2019 Ph.D. in Sociology, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science (University of Bremen and Jacobs University)

Since Jul 2023 Senior researcher and lecturer (tenured), University of Flensburg Central Methods Department

Mar 2023 - Oct 2023 Visiting Fellow, University of Bremen, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science

Jan 2022 - Jul 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Flensburg, Departement of Sociology

Apr 2023 - May 2023 Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),  International Inequalities Institute

Sep 2022 - Jan 2023 Interim Professor of Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research and SocialStratification (W3), University of Flensburg, Central Methods Department

Oct 2020 - Jul 2022 Scientific Coordinator Social Cohesion Monitor, University of Bremen, Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC)

Oct 2021 Visiting Researcher, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) Survey Methodology and Management Division

Jul 2018 - Oct 2020 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bremen, Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam)

Jan 2018 - May 2018 Visiting Researcher, Cornell University, Department of Sociology; Center for the Study of Inequality

May 2017 - Jan 2018 Research associate, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Department of Macrosociology, Project: Horizontal Europeanization

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• Minkus, Lara, Nicolai Gröpler and Sonja Drobnič (2022): The significance of occupations, family responsibilities, and gender for working from home: Lessons from COVID-19, PLOSone 17(6): e0266393.
• Minkus, Lara and Sonja Drobnič (2021): Abortion: Life-Course Stages and Disruptive Life Events, Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 50(3–4): 259–273.
• Waitkus, Nora and Lara Minkus (2021): Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap Across Occupational Classes, Feminist Economics, 27(4): 114-147.
• Gattig, Alexander and Lara Minkus (2021): Does Marriage Increase Couples’ Life Satisfaction? Evidence Using Panel Data and Fixed-effects Individual Slopes, Comparative Population Studies, 46: 123-147.
• Kuhnt, Anne-Kristin, Lara Minkus and Petra Buhr (2021): Uncertainty in Fertility Intentions from a Life Course Perspective: Which Determinants Matter? Journal of Family Research, 33(1): 184–208.
• Ehrlich, Ulrike, Lara Minkus and Moritz Hess (2020): Einkommensrisiko Pflege? Der Zusammenhang von familiärer Pflege und Lohn, Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 53(1): 22-28.
• Minkus, Lara and Anne Busch-Heizmann (2020): Gender Wage Inequalities Between Historical Heritage and Structural Adjustments: A German-German Comparison Over Time, Social Politics, 27(1): 156–186.
• Calanca, Federica, Luiza Sayfullina, Lara Minkus, Claudia Wagner and Eric Malmi (2019): Responsible Team Players Wanted: An Analysis of Soft Skill Requirements in Job Advertisements, EPJ Data Science, 8(13): 1-20.
• Minkus, Lara, Emanuel Deutschmann and Jan Delhey (2019): A Trump Effect on the EU’s Popularity? The U.S. Presidential Election as a Natural Experiment, Perspectives on Politics, 17(2): 399-416.
• Deutschmann, Emanuel and Lara Minkus (2018): Swinging Leftwards: Public Opinion on Economic and Political Integration in Latin America, 1997-2010, Latin American Research Review, 53(1): 38-56.

Books

• Lara Minkus (2023): Disentangling the Components of the Gender Wage Differential, Nomos: Baden-Baden.

Technical Report

• Task Force FGZ-Datenzentrum (2022): Gefährdeter Zusammenhalt? Polarisierungs- und Spaltungstendenzen in Deutschland, Bremen: SOCIUM, Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt.

Discussion Paper

• Minkus, Lara (2019): Labor Market Closure and the Stalling of the Gender Pay Gap, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 1049, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).

Book chapter

• Deutschmann Emanuel, Lara Minkus and Jan Delhey (2022): European Union: How Trumps’ Presidency Increased Its Popularity in Europe. In: J. Dixon & M. J. Skidmore (Eds.), Donald J. Trump, The 45^th U.S. Presidency and Beyond: International Perspectives. Westphalia Press (pp. 201-220).

