Fabian Kalleitner

Postdoctoral Researcher

LMU Munich

Biography

My research interests include tax preferences, biased perceptions, fairness attitudes, and work values. To gather insights in these topics I combine theories and insights of sociology, economics, and psychology using various methodological approaches (i.e. panel surveys, multilevel analyses, survey/field/laboratory experiments) and estimation strategies.

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Interests

Economic sociology
Economic ans social inequality
Tax and redistribution preferences
Work values
Quantitative methods
Survey research methodology

Education

PhD in Sociology, 2023

University of Vienna
MA in Sociology, 2017

University of Vienna
BA in History, 2015

University of Vienna
BA in Political Science, 2014

University of Vienna

Recent Publications

Fabian Kalleitner, Lukas Schlogl, Licia Bobzien (2024). How much for whom? Explaining preferences for welfare benefits to short-time workers and the unemployed. Journal of European Social Policy.

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Fabian Kalleitner, Licia Bobzien (2024). Taxed Fairly? How Differences in Perception Shape Attitudes towards Progressive Taxation. European Sociological Review.

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Sandra Bohmann, Fabian Kalleitner (2023). Subjective Inequity Aversion: Unfair Inequality, Subjective Well-Being, and Preferences for Redistribution. SocArXiv.

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Fabian Kalleitner, Sandra Bohmann (2023). The Inequity Z: Income Fairness Perceptions in Europe across the Income Distribution. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

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Fabian Kalleitner, David W Schiestl, Georg Heiler (2022). Varieties of Mobility Measures: Comparing Survey and Mobile Phone Data during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Public Opinion Quarterly.

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Projects

Explaining preferences for redistributive taxation (Dissertation)

When do people want more redistributive taxes? Although several countries in Europe have experienced rising levels of inequality in the last couple of decades, public demands for redistributive taxes remained on similar levels or even decreased. In this dissertation, I argue that we can understand this phenomenon by acknowledging the role of limited public information about inequality and tax rates and the importance of fairness heuristics in enabling individuals to demand redistribution by taxes. Utilizing data from the European Social Survey and experimental web surveys conducted in Austria, this dissertation tests these theoretical arguments empirically.

Work and Corona (WoCo)

This project aims to visualize the transformation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. It cooperates with the Austrian Corona Panel Project and develops survey waves that focus on topics surrounding changes in work itself or work related attitudes and preferences. The main goal of the project is to create a website to provide the public with tools to investigate changes in attitudes, behaviour and preferences themselves via an interactive dashboard.

ACPP

The Austrian Corona Panel Project is the largest social survey project to cover the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria. To date (Nov. 2021) the panel covers nearly two years of the pandemic fielding 26 survey waves with roughly 1500 respondents each wave. The dataset contains over 1000 variables and is publicly available.

JUSAW

The project JUSAW (Jung und auf der Suche nach Arbeit in Wien = Young and searching a job in Vienna) investigated the consequences of early carrer unemployment in Austria’s capital Vienna. The project conducted a two wave panel study at the start of an unemployment spell and a year afterwards. In addition a field experiment investigated the impact of small nudges on unemployment’s chances to get a job.

CUPESSE

Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Enterpreneurship was a EU-FP7-SSH funded project of 12 universities led by Jale Tosun from the University of Heidelberg. It aimed at analysing youth unemployment in Europe following the economic crisis. Besides publishing several papers and a book it generated qualitative as well as quantitative data from 14 countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom).

Teaching

2024WS Justice Theories in Modern Empirical Social Science, BA-level, LMU Munich
2024WS Inequalities and Social Stratification in Labor Markets (together with Katrin Auspurg), MA-level, LMU Munich
2024S Inequalities and Social Stratification in Labor Markets, MA-level, Freie Universität Berlin
2023WS Working with the German Socio-Economic Panel – Analyzing Research Questions with Panel Data, MA-level, Freie Universität Berlin
2023S Inequalities and Social Stratification in Labor Markets, MA-level, Freie Universität Berlin
2023S From Research Question to Research Design: Investigating Preferences for and Beliefs about Redistribution and Inequality, MA-level, Freie Universität Berlin
2022S Sociology of Labor Markets, MA-level, University of Vienna
2021WS Introduction to Economic Sociology, MA-level, University of Vienna (hybrid)
2021S Introduction to Economic Sociology, MA-level, University of Vienna (online)
2020WS Social Research, BA-level, University of Vienna (online)
2020S Social Research, BA-level, University of Vienna
2020S Inequality in the Long Run. The role of taxation in the development of modern statehood and itsimpact on the distribution of wealth and income (together with Peter Aigner & Michael Adelsberger),MA-level, University of Vienna
2019WS Sociology of Labor Markets, MA-level, University of Vienna
2019S Sociology of Labor Markets, MA-level, University of Vienna
2018WS Sociology of Labor Markets, MA-level, University of Vienna
2018S Sociology of Labor Markets, MA-level, University of Vienna

Contact

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fabian.kalleitner@lmu.de
Konradstr. 6, Munich, 80801