Prof. Dr. Philipp M. Lersch

Prof. Dr. Philipp M. Lersch

Head of the Research Group Life Course and Inequality Research Group

Researcher German Socio-Economic Panel study Research Infrastructure

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Research Topics and Working Areas

Philipp Lersch is Associate Professor of Sociology of Social Policy in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and research group leader at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His main research interests are in social inequalities over and between life courses of individuals in divergent institutional contexts focusing on the family, wealth, and employment. He mainly works with longitudinal survey data.

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Publications

American Sociological Review

Change in Personal Culture over the Life Course

2023 | Lersch, Philipp M.
Social Forces

Assortative Mating and Wealth Inequalities Between and Within Households

2023 | Lersch, Philipp M.; Schunck, Reinhard
Amercian Sociological Review

The Variability of Occupational Attainment: How Prestige Trajectories Diversified within Birth Cohorts over the 20th Century

2020 | Lersch, Philipp M.; Schulz, Wiebke; Leckie, George
DIW Weekly Report 44 / 2025

Parental Influence on Their Children’s Homeownership Remains High, but Declining

2025| Philipp M. Lersch, Selçuk Bedük, Enrico Benassi
DIW Wochenbericht 44 / 2025

Immer weniger schaffen Sprung ins Eigenheim – selbst, wenn die Eltern Wohneigentum haben: Interview

2025| Philipp M. Lersch, Erich Wittenberg
DIW Wochenbericht 44 / 2025

Einfluss der Eltern auf das Wohneigentum der Kinder ist immer noch hoch, geht aber zurück

2025| Philipp M. Lersch, Selçuk Bedük, Enrico Benassi
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
SOEPpapers 1054 / 2019

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

2019| Diederik Boertien, Philipp M. Lersch
Newspaper and Blog Articles

Die Aufstiegsgesellschaft wohnt zur Miete

In: Die Zeit (31.10.2025), [Online-Artikel] | Marcel Fratzscher, Phlipp M. Lersch
Refereed essays Web of Science

Wealth and Family Formation: Insights from First Cohabitation, Marriage, and Birth in Germany

In: European Journal of Population 41 (2025), 1, Art. 16, 24 S. | Philipp M. Lersch
Refereed essays Web of Science

The Reliability of Replications: A Study in Computational Reproductions

In: Royal Society Open Science 12 (2025), 241038., 23 S. | Nate Breznau, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Philipp M. Lersch, Lea-Maria Löbel, Cristóbal Moya (et al.)
Refereed essays Web of Science

A Cohabitation Wealth Premium for Women and Men: Considering the Regulatory Framework and Normative Acceptance in France and Germany

In: Socio-Economic Review 23 (2025), 2, S. 591–620 | Nicole Kapelle, Nicolas Frémeaux, Philipp M. Lersch, Marion Leturcq
Refereed essays Web of Science

Change in Personal Culture over the Life Course

In: American Sociological Review 88 (2023), 2, S. 220–251 | Philipp M. Lersch

Lectures

Vortrag

The Stability of Individual Wealth Positions over the Lifespan in Germany, Norway, and Britain

Philipp M. Lersch
München, 09.10.2025 - 11.10.2025| ISI Wealth Conference 2025
Vortrag

Diffusion of Cumulative Advantage? How Wealth and Health Trajectories Co-Evolve across the Life Course Among Older Adults: Invited Keynote

Philipp M. Lersch
Mannheim, 30.09.2025 - 01.10.2025| Processes of Cumulative (Dis)Advantage in the Study of Inequalities - Theories, Conceptual Models, and Analytical Methods: Workshop, Universität Mannheim
Vortrag

Consolidated Trajectories? Social Class and Earnings Growth over the Life Course

Philipp M. Lersch
Florenz, Italien, 17.04.2024 | Seminar at the Social and Political Sciences Department, European University Institute
Vortrag

Consolidated Trajectories? Social Class and Earnings Growth over the Life Course

Philipp M. Lersch
[Online], 19.02.2024 | Inequality and Policy Research Group: University of Oxford [Online]
Vortrag

Consolidated Trajectories Social Class and Earnings Growth over the Life Course

Philipp M. Lersch
Paris, Frankreich, 24.05.2023 - 26.05.2023| Education and Social Inequality across the Life Course: Spring Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA)

Research Projects

Research Project

DECIPHE – Demographic Change and the Intergenerational Persistence in Homeownership in Europe

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study, Life Course and Inequality
Research Project

Die intergenerationale Reproduktion von Vermögensungleichheit und deren sozio-demographischen Bedingungen in Deutschland (InterVerm / DFG)

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

WEALTHTRAJECT: Understanding Trajectories of Wealth Accumulation and Their Variability

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study, Life Course and Inequality
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