Marcel Raab

Assistant Professor of Sociology

University of Mannheim

Biography

I am Assistant Professor for Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Mannheim and visiting researcher in the research group Demography and Inequality at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Previously, I worked as research assistant at the National Educational Panel Study, the Professorship of Demography at the University of Bamberg, and as research fellow in the research group Demography and Inequality at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. In 2011 I was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale University, New Haven. In 2014, I completed my PhD (“Family Effects on Family Formation”) at the University of Bamberg.

Interests

Family Sociology/Demography
Life Course Sociology
Aging
Demography & Inequality

Recent Publications

Raab, M., Struffolino, E. (2019). The Heterogeneity of Partnership Trajectories to Childlessness in Germany. European Journal of Population, (online first), doi:10.1007/s10680-019-09519-y.

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Raab, M., Fasang, A.E., Hess, M. (2018). Pathways to death: The co-occurrence of physical and mental health in the last years of life. Demographic Research, 38, 1619–1634, doi:10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.53.

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Teaching

In the spring semester 2019 I am teaching the following courses:

BA Sociology: Introduction: Family Sociology
BA Sociology: Intergenerational relations across the life course
MA Sociology: Current trends and topics in social demography and family sociology ¹
MA Sociology: Master Forum Day

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