T Wolbring
Biographic Data
| ID | 245797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Wolbring |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolbring |
| SIGNATURE | WOLBRING T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9053-7965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Beyond CVs: A Video-Based Experimental Approach for Studying Ethnic Evaluation Biases in Hiring
Ethnic biases in hiring are most commonly studied through correspondence tests that examine discriminatory behavior and text-based factorial survey experiments that focus on evaluations of applicants. To move beyond written application materials, we explore the potential and limitations of a complementary approach: a factorial survey experiment in which hypothetical applicants are presented in two formats—written CVs and 90 second video applicati…
The Social Dynamics of Economic Comparisons: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Relative Wages on Subjective Well-Being Using Linked Survey and Register Data
The implications of wage distributions within firms have garnered increasing attention in recent research, particularly concerning their impact on employees’ subjective well-being. The existing literature, however, presents mixed findings, which may be attributed to the interplay of two opposing forces: social status comparison and the tunnel effect. In this paper, we aim to address this issue by examining the mechanisms underlying these forces. …
Do works councils and collective agreements narrow immigrant-native wage gaps for disadvantaged immigrant groups? Novel evidence from German-linked employer-employee data
Recently, workers' bargaining power has been declining worldwide, and immigrant-native wage inequalities have been widening. In this context, cross-sectional studies show narrower immigrant-native wage gaps in firms with works councils or collective agreements. Yet, it remains unclear whether this correlation is causal. Leveraging German longitudinal linked employer-employee data covering 542 firms and 878,403 employee observations, we investigat…
Study Programs, Public Rankings, and College Enrollment Intentions: Results from a Survey Experiment on Study Program Content, Flexibility, and Support
Current research on college enrollment intentions predominantly focuses on the effects of individual and university characteristics, neglecting how specific study program features affect enrollment intentions. We examine three key elements in a study program: content, flexibility, and support. These elements shape individuals' beliefs about costs, benefits, and their success probability, thus affecting enrollment intentions. Understanding these i…
Experimental Sociology: Outline of a Scientific Field
Experiments have gained prominence in sociology in recent years. Increased interest in testing causal theories through experimental designs has ignited a debate about which experimental designs can facilitate scientific progress in sociology. This book discusses the implications of research interests for the design of experiments, identifies points of commonality and disagreement among the different perspectives within sociology, and elaborates o…
Beauty pays, but not under all circumstances: Evidence on gendered hiring discrimination from a novel experimental treatment using deepfakes
Shelter from the storm: Do Partnerships Buffer the Well-Being Costs of Unemployment
This article contributes to the existing literature on the effects of unemployment on subjective well-being (SWB) by partnership status. We argue that material and latent deprivation can explain the effects of becoming and remaining unemployed on SWB by partnership status, as both partners and their employment status crucially shape the extent of deprivation. To test our hypothesis about partnership-specific unemployment effects on SWB and the me…
Social policy and labor supply: The Impact of Activating Labor Market Institutions on Reservation Wages
Activation is an efficacious policy paradigm in modern welfare states. Taking the case of Germany, we study the relationship between the embeddedness of benefit recipients in activating labor market institutions and individual labor supply. Using panel data, we estimate the effects of transitions between key institutional states with different degrees of activation on reservation wages (RWs). We show that RWs react to activation: the transition f…
Subjective Well-Being Scarring Through Unemployment: New Evidence from a Long-Running Panel
Scarring effects of unemployment on subjective well-being (SWB), i.e., negative effects that remain even after workers reenter employment, are well documented in the literature. Nevertheless, the theoretical mechanisms by which unemployment leads to long-lasting negative consequences for SWB are still under debate. Thus, we theorize that unemployment can have an enduring impact mainly through (1) the experience of unemployment as an incisive life…
Using deepfakes for experiments in the social sciences - A pilot study
