Curriculum Vitae

Tamás Bartus

21 December 2014

PERSONAL DATA
Date of birth: 1969
Nationality: Hungarian
Civil status: married, 3 children

CURRENT POSITIONS
2013 - program director, Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University of
Budapest
2011- associate professor, vice-director, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy,
Corvinus University of Budapest.
2011- senior research fellow, Demographic Research Institute, HCSO

POSITIONS HELD

2004-2011 associate professor, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus

University Budapest
2001-2004 assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Budapest
University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
1996-2000 Assistant in Opleiding, Department of Sociology / Interuniversity Center for
Social Science Theory and Methodology, Groningen, The Netherlands

EDUCATION
2001 PhD in Sociology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Title of dissertation: Social Capital and Earnings Inequalities. The Role of
Informal Job Search in Hungary.
1994 MA in Economics, special field of Sociology, Budapest University of
Economics
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SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
2012 – European Association for Population Studies
2010 – Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy - editor
2008 – Hungarian Society of Economics
2003 – Hungarian Sociological Association

AWARDS AND HONORS

2009 – Kenneth Rice Award for Excellence in Teaching, received by the Corvinus University,
Budapest
2004 – Ferenc Erdei Award of the Hungarian Sociological Association

RESEARCH VISITS, SCHOLARSHIPS

2000: Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.), USA (6 weeks)
1996: University of Groningen, The Netherlands (5 months - TEMPUS)

RESEARCH PROJECTS
2014 - Mapping Family Transitions in Europe: complexities, causes, consequences and
contexts. OTKA K109397. researcher.
2010 – 2013 Wired into each other. Network Dynamics of Adolescents in the Light of Status
Competition, School Performance, Exclusion and Integration. National Science
Foundation (OTKA), grant number K 81336, principal researcher
2011 – 2013 Simulation studies on the effects of disclosure control on regression estimates in
micro-data
2010 – 2011. The Birthrate Paradox. Fertility Patterns among People with Secondary
Education in Hungary. GDN Regional Research Competiton, CERGE-EI, RRC-
X-19. principal researcher.
2007 – 2010 Spatial mismatch, social isolation and persistent unemployment in Hungary.
National Science Foundation (OTKA), grant number OTKA F 68693. principal
researcher.

TEACHING
Research Seminar (for doctoral students, both in Hungarian and English)
Quantitative Methodology (master level, Hungarian)
History of Sociology (bachelor level, in Hungarian)

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH

Spéder, Zsolt and Tamás Bartus. 2014: Educational Expansion, „Double Status Positions” and
the Transiton to Motherhood in Hungary. European Population Conference 2014.
Budapest, 25-28 June 2014.
Bartus, Tamás. 2014: Education and second births in Hungary: The mediating role of union
status. European Population Conference 2014. Budapest, 25-28 June 2014.
Bartus, Tamás L. Murinkó, I. Szalma and B. Szél. 2012: Effect of education on second births
in Hungary. A test of the partner effect hypothesis. European Population Conference, 2012,
Stockholm, 13-16 June, 2012
Bartus, Tamás. 2012. Can multilevel multiprocess models be estimated using Stata? A case for
the cmp command. 10th German Stata Users Group Meeting, Berlin, 1 June, 2012
Bartus, Tamás, L. Murinkó, I. Szalma and B. Szél. 2011. Education and fertility. Evidence from
the Hungarian GGP data. International Conference on Education and the Global Fertility
Transition, Bécs, 2011 november 30-december 1.
Bartus, Tamás, L. Murinkó, I. Szalma and B. Szél. 2011. Education and fertility. Evidence from
the Hungarian GGP data. 1st GGP User Conference, 2011 május 23-24, Budapest
Bartus, Tamás. 2010. Yet another program to create publication-quality tables. 2010 German
Stata Users Group meeting, Berlin, 25 June 2010.
Bartus, Tamás. 2008. Commuting time and wages. Evidence from Hungary. Annual conference
of the Hungarian Society of Economics Budapest, 18-19 December, 2008
Bartus, Tamás. 2006. Marginal effects and extending the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to
nonlinear models. 12th UK Stata User Group Meeting, London, 11-12 Septermber 2006
Bartus, Tamás. 2006. Commuting and Wages among low-skilled workers in Hungary.
Workshop on Labour Market Flexibility, Inter-firm and Inter-regional Mobility,
Regensburg, 28-29 July 2006
Bartus, Tamás. 2004. Commuting decisions in Hungary. Paper presented at the Workshop
"Regional Labour Market Adjustments in the Accession Candidate Countries. Analysing
and Modelling Inter-regional Migration”, Vienna, 28 June
Bartus, Tamás. 2003. Estimation of average marginal effects using MARGIN. 9th UK Stata
User Group Meeting, London, 19-20 May
Bartus, Tamás. 2000. Social capital, informal job search, and labor market outcomes in
Hungary. 20th Conference of the International Network of Social Network Analysis,
Vancouver, Canada, 12-18 April

