Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch

Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch

Research Group Leader „Life Course and Inequality“ of the German Socio-Economic Panel study Research Infrastructure

Head of Life Course and Inequality Research Group

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plersch@diw.de
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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
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
SOEPpapers 469 / 2012

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

2012| Philipp M. Lersch
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 (2025), im Ersch. | 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
Refereed essays Web of Science

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

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

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

In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 85 (2023), 100803, 11 S. | Claudia Colombarolli, Philipp M. Lersch

Lectures

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)
Vortrag

Assortative Mating and Wealth Inequalities Between and Within Households: Evidence from Germany and the US

Philipp M. Lersch
[Online], 16.06.2020 | Population and Health Research Group Seminar: University of St Andrews

Research Projects

Research Project

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

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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

Wealth-Holders at the Top (WATT): An Interdisciplinary Research Network

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
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