Fabian Kalleitner

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The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?

Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

ISOTYPIFY Your Data — I made an easy to use function + webinterface to create an ISOTYPE chart with Observable/Quarto/D3!

Webinterface: schmoigl.github.io/isotypify/
Observable: observablehq.com/@schmoigl/is...

#dataviz #observable #isotype #d3js

We have written a simple, plain-language, no equations & minimal jargon tutorial for experimentalists on why you can't drop people who don't take your treatments or follow your instructions.

with re-analyses & recommendations!

with @samanthajamesbrown.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

#psych

Rethinking Gender and Other Seemingly Nonmanipulable Characteristics for Causal Analysis - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Identifying the causes of social inequality is crucial for designing effective policy interventions. Experimental methods, in which variables are manipulated and participants are randomly assigned to ...

📢 New publication!

Together with @dariatisch.bsky.social, I’m happy to share our new article bringing gender into a key methodological debate on how to answer causal questions.

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation?

I've got something for you!

My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

While most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ based on new experimental evidence now published with @natrinh.bsky.social and @dariatisch.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Genug ist genug Leipzig. Subjektiv. Selektiv.

Die Universität Leipzig setzt Kürzungen des eigenen Haushalts durch die Nichtverlängerung von laufenden Promotionsstellen um, meine ist auch betroffen. kreuzer-leipzig.de/2026/01/29/l...

Really happy to share that my PhD research has received a prize by the Landkreis Konstanz🏆

Big thanks to my supervisors, colleagues as well to @excinequality.bsky.social for providing such a great research environment.

📸 Foto: Universität Konstanz / Torben Nuding

An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment

This is a belated post about our paper in @poqjournal.bsky.social.

We analyzed 100 survey experiments fielded by TESS (tessexperiments.org), using only information from the proposals to identify intended hypotheses.

Here are some of the things we learned:

An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment Abstract. The production of public goods, which are fundamental to well-functioning societies, requires the payment of taxes, but taxpayers have clear ince

Thrilled that our findings, showing how social norms and institutions interact in Italy to shape tax reporting, are now out at:
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

@gianlucapasin.bsky.social @squazzoni.bsky.social

New in @bjpols.bsky.social!

Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN

We now check manuscripts for the possibility that AI has been used to produce the paper. Springer's system does some automated checking but doesn't catch everything.

So, in certain situations we check the refs for hallucinations.

Latest manuscript: multiple hallucinations. Author will be banned.

Interesting paper in incentice effects, with nice descriptives like this one that shows that surveys are alive and kicking

new ESR article

Public or employer based childcare —which should governments prioritise?

@AnneKronberg #A_Gerlach find that policy should first expand public childcare, ease access for less-edu parents, and only then support employer-sponsored schemes
#OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf044

Für mich hat der link oben nicht funktioniert aber der hier: www.zew.de/das-zew/aktu...

True that. Mein personal favourite ist aber x und y im Streit um policy z. Und dann 2 Seiten ohne genaue infos worum es in der policy eigentlich gehen soll aber viel über wer wohl kontra und wer wohl pro ...

Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective?

In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported.

Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home!

Call 4 INAS26 is open

🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔)

☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26

🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social

Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

thanks for the info! always wondered how these results are bester interpreted

Again important service post ob marginaleffects by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci . This took me nearly a full workday to fully understand a few years ago.

Going on the syllabus

With housing affordability becoming one of the most pressing challenges today, our new PPRNet research briefs couldn't be more timely. 8 expert analyses on what progressive housing policy should look like—and how to make it politically viable.

politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

Class-based network segregation, economic inequality, and redistributive preferences across societies Abstract. Rising economic inequality has renewed interest in how class-based social networks shape redistributive preferences across societies. While previ

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My new article in European Sociological Review (@europeansocreview.bsky.social) examines how class-based network segregation and national-level inequality shape support for redistribution, using data from 32,717 individuals across 31 countries.
DOI: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Huge congrats Daniel 🎉

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