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This study examines the money-subjective well-being nexus by studying the link between changes in jointly and solely (i.e. respondents’ own and their partner’s own) held gross wealth and changes in married individuals’ subjective well-being. Joint assets reflect norms of sharing responsibilities and resources. Solely held assets, in contrast, offer individual economic independence. Using wealth data ...
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European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 4, S. 811-834
| Nicole Kapelle, Theresa Nutz, Daria Tisch, Manuel Schechtl, Philipp M. Lersch, Emanuela Struffolino
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Families’ economic wealth is a resource that can provide children with crucial advantages early in their lives. Prior research identified substantial variation of wealth levels between different family types with children from single-parent families being most disadvantaged. The causes of this disadvantage, how much the disadvantage varies between children and how the non-resident parents’ wealth may ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
31 (2021), 5, S. 565–579
| Philipp M. Lersch, Markus M. Grabka, Kilian Rüß, Carsten Schröder
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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 ...
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Social Forces
99 (2021), 3, S. 1176–1208
| Philipp M. Lersch, Janeen Baxter
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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 ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
83 (2021), 2, S. 516-533
| Daria Tisch, Philipp M. Lersch
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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, ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
83 (2021), 1, S. 228-242
| Diederik Boertien, Philipp M. Lersch
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Panel data has become the gold standard for causal assessments of complex human behaviour in quantitative social science. The objective of this review is to examine and discuss how panel data and related methods contribute to the identification of causal relationships in spatial mobility research. We illustrate this by providing a succinct overview of recent progress in spatial mobility research, drawing ...
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Comparative Population Studies
46 (2021), S. 187-214
| Sergi Vidal, Philipp M. Lersch
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This study examines the association between employment trajectories and retired men’s and women’s individual wealth at older ages in the two distinct welfare state contexts of Eastern and Western Germany. Because of the increasing re-marketization of retirement provisions, wealth is becoming increasingly important for retirees’ economic well-being. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
(2021), 100374, 11 S.
| Theresa Nutz, Philipp A. Lersch
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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 ...
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American Sociological Review
85 (2020), 6, S. 1084–1116
| Philipp M. Lersch, Wiebke Schulz, George Leckie
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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 ...
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European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 5, S. 814–828
| Christian Ebner, Michael Kühhirt, Philipp Lersch
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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 re- search 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 ...
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European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 4, S. 580-593
| Nicole Kapelle, Philipp M. Lersch