Prof. Dr. Christof Wolf

Project director
christof.wolf [at] gesis.org
Phone: 
0621-1246-149
Fax: 
0621-1246-100
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
gesis
68072  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
gesis
68159  Mannheim

Profile/Career

President of GESIS (Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences) and Professor for Sociology at Mannheim University

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.1805
Effect of Life Course Transitions on Health Inequalities. Health Consequences of Changes in Romantic Partnership, Work and Employment Status Among Men and Women
A2.1807
Modular Questionnaire Designs for Social Surveys: Statistical Modelling of Designed Missingness

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.1821
Tools to Detect Fabricated Interviews

Publications

Monographs

Roßteutscher, Sigrid, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2019): Zwischen Polarisierung und Beharrung: Die Bundestagswahl 2017. 1st ed., Baden-Baden: Nomos. [Wahlen in Deutschland; 3] more
Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2014): Zwischen Fragmentierung und Konzentration : Die Bundestagswahl 2013. Baden-Baden: Nomos. [Wahlen in Deutschland; 2] more

Editions

Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (Eds.) (2022): The Changing German Voter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Schoen, Harald, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (Eds.) (2017): Voters and Voting in Context: Multiple Contexts and the Heterogeneous German Electorate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Best, Henning, and Christof Wolf (Eds.) (2015): Sage Handbook of Regression Analysis and Causal Inference. London: Sage. more
Schupp, Jürgen, and Christof Wolf (Eds.) (2015): Nonresponse Bias: Qualitätssicherung sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Wendt, Claus, and Christof Wolf (Eds.) (2006): Soziologie der Gesundheit. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. [Sonderheft der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie; 46] more

Journal Articles

Axenfeld, Julian B., Christian Bruch and Christof Wolf (2022): General-purpose imputation of planned missing data in social surveys: Different strategies and their effect on correlations. Statistics Surveys, 16, pp. 182-209. more
Axenfeld, Julian B., Annelies G. Blom, Christian Bruch and Christof Wolf (2022): Split Questionnaire Designs for Online Surveys: The Impact of Module Construction on Imputation Quality. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 10, issue 5, pp. 1236–1262. more
Mikucka, Malgorzata, Oliver Arránz Becker and Christof Wolf (2021): Revisiting marital health protection: Intraindividual health dynamics around transition to legal marriage. Journal of Marriage and Family, 83, issue 5, pp. 1439–1459. more
Arránz Becker, Oliver, Malgorzata Mikucka and Christof Wolf (2019): Introduction to the Special Issue “Families, health, and well-being”. Journal of Family Research, 31, issue 2, pp. 131-137. more
Loter, Katharina, Oliver Arránz Becker, Malgorzata Mikucka and Christof Wolf (2019): Mental health dynamics around marital dissolution. Moderating effects of parenthood and children's age. Journal of Family Research, 31, issue 2, pp. 155-179. more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2018): Die Beurteilung von Parteien und Kanzlerkandidaten vor den Bundestagswahlen von 1961 bis 2013. Stabilität der Konfliktstruktur bei wechselnder Attraktivität der Parteien und Kanzlerkandidaten. Informationsdienst Soziale Indikatoren (ISI) : Sonderheft ; Wählerverhalten und Parteiensystem im Wandel - 40 Jahre Politbarometer, issue 60, pp. 20-28. more
Alanya, Ahu, Christof Wolf and Cristina Sotto (2015): Comparison of Multiple Imputation and Propensity Score Weighting in Unit Nonresponse Adjustments - A Simulation Study. Public Opinion Quarterly, 79, issue 3, pp. 635-661. more

