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Who talks to the prof? Gender differences in interaction with senior scholars at four academic conferences Open
The percentage of women in academia is still lower than what would be expected statistically, especially in the sciences and among faculty (tenured professors). Theories on network closure suggest that men form exclusive professional netwo…
The Limits of Tolerance: A Field Experiment at a German University on Bias against the Israeli Flag Open
In the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks, reports of anti-Israel expressions at German universities have raised questions about the prevalence and nature of such sentiments in academic environments. Traditional survey-based research…
Why women leave academia: A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology Open
The metaphor of a "leaky pipeline" is often used to describe the disproportionate loss of women at successive stages of academic careers, yet surprisingly little empirical evidence exists on actual academic attrition. This study fills this…
Antisemitism in German Higher Education. Results from a Survey Experiment Among Students at a German University Open
This study examines the extent of antisemitic bias in German higher education through a survey experiment conducted among students (N=1,416) at an average-sized German university in the fall of 2024/2025. Using a between-subjects design, p…
Human capital, gender, institutional environment and research funding: Determinants of research productivity in German psychology Open
Which academics are more productive? The “sacred spark” theory predicts that some researchers are innately more productive than others, while the theory of cumulative advantage argues that small initial inequalities accumulate to large dif…
Educational Mobility and Cultural Omnivorousness in Germany Open
Cultural omnivorousness is widely studied as a dimension of the stratification of taste, related to class or status positions. However, taste is also structured by patterns of social mobility, especially educational mobility. Building on L…
Who Talks to the Prof? Gender Differences in Interaction with Senior Scholars at Four Academic Conferences Open
The percentage of women in academia is still lower than what would be expected statistically, especially in the sciences and among faculty (tenured professors). Theories on the “glass-ceiling effect” suggest that men form exclusive profess…
Female advantage in German sociology: Does accounting for the “leaky pipeline” effect in becoming a tenured university professor make a difference? Open
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Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019 Open
Theories on gender bias argue that women in academia benefit less from their academic achievements than men do; women, as a result, show lower rates of success in becoming tenured professors. Based on longitudinal data from CVs of virtuall…
How human capital, universities of excellence, third party funding, mobility and gender explain productivity in German political science Open
Using a unique panel dataset of virtually all German academic political scientists, we show that researchers become much more productive due to the accumulation of human capital and third party funding. We also show however, that while uni…
The 2017 French riots and trust in the police: A quasi-experimental approach Open
On 2 February 2017, French police officers brutally abused a young black man, leading to the first wave of 2017 French riots. The present study exploits the coincidence that the focal event occurred during the survey period of the European…
Newcomers, betweenness centrality, and creative success: A study of teams in the board game industry from 1951 to 2017 Open
This study examines how network characteristics affect the creative success of teams in the board game industry. Based on prior research, we argue that the degree of newcomers within a team affects the creative success negatively, while be…
Publishing, signaling, social capital, and gender: Determinants of becoming a tenured professor in German political science Open
We apply event history analysis to analyze career and publication data of virtually all political scientists in German university departments, showing that each published refereed journal article increases a political scientist’s chance fo…
Replication files for "Publishing, signaling, social capital, and gender: Determinants of becoming a tenured professor in German political science" Open
These are the replication files for the following publication: Schröder, M., Lutter, M., & Habicht, I. M. (2021). Publishing, signaling, social capital, and gender: Determinants of becoming a tenured professor in German political science. …
The Christmas Market Attack in Berlin and Attitudes Toward Refugees: A Natural Experiment with Data from the European Social Survey Open
Using a quasi-experimental research design, this study examines changes in attitudes toward refugees after the terrorist attack on the Berlin Christmas market of December 19, 2016. In our analysis, we make use of random variation in the fi…
Anomie or Imitation? The Werther Effect of Celebrity Suicides on Suicide Rates in 34 OECD Countries, 1960–2014 Open
Anomie and imitation have been prominent mechanisms explaining the Werther effect, i.e., the effect of celebrity suicides on a general population's suicide rate. This study presents a new approach to empirically disentangle both mechanisms…
Is There a Motherhood Penalty in Academia? The Gendered Effect of Children on Academic Publications in German Sociology Open
Based on data that tracks curriculum vitae (CV) and publication records as well as survey information from sociologists in German academia, we examine the effects of parenthood on the publication output of male and female academics that we…
The Christmas Market Attack in Berlin and Attitudes Toward Refugees: A Natural Experiment with Data from the European Social Survey Open
Using a quasi-experimental research design, this study examines changes in attitudes toward refugees after the terrorist attack on the Berlin Christmas Market of December 19, 2016. In our analysis, we make use of random variation in the fi…
Is There a Motherhood Penalty in Academia? The Gendered Effect of Children on Academic Publications Open
Based on data that tracks CV and publication records as well as survey information from sociologists in German academia, we examine the effects of parenthood on the publication output of male and female academics. Results indicate that hav…
The diversity of wage regimes: why the Eurozone is too heterogeneous for the Euro Open
Why did the transnational synchronization of wage inflations fail during the first 10 years of the euro? We analyze data from 1999 to 2008 for 12 euro members and estimate increases of nominal unit labor costs both in the overall economy a…
Three Essays on Proprietary Cities Open
This dissertation contains three essays on proprietary cities. Proprietary cities have three