Publications

Please find below my published articles, book chapters, reports and other writing, as well as work in progress. Many of them are published open access . Otherwise, just drop me a one-liner by clicking on the icon. You can access replication materials, if available, by clicking on .

Journal Articles

Nennstiel, R. and König, C. (2026) “The thermostat of opportunity: Home air conditioning, its social gradient, and educational consequences,” Energy Research & Social Science, 138, p. 104785. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104785.

König, C., Salomo, K. and Helbig, M. (2026) “Understanding Variation in Neighbourhood Environmental Inequalities: The Influence of Residential Segregation, Gentrification, and other City-Level Factors,” Urban Studies. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251412793.

König, C. (2024) “Neighbourhood structure and environmental quality: A fine-grained analysis of spatial inequalities in urban Germany,” Urban Studies, 61(10), pp. 1968–1989. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231224224.

Book Chapters and Reports

König, C., Biegert, T., Heisig, J.P. and Solga, H. (2025) “Explorative analysis of the short- and longer-term effects of economic conditions at labor market entry on leaving the parental home and family formation,” Mapineq Deliverable D4.3, Horizon Europe project “Mapping inequalities through the life course”. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15585190.

König, C. and Heisig, J.P. (2023) “Environmental inequality and health outcomes over the life course,” in R. Hoffmann (ed.) Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 327–348. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888166.00030.

Heisig, J.P., König, C. and Solga, H. (2022) “Arbeit und Beschäftigung,” in Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Bonn: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales. Available at: https://www.bmas.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/Forschungsberichte/fb-598-abschlussbericht-repraesentativumfrage-teilhabe.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2.

Heisig, J.P., König, C. and Solga, H. (2022) “Bildung,” in Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Bonn: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales. Available at: https://www.bmas.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/Forschungsberichte/fb-598-abschlussbericht-repraesentativumfrage-teilhabe.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2.

Heisig, J.P., König, C. and Solga, H. (2022) “Ökonomische Situation und materielle Sicherheit,” in Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Bonn: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales. Available at: https://www.bmas.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/Forschungsberichte/fb-598-abschlussbericht-repraesentativumfrage-teilhabe.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2.

Heisig, J.P., König, C. and Löbl, S. (2021) “Ängste, Sorgen und psychische Gesundheit in der Corona-Pandemie,” in B. Badura, A. Ducki, H. Schröder, and M. Meyer (eds.) Fehlzeiten-Report 2021. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 149–161. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63722-7_8.

Other Writing

Heisig, J.P. and König, C. (2021) “Dicke Luft – Arme Haushalte und Menschen ohne deutschen Pass leben häufiger in Gegenden mit hoher Umweltbelastung,” WZB Mitteilungen, 173, pp. 16–19.

Heisig, J.P. and König, C. (2020) “Das Virus ist nicht demokratisch – Soziale Ungleichheit prägt den Verlauf der Infektion,” WZB Mitteilungen, 168, pp. 39–41.

Heisig, J.P. and König, C. (2020) “Wie und warum die gesundheitlichen Folgen vom sozialen Status abhängen,” in Corona und die gesellschaftlichen Folgen – Schlaglichter aus der WZB-Forschung. Berlin: WZB.

Work in Progress

“Consumption, Not Commutes: Explaining the Central Residential Concentration of Tertiary-Educated Individuals in Germany” (with Sarah George, Marcel Helbig, and Sebastian Steinmetz). Under review.

“Where Is the City Center? How Computational Centrality Measures Shape Findings in Urban Inequality Research” (with Sarah George, Marcel Helbig, and Sebastian Steinmetz). Under review.

“The Social Stratification of Luck: How the Consequences of Macroeconomic Conditions at Labor Market Entry Vary by Gender, Education, and Institutional Context” (with Thomas Biegert, Jan Paul Heisig, and Heike Solga). Earlier version available as working paper: König, C., Biegert, T., Heisig, J.P. and Solga, H. (2025) “Cross-national analysis of the short- and longer-term effects of conditions at labor market entry.” https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15349521.

“Environmental Quality, Local Infrastructures, and Residential Choice: A Survey Experiment on Ethnic Differences in Neighborhood Preferences” (with Jan Paul Heisig, Tobias Rüttenauer, Merlin Schaeffer, and Jonas Wiedner).

“Ethnic Differences in Environmental Quality and Educational Outcomes in Italy” (with Risto Conte Keivabu, Fabrizio Bernardi, and Jan Paul Heisig).

“Residential Environmental Quality and Health: Effect Heterogeneity by Socioeconomic Status and Migration Background.”