Dr. Christoph Kern

Project Director
christoph.kern [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
LMU
Ludwigstr. 33
80539  München
Germany
 

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.1908
CAIUS: Consequences of AI-Based Decision Making for Urban Societies
A2.2011
Fairness in Automated Decision-Making—FairADM
A2.2206
Prediction-based Adaptive Designs for Panel Surveys

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Journal Articles

Bach, Ruben L., Christoph Kern, Hannah Mautner and Frauke Kreuter (2023): The impact of modeling decisions in statistical profiling. Data & Policy, 5, (article-no. e32), pp. 1-19. more
Kern, Christoph, Bernd Weiss and Jan-Philipp Kolb (2023): Predicting Nonresponse in Future Waves of a Probability-Based Mixed-Mode Panel with Machine Learning. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 11, issue 1, pp. 100-123. more
Bach, Ruben L., Christoph Kern, Denis Bonnay and Luc Kalaora (2022): Understanding political news media consumption with digital trace data and natural language processing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Statistics in Society, 185, issue S2, pp. S246-S269. more
Gerdon, Frederic, Ruben L. Bach, Christoph Kern and Frauke Kreuter (2022): Social impacts of algorithmic decision-making: A research agenda for the social sciences. Big Data & Society, pp. 1-13 (e-only). more
Kern, Christoph, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2022): Humans versus machines: Who is perceived to decide fairer? Experimental evidence on attitudes toward automated decision-making. Patterns, 3, issue 10, (article no. 100591) e-only. more
Kuppler, Matthias, Christoph Kern, Ruben L. Bach and Frauke Kreuter (2022): From fair predictions to just decisions? Conceptualizing algorithmic fairness and distributive justice in the context of data-driven decision-making. Frontiers in Sociology , 7, (article no. 883999), pp. 1-18. more
Silber, Henning, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Christoph Kern, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2022): A preregistered vignette experiment on determinants of health data sharing behavior: Willingness to donate sensor data, medical records, and biomarkers. Politics and the Life Sciences, 41, issue 2, pp. 161–181. more
Bach, Ruben L., Christoph Kern, Ashley Amaya, Florian Keusch, Frauke Kreuter, Jan Hecht and Jonathan Heinemann (2021): Predicting voting behavior using digital trace data. Social Science Computer Review, 39, issue 5, pp. 862–883. more
Badillo-Goicoechea, Elena, Ting-Hsuan Chang, Esther Kim, Sarah LaRocca, Katherine Morris, Xiaoyi Deng, Samantha Chiu, Adrianne Bradford, Andres Garcia, Christoph Kern, Curtiss Cobb, Frauke Kreuter and Elizabeth A. Stuart (2021): Global Trends and Predictors of Face Mask Usage During the COVID-19 Pandemic. BMC Public Health, 21, (article no. 2099). more
Erlinghagen, Marcel, Christoph Kern and Petra Stein (2021): Migration, Social Stratification and Dynamic Effects on Subjective Well Being. Advances in Life Course Research, 48, issue June 2021, (article no. 100393). more
Kern, Christoph, Yan Li and Lingxiao Wang (2021): Boosted Kernel Weighting - Using Statistical Learning to Improve Inference From Nonprobability Samples. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 9, issue 5, pp. 1088–1113. more
Kern, Christoph, Jan Karem Höhne, Stephan Schlosser and Melanie Revilla (2021): Completion Conditions and Response Behavior in Smartphone Surveys: A Prediction Approach Using Acceleration Data. Social Science Computer Review, 39, issue 6, pp. 1253–1271. more
Pfisterer, Florian, Christoph Kern, Susanne Dandl, Matthew Sun, Michael Kim and Bernd Bischl (2021): mcboost: Multi-Calibration Boosting for R. Journal of Open Source Software, 6, issue 64, (article no. 3453). more
Kern, Christoph, Thomas Klausch and Frauke Kreuter (2019): Tree-based machine learning methods for survey research. Survey Research Methods, 13, issue 1, pp. 73-93. more
Kern, Christoph, and Petra Stein (2018): Modelling Decision-Making Processes of Regional Mobility in a Dyadic Framework. European Sociological Review, 34, issue 4, pp. 433-451. more
Kern, Christoph, and Petra Stein (2015): Comparing coefficients of nonlinear multivariate regression models between equations. Survey Research Methods, 9, issue 3, pp. 159-167. more
Kern, Christoph (2015): Modeling mobility dispositions from a multilevel perspective. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 135, issue 1, pp. 23-34. more

