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On 15.09.2023 the registration period for the courses of the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology in the winter semester 2023/24 will start. You will soon find all courses on StudOn here.

As part of the GESIS Summer School, the course "Causal Inference Using Survey Data" will be held by Heinz Leitgöb and Tobias Wolbring from 7 to 11 August 2023 in Cologne. The course introduces concepts and methods of causal research and causal modelling in the social sciences. Participants will l...

The DFG has approved funding for the project "Objective and Subjectively Experienced Financial Inequalities in Income and Wealth and Their Consequences" by Professor Tobias Wolbring and colleagues. The project will investigate whether and how subjective representations of financial inequality are...

We are happy to announce that the project "Individually recommended? - How AI-based Advisory Systems affect Student Diversity - ADVICE" will be funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. For further information about the project.

We are happy to announce that the project "A life-course perspective on labor supply: Temporal, institutional, and social embeddedness as determinants of individual reservation wages" will be funded by the DFG. For further information about the project.

We are pleased to announce that in March 2019 Tobias Wolbring will be visiting professor at the University of Utrecht.

As a member of the Program Committee, Fabian Ochsenfeld is involved in the organization of the spring meeting of the 'Social Stratification and Mobility' section of the International Sociological Association. The conference with the main topic 'long-term consequences of the Great Recession for strat...

Tobias Wolbring is a new board member of the Research Committee "Rational Choice" (RC 45) of the International Sociological Association (ISA). For more details.

Since January 2018 the managing editorial staff and editor of the German traditional sociological journal "Soziale Welt" is located at the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology. Further information about the journal can be found on the homepage.