Wealth and Social Inequality
Research Focus | Publications
Tax Principles, Policy Feedback and Self-Interest: Cross-National Experimental Evidence on Wealth Tax Preferences. In: Socio-Economic Review 22(1), 2024, 279–300.
Varieties of Wealth: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Wealth Inequality. In: Socio-Economic Review, 2023.
Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years. In: Socius 9, 2023.
Women in the Global Super Rich: An Analysis of the Forbes World’s Billionaires List, 2010–2023. In: Australian Feminist Studies, 2023.
Unequal but Just? Experimental Evidence on (Gendered) Distributive Justice Principles in Parental Financial Gifts. In: Socio-Economic Review 21(3), 2023, 1369–1390.
Durable Wealth: Institutions, Mechanisms, and Practices of Wealth Perpetuation. In: Annual Review of Sociology 48, 2022, 233–255.
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My Wealth, (Y)Our Life Satisfaction? Sole and Joint Wealth Ownership and Life Satisfaction in Marriage. In: European Journal of Population 38(4), 2022, 811–834.Asset Manager Capitalism as a Corporate Governance Regime. In: , , , Kathleen A. Thelen (eds.), The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 270–294.
Multi-Sited Understandings: Complicating the Role of Elite Schools in Transnational Class Formation. In: British Journal of Sociology of Education 42(1), 2021, 82–96.
Varieties of Affluence: How Political Attitudes of the Rich Are Shaped by Income or Wealth. In: European Sociological Review 36(1), 2020, 136–158.
Entrepreneurial Groups: Definition, Forms, and Historic Change. In: Historical Social Research 44(4), 2019, 7–41.
Neid oder soziale Gerechtigkeit? Die gesellschaftliche Umkämpftheit der Erbschaftssteuer. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 67(23-25), 2017, 23–29.
Verdient - Unverdient: Der öffentliche Diskurs um die Erbschaftssteuer in Deutschland und Österreich. In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 27(2), 2017, 271–291.
The Enduring Importance of Family Wealth: Evidence from the Forbes 400, 1982 to 2013. In: Social Science Research 65, 2017, 75–95.
Erben in der Leistungsgesellschaft. Theorie und Gesellschaft, Volume 76. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag, 2013.
Unternehmerfamilien: Über den Einfluss des Unternehmens auf Lebenslauf, Generationenbeziehungen und soziale Identität. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2013.
Vermögen und Besteuerung. In: , , (eds.), Reichtum und Vermögen: zur gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung der Reichtums- und Vermögensforschung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009, 146–157.
Inherited Wealth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.