| 03/05/2016 |   I am honored to receive the Hans-Kelsen-Price from the University of Cologne  (video). | 
  
| 03/05/2016 |   Paper "Immigration and Welfare Support in Germany" (with Dennis Spies) published in American Sociological Review (online first). | 
  
| 03/03/2016 |   The Swiss magazine DeFacto has published a short article
  about our paper on the "Case of Switzerland". | 
  
| 03/02/2016 |   Paper "Wer ist in Deutschland willkommen? Eine Vignettenanalyse zur Akzeptanz von Einwanderern"
  (together with Christian Czymara) accepted for publication in  
     Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie.  | 
  
| 11/03/2015 |   Paper "Institutions, culture and migrants' preference for state-provided welfare. Longitudinal evidence from Germany"
  (together with Romana Careja) accepted for publication in  
     Journal of European Social Policy. Download the manuscript
     here! | 
  
| 10/20/2015 |   Paper (with Dennis Spies) published (online first) in Journal of European Social Policy. | 
  
| 09/17/2015 |   Paper "The Random Effects in Multilevel Models: Getting them Wrong and Getting Them Right" (together with Malcolm Fairbrother) published
  (online first) in  European Sociological Review. | 
  
| 08/20/2015 |   Paper (with Manfred te Grotenhuis et al.) on age-period-cohort effects accepted for publication in
    Demography. | 
  
| 08/20/2015 |   Paper (together with Manfred te Grotenhuis et al.) conditonally accepted for publication by
   International Journal of Public Health. | 
  
| 08/13/2015 |   New Paper submitted to the
   Policy Studies Journal. | 
  
| 08/05/2015 |   Have been invited to give a talk on migration and welfare at the GESIS Colloquium next summer. | 
  
| 07/17/2015 |   Became a reviewer for Survey Research Methods. | 
  
| 07/14/2015 |   New paper (together with Manfred te Grotenhuis et al.) submitted to the
   International Journal of Public Health. | 
  
| 05/07/2015 |   Paper "Immigration and Welfare Support in Germany" (together with Dennis Spies) accepted for publication in American Sociological Review. | 
  
| 05/06/2015 |   Together with Hans-Jürgen Andress, I will teach a course on panel data analysis at the next GESIS
  spring seminar. | 
  
| 05/04/2015 |   Paper "The Random Effects in Multilevel Models: Getting them Wrong and Getting Them Right" (together with Malcolm Fairbrother) accepted for publication in  European Sociological Review. | 
  
| 04/24/2015 |  Revise & Resubmit from  
     Journal of European Social Policy. | 
  
| 04/06/2015 |   Became a reviewer for European Societies. | 
  
| 04/07/2015 |   Conditional acceptance from American Sociological Review. | 
  
| 04/06/2015 |   Became a reviewer for Social Indicators Research. | 
  
| 03/17/2015 |   Conditional acceptance from  European Sociological Review. | 
  
| 03/03/2015 |   Together with Hans-Jürgen Andress and Maximilain Hörl, I will present a new stata ado "catsem" for categorical data analysis (including latent class analysis)
  at the Stata Users Group Meeting 2015  in  Nuremberg, Germany. | 
  
| 02/26/2015 |  New paper (together with Romana Careja) submitted to 
     Journal of European Social Policy.  | 
| 02/12/2015 |  Paper on migrants' welfare attitudes (together with Romana Careja) accepted for presentation
  at the ESRA Conference 2015 in  Reykjavik, Iceland.  | 
| 12/31/2014 |  Paper on the Non-uniqueness Property of the Intrinsic Estimator published in Demography. | 
  
| 12/29/2014 |  Application for  
      10th International Multilevel Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands, accepted. I will present a paper on
      random effects structures in multilevel models for comparative longitudinal survey data. | 
  
| 12/08/2014 |  Paper "Migration, Migrant Integration and
      Support for Social Spending: The Case of Switzerland." accepted for
  publication in  
     Journal of European Social Policy. | 
  
| 11/07/2014 |  We got a Revise & Resubmit from the American Sociological Review. | 
  
| 10/29/2014 |  We got a Revise & Resubmit from the
    European Sociological Review. | 
  
| 10/27/2014 |    As last year's winner, I have been invited to become a jury member for the Young Researcher Award at the International Multilevel Conference 2015
    (together with Joop Hox and Tom Snijders). | 
  
| 10/17/2014 |  Together with Bart Meuleman, I will chair a session on "Multilevel Models for the Analysis of Comparative (Longitudinal) Survey Data"
  at the ESRA Conference 2015 in  Reykjavik, Iceland.  | 
| 10/07/2014 |  Paper "Economic Inequality and Public Demand for Redistribution: Combining Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Evidence" published in Socio-economic Review
    (online first). | 
  
