Philipp Lersch
@pmlersch.bsky.social
Sociologist at DIW Berlin/SOEP and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | https://pmlersch.github.io/
Warum kaufen so viele kein Eigenheim? Darüber spricht @pmlersch.bsky.social von @diw.de & @humboldtuni.bsky.social bei #TonspurWissen, dem #Podcast von Leibniz-Gemeinschaft und Rheinische Post. 🏠 👉 pod.fo/e/4052b1 #Miete #Wohnen #Eigentum #Soziologie #Immobilien #Wohnungsmarkt #Ungleichheit
What drives the growth of private wealth? Has inequality increased? How does tax policy shape wealth across generations? Now published in Nature-Scientific Data: the data descriptor of the GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse by @stone-lis.bsky.social & Roma Tre University www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Consider joining our EPC pre-conference workshop "New Data and Tools to Study the Demography of Social Mobility" in Bologna on June 3. All welcome! More details here: www.deciphe.eu/news/new-dat...
EPC 2026: New Data and Tools to Study the Demography of Social Mobility – DECIPHE Research Project
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🧵 New paper out! Married couples have long been wealthier, on average, than cohabiting couples. But does this still hold as unmarried cohabitation becomes increasingly common? Find out in my latest paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social available in #OA: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada
Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married an...
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers. Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6): ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/
Vacancies | ICS
ICS Sociology PhD positions vacancies Graduate school program Social Sciences Methodology
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Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
📅 Don't miss our symposium exploring Why Wealth Inequality Matters on Tuesday, January 27 from 1-5 PM EST. Register to join us in person at MIT or watch the livestream: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...
On March 23-26, 2026, the ECSR will organize a Spring School on the topic "Inequalities Across Lives and Generations: Cumulative Disadvantage, Life Course Dynamics, and the Intergenerational Transmission of (Dis)Advantages." www.nasp.eu/training/oth...
NASP: Network for the Advancement of Social and Political studies - 2026 ECSR-CCA-NASP Spring School - CfA
NASP is pleased to announce the call for applications to the fourteenth edition of the ECSR, COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO, AND NASP JOINT SPRING SCHO...
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NEPS-Publikationspreis 2025 gleich zweimal vergeben! Die Preisübergabe fand heute im Rahmen der 10. Internationalen NEPS-Konferenz am LIfBi statt – inklusive öffentlicher Keynotes der Preisträger:innen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch an beide Teams! 👉 www.lifbi.de/de-de/Start/...
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer” I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies ➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election) tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2
Demokratie: Wenn die Rechte mitregiert, wird sie nicht geschwächt – im Gegenteil
Eine Untersuchung von 57 Ländern zeigt: Wenn die Rechte in Verantwortung kommt, gewinnt sie dazu. Daraus lässt sich für Deutschland lernen.
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🗓️Register now for the 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference #SOEP2026 held in Berlin from July 8 to 9, 2026. This interdisciplinary conference provides a platform for researchers to present and discuss their work with peers. www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c....
I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
🟢Wealthy individuals fuel the climate crisis through their investments even more than through their consumption and lifestyles — This is one of the key findings presented in *Chapter 1 of the 2025 #ClimateInequality Report*. Read more in this thread [1/6]🧵
Junge Menschen in Deutschland besitzen deutlich seltener Wohnimmobilien als ihre Eltern, immer mehr von ihnen wohnen zur Miete. Das zeigt eine neue DIW-Studie auf Basis von EU-SILC-Daten, die in Kooperation mit Forschern der @ox.ac.uk erstellt wurde. 🧵(1/6) www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....
Check out this open-access article that deepens on compound effects of residential and social mobility!
LIFELONGMOVE Project@lifelongmove.bsky.social · 10mo agoMoving homes, changing perspectives: How residential and social mobility in childhood shape locus of control and adult mental health Our team members Riccardo Valente and @svidal.bsky.social explore it in a new paper at SSR. Check it out, it’s open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography
#shiny #RStudio #openscience #metascience @die-bonn.de @oecd-ocde.bsky.social @gesis.org Workflow: github.com/nbreznau/PIA... 🧪
GitHub - nbreznau/PIAAC_Variable_Finder: The PIAAC Variable Finder: An interactive Shiny app for cleaning, interpreting and analyzing Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies d...
The PIAAC Variable Finder: An interactive Shiny app for cleaning, interpreting and analyzing Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies data - nbreznau/PIAAC_Variable_Finder
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Young People's Homeownership in Europe: Delayed or Out of Reach? A Research Note: https://osf.io/rfpum
This was a great collaboration with the brilliant @smaexie.bsky.social and Lisa Klein. We find demographic trends having counterbalancing effects on wealth inequality.
SocArXivBot@socarxivbot.bsky.social · last yr.Wealth Inequality among Families in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Evidence from Germany, 1988-2017: https://osf.io/jh5xp
We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...
DIW Berlin: Researcher (f/m/x)
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Call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026: one week left to apply! More information: ow.ly/1ZOl50V9y65
🚨New paper in SER🚨 Cohabitation boosts wealth in 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪—but legal recognition matters. Findings highlight the role of policy in shaping fin. outcomes for cohab. couples. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @pmlersch.bsky.social @marionleturcq.bsky.social & N. Fremeaux #Sociology #Demography #Inequality
🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
• CALL FOR PAPERS – 2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course” Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…
• CALL FOR PAPERS – 2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course”
Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard (University of Queensland), and Riccardo Valente (Autonomous University of Barcelona). The proposed special issue aims to leverage a trajectory-based approach that fully accounts for the multi-dimensional nature of migration across time and space, providing deeper insights into diverse migration trajectory patterns and their long-term individual and societal implications.
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The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open! This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography. Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon). More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...
The European Association for Population Studies is now on bluesky. Follow @eaps.bsky.social for updates on activities and the next European Population Conference in Bologna!
