Prof. Dr. Josef Brüderl

Professor

Department of Sociology

Quantitative Research on Inequality and Families

Office address:

Konradstraße 6

80801 Munich

Office hours:

by appointment only

Other positions

Director of the Department of Sociology at the LMU Munich

Primary research areas

  • Social inequality / social structure
  • Family research
  • Quantitative methods of empirical social research
  • Meta-Science

Selected publications

  • Brüderl, Josef, Ansgar Hudde and Marita Jacob (2025) What You Need to Know When
    Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More
    in the Data!” Sociological Science. doi.org/10.15195/v12.a34

  • Kratz, Fabian and Josef Brüderl (2025) Assessing age trajectories (of subjective well-being): clarifying estimands, identification assumptions, and estimation strategies. European Sociological Review. doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf038

  • Schröder, Jette, Claudia Schmiedeberg, Josef Brüderl, and Christiane Bozoyan. (2025)
    Switching a Face-to-Face Panel to Self-Administered Survey Modes: Experimental
    Evidence on Effects of Mode Assignment on Response and Selectivity. Survey
    Research Methods. doi.org/10.18148/srm/2025.v19i1.8427

  • Auspurg, Katrin and Josef Brüderl (2024) Toward a more credible assessment of the
    credibility of science by many-analyst studies. PNAS.doi.org/10.1073pnas.2404035121

  • Otte, Gunnar, Tim Sawert, Josef Brüderl, Stefanie Kley, Clemens Kroneberg and Ingo Rohlfing (2023) Gütekriterien in der Soziologie. Zeitschrift für Soziologie. (English Version: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/69wrq/)

  • Auspurg, Katrin and Josef Brüderl (2022) How to Increase Reproducibility and Credibility of Sociological Research. S. 512-527 in: K. Gërxhani et al. (eds.) Handbook of Sociological Science. Edward Elgar.doi.org/10.4337/9781789909432

  • Ludwig, Volker and Josef Brüderl (2021) What You Need to Know When Estimating Impact Functions with Panel Data for Demographic Research. Comparative Population
    Studies. doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2021-16

  • Auspurg, Katrin and Josef Brüderl (2021) Has the Credibility of the Social Sciences Been Credibly Destroyed? Reanalyzing the “Many Analysts, One Data Set” Project. Socius. doi.org/10.1177/23780231211024421