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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 ...
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American Sociological Review
88 (2023), 2, 220-251
| Philipp M. Lersch
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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 ...
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Acta Sociologica
66 (2023), 2, 210–230
| Philipp M Lersch, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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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 ...
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European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 4, 623-641
| Philipp M. Lersch, Emanuela Struffolino, Agnese Vitali
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Self-continuity, the sense that one’s personal past, present, and future selves are meaningfully connected, is unique to human beings. Self-continuity varies across individuals with higher levels conveying benefits for mental health and well-being, physical health and health-related behaviors, as well as financial planning and moral choices (for a review see Hershfield, 2019). From a developmental ...
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Innovation in Aging
4 (2020), Suppl 1, 390-391
| Corinna Loeckenhoff, Denis Gerstorf
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On their journeys to and through Europe, refugees and other migrants are commonly subjected to violence in its multifaceted forms. We argue that these “journeys of violence” are a direct effect of a fundamentally uneven and asymmetric global mobility regime that creates frictions and fragmentations in the European border space and beyond. Our argument is based on: (1) a state-of-the-art literature ...
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Comparative Population Studies
47 (2022), 211-232
| Rahel Lorenz, Benjamin Etzold
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Existing research on housing cost burden focuses on its evolution over time. Few empirical studies, meanwhile, investigate changes in housing cost burden as a function of age. Literature is also scarce on how people's housing cost burden is affected by the act of retiring. In order to fill this research gap, we examine how the burden of housing costs tends to change after retirement and how the ...
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Ageing & Society
(online first) (2023),
| Alberto Lozano Alcántara, Laura Romeu Gordo, Heribert Engstler, Claudia Vogel
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This paper analyzes how people’s subjective well-being adapts to income poverty in Switzerland and Germany and presents two empirical findings. First, financial satisfaction (FS) does not adapt in either country. However, life satisfaction fully adapts in Switzerland but not in Germany. Second, people in income poverty have income lower than their reference income. In the long run, those who remain ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
23 (2022), 6, 2491-2516
| Jianbo J. Luo
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The assumption of stable non-cognitive skills is important in the economic literature. This paper proposes to test this assumption by investigating whether a specific non-cognitive skill, locus of control, is stable after the occurrence of a health-related event, namely a hospital stay. To do so, we use a representative and longitudinal dataset of individuals living in Germany (SOEP). Our results show ...
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De Economist
170 (2022), 2, 257-277
| Antoine Marsaudon
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This paper describes datasets from two related surveys conducted in Germany: PIAAC and PIAAC-L. PIAAC is an OECD-initiated assessment that measures the cognitive skills of adults (aged 16–65 years). Around 40 countries worldwide participated in the first cycle of PIAAC. The German PIAAC data were collected in 2011/12. In the longitudinal follow-up survey to PIAAC, PIAAC-L, respondents from the German ...
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Journal of Open Psychology Data
11 (2022), 1, 20
| Silke Martin, Anouk Zabal, Débora B. Maehler, Beatrice Rammstedt
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To date, PHMR has often relied on male/female stratification, but rarely considers the complex, intersecting social positions of men and women in describing the prevalence of health and disease. Stratification on an Intersectional Gender-Score (IG-Score), which is based on a variety of social covariables, would allow comparison of the prevalence of individuals who share the same complex intersectional ...
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
20 (2023), 3, 2220
| Emily Mena, Katharina Stahlmann, Klaus Telkmann, Gabriele Bolte, AdvanceGender Study Group