Dr. Bettina Hünteler

Dr. Bettina Hünteler

Research Topics and Working Areas

Bettina Hünteler is a research associate in the DECIPHE research project at DIW Berlin. Her research focuses on social inequality, such as wealth or health in the context of kinship and migration, with a particular emphasis on the life course approach. Methodologically, she uses advanced quantitative methods such as sequence and cluster analysis, and multi-level models. Before joining DIW, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the University of Cologne. Bettina Hünteler holds a PhD from the University of Cologne and two Master Degrees, one in Sociology and Empirical Social Research from the University of Cologne, one in Population Studies from the University of Groningen.

Publications

Social Forces

Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway

2025 | Bettina Hünteler, Theresa Nutz & Jonathan Wörn
Journal of Marriage and Family

A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extended Family Relations in the United States

2025 | Bettina Hünteler, Karsten Hank, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez & Thomas Leopold
European Journal of Population

Geographic proximity to parents, intergenerational support exchange, and migration within Germany

2020 | Bettina Hünteler & Clara H. Mulder
Refereed essays Web of Science

A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extende Family Relations in the United States

In: Journal of Marriage and Family (2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-06-30] | Bettina Hünteler, Karsten Hank, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Thomas Leopold
Externe Working Papers

Younger Adults’ Nuclear and Extended Family Relationships in Europe: A Latent Class Analysis

Washington DC: OSF, 2025, 36 S.
(SocArXiv Preprint)
| Bettina Hünteler, Karsten Hank, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Thomas Leopold
Externe Working Papers

Unequal Returns? Wealth and Debt Gradients in Health Among Immigrants and Natives in Norway

OSF, 2025, 74 S.
(OSF Preprints;Preprints / PsyArXiv)
| Dina Maskileyson, Bettina Hünteler

Lectures

Vortrag

Explaining Variation in Intergenerational Downward Mobility in Homeownership across Europe

Bettina Hünteler
Köln, 02.03.2026 - 03.03.2026
| Understanding Kin Relations: ECSR Network Workshop
Moderation

Session Generation and Session Wealth and Property: Moderation

Bettina Hünteler
München, 26.02.2026 - 27.02.2026
| FACES - Families And Challenges in Evolving Societies in the D-A-CH Region and beyond: Joint International Conference, Launched by the Family Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Family Research Working Group of the Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS), the Life Course Research Committee of the Swiss Sociological Association (SSA) and the Swiss Research Center LIVES, in Collaboration with the German Youth Institute (DJI)
Moderation

Session Moderation

Bettina Hünteler
München, 25.02.2026
| FACES - Families And Challenges in Evolving Societies in the D-A-CH Region and beyond: PhD Workshop
Vortrag

Kinship Structures, the Life Course, and Later-life Health

Bettina Hünteler
Berlin, 18.12.2025
| Family and Health across the Life Course: Seminar, FU Berlin
Vortrag

Inherited (Dis)Advantage? The Long Arm of Family Wealth for Health in Norway by Gender and Migration Background

Bettina Hünteler, Dina Maskileyson
München, 09.10.2025 - 11.10.2025
| ISI Wealth Conference 2025

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
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