Datasets

• Groh-Samberg, Olaf, Carina Cornesse, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Martin Kroh, Holger Lengfeld, Stefan Liebig, Lara Minkus, Jost Reinecke, David Richter, Richard Traunmüller, & Sabine Zinn (2023): German Social Cohesion Panel 2021 – Anchor Persons. Dataset and Documentation. doi:10.60532/scp.2021.ap.v1
• Brüderl, Josef, Sonja Drobnič, Karsten Hank, Franz J. Neyer, Sabine Walper, Philipp Alt, Elisabeth Borschel, Christiane Bozoyan, Madison Garrett, Svenja Geissler, Tita Gonzalez Avilés, Nicolai Gröpler, Kristin Hajek, Michel Herzig, Bernadette Huyer-May, Rüdiger Lenke, Renate Lorenz, Katharina Lutz, Lara Minkus, Timo Peter, Trang Phan, Richard Preetz, Julia Reim, Barbara Sawatzki, Claudia Schmiedeberg, Philipp Schütze, Nina Schumann, Carolin Thönnissen, Katharina Timmermann and Martin Wetzel (2021): The German Family Panel (pairfam). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5678 Data file Version 12.0.0, doi.org/10.4232/pairfam.5678.12.0.0.
• Brüderl, Josef, Sonja Drobnič, Karsten Hank, Franz J. Neyer, Sabine Walper, Philipp Alt, Christiane Bozoyan, Christine Finn, Renate Frister, Madison Garrett, Tita Gonzalez Avilés,Henriette Greischel, Nicolai Gröpler, Kristin Hajek, Michel Herzig, Bernadette Huyer-May, Rüdiger Lenke, Lara Minkus, Timo Peter, Julia Reim, Claudia Schmiedeberg, Philipp Schütze, Nina Schumann, Carolin Thönnissen, Martin Wetzel & Barbara Wilhelm. 2020. The German Family Panel (pairfam). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA5678 Data file Version 11.0.0, doi.org/10.4232/pairfam.5678.11.0.0.
• Calanca, Federica, Luiza Sayfullina, Lara Minkus, Eric Malmi and Claudia Wagner (2019): Soft Skills list. GESIS - Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Datenfile Version 1.0.0, doi.org/10.7802/1707

Other Articles

• Minkus, Lara: Schwangerschaftsabbrüche und individuelle Lebensumstände 123, impu!se für Gesundheitsförderung, Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit und Akademie für Sozialmedizin Niedersachsen Bremen e. V. (LVG & AFS), 2. Quartal 2024.

2023

• Population Seminar Series, London School of Economics.
• Empirical Research Colloquium, University of Konstanz
• 14th Conference of Young Demographers, Prague.

2022

• DGS Conference, Plenary session, German Sociological Association, University of Bielefeld.
• Violence Age Gender (VAG) Network, University of Bremen.
• Cohesion and Welfare State - Cluster 2 Annual Meeting FGZ-RISC, online.
• 10th Conference: Research using the Microcensus, online.

2021

• Institute Colloquium FGZ-RISC, online.
• Empirical Research Colloquium, University of Konstanz, online.
• ASA - annual meeting, American Sociological Association, online.
• Nonviolent Work - Future of Work, session chair, Loccum.

2020

• DGS Conference, Section on Family Sociology, German Sociological Association, online.

2019

• ISA RC19 Annual Conference, Mannheim.
• European Casual Inference Meeting (EUROCIM), Bremen.
• ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Frankfurt.

2018

• Sociology Colloquium – LMU, Munich.
• BIGSSS Summer School in Computational Social Science, panel speaker, Bremen.
•  ISARC28 Spring Meeting, Seoul, ROC.
•  Inequality Discussion Group of the Center for the Study of Inequality,
• Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

2017

• European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, London, UK.
• 04. Annual BAGSS conference, Bamberg.
• ASA - annual meeting, Montreal, CA.
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Opinion Dynamics and Collective Decision Making, Bremen.