The life-course perspective also reveals something interesting:

The benefits of upward mobility increase with age. For people from low-educated families, they become particularly visible in later life; for those from medium-educated families, the advantage grows more steadily.

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First result: upward educational mobility is associated with higher life satisfaction.

Much of this difference is accounted for by income and occupational position — suggesting that labor-market returns are an important part of the story.

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New paper with @mcollischon.bsky.social & @alinaschmitz.bsky.social !

Does upward educational mobility improve life satisfaction? And do its benefits change as people age?

We use 39 waves of German panel data to study mobility patterns across the life course.

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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it didn’t take much to talk me into the b sides 😅

drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

family account was definitely worth it 😃 the first representative year since 2015 😅

Happy to see our paper out that examines the role of study program characteristics for college enrollment intentions!
This ist joint work with Carina Toussaint (lead author), Hans Dietrich and @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social

@uni-bamberg.de @fauwiso.bsky.social
@iabnews.bsky.social

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Reviving my swedish stoner rock passion. Does anyone know bands from the Skåne region?

In addition to wellbeing our (@mcollischon.bsky.social) research also shows that the pandemic affected social trust.

doi.org/10.1177/2378...

In ongoing work, we also show how wage inequality and refugee migration in the context of multiple crises affect trust.

Come and work with us in beautiful Bamberg! @uni-bamberg.de

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/ab...

This is also reflected in the subcomponents of the index. 5/n

We use fixed effects regressions with pandemic wave indicators to analyze the trajectories for different groups. In nearly all cases, mental health is, albeit not always significantly, below pre-pandemic levels. 4/n

We use data from the PASS (@iab_news) containing information on the Mental Health Component Summary Score from the SF-12 from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). Descriptively, we observe a decrease when the COVID-19 pandemic began, but an increase as the pandemic fades out. 3/n

New paper with @mcollischon.bsky.social, Rasmus Hoffmann and Maksym Obrizan out now in @plosone.org! We investigate the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n

Looking forward to our new project (funded by @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social) that tries to explain the increasing regional divide in trust between Eastern rural parts of Germany and the rest of Germany. Together with @mcollischon.bsky.social and Felix Rahberger. We use panel data from the IAB.

Today, I have been to GU for the first time during my interim position as substitute professor of sociology and met the great team of Markus Gangl. I checked out the seminar rooms and tried not to get lost on campus and in the buildings. The DB also was almost on time (only 20 and 30 minutes delay).