The advent of deepfakes - the manipulation of audio records, images and videos based on deep learning techniques - has important implications for science and society. Current studies focus primarily on the detection and dangers of deepfakes. In contrast, less attention is paid to the potential of this technology for substantive research - particularly as an approach for controlled experimental manipulations in the social sciences. In this paper, …
Do Mothers and Fathers in Germany Really Prefer a Traditional Division of Labor? The Impact of Working Hours on Life Satisfaction Reconsidered
This study critically reexamines previous results on the effects of working hours on life satisfaction. First, we replicate the original results which suggest that a traditional division of labor maximizes fathers’ and mothers’ well-being. Loosening parametric restrictions, avoiding confounding by childbirth, and taking East-West differences into account in a second step, we find that (1) fathers are most satisfied when working between 35 and 60 …
How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study
Does X affect Y? Answering this question is particularly difficult if reverse causality is looming. Many social scientists turn to panel data to address such questions of causal ordering. Yet even in longitudinal analyses, reverse causality threatens causal inference based on conventional panel models. Whereas the methodological literature has suggested various alternative solutions, these approaches face many criticisms, chief among them to be s…
“In Good Times and in Bad, in Sickness and in Health”: A Longitudinal Analysis on Spousal Caregiving and Life Satisfaction
Matthew effects in science and the serial diffusion of ideas: Testing old ideas with new methods
The Matthew effect has become a standard concept in science studies and beyond to describe processes of cumulative advantage. Despite its wide success, a rigorous quantitative analysis for Merton’s original case for Matthew effects—the Nobel Prize—is still missing. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the causal effect of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (hereafter the Nobel Prize in Economics). …
Rationality, strategic interactions, and theories of middle range
Various versions of rational choice theories exist. In the face of common misconceptions of the approach, this comment aims to make two contributions. First, it informs about different variants and emphasizes the essential component of strategic uncertainty in game theory. Second, this article highlights the role of bridge assumptions when applying rational choice theories in practice. Hence, the rational choice approach is not a theory which can…
The Weight Wage Penalty: A Mechanism Approach to Discrimination
The wage weight penalty is a well-established finding in the literature, but not much is known about the mechanisms that bring this phenomenon about. This article aims to provide answers to the question of why overweight and obese people earn less. Using the data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we conduct three theory-driven litmus tests for mechanisms that explain the weight wage gap: human capital differences, discrimination due to asymmetr…
Robert K. Merton: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy/The Matthew Effect in Science
The Use of Field Experiments to Study Mechanisms of Discrimination
This paper discusses social mechanisms of discrimination and reviews existing field experimental designs for their identification. We first explicate two social mechanisms proposed in the literature, animus-driven and statistical discrimination, to explain differential treatment based on ascriptive characteristics. We then present common approaches to study discrimination based on observational data and laboratory experiments, discuss their stren…
How beauty works. Theoretical mechanisms and two empirical applications on students' evaluation of teaching
Disorder, social capital, and norm violation: Three field experiments on the broken windows thesis
Adding to the debate about the "broken windows" thesis we discuss an explanation of minor norm violation based on the assumption that individuals infer expected sanctioning probabilities from contextual cues. We modify the classical framework of rational crime by signals of disorder, local social control, and their interaction. Testing our implications we present results from three field experiments showing that violations of norms, which prevent…
Anatomie des Journal Impact Faktors
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 121 - 140
Social control, social learning, and cheating: Evidence from lab and online experiments on dishonesty
Links gehen, rechts stehen!“ / “Walk Left, Stand Right!”: Ein Feldexperiment zur Durchsetzung informeller Normen auf Rolltreppen / A Field Experiment on the Enforcement of Informal Norms on Escalators
Empirische Untersuchungen zur Durchsetzung sozialer Normen im Alltag sind bisher rar. Die auf Münchner Rolltreppen geltende Norm „Links gehen, rechts stehen!“ bietet eine günstige Gelegenheit entsprechende Prozesse zu untersuchen. In einem Feldexperiment wurden Passanten beim Begehen der Rolltreppen bewusst behindert, um ihre Reaktion (Sanktionswahrscheinlichkeit, -stärke und -eintrittsdauer) zu beobachten. Dabei wurden Geschlecht und Kleidung de…
Needs, Comparisons, and Adaptation: The Importance of Relative Income for Life Satisfaction
