Research Interests
Tamás Keller earned his PhD in sociology at the Corvinus University of Budapest in 2010. He then served as a researcher at TÁRKI Social Research Institute. As an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral researcher, he worked first at the Free University Berlin within the chair of Public Economics, followed by a research stay at WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He returned to Hungary as junior core fellow at the Central European University’s Institute for Advanced Study. At the present he is a senior researcher at the Center for Educational and Network Studies in Centre for Social Sciences (TK) and is affiliated with the Institute of Economics at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK). His research explores the drivers of educational inequality such as parental background and peer effects as well as the role of non-cognitive skills. He leads and coordinates several large-scale, pre-registered randomized field experiments that shed light on the causal effects of these drivers.
Research Projects
2021 Scholarship for outstanding young scholars (ÚNKP-21-5-CORVINUS-132), awarded by the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, 6,700 EUR
2021-24 János Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for outstanding young scholars, 5,000 EUR/year
2020-24 Principal Investigator: “The use of randomized control trials in educational sociology” awarded by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Grant Number: K135766, 70,500 EUR
2020 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 10,000 EUR
2019 Scholarship for outstanding young scholars (ÚNKP-19-4-BCE-07), awarded by the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities, 6,700 EUR
2018 Scholarship for outstanding young scholars (ÚNKP-18-4-BCE-16), awarded by the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities, 6,700 EUR
2017-21 Principal Investigator: “Feasible Peer Effects—How Seat Neighbors Affect Educational Attainment in Hungary,” awarded by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Grant Number: FK-125358, 123,500 EUR
2017-20 János Bolyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for outstanding young scholars, 5,000 EUR/year
2016-17 Principal Investigator: “Effects of Peer-based Informational Campaigns on the Transition-to-secondary-education Decision,” awarded by the CERGE-EI Foundation under a program of the Global Development Network, Grant Number: RRC16+05, 6,270 USD
2016-17 Junior Core Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, 12,600 EUR
2015-16 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 32,000 EUR
2013-14 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 38,500 EUR
2012-15 Principal Investigator: “The Educational Outcomes of Pupil’s Self-confidence,” awarded by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Grant Number: PD-105976, 53,500 EUR
2009 Grant for Ph.D. Students, Gyula Rézler Foundation, 500 EUR
2003 Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic for outstanding masters students, 1000 EUR
