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Michael Wagner

Portrait Prof. Dr. Michael Wagner - Department für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie WiSo-Fakultät Universität zu Köln

Prof. Dr. Michael Wagner - Department für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Research focuses

Social Demography, Private Living Arrangements, Residential Mobility, Life Course and Aging Research

Contact information

Prof. Dr. Michael Wagner
Department für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Phone: +49 221 470-2975
Email: mwagner(at)wiso.uni-koeln(dot)de
WWW: Department für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Curriculum vitae

  • Since 2018 Managing editor of the Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology (Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie)

  • Since 2015 Member of the Project Board of Quality of Life and Well-Being of the Very Old in NRW (ceres)

  • 2012 - 2013 Managing director of the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology

  • 2012 Research stay at Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute in Den Haag (NIDI) and at the University of Groningen, Department of Demography
  • 2007 - 2010 Managing director of the Research Institute for Sociology 
  • Since 1998 Full professor for Sociology, University of Cologne
  • 1997 Call to the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Head of an Independent Junior Research Group (Selbständige Nachwuchsgruppe, C3), Rostock (not accepted) 
  • 1997 Post-Doctoral Degree (Habilitation), Free University of Berlin, Thesis: Marital Stability, Social Structure and Social Change in East and West-Germany
  • 1994 - 1997 Principal investigator of the project “Family and Fertility in Germany”; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
  • 1988 - 1997 Principal investigator of the research unit for “Sociology and Social Policy” of the Berlin Aging Study, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin
  • 1988 - 1997  Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
  • 1987 Dr. phil., Free University of Berlin, Thesis: Spatial Mobility in the Life Course
  • 1984 - 1987 Ph. D. Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Project “Life Courses and Social Change”
  • 1986 Research stay at the Institut National d’Études Démographiques in Paris
  • 1983  Diploma in Sociology, University of Hamburg
  • 1976 - 1983 Graduate Studies in Sociology, Philosophy, Political Economy, Social History, University of Hamburg

Selected publications

  • Carol, Sarah, Peez, Freya and Michael Wagner, 2019: Delinquency among majority and minority youths in Cologne, Mannheim and Brussels: the role of religion. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published online 14 Jun 2019.

  • Wagner, Michael, Huinink, Johannes and Aart C. Liefbroer, 2019: Running out of Time? Understanding the Consequences of the Biological Clock for the Dynamics of Fertility Intentions and Union Formation. Demographic Research 40, Article 1, 1-26.

  • Wagner, Michael, Kuppler, Matthias, Rietz, Christian and Roman Kaspar, 2019: Non-response in surveys of very old people. European Journal of Ageing 16, 2, 249–258.

  • Wagner, Michael, Mulder, Clara H., Weiß, Bernd and Sandra Krapf, 2019: The transition from living apart together to a coresidential partnership. Advances in Life Course Research 39, 77-86.

  • Hilz, Regina and Michael Wagner, 2018: Marital Status, Partnership and Health Behavior: Findings from the German Ageing Survey (DEAS). Comparative Population Studies 43, 65-98.

  • Obersneider, Monika, Janssen, Jan-Christoph and Michael Wagner, 2018: Regional Sex Ratio and the Dissolution of Relationships in Germany. European Journal of Population. Published online: 28.11.2018.

  • Wagner, Michael, Rietz, Christian, Kaspar, Roman, Janhsen, Anna, Geithner, Luise, Neise, Michael, Kinne-Wall, Carolin, Woopen, Christiane and Susanne Zank, 2018: Quality of life in the very old. Survey on quality of life and subjective well-being in the very old in North Rhein-Westphalia (NRW80+) [Lebensqualität von Hochaltrigen – Studie zu Lebensqualität und subjektivem Wohlbefinden hochaltriger Menschen in Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW80+)]. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 51, 2, 193-199.

  • Wagner, Michael und Clara H. Mulder, 2015: Spatial mobility, family dynamics, and housing transitions. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Sonderheft 55 Social Demography,111-135.

  • Wagner, Michael, Lisa Schmid und Bernd Weiß, 2015: Exploring Increasing Divorce Rates in West Germany: Can We Explain the Iron Law of Increasing Marriage Instability? European Sociological Review 31, 2, 211-226.
  • Wagner, Michael and Isabel Valdes Cifuentes, 2014: Die Pluralisierung der Lebensformen - Ein fortlaufender Trend? - The Pluralisation of Living Arrangements - A Continuous Trend? Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft - Comparative Population Studies, Jg. 39, 1, 73-98 (99-122).
  • Hank, Karsten and Michael Wagner, 2013: Parenthood, partnership status, and well-being in later life: Evidence from SHARE. Social Indicators Research 114: 639-653.
  • Valdés Cifuentes, Isabel, Wagner, Michael und Robert Naderi, 2013: Heirat und Familiengründung bei deutschen und türkischstämmigen Personen in Deutschland. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 65, 3, 479-504.
  • Mulder, Clara H. and Michael Wagner, 2012: Moving after Separation: The Role of Location-specific Capital. Housing Studies 27, 6, 839-852.
  • Weiß, Bernd and Michael Wagner, 2011: The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics. The Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), Vol. 231, 5+6, 661-684. Special Issue „Methodological Artefacts, Data Manipulation and Fraud in Economics and Social Science“, edited by Andreas Diekmann. 
  • Berninger, Ina, Weiß, Bernd and Michael Wagner, 2011: On the links between employment, partnership quality and the intention to have a first child: The case of West Germany. Demographic Research 24, Article 24, 579-610.
  • Mulder, Clara H. and Michael Wagner, 2010: Union Dissolution and Mobility: Who Moves From the Family Home After Separation? Journal of Marriage and Family 72, 5, 1263-1273.
  • Wagner, Michael and Bernd Weiß, 2006: On the Variation of Divorce Risks in Europe: Findings from a Meta-analysis of European Longitudinal Studies. European Sociological Review 22, 5, 483-500.
  • Wagner, Michael und Bernd Weiß, 2006: Meta-Analyse als Methode der Sozialforschung. In: Diekmann, Andreas (Hg.): Methoden der Sozialforschung. Sonderheft 44 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 479-504.
  • Wagner, Michael, 1997: Scheidung in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Zum Verhältnis von Ehestabilität und Sozialstruktur seit den 30er Jahren. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus.

Contact information

Michael Wagner

Phone: +492214702975
Email: mwagner(at)wiso.uni-koeln(dot)de
WWW: www.iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de