We examine the association between income and life satisfaction. Referring to the so-called Easterlin paradox, three mechanisms are discussed: basic human need satisfaction, interpersonal comparison processes, and adaptation. Hypotheses resulting from these considerations are empirically tested on the basis of two data sets: a self conducted cross-sectional survey among the population of Munich and GSOEP panel data. In result, all three mechanism…
Reich und zufrieden? Theorie und Empirie zur Beziehung von Wohlstand und Lebenszufriedenheit
How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study
Does X affect Y? Answering this question is particularly difficult if reverse causality is looming. Many social scientists turn to panel data to address such questions of causal ordering. Yet even in longitudinal analyses, reverse causality threatens causal inference based on conventional panel models. Whereas the methodological literature has suggested various alternative solutions, these approaches face many criticisms, chief among them to be s…
Needs, Comparisons, and Adaptation: The Importance of Relative Income for Life Satisfaction
We examine the association between income and life satisfaction. Referring to the so-called Easterlin paradox, three mechanisms are discussed: basic human need satisfaction, interpersonal comparison processes, and adaptation. Hypotheses resulting from these considerations are empirically tested on the basis of two data sets: a self conducted cross-sectional survey among the population of Munich and GSOEP panel data. In result, all three mechanism…
Disorder, social capital, and norm violation: Three field experiments on the broken windows thesis
Adding to the debate about the "broken windows" thesis we discuss an explanation of minor norm violation based on the assumption that individuals infer expected sanctioning probabilities from contextual cues. We modify the classical framework of rational crime by signals of disorder, local social control, and their interaction. Testing our implications we present results from three field experiments showing that violations of norms, which prevent…
Social control, social learning, and cheating: Evidence from lab and online experiments on dishonesty
Subjective Well-Being Scarring Through Unemployment: New Evidence from a Long-Running Panel
Scarring effects of unemployment on subjective well-being (SWB), i.e., negative effects that remain even after workers reenter employment, are well documented in the literature. Nevertheless, the theoretical mechanisms by which unemployment leads to long-lasting negative consequences for SWB are still under debate. Thus, we theorize that unemployment can have an enduring impact mainly through (1) the experience of unemployment as an incisive life…
How beauty works. Theoretical mechanisms and two empirical applications on students' evaluation of teaching
Social policy and labor supply: The Impact of Activating Labor Market Institutions on Reservation Wages
Activation is an efficacious policy paradigm in modern welfare states. Taking the case of Germany, we study the relationship between the embeddedness of benefit recipients in activating labor market institutions and individual labor supply. Using panel data, we estimate the effects of transitions between key institutional states with different degrees of activation on reservation wages (RWs). We show that RWs react to activation: the transition f…
The Use of Field Experiments to Study Mechanisms of Discrimination
This paper discusses social mechanisms of discrimination and reviews existing field experimental designs for their identification. We first explicate two social mechanisms proposed in the literature, animus-driven and statistical discrimination, to explain differential treatment based on ascriptive characteristics. We then present common approaches to study discrimination based on observational data and laboratory experiments, discuss their stren…
Links gehen, rechts stehen!“ / “Walk Left, Stand Right!”: Ein Feldexperiment zur Durchsetzung informeller Normen auf Rolltreppen / A Field Experiment on the Enforcement of Informal Norms on Escalators
Empirische Untersuchungen zur Durchsetzung sozialer Normen im Alltag sind bisher rar. Die auf Münchner Rolltreppen geltende Norm „Links gehen, rechts stehen!“ bietet eine günstige Gelegenheit entsprechende Prozesse zu untersuchen. In einem Feldexperiment wurden Passanten beim Begehen der Rolltreppen bewusst behindert, um ihre Reaktion (Sanktionswahrscheinlichkeit, -stärke und -eintrittsdauer) zu beobachten. Dabei wurden Geschlecht und Kleidung de…
Weshalb die Separierung von Produktivitätseffekten und Diskriminierung bei der studentischen Lehrveranstaltungsbewertung misslingt: Selektive Stichproben, fehlende Drittvariablen und die Konfundierung…
Using deepfakes for experiments in the social sciences - A pilot study
The advent of deepfakes - the manipulation of audio records, images and videos based on deep learning techniques - has important implications for science and society. Current studies focus primarily on the detection and dangers of deepfakes. In contrast, less attention is paid to the potential of this technology for substantive research - particularly as an approach for controlled experimental manipulations in the social sciences. In this paper, …
Do Mothers and Fathers in Germany Really Prefer a Traditional Division of Labor? The Impact of Working Hours on Life Satisfaction Reconsidered
This study critically reexamines previous results on the effects of working hours on life satisfaction. First, we replicate the original results which suggest that a traditional division of labor maximizes fathers’ and mothers’ well-being. Loosening parametric restrictions, avoiding confounding by childbirth, and taking East-West differences into account in a second step, we find that (1) fathers are most satisfied when working between 35 and 60 …
Rationality, strategic interactions, and theories of middle range
Various versions of rational choice theories exist. In the face of common misconceptions of the approach, this comment aims to make two contributions. First, it informs about different variants and emphasizes the essential component of strategic uncertainty in game theory. Second, this article highlights the role of bridge assumptions when applying rational choice theories in practice. Hence, the rational choice approach is not a theory which can…
The Weight Wage Penalty: A Mechanism Approach to Discrimination
The wage weight penalty is a well-established finding in the literature, but not much is known about the mechanisms that bring this phenomenon about. This article aims to provide answers to the question of why overweight and obese people earn less. Using the data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we conduct three theory-driven litmus tests for mechanisms that explain the weight wage gap: human capital differences, discrimination due to asymmetr…
Anatomie des Journal Impact Faktors
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 121 - 140
Attraktivität, Reziprozität und Lehrveranstaltungsevaluation: Eine experimentelle Untersuchung
Beauty pays, but not under all circumstances: Evidence on gendered hiring discrimination from a novel experimental treatment using deepfakes
Weshalb die Separierung von Produktivitätseffekten und Diskriminierung bei der studentischen Lehrveranstaltungsbewertung misslingt: Selektive Stichproben, fehlende Drittvariablen und die Konfundierung…
Attraktivität, Reziprozität und Lehrveranstaltungsevaluation: Eine experimentelle Untersuchung
Fat, muscles, and wages
Zur Messung von Forschungsqualität: Eine kritische Analyse des Forschungsratings des Wissenschaftsrats
Reich und zufrieden? Theorie und Empirie zur Beziehung von Wohlstand und Lebenszufriedenheit
Ende der Ökonomisierung
Links gehen, rechts stehen!“ / “Walk Left, Stand Right!”: Ein Feldexperiment zur Durchsetzung informeller Normen auf Rolltreppen / A Field Experiment on the Enforcement of Informal Norms on Escalators
Empirische Untersuchungen zur Durchsetzung sozialer Normen im Alltag sind bisher rar. Die auf Münchner Rolltreppen geltende Norm „Links gehen, rechts stehen!“ bietet eine günstige Gelegenheit entsprechende Prozesse zu untersuchen. In einem Feldexperiment wurden Passanten beim Begehen der Rolltreppen bewusst behindert, um ihre Reaktion (Sanktionswahrscheinlichkeit, -stärke und -eintrittsdauer) zu beobachten. Dabei wurden Geschlecht und Kleidung de…
Needs, Comparisons, and Adaptation: The Importance of Relative Income for Life Satisfaction
We examine the association between income and life satisfaction. Referring to the so-called Easterlin paradox, three mechanisms are discussed: basic human need satisfaction, interpersonal comparison processes, and adaptation. Hypotheses resulting from these considerations are empirically tested on the basis of two data sets: a self conducted cross-sectional survey among the population of Munich and GSOEP panel data. In result, all three mechanism…
Disorder, social capital, and norm violation: Three field experiments on the broken windows thesis
Adding to the debate about the "broken windows" thesis we discuss an explanation of minor norm violation based on the assumption that individuals infer expected sanctioning probabilities from contextual cues. We modify the classical framework of rational crime by signals of disorder, local social control, and their interaction. Testing our implications we present results from three field experiments showing that violations of norms, which prevent…
Anatomie des Journal Impact Faktors
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 121 - 140
Social control, social learning, and cheating: Evidence from lab and online experiments on dishonesty
The Use of Field Experiments to Study Mechanisms of Discrimination
This paper discusses social mechanisms of discrimination and reviews existing field experimental designs for their identification. We first explicate two social mechanisms proposed in the literature, animus-driven and statistical discrimination, to explain differential treatment based on ascriptive characteristics. We then present common approaches to study discrimination based on observational data and laboratory experiments, discuss their stren…
How beauty works. Theoretical mechanisms and two empirical applications on students' evaluation of teaching
Robert K. Merton: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy/The Matthew Effect in Science
The Weight Wage Penalty: A Mechanism Approach to Discrimination
The wage weight penalty is a well-established finding in the literature, but not much is known about the mechanisms that bring this phenomenon about. This article aims to provide answers to the question of why overweight and obese people earn less. Using the data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we conduct three theory-driven litmus tests for mechanisms that explain the weight wage gap: human capital differences, discrimination due to asymmetr…
Rationality, strategic interactions, and theories of middle range
Various versions of rational choice theories exist. In the face of common misconceptions of the approach, this comment aims to make two contributions. First, it informs about different variants and emphasizes the essential component of strategic uncertainty in game theory. Second, this article highlights the role of bridge assumptions when applying rational choice theories in practice. Hence, the rational choice approach is not a theory which can…
“In Good Times and in Bad, in Sickness and in Health”: A Longitudinal Analysis on Spousal Caregiving and Life Satisfaction
Matthew effects in science and the serial diffusion of ideas: Testing old ideas with new methods
The Matthew effect has become a standard concept in science studies and beyond to describe processes of cumulative advantage. Despite its wide success, a rigorous quantitative analysis for Merton’s original case for Matthew effects—the Nobel Prize—is still missing. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the causal effect of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (hereafter the Nobel Prize in Economics). …
Using deepfakes for experiments in the social sciences - A pilot study
The advent of deepfakes - the manipulation of audio records, images and videos based on deep learning techniques - has important implications for science and society. Current studies focus primarily on the detection and dangers of deepfakes. In contrast, less attention is paid to the potential of this technology for substantive research - particularly as an approach for controlled experimental manipulations in the social sciences. In this paper, …
Do Mothers and Fathers in Germany Really Prefer a Traditional Division of Labor? The Impact of Working Hours on Life Satisfaction Reconsidered
This study critically reexamines previous results on the effects of working hours on life satisfaction. First, we replicate the original results which suggest that a traditional division of labor maximizes fathers’ and mothers’ well-being. Loosening parametric restrictions, avoiding confounding by childbirth, and taking East-West differences into account in a second step, we find that (1) fathers are most satisfied when working between 35 and 60 …
How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study
Does X affect Y? Answering this question is particularly difficult if reverse causality is looming. Many social scientists turn to panel data to address such questions of causal ordering. Yet even in longitudinal analyses, reverse causality threatens causal inference based on conventional panel models. Whereas the methodological literature has suggested various alternative solutions, these approaches face many criticisms, chief among them to be s…
Social policy and labor supply: The Impact of Activating Labor Market Institutions on Reservation Wages
Activation is an efficacious policy paradigm in modern welfare states. Taking the case of Germany, we study the relationship between the embeddedness of benefit recipients in activating labor market institutions and individual labor supply. Using panel data, we estimate the effects of transitions between key institutional states with different degrees of activation on reservation wages (RWs). We show that RWs react to activation: the transition f…
Subjective Well-Being Scarring Through Unemployment: New Evidence from a Long-Running Panel
Scarring effects of unemployment on subjective well-being (SWB), i.e., negative effects that remain even after workers reenter employment, are well documented in the literature. Nevertheless, the theoretical mechanisms by which unemployment leads to long-lasting negative consequences for SWB are still under debate. Thus, we theorize that unemployment can have an enduring impact mainly through (1) the experience of unemployment as an incisive life…
Experimental Sociology: Outline of a Scientific Field
Experiments have gained prominence in sociology in recent years. Increased interest in testing causal theories through experimental designs has ignited a debate about which experimental designs can facilitate scientific progress in sociology. This book discusses the implications of research interests for the design of experiments, identifies points of commonality and disagreement among the different perspectives within sociology, and elaborates o…
Beauty pays, but not under all circumstances: Evidence on gendered hiring discrimination from a novel experimental treatment using deepfakes
Economics (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Labour economics (9 works) · German (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works)