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We examine the association between cohabitation and women’s and men’s wealth, closely considering the distinct regulatory and normative contexts in France and Eastern and Western Germany. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002–2017) and the French wealth survey Histoire de Vie et Patrimoine (2014/15-2020/21), we apply fixed-effects regression models to examine potential ...
In:
Socio-Economic Review
23 (2025), 2, 591–620
| Nicole Kapelle, Nicolas Frémeaux, Philipp M Lersch, Marion Leturcq
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Background: Capturing the complexity of family life courses as predictors of later-life outcomes like wealth is challenging. Previous research has either (a) assessed a few selective but potentially irrelevant summary indicators, or (b) examined entire life-course clusters without identifying specific important aspects within and between them. Objective: Our aim is to investigate which family life-course ...
In:
Demographic Research
52 (2025), 22, 689–740
| Nicole Kapelle, Carla Rowold
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Objectives A large body of evidence shows poorer mental health among lower socioeconomic groups, with chronic stress being an important pathway in this relationship. It was expected that the mental health of people with low socioeconomic status may have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While it has been established that stress also impacted mental health during the pandemic, the ...
In:
Frontiers in Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 (2025),
| Christina Kersjes, Ibrahim Demirer, Timo-Kolja Pförtner, Florian Beese, Jens Hoebel, Susanne Schnitzer, Elvira Mauz
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Employment is widely considered a key coping strategy for women against the economic burden of divorce. However, few studies have explored how women adjust their labor supply across the divorce process, particularly considering the moderating role of children’s presence and age. This study uses longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1984 to 2021 in an event-study approach ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
(online first) (2025),
| Matthias Klingler
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In this article, we introduce the command beyondpareto, which estimates the extreme-value index for distributions that are Pareto-like, that is, whose upper tails are regularly varying and eventually become Pareto. The estimation is based on rank-size regressions, and the threshold value for the upper-order statistics included in the final regression is determined optimally by minimizing the asymptotic ...
In:
The Stata Journal
25 (2025), 1, 169–188
| Johannes König, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Isabella Retter, Mattis Beckmannshagen
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DIW focus / 2019
Soziale Stratifikation entsteht durch Ungleichverteilung von gesellschaftlich relevanten Ressourcen wie Geld, Bildungszertifikate oder soziale Kontakte. EmotionssoziologInnen fügen dem eine weitere Dimension hinzu, indem sie annehmen, dass bestimmte Gefühle, positiv oder negativ, Angst oder Freude, in bestimmten sozialen Statusgruppen öfter (seltener) erlebt werden. Dieser Beitrag schließt an diese ...
2019| Coline Kuche
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The household represents a proximal social context whose members can convey various expectations to each other, including expectations for active aging. We used a nationally representative sample (N = 2007, aged 16–94 years) to investigate the household predictors of perceived expectations for active aging (PEAA, i.e., “activation demands” targeting individuals as older adults) in three domains: physical ...
In:
European Journal of Ageing
22 (2025), 1, 11
| Sonja Radoš, Maria K. Pavlova, Klaus Rothermund, Rainer K. Silbereisen
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Life course epidemiology explores health disparities over time. The accumulation thesis thereby suggests an add-up of disadvantages, while the adaptation model assumes an adjustment to disadvantageous conditions. Examining the relevance of these accumulation and adaptation processes, the present study analyses continuing exposure to various material and perceived economic factors on self-rated health ...
In:
BMC Public Health
25 (2025), 1, 446
| Tobias Rähse, Matthias Richter, Anja Knöchelmann
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DIW focus / 2019
In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir die Folgen der Reformen des öffentlichen Sektors für die Beschäftigten. Konkret untersuchen wir, wie sich Teilzeit, befristete Beschäftigung und Überstunden entwickelt haben und wie sich vertragliche Regelungen und der Führungsstil der Vorgesetzten auf die wahrgenommene Jobsicherheit und die wahrgenommene Belastung der Beschäftigten auswirken. Dafür analysieren wir ...
2019| Carsten Sauer, Peter Valet, Vincent J. Roscigno
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The transition to parenthood is a critical period that exacerbates gendered economic inequality, with mothers more likely than their partners to experience employment disruptions and income losses. This study examines individual poverty risk among partnered indivduals (N=1,237) in Germany from a life course perspective, analyzing how gendered career patterns around first births between 1992 and 2013 ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin; SOEP,
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW Berlin No. 1220)
| Christina Siegert