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Fabian Kalleitner

@kalf.bsky.social
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Sociologist working @LMU Munich. Former FU Berlin & University of Vienna. I'm interested in social and economic inequality working on topics like taxation, (un)employment, and redistribution fabiankal.github.io

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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📎 You can find the working paper here: doi.org/10.48787/kop... Comments very welcome!
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Agreeing in Principle, Disagreeing on Policy : How Beliefs About the Gender Pay Gap Shape Fairness Concerns and Policy Preferences
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But support for specific policies barely moves. Even recognizing gender pay gaps as unfair does not, by itself, turn into support for the policies designed to address them.
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📊 Larger and within-job gaps both raise the perceived size and unfairness of the pay gap. Within-job information also reduces attributions to women's own choices and modestly increases support for government action. Some of the largest shifts: U.S. conservatives and German men.
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧪 We use preregistered survey experiments in the U.S. and Germany, varying → the size of the gap (high vs. low) → its source (overall gap vs. gap between women and men in the same jobs and firms)
Example of the information treatment for the within-job / low experimental condition
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🔍 Most people agree that women and men should be paid equally for equal work. Far fewer support pay transparency laws or gender quotas. Does information about the gender pay gap narrow this principle and policy gap? And do the magnitude and underlying sources of gender pay disparities matter?
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📄 New working paper with an amazing group: Jule Adriaans, @brueggemann-o.bsky.social, @cmoya.bsky.social & Sandra Bohmann We ask: Can evidence of gender pay gaps (overall or within jobs) raise concerns about fairness and, in turn, shift policy preferences? 🧵
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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Job alert! More info on how to apply is available in the link shared below. Please help me circulate this information broadly 🙏 (1/2)
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New paper on why and how people's policy preferences are related to their perceiced sources of labor market risks (tech, offshoring, immigration). doi.org/10.1177/0958... Happy that it already attracted some attention on scilove.
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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Timely new paper in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: Does rising wealth concentration undermine American democracy? Using variation across the 50 U.S. states, results reveal a clear, negative effect of millionaire wealth concentration on democratic performance. doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag058
Wealth concentration in the United States has reached heights not seen since the Gilded Age, renewing fears that concentrated economic power may undermine democracy. Yet empirical research linking inequality to democratic erosion remains inconclusive, partly because most studies focus on cross-country comparison and examine income rather than wealth. This study exploits variation across fifty U.S. states; each
embedded in a common federal framework but differing in political and economic dynamics. To estimate the exogenous effect of rising wealth concentration on democratic backsliding, I develop a shift-share instrument of state-level millionaire wealth shares. Results reveal a clear, negative effect on democratic performance. Causal mediation analysis demonstrates that the effect is mediated by the share of seats held by
Republicans in state legislatures, pointing to a mechanism of elite influence through partisan channels. These findings demonstrate that subnational wealth disparities, and their convergence with partisan politics, actively erode American democratic institutions.
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting new QJE paper shows inflation gets more attention when people are more exposed to it and when they have past inflation experiences. Those with inflation top of mind follow more inflation news, raise inflation expectations more; firms are more likely to raise prices.
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Christian Breunig @breunig.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
What an awesome lineup for our speaker series. @saadgulzar.bsky.social @na-wehl.bsky.social @marysanford.bsky.social ord.bsky.social Karolin Soontjens Femke Roosma @andrearuggeri.bsky.social @lchristensen.bsky.social Thank you, Maria and Jakob for organizing!
speakers for cppe
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Important new paper on the dual VET system and wage inequality. Wage inequality, especially at the bottom of the distribution, is lower in societies with stronger dual VET systems. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Yesterday’s model for tomorrow’s economy? Dual VET and wage inequality in the knowledge economy - Patrick Emmenegger, Matthias Haslberger, 2026
Dual vocational education and training (VET) is said to have positive economic effects. However, recent contributions suggest that the rise of the knowledge eco...
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 Call for Applications: Postdocs We’re looking for postdoctoral researchers for the following research areas and topics: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Wealth and Social Inequality 🗓️ Application deadline: Dec. 11 📢 Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/UzLEpr
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researchers. Application Deadline: Dec. 11, 2026
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10/09/2026
New post on AI in (economics) writing paulgp.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...
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How do we know if writing is AI?
Some initial analyses of AI’s impact on economics writing
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Source: www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This year's PISA results are really striking. If the decline in performance in reading and mathematics cannot be explained by measurement issues (as argued in the report), the decline is truly immense.
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Congrats! :)
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and LIS Data Center are hiring a 3-year postdoc for work on public policy, welfare and socio-economic inequality. Open to economics, sociology, pol sci and related disciplines. Apply by Sep 15th: jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
look at the data its so ... interactive
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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What a workshop! 🎉 The 2nd International Workshop on Life Course Analysis has wrapped up — three days at Hertie School in Berlin with outstanding presentations across education, health, family, ageing & more. Huge thanks to all presenters and participants for the engaged discussions 🙏
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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Some recent research I found interesting. 👇
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
yes i think so at least when looking at the documentation i find the PHQ-4
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Austrian socio economic panel takes shape! now with two waves available as easy to access scientific use files.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
See also d'Urso et al. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... and prior work by Clifford and coauthors www.cambridge.org/core/journal... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Pre-treatment measures are fine (cc: R2). Contrary to 90s lore, 𝗆̶𝗈̶𝗇̶𝖾̶𝗒̶ priming ain't a thing.
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Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes
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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵
The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 11/08/2026
This is a shame: COS phasing out OSF Projects. Responsibly, with plenty of notice and preservation of existing content, and continuation of other OSF services (including preprints!).
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European Social Survey @ess-survey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Analysis of our #data was conducted for research on #inequality and wellbeing published by the Journal of Happiness Studies (@springernature.com). Sandra Bohmann and Fabian Kalleitner (@lmu.de 🇩🇪 ) investigated whether perceived unfair inequality has a negative effect on #wellbeing.
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Subjective Inequity Aversion: How Perceived Unfair Inequality Affects Subjective Well-being - Journal of Happiness Studies
Combining theoretical insights from social justice literature and social comparison research, this paper argues that subjective perceptions of inequity (i.e., unfairness), rather than objective deviations from equality, are key to understanding the relationship between (in)equality and subjective well-being.
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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1/6 What happens when you tell an AI browser: “Fill out this survey”? It fills out the survey. In our new study, led by @rtopinkova.bsky.social, we tested three consumer-facing agentic browsers without lengthy prompts, custom code, or technical fine-tuning.
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
📢 Call for Papers! We are partnering with the Journal of Economic Surveys on a special issue: Reproducibility and Meta-Science in Economics. Submission deadline: 1 March 2027. Details in thread 🧵
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Alles Beste und viel Kraft!
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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I recommend for anybody who wants to see the results of ai garbage in science to just take a quick look at some of the recently published papers in this "journal".
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New paper out NOW! 🎉 Do people care enough about unfair inequality for it to affect their subjective well-being? And does it matter whose earnings they perceive as unfair (their own, the rich, or the poor)? We find: not all perceived unfairness is equal. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We hope others build on this and we are happy to discuss the paper 🙂
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We note that this study provides an initial test of subjective inequity aversion in a largely cross-sectional setting. Our focus required abstracting from other parts of the inequality–happiness link (obj. and subj. inequality) that likely shape how inequality translates into perceived inequity.
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hence, while most respondents agree that low-income earners are paid "unfairly too little," only perceptions that the rich "earn too much" and "I earn too little" are consistently linked to lower well-being.
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Our findings thus indicate that (1) besides material rewards, perceived income fairness is a key driver of subjective well-being However, individuals are (2) more sensitive to unfairness affecting themselves than others and (3) to unfairness at the top of the income distribution than at the bottom
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Using additional data from the German SOEP, we further show that the relationship between perceived fairness of one's own income and life satisfaction also holds longitudinally, focusing on within-individual variation - although only for disadvantageous inequity.
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We find: Subjective well-being decreases when people perceive their *own earnings* or *top incomes* as unfair. Results provide no consistent evidence for a relationship between the perceived unfairness of bottom incomes and subjective well-being.
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We use data from the ESS, where respondents evaluated the fairness of their own earnings and the actual incomes of the rich and poor Because resp. were informed about these incomes, we can isolate the relationship btw perceived unfairness and happiness independent of differences in perc. inequality
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
3) Disadvantageous unfair inequality (e.g., if the rich have unfairly too much) should hurt more than advantageous unfair inequality (e.g., if the poor have unfairly too little). This leads us to expect the following pattern of subjective inequity aversion:
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
2) Individuals evaluate the fairness of the distribution of outcomes using three anchor points: themselves, those who have more, and those who have less.
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Drawing on theories of inequity aversion, social justice, and social comparison, we argue: 1) It's not objective inequality but *perceived unfairness* that should hurt well-being.
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Fabian Kalleitner @kalf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New paper out NOW! 🎉 Do people care enough about unfair inequality for it to affect their subjective well-being? And does it matter whose earnings they perceive as unfair (their own, the rich, or the poor)? We find: not all perceived unfairness is equal. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There’s been a lot of buzz around the Borjas/Breznau (2026) paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and potential ideological bias in research. We took a closer look at the data. Could there be a "bias in bias research"? Here is what we found: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19/06/2026
New paper out now! We (w/ @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social) start from the observation that among adolescents in Leipzig, the gender gap in life satisfaction has doubled over time and ask: why?> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Why Did the Gender Gap in Adolescent Life Satisfaction Grow? Evaluating Methodological and Demographic Explanations

