Fabian Kalleitner

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 & social inequality
  • Quantitative methods
  • Survey research methodology
  • Tax and redistribution preferences
  • Work values
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

Licia Bobzien, Roland Verwiebe, Fabian Kalleitner (2025). Visualizing Age-Specific Digital Platform Usage in Germany. Socius.

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Fabian Kalleitner, Lukas Schlogl, Licia Bobzien (2025). 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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Projects

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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.
Explaining preferences for redistributive taxation (Dissertation)
Perceptions of Inequalities and Justice in Europe (PIJE)
The project aims to analyze how inequalities are perceived and evaluated across Europe, to identify the socio-economic factors shaping whether people regard inequalities as fair or unfair, and to examine how these evaluations influence social, political, and policy outcomes such as social cohesion, trust in democratic institutions, and political engagement.
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Perceptions of Inequalities and Justice in Europe (PIJE)
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.
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Work and Corona (WoCo)
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.
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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.
JUSAW
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).
CUPESSE

Teaching

2025

  • Winter Semester

    • Research Designs, MA-level, LMU Munich
    • Justice Theories in Modern Empirical Social Science, BA-level, LMU Munich
    • MA and BA Project Seminar, BA/MA-level, LMU Munich

  • Summer Semester

    • MA and BA Project Seminar, BA/MA-level, LMU Munich
    • Sociology of Labor Markets, BA-level, LMU Munich

2024

  • Winter Semester

    • Justice Theories in Modern Empirical Social Science, BA-level, LMU Munich
    • Research Designs (with Katrin Auspurg), MA-level, LMU Munich

  • Summer Semester

    • Inequalities and Social Stratification in Labor Markets, MA-level, Freie Universität Berlin

I previously taught Courses on Working with the German Socio-Economic Panel and From Research Question to Research Design at FU Berlin. At the University of Vienna I taught courses on the Sociology of Labor Markets, Introduction to Economic Sociology, and Introduction to Social Research.

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I am supervising or have supervised students at the BA and MA level.

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