Maik Hamjediers

Postdoctoral Max Weber Fellow
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute

         


Welcome!

I am a sociologist and a postdoctoral Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.

My research examines social inequalities, their extent across the life course, and the role cultural stereotypes and institutions in shaping them, with a prominent example being the segregation of women and men across occupations.
In addition, I study how compulsory services, such as military service and its civilian alternatives, affect individuals and social cohesion.
Methodologically, I specialize in quantitative analyses of administrative and survey data, using research designs that allow for causal inferences in observational and experimental settings.

Previously, I substituted for the Professorship of Microsociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and have been a visitor at the departments of sociology of Brown University and University of Haifa.
I hold a PhD in Sociology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I also obtained a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Social Sciences.

You can find my complete CV here.


Publications

Forthcoming

Investigating the Analytical Robustness of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (with Aczel, Balasz, Barnabas Szaszi, Harry T. Clelland, Brian A. Nosek ...[491 authors)]. Nature, forthcoming.

2025

Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice (with Sascha Riaz). British Journal of Political Science, 55: online first.

Tailored to Women, Provided to Men? Gendered Occupational Inequality in Access to Flexible Working-Time Arrangements (with Aljoscha Jacobi & Tabea Naujoks). Social Indicators Research, 176: 1179-1205.

2024

Gender Compositions of Occupations and Firms Jointly Shape Switches from Gender-Atypical Towards More Gender-Typical Positions (with Eileen Peters). European Societies, 26 (4): 1170-1194.

Intersections and Commonalities: Using Matching to Decompose Wage Gaps by Gender and Nativity in Germany (with Maximilian Sprengholz). Work and Occupations, 51 (2): 249-286.

2023

Gender-Atypical Learning Experiences of Men Reduce Occupational Sex Segregation: Evidence from the Suspension of the Civilian Service in Germany. Gender & Society, 37 (4): 524-552.

Comparing the Incomparable? Issues of Lacking Common Support, Functional Form Mis-Specification, and Insufficient Sample Size in Decompositions (with Maximilian Sprengholz). Sociological Methodology, 53 (2): 344-365.

2022

Marriage, the Risk of Overeducation, and Selection into Both: Evidence from Germany (with Paul Schmelzer). European Sociological Review, 38 (1): 73-87.

2021

Can Regional Gender Ideologies Account for Variation of Gender Pay Gaps? The Case of Germany. Social Sciences, 10 (9): 347.

2018

Do-files for working with SOEP spell data (with Paul Schmelzer & Tobias Wolfram). SOEP Survey Papers, Series G: 492.


Work in Progress

Do Occupations Confer Equal Prestige on Female and Male Incumbents? (with Ferdinand Geißler, Johannes Giesecke & Markus Schrenker; revise & resubmit at Social Forces). | Pre-registration on OSF

A Threat Next Door? Causal Evidence from Russia's Invasion on Willingness to Defend in the Czech Republic and Uruguay (revise & resubmit at International Journal of Public Opinion Research).

The Flip Side of Gender Segregation: Cross-National and Temporal Variation in Men's Participation in Female-Dominated Occupations (with Marga Torre; under review).

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and Perceived Intergenerational Mobility in Czechia and Uruguay. An Unexpected Event During Survey Design Study (with Patrick Präg & Alexi Gugushvili; under review).

Does Mandatory Service Shape Men's Occupational Choices? Evidence from the Suspension of Conscription Across Europe (with Leandro Iván Canzio).

Within-Occupational Prestige Variation Across Workers (with Ferdinand Geißler & Johannes Giesecke). | Pre-registration on OSF

"Do You Think That I Should Care?" Measuring Social Expectations About Cognitive Labor in Household Contexts (with Tabea Naujoks).


Teaching Experience

Introduction to Social Science Research
Topics: Introduction to methodology of social science research, reading and writing academic manuscripts

Gender Inequalities - Theory and Empirics
Topics: Theories on gender inequalities in education, the labor market, and the domestic domain; from theory to empirical comparisons; designing quantitative studies

Academic Writing in Social Demography
Topics: Critical reading of manuscripts; assessing contributions; writing drafts and providing constructive feedback; describing results

Empirical Social Research
Topics: Designing and implementing students' survey experiments

Statistics
Topics: Descriptive statistics, statistical inference and hypothesis testing, linear and logistic regression, exploratory factor analysis

What others think you can do, but you can't do, and what you can do about it
Topics: Data wrangling, writing simulations to evaluate estimators, bootstrapping, further topics regarding regression analyses


Software Development