Ludger Wößmann is Professor of Economics, esp. Economics of Education, at the University of Munich. Since 2004, he heads the department of Human Capital and Innovation at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Germany. He previously worked in the research group on human capital and economic growth at the Kiel Institute for World Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kiel, an Advanced Studies Certificate of the Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research of the Kiel Institute, a Masters degree in economics from the University of Marburg and a University Diploma in economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He had visiting appointments at Harvard and Stanford Universities, among others and is Fellow of the International Academy of Education. Speaker of the Advisory Board, Swiss Leading House Economics of Education, Universities of Zurich and Bern. Member of the Questionnaire Expert Group of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009 cycle. Member of the Editorial Board, Economics of Education Review. Member of the National Educational Panel Study group, returns to education pillar.
He received the Choppin Memorial Award of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association and European Investment Bank Prize, among others. He is also a Research Fellow of both CESifo and IZA. In July 2003, he was invited as a Visiting Fellow to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. Wößmann was or is the principal investigator on Research projects for the European Commission, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank, German Science Foundation, among others. He has more than 100 scientific publications, including Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, Economic Journal, European Economic Review. He has covered topics such as the impact of families, resources and institutions on student performance, central-exam systems and school autonomy, student sorting, equality of educational opportunities, human capital and economic growth and labour-market returns to education in Europe, often using international evidence based on extensive student-level microdata like PISA or TIMMS.
With the coordination at the Ifo Institute, Wößmann will be supported by Martin Schlotter who is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the economics of education. Further experts in the economics of education in Munich who will lend their expertise to the project are Francesco Cinnirella, Oliver Falck and Guido Schwerdt who are Senior researchers in the economics of education working in the Department of Human Capital and Innovation headed by Ludger Wößmann; Erik Hornung, Elke Lüdemann and Marc Piopiunik who are Ph.D. sutdents in the economics of education in the same department. A further German expert in the economics of education affiliated to the project is Sascha Becker, who is Professor of Economcis at the University of Sterling, United Kingdom. He has several publications in the economics of education in journals like the Quarterly Journal of Economics or the Scandinavian Journal of Economics and has widely published in the whole economic literature. In geographical terms, Wößmann and his colleagues will cover Germany and Austria for the network.
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