Stefan C. Wolter is Managing Director of the Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education in Aarau, Switzerland. He is also currently the Head of the Centre for Research in Economics of Education at the University of Berne. Having previously served as Senior Economist at the Union Bank of Switzerland, Chief Economist at the Federal Office for Industry and Labour and Head of Division at the Federal Office for Economic Development and Labour, Wolter brings into the network both a strong experience from policy advisory and implementation activities and from an important non-EU European country. Wolter received his Master and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Berne, where he also received his venia docendi in Economics. He has been Professor for Economics at the University of Applied Sciences, Berne; Visiting Scholar at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, United States; Guest Lecturer for Economics of Education at the University of Trier, Germany; Consultant to the Directorate for Education of the OECD, Paris; and Lecturer for Economics of Education at the Economics Department of the University of Berne. Wolter is a Research Fellow of IZA, sits on the Governing Board of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation of the OECD, is the Swiss representative on the OECD’s Education Committee, member of the Council of the European Educational Research Association, member of the Economics of Education Committee of the German Economic Association, President-elect of the Swiss Society for Research in Education and former member of the Swiss National Economic Council.
Wolter has researched widely in the economics of education, including topics such as labour-market returns to education, general educational finance, finance of universities, teacher labour markets, apprenticeship training and job mobility, educational transitions, students’ labour market expectations and sibling effects on student performance. He currently heads research projects on the costs and benefits of apprenticeship training and on the labour market for teachers in Switzerland. Wolter has contributed to the TSER research project PURE on Public Funding and Private Returns to Education, as well as to an EU-funded network of research documentation centres. Wolter will serve the network as an intermediary to research centres in the economics of education in Switzerland.
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