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  • SOEPpapers 1054 / 2019

    Gendered Wealth Losses after Dissolution of Cohabitation but not Marriage in Germany

    Objective: To document gender differences in how economic wealth changes following the dissolution of marriage and cohabitation in Germany. Background: Wealth can be an important resource to deal with the adverse economic consequences of union dissolution. Marital property regimes usually ensure that both partners receive a share of the couples’ wealth following a divorce. The dissolution of cohabiting ...

    2019| Diederik Boertien, Philipp M. Lersch
  • SOEPpapers 469 / 2012

    Long-Distance Moves and Labour Market Outcomes of Dual-Earner Couples in the UK and Germany

    Chances are high that partners in dual-earner couples do not receive equal occupational returns from long-distance moves, because job opportunities are distributed heterogeneously in space. Which partners are more likely to receive relatively higher returns after moves? Recent research shows the stratification of returns by gender and highlights the importance of gender roles in mobility decisions. ...

    2012| Philipp M. Lersch
  • SOEP Survey Papers ; 1071 : Series B - Survey Reports (Methodenberichte) / 2021

    Dokumentation zum Entwicklungsprozess des Moduls „Einstellungen zu sozialer Ungleichheit“ im SOEP (v38)

    2021| Jule Adriaans, Florian Griese, Katrin Auspurg, Nona Bledow, Sandra Bohmann, Marius Busemeyer, Jan Delhey, Jan Goebel, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Jutta Heckhausen, Thomas Hinz, Martin Kroh, Holger Lengfeld, Philipp Lersch, Stefan Liebig, David Richter, Patrick Sachweh, Jürgen Schupp, Guido Schwerdt, Roland Verwiebe
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Change in Personal Culture over the Life Course

    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 ...

    In: American Sociological Review 88 (2023), 2, S. 220–251 | Philipp M. Lersch
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Long Reach of Class Origin on Financial Investments and Net Worth

    In this study, we argue that parents’ class position may influence the type and timing of their offspring's investments in financial assets. These investments may facilitate net worth accumulation beyond direct transfers, contributing to the intergenerational reproduction of social positions. We test these expectations using retrospective life history and prospective panel data for 14 countries from ...

    In: Acta Sociologica 66 (2023), 2, S. 210-230 | Philipp M. Lersch, Olaf Groh-Samberg
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Assortative Mating and Wealth Inequalities between and within Households

    Positive assortative mating may be a driver of wealth inequalities, but this relationship has not yet been examined. We investigate the association between assortative mating and wealth inequality within and between households drawing on data from the United States Survey of Income and Program Participation and measuring current, individual-level wealth for newly formed couples (N = 3936 couples). ...

    In: Social Forces 102 (2023), 2, S. 454–474 | Philipp M. Lersch, Reinhard Schunck
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Atypical Work, Financial Assets, and Asset Poverty in Germany

    This study investigates how atypical employment (i.e., part-time, temporary work, mini-jobs) affects workers' ability to accumulate financial assets and exposes them to asset poverty in Germany. Asset poverty occurs when household financial resources (e.g., bank deposits and stock equity) are insufficient to live at the income poverty line for three months. Previously, studies on labour market processes ...

    In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 85 (2023), 100803, 11 S. | Claudia Colombarolli, Philipp M. Lersch
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Long Reach of Class Origin on Financial Investments and Net Worth

    In this study, we argue that parents' class position may influence the type and timing of their offspring's investments in financial assets. These investments may facilitate net worth accumulation beyond direct transfers, contributing to the intergenerational reproduction of social positions. We test these expectations using retrospective life history and prospective panel data for 14 countries from ...

    In: Acta Sociologica im Ersch. (2023), [online first: 2022-11-11] | Philipp M. Lersch, Olaf Groh-Samberg
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

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

    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 ...

    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (2022), 44, e2203150119, 8 S. | Nate Breznau, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Tomasz Żółtak, Jule Adriaans, Philipp Lersch, Lea-Maria Löbel, Katja Schmidt, Jürgen Schupp, Jannes Jacobsen ...
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Wealth in Couples: Introduction to the Special Issue

    The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic ...

    In: European Journal of Population 38 (2022), 4, S. 623-641 | Philipp M. Lersch, Emanuela Struffolino, Agnese Vitali
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