Category: News
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New publication: Repartnering is key to regaining homeownership after separation
A new open-access study by Sergi Vidal and co-authors in Population, Space and Place shows that separation sharply reduces the likelihood of owning a home—and that regaining ownership is mostly tied to repartnering. Using 1991–2019 panel data from England & Wales (BHPS/Understanding Society) and Germany (SOEP) and multilevel logistic models, the authors find that homeownership rates rise…
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DECIPHE Welcomes New Team Member Bettina Hünteler
On August 1st, 2025, Bettina Hünteler joined the DECIPHE project as a new member. As a postdoctoral researcher at DIW Berlin in Philipp Lersch’s team, her work will focus on explaining variations in the persistence of homeownership across countries and over time. Bettina is a trained sociologist and demographer who holds a PhD in Sociology…
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Call for papers
Sergi Vidal has launched a call for papers for a special issue in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) on Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course. This special issue, launched by the IUSSP’s Lifetime Migration panel, seeks to advance research on the diversity of migration trajectories—whether internal, international or interconnected—and their impact on both individual and societal outcomes. See for more details…