Detail

Project Director

christoph.kern@uni-mannheim.de

Phone:

Postal Address

MZES

80539 Mannheim

Visiting Address

MZES

Room:

Mannheim

Projects collapse

Social Inequality

Social Data and Methods

1908

CAIUS: Consequences of AI-Based Decision Making for Urban Societies

Fairness in Automated Decision-Making—FairADM

Social Data and Methods

2206

Prediction-based Adaptive Designs for Panel Surveys

Publications expand

Monographie

Kern, Christoph (2017): Dyadische Analyse regionaler Arbeitsmarktmobilität: Modellierung von Entscheidungsprozessen im Mehrebenenkontext. More

Book Chapter

Kim, Brian , Christoph Kern , Jonathan Morgan , Clayton Hunter , Avishek Kumar (2021): Workbooks. More

Kern, Christoph , Richard Williams (2020): Machine Learning Interpretation Tools. More

Kolb, Jan-Philipp , Bernd Weiss , Christoph Kern (2020): Using predictive modelling to identify panel nonresponse. More

Journal Article

Kern, Christoph , Michael P. Kim , Angela Zhou (9998): Multi-accurate CATE is robust to unknown covariate shifts. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, pp. (publ. online before print) pp. 1-59. More

Collins, John James , Christoph Kern (9998): Longitudinal Nonresponse Prediction with Time Series Machine Learning. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, pp. (publ. online before print). More

Kern, Christoph , Ruben L. Bach , Hannah Mautner , Frauke Kreuter (2024): When Small Decisions Have Big Impact: Fairness Implications of Algorithmic Profiling Schemes. ACM Journal of Responsible Computing, 1, 4, pp. (article no. 24), pp. 1-30. More

Classe, Franz , Christoph Kern (2024): Detecting Differential Item Functioning in Multidimensional Graded Response Models with Recursive Partitioning. Applied Psychological Measurement, 48, 3, pp. 83-103. More

Fischer-Abaigar, Unai , Christoph Kern , Noam Barda , Frauke Kreuter (2024): Bridging the gap: Towards an expanded toolkit for AI-driven decision-making in the public sector. Government Information Quarterly, 41, 4, pp. (article no.101976), pp. 1-22. More

Schenk, Patrick Oliver , Christoph Kern (2024): Connecting algorithmic fairness to quality dimensions in machine learning in official statistics and survey production. AStA Wirtschafts-und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, 18, 2, pp. 131-184. More

Classe, Franz , Christoph Kern (2024): Latent Variable Forests for Latent Variable Score Estimation. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 84, 6, pp. 1138-1172. More

Bach, Ruben L. , Christoph Kern , Hannah Mautner , Frauke Kreuter (2023): The impact of modeling decisions in statistical profiling. Data & Policy, 5, pp. (article-no. e32), pp. 1-19. More

Kern, Christoph , Bernd Weiss , 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, 1, pp. 100-123. More

Kern, Christoph , Frederic Gerdon , Ruben L. Bach , Florian Keusch , Frauke Kreuter (2022): Humans versus machines: Who is perceived to decide fairer? Experimental evidence on attitudes toward automated decision-making. Patterns, 3, 10, pp. (article no. 100591) e-only. More

Silber, Henning , Frederic Gerdon , Ruben L. Bach , Christoph Kern , Florian Keusch , 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, 2, pp. 161–181. More

Kuppler, Matthias , Christoph Kern , Ruben L. Bach , 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, pp. (article no. 883999), pp. 1-18. More

Bach, Ruben L. , Christoph Kern , Denis Bonnay , 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, S2, pp. S246-S269. More

Kim, Michael P. , Christoph Kern , Shafi Goldwasser , Frauke Kreuter , Omer Reingold (2022): Universal adaptability: Target-independent inference that competes with propensity scoring. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, 4, pp. (article no. e2108097119), pp. 1-6. More

Gerdon, Frederic , Ruben L. Bach , Christoph Kern , 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

Erlinghagen, Marcel , Christoph Kern , Petra Stein (2021): Migration, Social Stratification and Dynamic Effects on Subjective Well Being. Advances in Life Course Research, 48, June 2021, pp. (article no. 100393). More

Kern, Christoph , Yan Li , Lingxiao Wang (2021): Boosted Kernel Weighting - Using Statistical Learning to Improve Inference From Nonprobability Samples. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 9, 5, pp. 1088–1113. More