| 09/11/2014 |  I won a publication prize for outstanding publications of PhD-students. The prize is awarded by the University of Cologne.  | 
  
| 09/08/2014 |  Paper "The Non-uniqueness Property of the Intrinsic Estimator in APC Models" accepted for
  publication in  Demography. | 
  
| 08/25/2014 |  Paper "Economic Inequality and Public Demand for Redistribution. Combining Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Evidence" accepted for
  publication in  
  Socio-economic Review. | 
  
| 08/10/2014 |  Revise & Resubmit from the 
     Journal of European Social Policy. | 
  
| 07/07/2014 |  Paper (together with Katja Möhring) accepted for presentation at the 1st Conference on Robustness Tests, in Cologne, Germany. | 
  
| 06/18/2014 |  Session proposal for the Modes, Measurement, Modelling: Achieving
    Equivalence in Quantitative Research Conference, in Mannheim, Germany, accepted.  | 
  
| 06/07/2014 | Conditional acceptance from 
  Socio-economic Review.  | 
  
| 05/23/2014 | Became a reviewer for the 
     European Journal of Political Research.  | 
  
| 05/20/2014 | Became a reviewer for the 
     Journal of European Social Policy.  | 
  
| 05/14/2014 | Application for 
     ESPAnet conference 2014, in Oslo, Norway, accepted. We present a paper on the effect of migration on natives welfare attitudes.  | 
  
| 04/30/2014 | New paper on multilevel models for comparative longitudinal survey data (together with Malcolm Fairbrother) submitted to a journal.  | 
  
| 04/22/2014 | New paper on migrants' welfare attitudes submitted to a
  journal (together with Romana Careja).  | 
  
| 04/02/2014 | New paper on migrant integration and natives' welfare attitudes submitted to a journal (together with Dennis Spies).  | 
  
| 02/04/2014 | New publication (together with Katharina Höstermann) in MDA. | 
  
| 01/27/2014 | Revise & Resubmit from Demography. | 
  
| 01/23/2014 | I will give a lecture on specifying and interpreting complex regression models at the SOCLIFE/BIGSSS Spring Workshop 2014.
  This workshop is for doctorial students from Cologne and Bremen.  | 
  
| 12/03/2013 | I have been invited to chair a session at the BIGSSS International Conference 2014 "Social Stratification and Social Policy".
    My session will be titled "Methods for Linking Stratification and Social Policy". Find the CfP
    here!   | 
  
| 11/18/2013 | Revise & Resubmit from Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie.   | 
  
| 10/22/2013 | Session proposal for the  VI European Congress of Methodology (Utrecht, 07/2014) accepted. I organize
    the session together with  
Malcolm Fairbrother. Our session is entitled
    "Multilevel Models and Comparative Longitudinal Survey Data: Advances, Prospects, and Challenges". Read the CfP
    
     here!   | 
  
| 10/21/2013 | Conditional acceptance from Socio-Economic Review.   | 
  
| 10/07/2013 | Application for EDAC/ESPAnet  winter school accepted. | 
  
| 10/02/2013 | Paper (together with Katharina Hörstermann) accepted for publication in Methoden, Daten, Analysen. The paper will be published in December, 2013. | 
  
| 07/19/2013 | Paper on the Intrinsic Estimator (together with Ben Pelzer, Manfred te Grotenhuis and Rob Eisinga) submitted to a journal. | 
  
| 07/19/2013 | Today, I received my PhD certificate (summa cum laude). | 
  
| 05/23/2013 | Article "Do Parties "Playing the Race Card" Undermine Natives' Support for Redistribution? Evidence from Europe" published online
  (Comparative Political Studies), doi: 10.1177/0010414013488542.   | 
  
| 05/17/2013 | New (german speaking) paper on migration and natives' welfare attitudes submitted to a
  journal (together with Dennis Spies).  | 
  
| 04/29/2013 | Disputation has been successful (summa cum laude). | 
  
| 03/28/2013 | Won the "Best PhD Paper Award" at the 9th International Multilevel Conference. | 
  
| 03/15/2013 | I have been nominated for the "Best PhD Paper Award" at the 9th International Multilevel Conference. | 
  
| 02/28/2013 | Two applications for paper presentations at the ESRA Conference 2013 accepted. | 
  
| 02/27/2013 | Article in the
       Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) about an online experiment I carried out together with Katharina Höstermann. | 
  
| 02/14/2013 | Became a reviewer for the 
  British Journal of Political Science. | 
  
| 01/28/2013 | Update of mlt-package (version 1.4 beta) available at the SSC archive. | 
  
| 02/01/2013 | PhD-thesis submitted. | 
  
| 01/25/2013 | Textbook "Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys" published at Springer  | 
  
| 01/24/2013 | Paper "Do Parties "Playing the Race Card" Undermine Natives' Support for Redistribution?" accepted for publication in
  
