Second International Workshop on Life Course Analysis — Theory, Methods, and Applications

You are invited to be part of the Second International Workshop on Life Course Analysis — Theory, Methods, and Applications by the MPIDR Rostock & Hertie School Berlin, funded by the Akademie für Soziologie. Organized by Christian Dudel, Carla Rowold, and Michaela Kreyenfeld.

Schedule:

Monday, 17 Aug – Multistate Life Course Methods Course

• 09:00–10:30 Introduction
• 10:30–11:00 Break
• 11:00–12:30 Estimation
• 12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
• 14:00–15:30 Implementation in R
• 15:30–16:00 Break
• 16:00–17:00 Exercises

Tuesday, 18 August – Day 1, Life Course Analysis Workshop

• 09:15–09:30 Arrival

• 09:35–09:45 Welcome & Introduction

• 09:45–11:00

  • Session A: Education, Stratification & Inequality Chair: Linda Vecgaile

    • Samuel Agyapong: Cumulative Disadvantage and Diverging Educational Pathways: A Life Course Analysis from Ghana

    • Gijs Westra: Life Course Stratification in Space and Time: Opportunity Structures and the Reproduction of Inequality

    • Francesca Mele School (Dis)engagement and Socioeconomic Marginalization

• 11:00–11:45 Coffee Break

• 11:45–13:00

  • Session B: Health Trajectories & Care Needs Chair: Norma Sarahi Resendez Chavez

    • Josephine Jackisch Heterogeneous Risks for Ill-Health, Family Breakdown and Income After Unemployment in Times of Crisis

    • Songyun Shi How Employment Histories Shape Mental Health Trajectories in Later Life: The Role of Migration Background

    • Jihye Lee Life Course Transitions and the Dynamics of Care Needs: A Microsimulation Approach to Population and Household Change

• 13:00–14:15 Lunch Break

• 14:15–15:30

  • Session C: Applied Life Course Research Chair: Josephine Jackisch

    • Giorgio Nocerino Transition into Adulthood and Social Media Use: A Life-Course Approach

    • Elias Hofmann Stuck With Each Other? Unrealized Moving Desires, Changes in Life Satisfaction, and the Role of Partnerships

    • Zita Brazzola From Life-Course Theory to Applied Modelling: Three Demographic Applications in Housing, Consumption, and Health

• 15:30–15:45 Press photo

• 15:45–16:15 Coffee Break

• 16:15–17:30

  • Keynote by Ariane Bertogg Chair: Christian Dudel

  • Understanding Cognitive Ageing Through a Life Course Lens: Theoretical Mechanisms and Empirical Insights

• ~18:30  Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 19 August – Day 2, Life Course Analysis Workshop

• 09:15–09:45 Arrival

• 09:45–11:15

  • Session D Family Formation, Fertility & Gender Chair: Michaela Kreyenfeld

    • Thiago Cordeiro Almeida Gendered Patterns of Childlessness Across Educational Levels in Low and Very Low Fertility countries

    • Flora Zhou Mapping the Uncharted: Life Course Trajectories of Transgender and Gender Diverse People in the Netherlands

    • Mari Amdahl Heglum Gendered Life Courses under Reform: Family Policy Expansions and Young Adults‘ Work-Family Interdependence in Norway (1993–2017)

    • Mengyao Wu Partnership and Fertility Trajectories of Immigrant Women during Migration to Spain: A Comparison by Country of Origin

• 11:15–11:45 Coffee Break

• 11:45–13:00

  • Session E: Methods, Sequence Analysis & Modelling Chair: Deike Janssen

    • Maximilian Reichert Describing Accumulation and Depletion of Contextual Resources During Childhood by Analysing Vector Embeddings of Multidimensional Life Course Sequences

    • Sascha dos Santos Stability and Turning Points in Life Course Trajectories: The Example of Wealth

    • Linda Vecgaile When and What Matters in the Late-Career Path to Predict Poverty? A Diagnostic Sequence Approach Using Transformers

• 13:00–14:15 Lunch Break

• 14:15–15:30

  • Session F: Ageing, Retirement & Later-Life Well-Being Chair: Jan Einhoff

    • Nabaraj Adhikari Beginning of Old Age: Examining the De-Standardisation of the Life Course from the Perspective of Employees and the Self-Employed in Finland and Italy

    • Fabian Kalleitner From Mixed Findings to Precise Estimates: The Effect of Retirement on Life Satisfaction

    • Maël Lecoursonnais Trajectories of Adulthood Adversity and Later-Life Outcomes: A Population-Based Study

• 15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

• 16:00–16:50

  • Session G: Wealth, Transfers & Intergenerational Dynamics Chair: Songyun Shi

    • Alisa Jashari It Takes a Lifetime: Life-Course Trajectories and the Patterning of Intergenerational Transfers

    • Veronika Sofia Corradi-Eiger Visible Transitions, Invisible States: How Life Course Dynamics Shape Access to Parental Support for Adult Children

• 16:50–17:00 Closing Remarks

Venue and time: The three day workshop will take place on August 17-19, 2026, at the Hertie School, Friedrichstraße 180, 10117. 

Room: Forum A (first floor) Metro: Stadtmitte (U2, U6) or Unter den Linden (U5, U6)

Registration is required. Please register with Michaela Kreyenfeld by email: kreyenfeld[at]hertie-school[dot]org

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