We argue that social categories like gender can be studied causally by breaking them down into components (e.g., roles, traits)

📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading
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While most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ based on new experimental evidence now published with @natrinh.bsky.social and @dariatisch.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social

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...

Figure 4 Average marginal effects, representative and wealthy sample. Notes: Each color represents one hypothesis. Based on N = 5,600 evaluations in the representative sample and N = 6,368 evaluations in the wealthy sample. Ninety-five percent confidence intervals shown.

Interesting paper by @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social on how the Germans assess division of intergenerational transfers among siblings academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Die Titelseite des im Jahr 2025 publizierten Papers zeigt den Titel „The gender (tax) gap in parental transfers. Evidence from administrative inheritance and gift tax data“, die Namen der Autor:innen Daria Tisch und Manuel Schechtl sowie den Abstract.

Im #PaperderWoche zum heurigen #EqualPayDay zeigen @dariatisch.bsky.social und @schechtlm.bsky.social, dass neben Einkommen auch #Erbschaften und #Schenkungen die Vermögensungleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern verstärken. Momentum-Praktikantin @juliepraeg.bsky.social fasst zusammen. 1/

Bild von Dr. Daria Tisch mit Zitat: "Einige der größten deutschen Privatvermögen sind heute im Besitz von Familien, die schon vor 100 Jahren Teil der ökonomischen Elite waren."

Superreiche prägen über Jahrzehnte hinweg die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Spielregeln – Regeln, die große Vermögen schützen und Ungleichheit zementieren.

@dariatisch.bsky.social geht deshalb der Frage nach: Welche historischen Wurzeln haben Deutschlands größte Vermögen?

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Titelblatt des Magazins "Gesellschaftsforschung" mit dem Titel "Wo Reichtum herkommt"

„Wo Reichtum herkommt“: Die neue „Gesellschaftsforschung“ ist da!

@dariatisch.bsky.social zeigt, wie stark Reichtum sich in Deutschland seit Jahrzehnten in den Händen weniger Familien konzentriert und welche Fragen dies für Chancengleichheit und Machtverhältnisse aufwirft.

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Gender and wealth accumulation: an international perspective Abstract. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men globally? As wealth inequality rises both within countries and worldwide, studies on gender and weal

1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time?

I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️

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❗️ Tue, May 27, 13:45-15:15 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with @dariatisch.bsky.social

"Dynasties of Wealth: The Preservation of Large Family Fortunes Over a Century"

👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...

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🚨Contrary to our expectations, we find that people perceive arrangements where women perform a higher proportion of housework as less fair than scenarios where men do so.

Together with @norawaitkus.bsky.social, I have a new paper on the question: How do Germany’s super-rich talk about being 💰💰💰? By analyzig media interviews, we show that they blend business with family success and tie past, present, and future into one seamless narrative.
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The keys to the house - How wealth transfers stratify homeownership opportunities This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers – i.e., inter vivos gifts and inheritances – contribute to inequ…

For once a little bit of self promotion: interesting paper on M
mediation of parental social class via wealth transfers on homeownership by @jaschadraeger.bsky.social @nrmllr.bsky.social and myself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Family feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families Rising wealth inequalities, concentrated in the hands of a few super-rich families, have recently sparked sociological interest in how these families sustain and legitimise their wealth across generat...

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access!

Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource.

@bupjournals.bsky.social

I have a new paper out! "Should Social Insurance Programs Count as Wealth? Augmented Wealth in Research and Policy." Published yesterday in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

A great postdoc position with the truly amazing Isabell - supportive, sharp, and a joy to work with! Apply if you are looking for a postdoc position!

📢 Here is an exciting job opportunity at the TU Berlin. Please spread the word and apply!

Post-Doc, 5yrs, work on your independent research on ownership and / or wealth inequality, teach 2 courses per semester, collaborate with me and in a supportive team.

www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

Wir freuen uns auf den Start unserer Ringvorlesung zum Thema "Methoden und Perspektiven der Sozialstrukturanalyse" und viele spannende Vortragende, die Einblicke in ihre Forschung zu dem Thema geben. @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social
@ayo162.bsky.social @dariatisch.bsky.social @csauer.bsky.social

New👇post summarizes main arguments from our Sociology paper (w. @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, @marentoft.bsky.social): how different strands of #class analysis can be easily mobilized to study #wealth and #asset inequalities in its various forms & shapes.💰🏰💸

Original paper: doi.org/10.1177/0038...

Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy The Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy aims to establish a network of women working in political economy and to contribute to ameliorating existing gendered inequalities in the fi...

The Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy aims to address the continued underrepresentation of women in political economy. Join us!

📅 Cologne, September 22–25, 2025
👩‍🎓 For current PhD students or recent PhD graduates – free of charge
⏳ Apply by April 25, 2025

Join us for the first
ISI INTERNATIONAL WEALTH CONFERENCE
in Munich, October 9-11 2025

CfP: www.lmu.de/isi/en/lates...

Submit a short abstract or paper by April 28.

Keynotes by Annette Lareau & Lane Kenworthy. And if you arrive a few days early, you can catch the last weekend of Oktoberfest :)

🚨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.
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@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

If you want to know more about gender differences among billionaires, check out @emmaischinsky.bsky.social and my paper here: doi.org/10.1080/0816...

As @oxfam-de.bsky.social also argues, equalizing gender gaps among billionaires is the second-best solution. Abolishing billionaires the first.

Their study (www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/pu...) also draws on new work by @dariatisch.bsky.social & @schechtlm.bsky.social:
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Felix Römer and I take a deep dive into the term and concept of wealth in Docupedia —worth a read! docupedia.de/zg/gajek_roe...

Is wealth inequality corrosive to society?

Can't wait to get started on our new project "Wealth and Social Cohesion from a Relational Perspective" with a fantastic team: @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, @rcarranzan.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social

www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

🚨Job alert 🚨

I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸

The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Deadline is Feb 28!

Our new book "Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality" is finally out! 📙

In it, we unpack what political economy is and does through an investigation of the relation between the state, the economy and society.

Hardcover: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...

Picture of the main campus of the LMU Munich with students sitting on the grass and talking

Sociologists working on inequality:

Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)

EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...

Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials