M Lutter
Biographic Data
| ID | 274788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Lutter |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lutter |
| SIGNATURE | LUTTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1127-0244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Considerable inequality in faculty hiring networks of German universities
This paper examines the hiring and placement network of German professors in the fields of psychology and political science. It is well known that in the stratified university system of the United States, the capability of departments to place their PhD graduates as professors in academic departments is highly skewed. In contrast, the German university system is considered to be more egalitarian. Focusing on psychology and political science, this…
Why women leave academia
The metaphor of a “leaky pipeline” is often used to describe the disproportionate loss of women at successive stages throughout academic careers, yet systematic longitudinal evidence on actual academic attrition remains limited. This study fills this gap by employing an original longitudinal panel design tracking nearly the entire population of sociologists in Germany from 1980 to 2022. Applying Cox regression models to career histories, the anal…
Anti-Jewish bias in German higher education
This study examines the extent of anti-Jewish bias in German higher education through a survey experiment conducted among students (N=1,416) at a regional, average-sized German university (about 20.000 students) in the fall of 2024/2025. Using a between-subjects design, participants were randomly assigned to evaluate English academic writing courses taught by instructors whose profiles varied by gender and ethnic/religious background—categorized …
Who talks to the prof? Gender differences in interaction with senior scholars at four academic conferences
The percentage of women in academia is still lower than what would be expected statistically, especially in the sciences and among faculty (tenured professors). Theories on network closure suggest that men form exclusive professional networks among other men, while women remain systematically outside, potentially leading to glass-ceiling effects. With this paper, we aim to shed some light on this by exploiting a dataset that tracks sensor-based i…
What leads to a professorship in German economics? A longitudinal analysis of tenure determinants (1984-2021)
This study uses event history analysis to show what promotes tenure in German economics, utilizing a unique and virtually complete national dataset that includes 70,657 publications from 3955 economists, of which 1196 received tenure between 1984 and 2021. While existing theories emphasize that gender discrimination, parenthood, human capital, academic prestige, and social capital explain who is tenured, no study has thus far evaluated these fact…
Educational Mobility and Cultural Omnivorousness in Germany
Cultural omnivorousness is widely studied as a dimension of the stratification of taste, related to class or status positions. However, taste is also structured by patterns of social mobility, especially educational mobility. Building on Lizardo's Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption article, we expect that cultural omnivorousness systematically depends on patterns of educational mobility. Specifically, we predict that a higher inheri…
The 2017 French riots and trust in the police
On 2 February 2017, French police officers brutally abused a young black man, leading to the first wave of 2017 French riots. The present study exploits the coincidence that the focal event occurred during the survey period of the European Social Survey (ESS) 2016 (11 November 2016 – 11 March 2017) in France, thus providing the basis for a natural experiment on the effect of media reporting on police misconduct on trust in the police. Data are an…
How human capital, universities of excellence, third party funding, mobility and gender explain productivity in German political science
Using a unique panel dataset of virtually all German academic political scientists, we show that researchers become much more productive due to the accumulation of human capital and third party funding. We also show however, that while universities of excellence have more productive researchers, individuals who go there do not become more productive. Finally, we show how women publish only 9 percent less than men with the same level of prior publ…
Newcomers, betweenness centrality, and creative success
This study examines how network characteristics affect the creative success of teams in the board game industry. Based on prior research, we argue that the degree of newcomers within a team affects the creative success negatively, while betweenness centrality affects creative team success positively. We test these assumptions with unique data on teams in the board game industry using two different measures of creative success (awards as well as u…
Anomie or imitation? The Werther effect of celebrity suicides on suicide rates in 34 OECD countries, 1960-2014
Is There a Motherhood Penalty in Academia? The Gendered Effect of Children on Academic Publications in German Sociology
Based on data that tracks curriculum vitae (CV) and publication records as well as survey information from sociologists in German academia, we examine the effects of parenthood on the publication output of male and female academics that were present in German universities or research institutes in the year 2013. Results indicate that having children leads to a significant decline in the number of publications by women on average, while not affect…
The diversity of wage regimes
Why did the transnational synchronization of wage inflations fail during the first 10 years of the euro? We analyze data from 1999 to 2008 for 12 euro members and estimate increases of nominal unit labor costs both in the overall economy and in manufacturing as dependent variables. While our analysis confirms that differences in economic growth shaped the inflation of labor costs, we add a political-institutional argument to the debate and argue …
Wer profitiert vom Meisterzwang? Die Reform der Handwerksordnung als natürliches Experiment zur Prüfung der Theorie beruflicher Schließung
Das Beispiel der 2004 erfolgten Reform der deutschen Handwerksordnung und des Wegfalls des sog. „Meisterzwangs“ in etwa der Hälfte aller Handwerke bietet die seltene Möglichkeit, die Auswirkungen beruflicher Schließung durch ein natürliches Experiment zu untersuchen und die Voraussagen der Theorie einem strikten Kausaltest zu unterziehen. Auf Basis von Mikrozensus-Daten zu den Jahren vor und nach Reform (2002-2007) untersuchen wir die Wirkung ber…
The enduring importance of family wealth
Who becomes a tenured professor, and why? Panel data evidence from German sociology, 1980–2013
Do Women Suffer from Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality in a Project-Based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010
That social capital matters is an established fact in the social sciences. Less clear, however, is how different forms of social capital affect gender disadvantages in career advancement. Focusing on a project-based type of labor market, namely the U.S. film industry, this study argues that women suffer a "closure penalty" and face severe career disadvantages when collaborating in cohesive teams. At the same time, gender disadvantages are reduced…
Creative Success and Network Embeddedness
Strukturen ungleichen Erfolgs. Winner-take-all-Konzentrationen und ihre sozialen Entstehungskontexte auf flexiblen Arbeitsmärkten
Supranational cultural norms, domestic value orientations and the diffusion of same-sex union rights in Europe, 1988–2009
The process of policy diffusion is gaining increasing attention among social scientists. Following world society theory, a burgeoning literature reports a positive relationship between national linkages to global cultural norms and the diffusion of public policies. However, previous analyses do not simultaneously control for time-varying domestic cultural orientations. In order to conduct a stricter test of this theory, this article examines the …
Why the Poor Play the Lottery
Why do the poor spend more on lottery tickets than their wealthier and better educated peers? While social scientists generally agree that there is an inverse relationship between socio-economic position and patterns of lottery play, there is debate on what factors cause lottery gambling. Using survey data from a nationwide probability sample, we test three sociological approaches - socio-structural, cultural and social network accounts - to expl…
Einzelbesprechungen. zu den Themen Raum, Wirtschaft, Körper, Einführungen, Zivilgesellschaft
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich
Anstieg oder Ausgleich? Die multiplikative Wirkung sozialer Ungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt für Filmschauspieler / More or Less? Multiplicative Effects of Inequality on the Labor Market for Film A…
Das multiplikative Zusammenwirken zwischen geschlechtsspezifischen Ungleichheiten und Erfolgsanhäufungen, der so genannte Matthäus-Effekt, ist bislang kaum Gegenstand soziologischer Forschung gewesen. Folglich ist unklar, wie sich kumulierte berufliche Erfolge im Zeitverlauf auf Karriereungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern auswirken. Verstärkt der Matthäuseffekt bestehende Genderdisparitäten? Oder hebelt er sie aus? Mithilfe eines Längsschni…
Tagträume und Konsum
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 233 - 251
Zur Erklärung von Diffusionsprozessen. Das Beispiel der Einführung staatlicher Lotterien in den USA / Explaining Diffusion
Der Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit den Determinanten der Diffusion staatlicher Lotterien als Beispiel einer politischen Innovation. Nach einer Verbotszeit von mehr als 100 Jahren führten US-Bundesstaaten Lotterien ab den 1960er Jahren schrittweise wieder ein. Anhand von statistischen Ereignisdatenanalysen zeigt der Beitrag, dass der Diffusionsprozess von fiskalischen, politischen und regionalen Faktoren ebenso wie von normativen Faktoren der sozial…
The Inequality of Fair Play
On the basis of a telephone survey conducted on a random sample of the German residential population, we examine the distribution effects state lotteries have on Germany's social structure. Lotteries are highly taxed economic transactions, whose proceeds make up a considerable share of public fiscal revenues. Our analysis shows that lotteries are a form of regressive taxation. Using key demographic indicators, such as age, citizenship, and levels…
Do Women Suffer from Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality in a Project-Based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010
That social capital matters is an established fact in the social sciences. Less clear, however, is how different forms of social capital affect gender disadvantages in career advancement. Focusing on a project-based type of labor market, namely the U.S. film industry, this study argues that women suffer a "closure penalty" and face severe career disadvantages when collaborating in cohesive teams. At the same time, gender disadvantages are reduced…
The diversity of wage regimes
Why did the transnational synchronization of wage inflations fail during the first 10 years of the euro? We analyze data from 1999 to 2008 for 12 euro members and estimate increases of nominal unit labor costs both in the overall economy and in manufacturing as dependent variables. While our analysis confirms that differences in economic growth shaped the inflation of labor costs, we add a political-institutional argument to the debate and argue …
Supranational cultural norms, domestic value orientations and the diffusion of same-sex union rights in Europe, 1988–2009
The process of policy diffusion is gaining increasing attention among social scientists. Following world society theory, a burgeoning literature reports a positive relationship between national linkages to global cultural norms and the diffusion of public policies. However, previous analyses do not simultaneously control for time-varying domestic cultural orientations. In order to conduct a stricter test of this theory, this article examines the …
The enduring importance of family wealth
The Inequality of Fair Play
On the basis of a telephone survey conducted on a random sample of the German residential population, we examine the distribution effects state lotteries have on Germany's social structure. Lotteries are highly taxed economic transactions, whose proceeds make up a considerable share of public fiscal revenues. Our analysis shows that lotteries are a form of regressive taxation. Using key demographic indicators, such as age, citizenship, and levels…
Why the Poor Play the Lottery
Why do the poor spend more on lottery tickets than their wealthier and better educated peers? While social scientists generally agree that there is an inverse relationship between socio-economic position and patterns of lottery play, there is debate on what factors cause lottery gambling. Using survey data from a nationwide probability sample, we test three sociological approaches - socio-structural, cultural and social network accounts - to expl…
Is There a Motherhood Penalty in Academia? The Gendered Effect of Children on Academic Publications in German Sociology
Based on data that tracks curriculum vitae (CV) and publication records as well as survey information from sociologists in German academia, we examine the effects of parenthood on the publication output of male and female academics that were present in German universities or research institutes in the year 2013. Results indicate that having children leads to a significant decline in the number of publications by women on average, while not affect…
Wer spielt, hat schon verloren
Newcomers, betweenness centrality, and creative success
This study examines how network characteristics affect the creative success of teams in the board game industry. Based on prior research, we argue that the degree of newcomers within a team affects the creative success negatively, while betweenness centrality affects creative team success positively. We test these assumptions with unique data on teams in the board game industry using two different measures of creative success (awards as well as u…
Strukturen ungleichen Erfolgs. Winner-take-all-Konzentrationen und ihre sozialen Entstehungskontexte auf flexiblen Arbeitsmärkten
Anstieg oder Ausgleich? Die multiplikative Wirkung sozialer Ungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt für Filmschauspieler / More or Less? Multiplicative Effects of Inequality on the Labor Market for Film A…
Das multiplikative Zusammenwirken zwischen geschlechtsspezifischen Ungleichheiten und Erfolgsanhäufungen, der so genannte Matthäus-Effekt, ist bislang kaum Gegenstand soziologischer Forschung gewesen. Folglich ist unklar, wie sich kumulierte berufliche Erfolge im Zeitverlauf auf Karriereungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern auswirken. Verstärkt der Matthäuseffekt bestehende Genderdisparitäten? Oder hebelt er sie aus? Mithilfe eines Längsschni…
Tagträume und Konsum
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 233 - 251
Zur Erklärung von Diffusionsprozessen. Das Beispiel der Einführung staatlicher Lotterien in den USA / Explaining Diffusion
Der Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit den Determinanten der Diffusion staatlicher Lotterien als Beispiel einer politischen Innovation. Nach einer Verbotszeit von mehr als 100 Jahren führten US-Bundesstaaten Lotterien ab den 1960er Jahren schrittweise wieder ein. Anhand von statistischen Ereignisdatenanalysen zeigt der Beitrag, dass der Diffusionsprozess von fiskalischen, politischen und regionalen Faktoren ebenso wie von normativen Faktoren der sozial…
Wer spielt Lotto
Auf Basis bevölkerungsrepräsentativer Daten untersuchen wir sozialstrukturelle Umverteilungseffekte des staatlichen Lotteriespiels in Deutschland. Lotterien sind hoch besteuerte wirtschaftliche Transaktionen, deren Einnahmen zugleich einen signifikanten Anteil am öffentlichen Haushaltsbudget darstellen. Unsere Analyse zeigt, dass Lotterien eine Form der regressiven Besteuerung darstellen. Ferner zeigen wir am Beispiel der Breitensportförderung, d…
Educational Mobility and Cultural Omnivorousness in Germany
Cultural omnivorousness is widely studied as a dimension of the stratification of taste, related to class or status positions. However, taste is also structured by patterns of social mobility, especially educational mobility. Building on Lizardo's Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption article, we expect that cultural omnivorousness systematically depends on patterns of educational mobility. Specifically, we predict that a higher inheri…
Anomie or imitation? The Werther effect of celebrity suicides on suicide rates in 34 OECD countries, 1960-2014
Das Eheschliessungsrecht in Frankreich, Belgien, Luxemburg und Deutschland
Der Einfluß deutscher Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland
Der Einfluß deutscher Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland. Vorträge und Referate des Bonner Symposions im September 1991
Wer spielt, hat schon verloren
Wer spielt Lotto
Auf Basis bevölkerungsrepräsentativer Daten untersuchen wir sozialstrukturelle Umverteilungseffekte des staatlichen Lotteriespiels in Deutschland. Lotterien sind hoch besteuerte wirtschaftliche Transaktionen, deren Einnahmen zugleich einen signifikanten Anteil am öffentlichen Haushaltsbudget darstellen. Unsere Analyse zeigt, dass Lotterien eine Form der regressiven Besteuerung darstellen. Ferner zeigen wir am Beispiel der Breitensportförderung, d…
The Inequality of Fair Play
On the basis of a telephone survey conducted on a random sample of the German residential population, we examine the distribution effects state lotteries have on Germany's social structure. Lotteries are highly taxed economic transactions, whose proceeds make up a considerable share of public fiscal revenues. Our analysis shows that lotteries are a form of regressive taxation. Using key demographic indicators, such as age, citizenship, and levels…
Zur Erklärung von Diffusionsprozessen. Das Beispiel der Einführung staatlicher Lotterien in den USA / Explaining Diffusion
Der Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit den Determinanten der Diffusion staatlicher Lotterien als Beispiel einer politischen Innovation. Nach einer Verbotszeit von mehr als 100 Jahren führten US-Bundesstaaten Lotterien ab den 1960er Jahren schrittweise wieder ein. Anhand von statistischen Ereignisdatenanalysen zeigt der Beitrag, dass der Diffusionsprozess von fiskalischen, politischen und regionalen Faktoren ebenso wie von normativen Faktoren der sozial…
Einzelbesprechungen. zu den Themen Raum, Wirtschaft, Körper, Einführungen, Zivilgesellschaft
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich
Anstieg oder Ausgleich? Die multiplikative Wirkung sozialer Ungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt für Filmschauspieler / More or Less? Multiplicative Effects of Inequality on the Labor Market for Film A…
Das multiplikative Zusammenwirken zwischen geschlechtsspezifischen Ungleichheiten und Erfolgsanhäufungen, der so genannte Matthäus-Effekt, ist bislang kaum Gegenstand soziologischer Forschung gewesen. Folglich ist unklar, wie sich kumulierte berufliche Erfolge im Zeitverlauf auf Karriereungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern auswirken. Verstärkt der Matthäuseffekt bestehende Genderdisparitäten? Oder hebelt er sie aus? Mithilfe eines Längsschni…
Tagträume und Konsum
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 233 - 251
Strukturen ungleichen Erfolgs. Winner-take-all-Konzentrationen und ihre sozialen Entstehungskontexte auf flexiblen Arbeitsmärkten
Supranational cultural norms, domestic value orientations and the diffusion of same-sex union rights in Europe, 1988–2009
The process of policy diffusion is gaining increasing attention among social scientists. Following world society theory, a burgeoning literature reports a positive relationship between national linkages to global cultural norms and the diffusion of public policies. However, previous analyses do not simultaneously control for time-varying domestic cultural orientations. In order to conduct a stricter test of this theory, this article examines the …
Why the Poor Play the Lottery
Why do the poor spend more on lottery tickets than their wealthier and better educated peers? While social scientists generally agree that there is an inverse relationship between socio-economic position and patterns of lottery play, there is debate on what factors cause lottery gambling. Using survey data from a nationwide probability sample, we test three sociological approaches - socio-structural, cultural and social network accounts - to expl…
Creative Success and Network Embeddedness
Do Women Suffer from Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality in a Project-Based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010
That social capital matters is an established fact in the social sciences. Less clear, however, is how different forms of social capital affect gender disadvantages in career advancement. Focusing on a project-based type of labor market, namely the U.S. film industry, this study argues that women suffer a "closure penalty" and face severe career disadvantages when collaborating in cohesive teams. At the same time, gender disadvantages are reduced…
Who becomes a tenured professor, and why? Panel data evidence from German sociology, 1980–2013
The enduring importance of family wealth
The diversity of wage regimes
Why did the transnational synchronization of wage inflations fail during the first 10 years of the euro? We analyze data from 1999 to 2008 for 12 euro members and estimate increases of nominal unit labor costs both in the overall economy and in manufacturing as dependent variables. While our analysis confirms that differences in economic growth shaped the inflation of labor costs, we add a political-institutional argument to the debate and argue …
Wer profitiert vom Meisterzwang? Die Reform der Handwerksordnung als natürliches Experiment zur Prüfung der Theorie beruflicher Schließung
Das Beispiel der 2004 erfolgten Reform der deutschen Handwerksordnung und des Wegfalls des sog. „Meisterzwangs“ in etwa der Hälfte aller Handwerke bietet die seltene Möglichkeit, die Auswirkungen beruflicher Schließung durch ein natürliches Experiment zu untersuchen und die Voraussagen der Theorie einem strikten Kausaltest zu unterziehen. Auf Basis von Mikrozensus-Daten zu den Jahren vor und nach Reform (2002-2007) untersuchen wir die Wirkung ber…
Anomie or imitation? The Werther effect of celebrity suicides on suicide rates in 34 OECD countries, 1960-2014
Is There a Motherhood Penalty in Academia? The Gendered Effect of Children on Academic Publications in German Sociology
Based on data that tracks curriculum vitae (CV) and publication records as well as survey information from sociologists in German academia, we examine the effects of parenthood on the publication output of male and female academics that were present in German universities or research institutes in the year 2013. Results indicate that having children leads to a significant decline in the number of publications by women on average, while not affect…
How human capital, universities of excellence, third party funding, mobility and gender explain productivity in German political science
Using a unique panel dataset of virtually all German academic political scientists, we show that researchers become much more productive due to the accumulation of human capital and third party funding. We also show however, that while universities of excellence have more productive researchers, individuals who go there do not become more productive. Finally, we show how women publish only 9 percent less than men with the same level of prior publ…
Newcomers, betweenness centrality, and creative success
This study examines how network characteristics affect the creative success of teams in the board game industry. Based on prior research, we argue that the degree of newcomers within a team affects the creative success negatively, while betweenness centrality affects creative team success positively. We test these assumptions with unique data on teams in the board game industry using two different measures of creative success (awards as well as u…
The 2017 French riots and trust in the police
On 2 February 2017, French police officers brutally abused a young black man, leading to the first wave of 2017 French riots. The present study exploits the coincidence that the focal event occurred during the survey period of the European Social Survey (ESS) 2016 (11 November 2016 – 11 March 2017) in France, thus providing the basis for a natural experiment on the effect of media reporting on police misconduct on trust in the police. Data are an…
Educational Mobility and Cultural Omnivorousness in Germany
Cultural omnivorousness is widely studied as a dimension of the stratification of taste, related to class or status positions. However, taste is also structured by patterns of social mobility, especially educational mobility. Building on Lizardo's Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption article, we expect that cultural omnivorousness systematically depends on patterns of educational mobility. Specifically, we predict that a higher inheri…
Who talks to the prof? Gender differences in interaction with senior scholars at four academic conferences
The percentage of women in academia is still lower than what would be expected statistically, especially in the sciences and among faculty (tenured professors). Theories on network closure suggest that men form exclusive professional networks among other men, while women remain systematically outside, potentially leading to glass-ceiling effects. With this paper, we aim to shed some light on this by exploiting a dataset that tracks sensor-based i…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · German (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (5 works)