Pfisterer, Florian , Christoph Kern , Susanne Dandl , Matthew Sun , Michael P. Kim , Bernd Bischl (2021): mcboost: Multi-Calibration Boosting for R. Journal of Open Source Software, 6, 64, pp. (article no. 3453). 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 , Elizabeth A. Stuart (2021): Global Trends and Predictors of Face Mask Usage During the COVID-19 Pandemic. BMC Public Health, 21, pp. (article no. 2099). [ Ithaca, NY, ] More

Kern, Christoph , Jan Karem Höhne , Stephan Schlosser , Melanie Revilla (2021): Completion Conditions and Response Behavior in Smartphone Surveys: A Prediction Approach Using Acceleration Data. Social Science Computer Review, 39, 6, pp. 1253–1271. More

Bach, Ruben L. , Christoph Kern , Ashley Amaya , Florian Keusch , Frauke Kreuter , Jan Hecht , Jonathan Heinemann (2021): Predicting voting behavior using digital trace data. Social Science Computer Review, 39, 5, pp. 862–883. More

Kern, Christoph , Thomas Klausch , Frauke Kreuter (2019): Tree-based machine learning methods for survey research. Survey Research Methods, 13, 1, pp. 73-93. More

Kern, Christoph , Petra Stein (2018): Modelling Decision-Making Processes of Regional Mobility in a Dyadic Framework. European Sociological Review, 34, 4, pp. 433-451. More

Kern, Christoph (2015): Modeling mobility dispositions from a multilevel perspective. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 135, 1, pp. 23-34. More

Kern, Christoph , Petra Stein (2015): Comparing coefficients of nonlinear multivariate regression models between equations. Survey Research Methods, 9, 3, pp. 159-167. More

Presentation

Gerdon, Frederic , Ruben L. Bach , Christoph Kern , Frauke Kreuter (2024): Research Avenues for Studying Effects of Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems on Social Inequality. More

Kern, Christoph , Frederic Gerdon , Ruben L. Bach , Florian Keusch , Frauke Kreuter (2023): Humans vs. Machines: Who is Perceived to Decide Fairer? An Experiment about Citizens’ Attitudes. More

Gerdon, Frederic , Daria Szafran , Jakob Kappenberger , Ruben L. Bach , Christoph Kern (2023): Using survey experiments and agent-based modeling to simulate mobility behavior in smart cities. More

Silber, Henning , Frederic Gerdon , Ruben L. Bach , Christoph Kern , Florian Keusch , 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. More

Silber, Henning , Frederic Gerdon , Ruben L. Bach , Christoph Kern , Florian Keusch , Frauke Kreuter (2021): A vignette experiment on determinants of health data sharing behavior: Willingness to donate sensor data, medical records, and biomarkers. More

Gerdon, Frederic , Christoph Kilian Theil , Christoph Kern , Ruben L. Bach , Frauke Kreuter , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Kai Eckert (2020): Exploring Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Urban Societies with Social Simulations. More

Report

Höhne, Jan Karem , Christoph Kern , Konstantin Gavras , Stephan Schlosser (2022): The Sound of Respondents: Predicting Respondents’ Level of Interest with Voice Data in Smartphone Surveys. More

Kaiser, Patrick , Christoph Kern , David Rügamer (2022): Uncertainty-aware predictive modeling for fair data-driven decisions. More

Shunk, Graham , Xavier Gomez , Christoph Kern , Nils Averesch (2021): A Self-Replicating Radiation-Shield for Human Deep-Space Exploration: Radiotrophic Fungi can Attenuate Ionizing Radiation aboard the International Space Station. More

Kern, Christoph , Ruben L. Bach , Hannah Mautner , Frauke Kreuter (2021): Fairness in Algorithmic Profiling: A German Case Study. More

Kuppler, Matthias , Christoph Kern , Ruben L. Bach , Frauke Kreuter (2021): Distributive Justice and Fairness Metrics in Automated Decision-making: How Much Overlap Is There?. More

Kern, Christoph , Bernd Weiß , Jan-Philipp Kolb (2019): A Longitudinal Framework for Predicting Nonresponse in Panel Surveys. More

Erlinghagen, Marcel , Christoph Kern , Petra Stein (2019): Internal migration, social stratiﬁcation and dynamic effects on subjective well being. More

Kern, Christoph , Petra Stein (2016): Effect comparison in multilevel structural equation models with non-metric outcomes. More

Kern, Christoph (2014): Regional Structures and Mobility Dispositions: A Multilevel Proportional- & Partial-Proportional Odds Approach. More

Kern, Christoph

Projects collapse

Social Inequality

Social Data and Methods

1908

Social Data and Methods

2206

Publications expand

Monographie

Book Chapter

Journal Article

Presentation

Report

Visiting address

Postal address

News

The MZES

Projects

Publications

People