Fabian Kalleitner

Fabian Kalleitner

@kalf.bsky.social

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 https://fabiankal.github.io/

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Daniel Devine
@danjdevine.bsky.social

Inheritance taxation is unpopular, even amongst people who are unlikely to ever have to pay it. Why? In four different studies - experiment! panels! behaviour! - @cvalebeek.bsky.social and I show political trust is a strong predictor for support for the tax. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comPolitical trust and inheritance taxation: evidence from four studiesInheritance (estate) taxation is a potentially powerful instrument for reducing inequality and raising state revenues, yet it attracts opposition well beyond the small minority who will ever pay it...
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Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

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

🧪 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)

Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

📊 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.

Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

🔍 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?

Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

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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SciLove@scilove.bsky.social

🔥 Trending on SciLove today 🔥 🔬 Technology, migrants or offshoring: How the perceived source of labour-market risks shapes policy demands 👤 Bobzien et al., 2026 📖 Journal of European Social Policy 🔗 https://www.scilove.app/article/10.1177/09589287261491123 #PoliSci #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

scilove.app🔥 Trending today: Technology, migrants or offshoring (Bobzien et al., 2026) - 01/10/26What people blame for job losses—immigrants, robots, or outsourcing—shapes which government policies they support, aligning with whether they see the threat as cultural or economic. 🤖🇦🇹📊

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Philipp Heimberger
@heimbergecon.bsky.social

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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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥
@hermwerf.bsky.social

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....

journals.sagepub.comYesterday’s model for tomorrow’s economy? Dual VET and wage inequality in the knowledge economy - Patrick Emmenegger, Matthias Haslberger, 2026Dual vocational education and training (VET) is said to have positive economic effects. However, recent contributions suggest that the rise of the knowledge eco...
Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

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

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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Per Engzell
@pengzell.bsky.social

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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Carla Rowold
@crowold.bsky.social

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 🙏

Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

The Austrian socio economic panel takes shape! now with two waves available as easy to access scientific use files.

Matthias Reiter-Pázmándy@reiterpazmandy.bsky.social

Daten, Daten, Daten: die zweite Welle von #ASEP, dem Austrian Socio-Economic Panel steht ab sofort als Scientific Use-File über @aussda.bsky.social zur Verfügung: data.aussda.at/dataverse/asep

data.aussda.atASEPThe Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) is a multi-topic, large-scale, annually conducted, ongoing longitudinal survey, which collects data on the household and individual level, representative for t...

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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social

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.

cambridge.orgWhere to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge CoreWhere to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes
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vincentholst.bsky.social
@vincentholst.bsky.social

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. 🧵

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Philip N Cohen
@philipncohen.com

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!).

Center for Open Science@cos.io

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

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European Social Survey
@ess-survey.bsky.social

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.

buff.lySubjective Inequity Aversion: How Perceived Unfair Inequality Affects Subjective Well-being - Journal of Happiness StudiesCombining 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.
Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

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".

DavidPBLRoss@davidpblross.bsky.social

A paper published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications had quickly become one of the most cited studies supporting the use of ChatGPT in education. It was retracted today via @nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency #edpolicy #edresearch

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Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

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

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

Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

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

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.

Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

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

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:

Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

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

Fabian Kalleitner
@kalf.bsky.social

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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Evelyne Hübscher
@evehubscher.bsky.social

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

annualreviews.orgAusterity and PopulismA 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

“…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!

nature.comRapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - NatureBoys 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

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.