2026), 101206, 13 S.
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Philipp M. Lersch, Øyvind N. Wiborg
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Socioeconomic disparities in children's academic achievement are well established, but the underlying mechanisms are less well understood. We test the hypothesis that socioeconomic disparities in children’s achievement in early primary school are partially mediated via school absences. We used linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS, birth cohort 2000/01) and the National Pupil Database (NPD) ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
106 (2026), 101202, 13 S.
| Jascha Dräger, Markus Klein, Edward M. Sosu
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Pseudo-event studies promise to overcome the limited availability of panel data by estimating event-study effects from widely available cross-sectional data. Originally developed and increasingly used for child penalty estimation, the approach has been proposed for broader applications. We show that pseudo-event study estimates are systematically biased for both pre-trends and treatment effects...
21.10.2026| Timo Haller, Europa-Universität Viadrina
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
We examine the economic geography of gender wage gaps to understand the role that location plays in gender earning differences. Using panelised administrative data for the universe of French workers, our findings indicate that women benefit relatively more from density than men, with an urban wage premium (return to urban density) 48% higher than for men. We identify a number of factors that...
28.10.2026| Cecilia García Peñalosa, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
When the local political environment becomes hostile, where do migrants redirect their social, political, and emotional investments? Rather than treating integration and withdrawal as opposite responses, this study examines how migrants navigate two potentially meaningful social containers: the country of residence and the country of origin. I argue that different forms of hostility threaten...
04.11.2026| Abdelkarim Laglil Herradi, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...
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SSM - Population Health
34 (2026), 101912, 14 S.
| Sophia Fauser, Irma Mooi-Recic, Marissa Shields, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Modern democracies are undergoing multiple, overlapping transformations, driven by globalization, digitalization, migration, inequality, and climate change. While some adapt with openness, others experience what Mau et al. (2023) term Veränderungserschöpfung – change fatigue: the sense that “too much is changing, too fast, and all at once.” This paper examines whether and how such fatigue...
24.06.2026| Katja Schmidt, HU Berlin