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PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH

Journal Articles
Bartus, Tamás and David Roodman. 2014. Estimation of multiprocess survival models with
cmp. The Stata Journal, 14 (4): 756-777.
Bartus, Tamás. 2014. The Effect of Data Swapping Procedures on Regression Estimates.
Evidence from a Simulation Study. Hungarian Statistical Review, 92 (special number 18)
Bartus, T., Murinkó, Lívia, Szalma, Ivett and Szél, Bernadett. 2013. The effect of education on
second births in Hungary: A test of the time-squeeze, self-selection and partner-effect
hypotheses. Demographic Research 28 (1): 1-32. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2013.28.
Bartus, T. 2011. Commuting time, wages and reimbursement of travel costs. Evidence from
Hungary. Review of Sociology of the Hungarian Sociological Association 21 (4): 72-94.
Bartus, T. 2005. Estimation of marginal effects using margeff. The Stata Journal, 5 (3): 309-
329.
Bartus, T. 2003. “Informal Job Search and Job Opportunities among Secondary-School Leavers
in Hungary.” Review of Sociology of the Hungarian Sociological Association 9 (2): 5-26.
Bartus, T. 2001. “Social Capital, Informal Job Search, and Labor Market Outcomes in
Hungary.” Connections 23 (1): 72-83.

Books, Chapters
Bartus, T. 2012. Commuting and Spatial Variation in Employment. In: Károly Fazekas and
Ágota Scharle (eds.): From Pensions to Public Works. Hungarian Employment Policy
from 1990 to 2010. Budapest: Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis and Institute of
Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 243-258.
Bartus, T. 2011. Travel time and the urban-rural wage differential. Pp. 136-139 in The
Hungarian Labour Market – Review and Analysis 2011, ed. by Károly Fazekas and
György Molnár. Institute of Economics, IE HAS, National Employment Foundation,
Budapest, 2011.
Bartus, T. 2005. Do Informal Job Searchers Get a Good Job? Evidence from Hungary. In: R.
Bosman és S. Waslander (szerk.): „Kamer der meergevorderden…” Opstellen
aangebooden aan Jules Peschar door zijn promovendi ter gelegenheid van zijn afschied als
hoogleraar sociologie. Groningen, Vakgroep Sociologie RUG, 2005, 107-111.
Bartus, T. 2004. Commuting. In: Fazekas Károly (szerk.): The Hungarian Labour Market:
Review and Analysis 2004, Budapest, MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2004,
81-93.
Bartus, T. 2001. Social Capital and Earnings Inequalities. The Role of Informal Job Search in
Hungary. University of Groningen (PhD dissertation)

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PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES IN HUNGARIAN

2012 Iskolázottság és termékenység. [Education and Fertility] Hazai népesedési
problémák és európai perspektívák, Budapest, 2012 november 26.
2012 A felfedés elleni védelem statisztikai következményei. [Statistical effects of
disclosure control] Workshop on access to microdata and disclosure control.
Budapest, 6 November 2012.
2006 Ingázás és munkanélküliség Magyarországon. Kísérlet a kiegyenlítő
bérkülönbségek mérésére [Commuting, compensating wage differentials and
unemployment in Hungary.] Conference for the memory of Rudolf Andorka,
Budapest, 9-10 October 2006
2002 Social capital, informal job search and earnings in Hungary. Annual meeting of
the Hungarian Sociological Association, Szeged, 12-13 December
2002 Against the odds ratio. The interpretation of categorical regression models.
Conference for the memory of László Bertalan, Budapest, 25-26 March

