Dr. Tamás Keller

Tamás Keller, Ph.D., is an empirical sociologist who is specialized in the sociology of education using quantitative methods. He serves as a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest and at the Institute of Economics in the Center for Economic and Regional Studies in Budapest. His research explores the drivers of educational inequality, such as parental background, peer effects, and 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.