Book Chapters

Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2022): A New Era of Electoral Instability. Pp. 3-24 in: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf (Eds.) The Changing German Voter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2022): The Changing German Voter. Pp. 313-336 in: The Changing German Voter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Roßteutscher, Sigrid, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2019): Einleitung. Pp. 11-14 in: Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Zwischen Polarisierung und Beharrung: Die Bundestagswahl 2017. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more
Roßteutscher, Sigrid, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2019): Fazit und Ausblick. Pp. 375-383 in: Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Zwischen Polarisierung und Beharrung: Die Bundestagswahl 2017. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more
Schoen, Harald, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2017): Conclusion. Pp. 249-256 in: Harald Schoen, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Voters and Voting in Context: Multiple Contexts and the Heterogeneous German Electorate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Schoen, Harald, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2017): Voters and Voting in Context: An Introduction. Pp. 1-12 in: Harald Schoen, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Voters and Voting in Context: Multiple Contexts and the Heterogeneous German Electorate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Best, Henning, and Christof Wolf (2015): Logistic Regression. Pp. 153-171 in: Henning Best, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Sage Handbook of Regression Analysis and Causal Inference. London: Sage. more
Schupp, Jürgen, and Christof Wolf (2015): Vorwort. Pp. 7-9 in: Jürgen Schupp, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Nonresponse Bias: Qualitätssicherung sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Wolf, Christof, and Henning Best (2015): Introduction. Pp. 1-3 in: Henning Best, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Sage Handbook of Regression Analysis and Causal Inference. London: Sage. more
Wolf, Christof, and Henning Best (2015): Linear Regression. Pp. 57-81 in: Henning Best, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Sage Handbook of Regression Analysis and Causal Inference. London: Sage. more
Roßmann, Joss, Tobias Gummer and Christof Wolf (2014): Twitter im Wahlkampf. Pp. 61-72 in: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Zwischen Fragmentierung und Konzentration: Die Bundestagswahl 2013. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more
Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2014): Einleitung. Pp. 13-18 in: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Zwischen Fragmentierung und Konzentration: Die Bundestagswahl 2013. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more
Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Bernhard Weßels and Christof Wolf (2014): Fazit und Ausblick: Langeweile und Extreme, Fragmentierung und Konzentration. Pp. 355-364 in: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Zwischen Fragmentierung und Konzentration: Die Bundestagswahl 2013. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more
Wolf, Christof, and Claus Wendt (2006): Perspektiven der Gesundheitssoziologie. Pp. 9-33 in: Claus Wendt, Christof Wolf (Eds.) Soziologie der Gesundheit. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. more

Papers / Reports

Kaczmirek, Lars, Philipp Mayr, Ravi Vatrapu, Arnim Bleier, Manuela Blumenberg, Tobias Gummer, Abid Hussain, Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, Kaveh Manshaei, Mark Thamm, Katrin Weller, Alexander Wenz and Christof Wolf (2014): Social media monitoring of the campaigns for the 2013 German Bundestag elections on Facebook and Twitter. Köln [GESIS Working Paper; 2014-31] more

Conference Presentations

Axenfeld, Julian B., Christian Bruch and Christof Wolf (2022): General-purpose imputation of planned missing data in social surveys: different strategies and their effect on correlations. [DAGStat 2022, Hamburg, March 28th to April 01st, 2022] more
Mikucka, Malgorzata, Oliver Arránz Becker and Christof Wolf (2022): Cumulative Health Effects of Work Precarity. Longitudinal Analysis of German National Panel Data. [ISQOLS 2022 Conference “Quality-of-Life for Resilient Futures: Sustainability, Equity, and Wellbeing”, Burlington, VT, August 03rd to August 06th, 2022] more
Mikucka, Malgorzata, Oliver Arránz Becker and Christof Wolf (2022): Cumulative Health Effects of Work Precarity. Longitudinal Analysis of German National Panel Data. [19th Biennial European Society For Health and Medical Sociology Conference, Forli, August 25th to August 27th, 2022] more
Axenfeld, Julian B., Annelies G. Blom, Christian Bruch and Christof Wolf (2021): Split Questionnaire Designs: Imputation Quality and the Impact of Module Construction. [ESRA21, (virtual conference), July 16th, 2021] more
Mikucka, Malgorzata, Oliver Arránz Becker and Christof Wolf (2019): Protective Effect of Marriage on Health: Instant or Cumulative, Short- or Long-Term?. [8th ESRA Conference, Zagrab, July 15th to July 19th, 2019] more
Mikucka, Malgorzata, Oliver Arránz Becker and Christof Wolf (2019): Protective effect of marriage on health: instant or cumulative, short- or long-term?. [16th Annual Meeting International Society For Quality-Of-Life Studies, Hong Kong, June 14th to June 16th, 2018] more