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Welcome to the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg!

Prof. Dr. Tobias Wolbring is head of the Empirical Economic Sociology Chair since July 2017.

Alina Gutwein, Juliane Kühn, Sebastian Prechsl, and Tilman Wörz well as Ulrike Marx in the secretariat, is at your disposal for questions and concerns.

On our website you will find first information about the chair, research and teaching. We invite you to get to know our work and get a comprehensive picture of our projects. You will also get first impressions about your study expectations and you are very welcome to get in touch with us!
 
The Chair deals with selected aspects of economic sociology, educational research, inequality and science research with a focus on quantitative methods of empirical social research.

 

For questions and comments please contact us and the team at any time!

 

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In a new paper, Matthias Collischon, Andreas Eberl and Tobias Wolbring how children moving out from the parental home affects parents’ subjective well-being. They find that not the empty nest move – i.e., the last child moving out -- is most important but the first move of a child moving home. For m...

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Using cutting edge AI techniques to create deepfaked videos, Juliane Kühn and Tobias Wolbring explore how physical attractiveness affects labor market success. They find that beauty pays but not under all circumstances. Only men consistently profit from their looks, while women benefit from a beauty...

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