Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Nadia Steiber

T: +43-1-4277-49290

nadia.steiber@univie.ac.at

http://www.soz.univie.ac.at/nadia-steiber

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Positions:
Professor of Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods (since October 2020)

Team: https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/forschung/forschungsteams/team-steiber/

Main areas of research:
Social stratification and social inequality, education and social mobility, work & employment, family sociology, age & ageing societies, well-being/health, life course, quantitative methods.

Current research projects:
FAMREG: https://famreg.univie.ac.at/
STEMPATH: https://sites.google.com/view/stempaths-project
R2R-From Registers to Research: https://registers2research.github.io/

Curriculum Vitae - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nadia Steiber

Professional Experience

Professor of Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna (since 10/2020)
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (since 10/2020)
Senior Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (2018-2020)
Research Scholar, IIASA World Population Program, Laxenburg (2014-2019)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Sociology, University of Vienna (2013-2018)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Inst. for Sociology and Empirical Social Research, Vienna University of Economics (2012-2013)
Marie Curie Fellow, European University Institute (EUI), Florence (2010-2012)
Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute (EUI), Florence (2009-2010)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Inst. for Sociology and Empirical Social Research, Vienna University of Economics (2008-2009)
Visiting researcher, Helsinki University (2001)
Visiting researcher, Helsinki University (1999)

Education / Qualifications

Doctoral studies in Sociology (DPhil), Nuffield College, Oxford University (2002-2007)
Degree study programme Sociology, University of Vienna (1996-2001)

Main areas of research

Social stratification and social inequality, education and social mobility, work & employment, family sociology, age & ageing societies, well-being/health, life course, quantitative methods

Valdés, M. T., & Steiber, N. (2026). Is educational assortative mating passed down through generations? Evidence from Europe. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 105, Article 101189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2026.101189

Steiber, N., Lebedinski, L., Liedl, B., & Winter-Ebmer, R. (2026). Educational hypogamy is associated with a smaller child penalty on women's earnings. Social Science Research, 135, Article 103327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103327

Metzger, S., Steiber, N., Baranowska-Rataj, A., & Zilian, L. (2026, Feb 9). The social gradient in infant health from a couple-level perspective: Revisiting the heterogamy penalty hypothesis. OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/r3tbx_v1

Steiber, N., & Siegert, C. (2026). Educational hypogamy and gender equality within couples: A review of competing hypotheses and evidence from the Generations and Gender Survey. European Sociological Review, Article jcaf059. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf059

Valdés Fernández, M. T., & Steiber, N. (2025). Do Daughters gain from Hypogamy and Sons from Hypergamy? Parental Heterogamy and Children’s Educational Outcomes. OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/yq3ub_v1

Mlynek, M., Mühlböck, M., & Steiber, N. (2025). Out of work, out of spirit? The effects of unemployment duration on young people’s intrinsic work motivation. Social Indicators Research.

Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., Akdeniz, E., Alvarez-Benjumea, A., Andersen, H. K., Auer, D., Azevedo, F., Bahnsen, O., Bai, L., Balzer, D., Bauer, P. C., Bauer, G., Baumann, M., Baute, S., Benoit, V., Bernauer, J., ... Nguyen, H. H. V. (2025). The reliability of replications: A study in computational reproductions. Royal Society Open Science, 12(3), Article 241038. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241038

Achterhold, E., Mühlböck, M., Steiber, N., & Kern, C. (2025). Fairness in Algorithmic Profiling: The AMAS Case. Minds and Machines, 35(1), 1-30. Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-024-09706-9

Lebedinski, L., Liedl, B., Skirbekk, V., Steiber, N., & Winter-Ebmer, R. (2025). Faith and the Child Penalty: Religious Affiliation and Gendered Earnings Losses After Childbirth. http://www.economics.jku.at/papers/2025/wp2507.pdf

Steiber, N., & Siegert, C. (2024). The impact of educational hypogamy on gender equality within couples: A theoretical framework and evidence from the Gender and Generations Survey. OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/eu9rp_v1

Steiber, N., Lebedinski, L., Liedl, B., & Winter-Ebmer, R. (2024). Educational hypogamy is associated with a smaller child penalty on women's earnings. Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Discussion paper series / IZA Vol. 17380 https://docs.iza.org/dp17380.pdf

Liedl, B., & Steiber, N. (2024). Führen Online-Befragungen zu anderen Ergebnissen als persönliche Interviews? Eine Schätzung von Moduseffekten am Beispiel eines Mixed-Mode Surveys. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ÖZS), 49(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-023-00532-4

Vogtenhuber, S., Steiber, N., & Mühlböck, M. (2024). The lasting earnings losses of COVID-19 short-time work. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 89, Article 100889. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/p2qvh, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100889