  Comparative Political Studies. | 
  
| 01/18/2013 | Revise & Resubmit from Methoden, Daten, Analysen.  | 
  
| 01/01/2013 | The mlt-package (version 1.3 beta) is now available at the SSC archive. | 
  
| 12/18/2012 | Application for presentation at the 9th International Multilevel Conference, 2013 in Utrecht, accepted.
     Katja Möhring and I will present the mlt-package. | 
  
| 12/18/2012 | Application for paper presentation at the 9th International Multilevel Conference, 2013 in Utrecht, accepted. I will present
     a paper on econmic inequality and demand for redistribution. | 
  
| 10/08/2012 | New paper on economic inequality and demand for redistribution submitted to a journal. | 
  
| 09/13/2012 | Revise & Resubmit: Paper on attitudes towards migration and the welfare state (together with Dennis Spies). | 
  
| 08/21/2012 | "Applied Panel Data Analysis
    for Economic and Social Surveys"
    to be published online in December 2012. The printed version will be available from early 2013.  | 
  
| 07/23/2012 | Became a reviewer for the 
  Journal of Social Policy. | 
  
| 07/23/2012 | Version 1.1 beta of the mlt-package released. | 
  
| 07/12/2012 | Paper on attitudes towards migration and the welfare state submitted (together with Dennis Spies). | 
  
| 05/29/2012 | Paper "The Development of Public Demand for Redistribution. A Pseudo-panel model for
  Decomposing Within- and Between-effects" published in the GK SOCLIFE Working Paper Series.
  Download the paper here!  | 
  
| 05/21/2012 | Final revision of "Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys" send to the publisher.   | 
  
| 04/11/2012 | Application for the German
  Stata Users Group Meeting 2012 in Berlin accepted. We will present our multilevel tools ado package.   | 
  
| 04/10/2012 | Paper "Social Presense in Online Surveys" submitted to a Journal.   | 
  
| 04/04/2012 | Application for the 2012 RC19 Annual Conference in Oslo accepted.    | 
  
| 03/26/2012 | "The Development of Public Demand for Redistribution. A Pseudo-panel model for
  Decomposing Within- and Between-effects" accepted for publication in the
  GK SOCLIFE Working Paper Series  | 
  
| 03/13/2012 | Submitted the paper "The Development of Public Demand for Redistribution. A Pseudo-panel model for
  Decomposing Within- and Between-effects" to the GK SOCLIFE Working Paper Series.  | 
  
| 03/13/2012 | Version 1.0 beta of the multilevel tools (mlt) package for Stata released.
    Download the package here.    | 
  
| 02/23/2012 | Started to work on a "multilevel tools" ado-package for Stata, together with   Katja Möhring.  | 
  
| 02/13/2012 | New homepage is online.    | 
  
| 01/25/2012 | I will become a visiting researcher at the Umeå University
   in August and September 2012.    | 
  
| 01/12/2012 | I am going to the Tilburg University
  as a visiting researcher in September and October 2012.    | 
  
| 08/24/2011 | Book manuscript "Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys" accepted for publication.   | 
  
| 08/01/2011 | Started as a full research associate at the Chair for Empirical Social and Economic Research.   | 
  
| 07/01/2011 | Manuscript of "Applied Panel Data Analysis for Social and Economic Surveys" finished and send to publishers  | 
  
| 06/11/2011 | Application for  
  HumVIB Conference in Berlin accepted  | 
  
| 04/29/2011 | Became one of the organizers of the 
  SOCLIFE Workshop on the Analysis of "Time in Context and Time as Context", September 12th to 14th, Cologne.
  Lecturers: Prof. Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Prof. Henning Lohmann.  | 
  
| 03/08/2011 | Employed as scientific consultant for two science shows in TV (ARD)  | 
  
| 02/18/2011 | Application for 
  ESRA Conference 2011 in Lousanne accepted   | 
  
| 01/18/2011 | Paper "The Experience of Social Mobility and the Formation of Attitudes Toward Redistribution"
            published in the GK SOCLIFE Working Paper Series  | 
  
| 10/20/2010 | Paper "The Experience of Social Mobility and the Formation of Attitudes Toward Redistribution"
            submitted to the GK SOCLIFE Working Paper Series  | 
  
| 08/19/2010 | Presentation of first PhD-Paper at the
  
  "Joint NordWel Re-Assess International Summer School" in Odense, Denmark. Discussant: Prof. Joarkim Palme  | 
 
| 08/02/2010 | My hompage is online. | 
 
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