Philipp M. Lersch
Associate Professor of Sociology of Social Policy, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany Personal webpage • e-mail p.m.lersch(at)hu-berlin.de
Assessments of intergenerational transmission focus primarily on children reproducing parental status. Sergi Vidal, Philipp Lersch, Marita Jacob, and Karsten Hank offer a new perspective to understand the intergenerational transmission of … Read more
Philipp M. Lersch studies the relationship between people’s number of siblings and their economic wealth in Germany. He finds that additional siblings reduce wealth by about 38%. Parental wealth moderates … Read more