The city of Leipzig in Germany conducts large-scale school surveys of adolescents in secondary schools. While in 2010 and 2015 girls were somewhat less satisfied than boys, in 2023 this gender gap had doubled. Why? When asking such a reverse causal question, answers often focus on broad narratives, such as the psychological impact of social media. Here, we illustrate how to probe alternative explanations, such as demographic changes and methodological issues. First, we rule out that the observed pattern is a simple scaling artifact. Second, we find that the widening of the gender gap is much more pronounced among students with a migration background. This could plausibly be explained by a shift in the composition of the underlying population, with a strong increase in the proportion of Syrian students, and a relative decrease of Vietnamese students. Third, part of the increasing gender gap could potentially be attributed to survey mode: In 2023, for the first time, the survey was conducted on tablets—and unexpectedly, girls (but not boys) reported significantly lower satisfaction when surveyed on tablet rather than on paper. Lastly, beyond these patterns, we still find significantly widening gender gaps in satisfaction with leisure time activities and relationships to friends. Thus, there may be a substantive increase in the gender gap in satisfaction in those two domains that is not readily attributable to changes in demographics and survey mode.

Plot showing mean life satisfaction among female and male adolescents over time. In general, boys show higher levels than girls; from 2010 to 2015 the lines for the two genders are pretty much parallel. In 2023, both boys and girls decline -- but girls much more so, effectively doubling the gender gap.
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Evelyne Hübscher @evehubscher.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Out now and open access: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Right on time to present some follow up work at @ councilforeuropeanstudies.org/2026-confere... and @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social
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Austerity and Populism
A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“…4-year longitudinal assessment of all… French first & second graders (2,653,082 children). Boys & girls exhibited very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys became highly significant after 4 months of schooling” www.nature.com/articles/s41... Wow!
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Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.
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