I am a post-doctoral researcher at GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and external fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research. In 2019-20 I was a JFK Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and spent 4 months as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies the European University Institute in Florence in 2016.
Previously, I studied sociology and economics in Leipzig (until 2009). From 2010-2014 I was a PhD-student at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim. In my dissertation, I examined theoretically and empirically whether societal developments such as population ageing or financial crises affect the way how people form and change their attitudes towards the welfare state. My research interests are related to political sociology, comparative political economy, welfare state preferences, and survey methodology. One main contribution of my work is the use of innovative (experimental) research designs to study attitude change. |
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Recent Publications
June 2024 A dataset on survey designs and quality of social and behavioral science surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data (with Tobias Gummer, Karolina v. Glasenapp & Thomas Skora) January 2024: The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany, Journal of European Social Policy. (with Katja Möhring & Marvin Brinkmann) March 2022 New paper published at European Sociological Review: Using a staggered DID-Design with individual level panel data, Samir Khalil & I show that contact with foreigners lead to a persistent reduction of worries about immigration. Stronger effects for right-leaning persons. |
Contact
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
B6, 4-5 68159 Mannheim [email protected] [email protected] Our edited book focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change. "Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below - Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany", eds. Bernhard Ebbinghaus & Elias Naumann
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