Steiber, N. (2024). Aging Workers and the Quality of Life. In F. Maggino (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (2 ed., pp. 134-139). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_58

Steiber, N., & Haas, B. (2023). Working Conditions and Retirement Preferences: The Role of Health and Subjective Age as Mediating Variables in the Association of Poor Job Quality with Early Retirement. In N. Burnay, J. Ogg, C. Krekula, & P. Vendramin (Eds.), Older Workers and Labour Markt Exclusion Processes: A Life Course Perspective (pp. 133-160). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11272-0_8

Schmidt, A. E., Rodrigues, R., Simmons, C., & Steiber, N. (2022). A crisis like no other? Unmet needs in healthcare during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis in Austria. European Journal of Public Health, 32(6), 969-975. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac136

Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., Nguyen, H. H. V., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., Alvarez-Benjumea, A., Andersen, H. K., Auer, D., Azevedo, F., Bahnsen, O., Balzer, D., Bauer, G., Bauer, P. C., Baumann, M., Baute, S., Benoit, V., Bernauer, J., Berning, C., ... Żółtak, T. (2022). Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(44), Article e2203150119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203150119

Scherbov, S., Spitzer, S., & Steiber, N. (2022). Thresholds for clinical practice that directly link handgrip strength to remaining years of life: estimates based on longitudinal observational data. BMJ Open, 12(7), Article e058489. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058489

Mühlböck, M., Kalleitner, F., Steiber, N., & Kittel, B. (2022). Scarring Dreams? Young People's Vocational Aspirations and Expectations During and After Unemployment. Social Inclusion, 10(2), 252-264. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i2.5162

Mühlböck, M., Steiber, N., & Kittel, B. (2022). Learning to keep the faith? Further education and perceived employability among young unemployed. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43(2), 705-725. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X20944211

From Registers to Research: Building an AMDC-based Household Panel (R2R)

Mühlböck, M. (Project Lead), Steiber, N. (Project Lead) & Liedl, B. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/07/26 → 30/06/28

Project: Research funding

Gendered STEM Pathways: The Role of Family in Women's Field Choice and Career Persistence (STEMPATHS)

Valdés Fernández, M. T. (Project Lead), Zilian, L. (Co-Lead), Steiber, N. (Co-Lead) & Liedl, B. (Admin)

1/04/26 → 30/09/28

Project: Research funding

FAMREG: Family outcomes of assortative mating: New insights based on couple-level survey/register data

Steiber, N. (Project Lead), Baranowska-Rataj, A. (Co-Lead), Striessnig, E. (Co-Lead), Liedl, B. (Scientific Project Staff), Metzger, S. (Scientific Project Staff), Sandow, E. (Scientific Project Staff), Siegert, C. (Scientific Project Staff) & Zilian, L. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/01/24 → 31/12/28

Project: Research funding

HYPOFAM: The rise of hypogamy and its consequences for family life

Steiber, N. (Project Lead), Winter-Ebmer, R. (Co-Lead), Berghammer, C. (Scientific Project Staff), Lebedinski, L. (Scientific Project Staff), Liedl, B. (Scientific Project Staff), Metzger, S. (Scientific Project Staff), Siegert, C. (Scientific Project Staff), Trimarchi, A. (Scientific Project Staff) & Valdés Fernández, M. T. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/01/22 → 31/07/26

Project: Research funding

Pathways to the Future - The Social Integration of Young People in Vienna

Flecker, J. (Project Lead), Astleithner, F. (Scientific Project Staff), Jesser, A. (Co-Lead), Kazepov, Y. A. K. (Co-Lead), Kogler, R. (Scientific Project Staff), Malschinger, P. (Scientific Project Staff), Mataloni, B. (Scientific Project Staff), Mijic, A. (Co-Lead), Molina Xaca, C. (Scientific Project Staff), Neuhauser, J. (Co-Lead), Parzer, M. (Co-Lead), Petrik, T. (Scientific Project Staff), Pohn-Lauggas, M. (Co-Lead), Reinprecht, C. (Co-Lead), Schels, B. K. (Co-Lead), Schlechter, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Schmidt, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Steiber, N. (Co-Lead), Valls Casas, O. (Scientific Project Staff), Vogl, S. (Co-Lead), Wöhrer, V. (Co-Lead), Zartler, U. (Co-Lead) & Rieder, I. (Admin)

1/12/16 → 31/12/22

Project: Research cooperation

Local Mating Markets and Partnership Formation: The Role of Education-Specific Mating Squeezes

Zilian, L. (Speaker), Steiber, N. (Contributor) & Striessnig, E. (Contributor)

20 May 2026 → 22 May 2026

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science