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Welcome to the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg!
Our Chair
Prof. Dr. Tobias Wolbring is head of the Empirical Economic Sociology Chair since July 2017.
Alina Gutwein, Juliane Kühn, Sebastian Prechsl, and Tilman Wörz well as Ulrike Marx in the secretariat, is at your disposal for questions and concerns.
On our website you will find first information about the chair, research and teaching. We invite you to get to know our work and get a comprehensive picture of our projects. You will also get first impressions about your study expectations and you are very welcome to get in touch with us!
The Chair deals with selected aspects of economic sociology, educational research, inequality and science research with a focus on quantitative methods of empirical social research.
For questions and comments please contact us and the team at any time!
Recent Publications
2023
- Fuchs, B., Prechsl, S., & Wolbring, T. (2023). Social policy and labour supply: The impact of activating labour market institutions on reservation wages. Socio-Economic Review, 21(2), 863–884. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwac002
- Kroh, J., & Prechsl, S. (2023). The Intervening Role of Social Integration in the Effect of Education on Subjective Mental Health. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 85. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100786
- Leitgöb, H., Prandner, D., & Wolbring, T. (2023). Editorial: Big data and machine learning in sociology. Frontiers in Sociology, 8. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1173155
- Leitgöb, H., Wolbring, T., & Prandner, D. (2023). Editorial: Big data and machine learning in sociology. Frontiers in Sociology. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1173155
- Mutz, R., Wolbring, T., & Daniel, H.-D. (2023). Sollten Förderentscheidungen partiell durch Lotterien ersetzt werden? Grundlagen, Konzeption und Evaluationsdesign am Beispiel des Förderinitiative `Experiment!` der Volkswagen Stiftung. Zeitschrift für Evaluation, 2/2023.
- Prechsl, S., & Wolbring, T. (2023). Shelter from the storm: do partnerships buffer the well-being costs of unemployment? European Sociological Review. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcad066
2022
- Abraham, M., Collischon, M., Grimm, V., Kreuter, F., Moser, K., Niessen, C.,... Wolbring, T. (2022). COVID-19, normative attitudes and pluralistic ignorance in employer-employee relationships. Journal for Labour Market Research, 56. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12651-022-00325-4
- Eberl, A., Collischon, M., & Jahn, K. (2022). The impact of the abolition of compulsory service on life satisfaction. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100673
- Eberl, A., Collischon, M., & Wolbring, T. (2022). Subjective Well-Being Scarring Through Unemployment: New Evidence from a Long-Running Panel. Social Forces, 101(3), 1485 - 1518. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/soac022
- Eberl, A., Kühn, J., & Wolbring, T. (2022). Using deepfakes for experiments in the social sciences–A pilot study. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, 907199. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.907199
- Heyne, S., & Wolbring, T. (2022). Do Mothers and Fathers in Germany Really Prefer a Traditional Division of Labor? The Impact of Working Hours on Life Satisfaction Reconsidered. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 51(3), 298-306. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2022-0013
- Krug, G., & Prechsl, S. (2022). Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data. Social science & medicine, 307. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115161
- Leszczensky, L., & Wolbring, T. (2022). How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study. Sociological Methods & Research, 51(2), 837–865. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124119882473
- Treischl, E., & Wolbring, T. (2022). The Past, Present and Future of Factorial Survey Experiments: A Review for the Social Sciences. Methods, data, analyses, 16(2), 141-170. https://dx.doi.org/10.12758/mda.2021.07
2021
- Abraham, M., Damelang, A., Grimm, V., Neeß, C., & Seebauer, M. (2021). The role of reciprocity in the creation of reputation. European Sociological Review, 37(1), 137-154. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa038
- Collischon, M. (2021). Personality traits as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps and glass ceilings. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 73. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100596
- Collischon, M., & Eberl, A. (2021). Social capital as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps. British Journal of Sociology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12833
- Farys, R., & Wolbring, T. (2021). Matthew Effects in Science and the Serial Diffusion of Ideas: Testing Old Ideas with New Methods. Quantitative Science Studies, 2, 505–526. https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00129
- Gerlich, R., & Wolbring, T. (2021). "In good times and in bad, in sickness and in health”: A Longitudinal Study on Informal Caregiving and Life Satisfaction. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22, 1481-1516. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00281-1
- Schömer, D., Laumer, S., Treischl, E., Weigert, J., Wilbers, K., & Wolbring, T. (2021). Data-driven Student Advisory and Potential Direct Discrimination: A Literature Review on Machine Learning for Predicting Students' Academic Success. In Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems. Montreal, CA.
- Treischl, E., Laumer, S., Schömer, D., Weigert, J., Wilbers, K., & Wolbring, T. (2021). Give a Little, Take a Little? A Factorial Survey Experiment on Students’ Willingness to Use an AI-based Advisory System and to Share Data. In T. Wolbring, H. Leitgöb, & F. Faulbaum (Eds.), Sozialwissenschaftliche Datenerhebung im digitalen Zeitalter. (pp. 253-281). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
