Prof. Dr. Katrin Auspurg
Professor
Department of Sociology
Quantitative Social Research
Office address:
Konradstraße 6
Room 305
80801 Munich
Office hours:
by appointment only
Primary research areas
- Quantitative methods (surveys, field and survey experiments)
- Social inequality (labour market research, gender inequalities, discrimination)
- Analytical sociology (social mechanisms, decision theory)
- Meta science and sociology of science (e.g., publication bias)
- Environmental social sciences (e.g., acceptance of climate protection measures)
Selected publications
Auspurg, Katrin (2025): Robustness is better assessed with a few thoughtful models than with billions of regressions. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2521917122.
Auspurg, Katrin/Brüderl, Josef (2024): Towards a more credible assessment of the credibility of science by many-analyst studies. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2404035121.
Auspurg, Katrin/Düval, Sabine (2024): Housework as a Woman's Job? What Looks Like Gender Ideologies Could Also Be Stereotypes. Sociological Science 11doi.org/10.15195/v11.a29.
Auspurg, Katrin/Lorenz, Renate/Schneck, Andreas (2023): Does Unprecedented Mass Immigration Fuel Ethnic Discrimination? A Two-Wave Field Experiment in the German Housing Market. Sociological Science doi.org/10.15195/v10.a23.
Tekles, Alexander/Auspurg, Katrin/Bornmann, Lutz (2022): Same-gender citations do not indicate a substantial gender homophily bias. PLOS ONE doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274810.
Schmitt, Laila/Auspurg, Katrin (2022): A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985-2014. European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac001.
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.
Selection of current research projects
German Longitudinal Environmental Study (GLEN)
Enhancing Reproducibility and Robustness of Observational Social Science Research
Other positions
- At LMU Munich
At other Institutions - Dean of Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
Membership: Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences
Chair of the Academy of Sociology
Member of the Commission for the Investigation of Scientific Misconduct of the Austrian Agency for Scientific Integrity (ÖAWI)
Member of the Scientific Senate of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
Elected member of the European Academy of Sociology
Member of the Advisory Board of the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” at the University of Konstanz
Member of the ALLBUS study coordination group