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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
While inequalities in inter-vivos gifts and bequests between families are widely recognized as key drivers of wealth inequality, less is known about the unequal transmission of wealth within families. This study addresses this gap by asking: (1) To what extent are estates unequally divided? (2) How do estate portfolios, primogeniture, and patrilineality shape unequal estate division? (3) What is...
10.12.2025| Nhat An Trinh, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Amid the Ukrainian displacement crisis, private hosting of refugees in Europe has surged, yet its impact on integration remains understudied. This research examines the short- to medium-term effects of private hosting on Ukrainian refugee integration in Germany. Using data from one of the largest non-profit platforms that matches private hosts with refugees, we compare the multidimensional integration ...
In:
Nature Human Behaviour
9 (2025), S. 2249–2260
| Mathis Herpell, Moritz Marbach, Niklas Harder, Alexandra Orlova, Dominik Hangartner, Jens Hainmueller
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 - in Germany by about 25 %. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by adding WfH to a large set of explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work via increased available ...
In:
International Review of Financial Analysis
107 (2025), 104604, 12 S.
| Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, Carsten Schröder
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DIW Weekly Report 38/39 / 2025
Populist parties use narratives about social injustice to portray climate policy as elite-driven and socially unjust. This study— based on a survey experiment with some 1,600 participants— examines how three common narratives about the costs associated with climate policy affect populist and climate-populist attitudes. The results show that the narrative highlighting the disproportionate burden on ...
2025| Matilda Gettins, Lorenz Meister
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DIW Weekly Report 34/35 / 2025
The sentiment among refugees in Germany has changed significantly: Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2016 to 2023, it can be seen that refugees have been feeling increasingly unwelcome since 2018, while their concerns about xenophobia have grown since 2019. In addition, cross-sectional data from 2022 refugees’ subjective experiences of discrimination in the workplace and when searching for ...
2025| Philippa Cumming, Ellen Heidinger
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Background On their way to host countries, refugees are often exposed to severe adversity, including cumulative experiences of fraud, extortion, robbery, detention, and shipwrecks, as well as prolonged, life-threatening small boat crossings. However, little research has examined the long-term impact of such peri-migration stressors on subsequent stress and mental health after arrival. This study explored ...
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BMC Public Health
25 (2025), 2582, 15 S.
| Usama EL-Awad, Robert Eves, Justin Hachenberger, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Theresa M. Entringer, Tobias Hecker, Oliver Razum, Odile Sauzet, Sakari Lemola
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DIW Discussion Papers 2138 / 2025
Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 – in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by adding WfH to a large set of explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work via increased available ...
2025| Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, Carsten Schröder
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Non-refereed Articles
Why is the Federal Republic of Germany a case of interest at all to be considered in a handbook on poverty and inequality? Three reasons come foremost to mind. First, Germany holds a dominant economic and political position within the European Union, making changes in poverty and inequality highly significant beyond its borders. Second, Germany is often considered a prime example of a "coordinated ...
In:
Joachim Singelmann, Dudley L. Poston Jr. ,
International Handbook of the Demography of Poverty and Inequality ; 13
Heidelberg : Springer
S. 223-245
International Handbooks of Population
| Martin Kronauer, Jan Goebel
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Parental wealth is a crucial dimension of socioeconomic status (SES) and plays a significant role in the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage. Previous research on the topic has been limited to a small number of countries, and findings on the relationship between parental wealth and educational attainment are hardly comparable across institutional contexts. Furthermore, the specific ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
99 (2025), 101086, 13 S.
| Andrea Pietrolucci, Jascha Dräger, Nora Müller, Marco Albertini
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DIW Discussion Papers 2129 / 2025
Mental health and wellbeing are unequally distributed in high-income countries, disadvan- taging low-income individuals. Unconditional, regular, guaranteed, and individual cash transfers may help address this inequality by promoting financial security and agency. We conducted a preregistered RCT in Germany, where treated participants received monthly payments of EUR 1,200 for three years. Cash transfers ...
2025| Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler, Maximilian Kasy, Jürgen Schupp, Frederik Schwerter