Publications

Work in Progress

• Fabian Kalleitner, Laila Schmitt, Monika Mühlböck, and Bernhard Kittel. Individuals’ perceived impact of COVID-19 on inequality and its consequences for redistributive tax preferences.

• Fabian Kalleitner, Cristóbal Moya, and Stefan Liebig. From Mixed Findings to Precise Estimates: The Effect of Retirement on Life Satisfaction.

• Fabian Kalleitner. Perceived Tax Burdens and Just Tax Progressivity.

Working Papers

• Fabian Kalleitner, Jule Adriaans, Ole Brüggemann, Cristóbal Moya, and Sandra Bohmann. 2026. Agreeing in Principle, Disagreeing on Policy: How Beliefs About the Gender Pay Gap Shape Fairness Concerns and Policy Preferences. Working Paper Series of the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”, No. 53. Prereg 1 Prereg 2

• Fabian Kalleitner, Filippo Andrei, and Bernhard Kittel. The Politics of Fiscal Adjustment: Public Support for Tax and Welfare Reform in Austria. (Working paper available on request.)

• Nikita Kvir, Fabian Kalleitner, and Dimitri Prandner. The Decline of the Austrian Middle Class and the Rise of Far-Right Populism. (Working paper available on request.)

Refereed Journal Publications

• Bobzien, Licia, Fabian Kalleitner, and Lukas Schlogl. 2026. Technology, Migrants or Offshoring: How the Perceived Source of Labour-Market Risks Shapes Policy Demands. Journal of European Social Policy, Online First. Preprint Code Data

• Sandra Bohmann and Fabian Kalleitner. 2026. Subjective Inequity Aversion: How Perceived Unfair Inequality Affects Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Happiness Studies, 27(6), 89. Code Data (ESS) Data (SOEP)

• Fabian Kalleitner and Licia Bobzien. How Much Is My Home Worth? Subjective Housing Wealth and Life Satisfaction in Germany. Part of the Special Issue “Perceptions of Wealth Inequality” in Historical Social Research. Forthcoming. Accepted manuscript Code Data

• Licia Bobzien, Roland Verwiebe, and Fabian Kalleitner. 2025. Visualizing Age-Specific Digital Platform Usage in Germany. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 11. Code Data

• Fabian Kalleitner, Lukas Schlogl, and Licia Bobzien. 2025. How much for whom? Explaining preferences for welfare benefits to short-time workers and the unemployed. Journal of European Social Policy, 35(1), 83–97. Code Data

• Fabian Kalleitner and Licia Bobzien. 2024. Taxed Fairly? How Differences in Perception Shape Attitudes towards Progressive Taxation. European Sociological Review, 40(3), 535–548. Code Data

• Fabian Kalleitner and Sandra Bohmann. 2023. The Inequity Z: Income Fairness Perceptions in Europe across the Income Distribution. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 9. Replication package

• Fabian Kalleitner, David W. Schiestl, and Georg Heiler. 2022. Varieties of Mobility Measures: Comparing Survey and Mobile Phone Data during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Public Opinion Quarterly, 86(4), 913–931. Code Data

• Monika Mühlböck, Fabian Kalleitner, Nadia Steiber, and Bernhard Kittel. 2022. Scarring Dreams? Young People’s Vocational Aspirations and Expectations During and After Unemployment. Social Inclusion, 10(2), 252–264.

• Monika Mühlböck, Fabian Kalleitner, Nadia Steiber, and Bernhard Kittel. 2022. Information, Reflection, and Successful Job Search: A Nudging Experiment. Social Policy & Administration, 56(1), 48–72.

• Fabian Kalleitner, Monika Mühlböck, and Bernhard Kittel. 2022. What’s the Benefit of a Video? The Effect of Nonmaterial Incentives on Response Rate and Bias in Web Surveys. Social Science Computer Review, 40(3), 700–716. Replication package

• Bernhard Kittel, Fabian Kalleitner, and David W. Schiestl. 2021. Peers for the fearless: Social norms facilitate preventive behaviour when individuals perceive low COVID-19 health risks. PLOS ONE, 16(12), e0260171. Code Data

• Licia Bobzien and Fabian Kalleitner. 2021. Attitudes towards European Financial Solidarity during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Net-contributor Country. European Societies, 23(sup1), S791–S804. Code Data

• Bernhard Kittel, Sylvia Kritzinger, Hajo Boomgaarden, Barbara Prainsack, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Fabian Kalleitner, Noëlle Lebernegg, et al. 2021. The Austrian Corona Panel Project: Monitoring Individual and Societal Dynamics amidst the COVID-19 Crisis. European Political Science, 20, 318–344. Data (SUF) Data (Open Access)

• Bernhard Kittel, Fabian Kalleitner, and Panos Tsakloglou. 2019. The Transmission of Work Centrality within the Family in a Cross-Regional Perspective. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 682(1), 106–124. Code Data