PUBLICATIONS IN HUNGARIAN

Journal Articles
Bartus, T. 2003. Oksági kapcsolatok erejének mérése kontingenciatáblákban: az esélyhányados
problémái és a hatásnagyság. [Measurement of the strength of causal relationships in
contingency tables: the problems of odds ratio and the effect size.] Szociológiai Szemle,
Issue 2, 42-58.
Bartus, T. 2003. Logisztikus regressziós modellek értelmezése. [The interpretation of logistic
regression models.] Statisztikai Szemle, 81: 328-347.

Books, chapters
Bartus, T. 2012. Területi különbségek és ingázás. [Commuting and Spatial Variation in
Employment] In: Fazekas Károly és Scharle Ágota (szerk.): Nyugdíj, segély, közmunka.
A magyar foglalkoztatáspolitika két évtizede, 1990-2010. Budapest: Budapest
Szakpolitikai Elemző Intézet és MTA KR TK Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet: 247-258.
Bartus, T. 2009. Magyarázatok és elméletek a szociológiában. Egy problémaorientált
megközelítés. [Explanations and theories in sociology: a problem-oriented approach]
Budapest, Aula Kiadó
Bartus, T. 2010. Elérési idő és a falu-város bérkülönbség. [Travel time and the urban-rural wage
differential] In: Fazekas Károly – Molnár György (szerk.): Munkaerőpiaci Tükör 2010,
Budapest, MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Intézet, Országos Foglalkoztatási Közalapítvány,
Budapest, 2010, 145-148.

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Bartus, T. 2008. Városok elérhetősége és a falusi munkanélküliség [Accessibility of towns and

rural unemployment], A 60 éves Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetem. A jubileiumi
tudományos konferencia alkalmából készült tanulmányok. Társadalomtudományi Kar.
Aula, 2008, 335-348
Gábos András és Bartus Tamás. 2008. Demográfiai alkalmazkodás: szüléstörténetek a
rendszerváltást követő időszakban. [Birth histories during transition] In: Kolosi Tamás és
Tóth-István György (szerk.): Újratervezés. Életutak és alkalmazkodás a rendszerváltás
évtizedeiben. Budapest, TÁRKI, 2008, 87-104.
Bartus, T. 2004. Oksági kapcsolatok erejének mérése kontingenciatáblákban: az esélyhányados
problémái és a hatásnagyság. [Measurement of the strength of causal relationships in
contingency tables: the problems of odds ratio and the effect size.] pp. 106-123 in
Metodológia, társadalom, gazdaság. In memoriam Bertalan László, ed. by Dezső Helmich
and Zoltán Szántó, Budapest, Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány, 2004
Bartus, T. 2003. Ingázás [Commuting]. pp. 88-101 in: Munkaerőpiaci Tükör 2003. ed. by
Károly Fazekas, Budapest, MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2003
Bartus, T. 2003. Fontosabb tendenciák: 1988-2002 [Main tendencies: 1988-2002]. pp. 27-65 in
Észak-Magyarország gazdasági helyzete, 1990-2001. Adatok, tendenciák, elemzések, ed.
by János I. Tóth, Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Iparkamara, Gazdaság- és
Vállalkozáselemzési Intézet

Book Reviews
Bartus, T. 2004. Victor R. Fuchs: A nemek közötti gazdasági egyenlőtlenségekről. [Victor R.
Fuchs: Women’s Quest for Status] BUKSZ 16: 165-169.

Miscellaneous
2006 „Elérhetőségi elemzések” [Accessibility in Hungary] Background paper for the
Hungarian National Development Office.
2005 Co-author in the report „Fejlesztéspolitikák társadalmi hatásai 2. A
fejlesztéspolitikai intézkedések társadalmi hatásainak vizsgálata” [Social
consequences of development
2002 Background paper for the research report "Labor-market prospects in county
Somogy". WARGO Economic Research Institute

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