Gábor Hajdu

Gábor Hajdu
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Research Interests

Gábor Hajdu, PhD, is a senior research fellow at the ELTE Center of Social Sciences in Budapest. He earned his PhD in sociology from Eötvös Loránd University in 2015. He holds an MSc in Sociology and an MSc in Political Science, both from Eötvös Loránd University. His current research interests include the social determinants of subjective well-being, social inequalities, and the social effects of climate change.

Selected Publications

Hajdu, G. [2025]: Perceived income inequality, perceived unfairness and subjective social status in Europe. Socio-Economic Review, 23(2), 955-977. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae055

Hajdu, G., Hajdu T. [2024]: Does the unemployment rate moderate the well-being disadvantage of the unemployed? Within-region estimates from the European Social Survey. Kyklos, 77(1), 40-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12357

Hajdu, T., Hajdu, G. [2023]: Climate change and the mortality of the unborn. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 118,102771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102771

Hajdu, G., Hajdu, T. [2021]: The long-term impact of restricted access to abortion on children’s socioeconomic outcomes. PLoS ONE, 16(3): e0248638. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248638

Hajdu, T., Hajdu, G. [2021]: Post-conception heat exposure increases clinically unobserved pregnancy losses. Scientific Reports, 11(1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81496-x

Research Projects

Reproduction of social inequalities at the top of the class structure, NKFIH ADVANCED, 2026-2029, PI: Ákos Huszár

The impact of climate change on job supply and labor productivity, NKFIH ADVANCED, 2026-2029, PI: Tamás Hajdu

Social context, social inequalities, and subjective well-being, NKFIH FK, 2020-2024, PI: Gábor Hajdu

Climate change and human health in Hungary, NKFIH FK, 2020-2024, PI: Tamás Hajdu

The impact of micro and macro income inequalities on subjective well-being, János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2022-2025