Book Chapters

Kim, Brian, Christoph Kern, Jonathan Morgan, Clayton Hunter and Avishek Kumar (2021): Workbooks. Pp. 333-340 in: Ian Foster, Rayid Ghani, Ron S. Jarmin, Frauke Kreuter, Julia Lane (Eds.) Big data and social science: Data science methods and tools for research and practice. 2nd edition, Boca Raton: Chapman and Hall/CRC. more
Kern, Christoph (2020): Machine Learning Interpretation Tools. Pp. 1-12 (e-only) in: Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug, Richard Williams (Eds.) SAGE Research Methods Foundations. London: SAGE. more
Kolb, Jan-Philipp, Bernd Weiss and Christoph Kern (2020): Using predictive modelling to identify panel nonresponse. Pp. 206-214 in: Mohd Mahidin (Ed.) Proceeding ISI World Statistics Congress 2019. Putrajaya: Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM). more

Papers / Reports

Höhne, Jan Karem, Christoph Kern, Konstantin Gavras and Stephan Schlosser (2022): The Sound of Respondents: Predicting Respondents’ Level of Interest with Voice Data in Smartphone Surveys. Rochester, NY [SSRN platform] more
Kaiser, Patrick, Christoph Kern and David Rügamer (2022): Uncertainty-aware predictive modeling for fair data-driven decisions. Ithaca, NY [arXiv preprint] more
Kern, Christoph, Ruben L. Bach, Hannah Mautner and Frauke Kreuter (2021): Fairness in Algorithmic Profiling: A German Case Study. Ithaca, NY [arXiv preprint] more
Kuppler, Matthias, Christoph Kern, Ruben L. Bach and Frauke Kreuter (2021): Distributive Justice and Fairness Metrics in Automated Decision-making: How Much Overlap Is There?. Ithaca, NY [arXiv preprint] more
Shunk, Graham, Xavier Gomez, Christoph Kern and Nils Averesch (2021): A Self-Replicating Radiation-Shield for Human Deep-Space Exploration: Radiotrophic Fungi can Attenuate Ionizing Radiation aboard the International Space Station. [bioRxiv preprint] more
Erlinghagen, Marcel, Christoph Kern and Petra Stein (2019): Internal migration, social stratification and dynamic effects on subjective well being. Berlin [SOEP papers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research; 1046] more
Kern, Christoph, Bernd Weiß and Jan-Philipp Kolb (2019): A Longitudinal Framework for Predicting Nonresponse in Panel Surveys. Ithaca, NY [arXiv preprint] more
Kern, Christoph, and Petra Stein (2016): Effect comparison in multilevel structural equation models with non-metric outcomes. Alexandria, VA [JSM Proceedings] more
Kern, Christoph (2014): Regional Structures and Mobility Dispositions: A Multilevel Proportional- & Partial-Proportional Odds Approach. Berlin [SOEP papers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research; 681] more

Conference Presentations

Gerdon, Frederic, Daria Szafran, Jakob Kappenberger, Ruben L. Bach and Christoph Kern (2023): Using survey experiments and agent-based modeling to simulate mobility behavior in smart cities. [10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Milan, July 17th to July 21st, 2023] more
Kern, Christoph, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2023): Humans vs. Machines: Who is Perceived to Decide Fairer? An Experiment about Citizens’ Attitudes. [The 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, Munich, June 26th to June 30th, 2023] more
Silber, Henning, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Christoph Kern, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2022): In which situations are people likely to share their health data? A vignette experiment on willingness to donate three different types of health data. [Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), (virtual conference), March 25th to March 26th, 2022] more
Silber, Henning, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben L. Bach, Christoph Kern, Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter (2021): A vignette experiment on determinants of health data sharing behavior: Willingness to donate sensor data, medical records, and biomarkers. [Science and Politics: Changing Attitudes and Emerging Methodologies, (virtual workshop), November 05th to November 07th, 2021] more
Gerdon, Frederic, Christoph Kilian Theil, Christoph Kern, Ruben L. Bach, Frauke Kreuter, Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Kai Eckert (2020): Exploring Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Urban Societies with Social Simulations. [40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, (virtual conference), September 14th to September 24th, 2020] more