Social Closure and Hierarchization: Contextual Conditions and Accumulations of Unequal Life-Chances Across the Life Course (A01)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: from 2011 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 138713964

A1 investigates the role of individual heterogeneities in form of noncognitive traits, measures of agency, and risk and time preferences in the stratification process. The project will analyze a) how noncognitive traits affect life chances during adolescence and early adulthood, b) how different social contexts and the national context impact the development and stratification of noncognitive traits, c) which time spans during the early life course are particularly important in the develop-ment of noncognitive traits, d) whether the link between social origin and later life course out-comes is mediated and moderated by noncognitive traits. Empirically, project A1 will apply longi-tudinal and multilevel analyses based on household panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Families in Germany (FID), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 882: From Heterogeneities to Inequalities
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Co-Applicant Institution: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Reinhard Schunck; Professor Dr. Jürgen Schupp