Dr. Bettina Hünteler is a postdoctoral researcher in the international project Demographic Change and the Intergenerational Persistence in Homeownership in Europe (DECIPHE) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Her work sits at the intersection of sociology and demography, with a focus on social inequality, particularly wealth and health, within kinship and family structures. She emphasizes life course dynamics, cumulative inequality, and population heterogeneities, adopting a comparative lens to explore the role of social policy and welfare state structures.
During her stay at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), Bettina will collaborate with Dr. Selçuk Bedük, a Co-PI of DECIPHE, to finalise a comparative paper on the intergenerational transmission of homeownership patterns across Europe, examining how institutional and demographic regimes shape these trends. She will present her work in the Comparative Social Policy and Inequality and Policy Research Groups.
