Ludger Woessmann

Research Fellow

Universität München

Ludger Woessmann is Director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education and Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. He is also Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Being interested in the determinants of long-term prosperity of mankind, his main research focus is in the economics of education, especially the importance of education for economic prosperity and the effects of school systems on educational achievement and equality of opportunity. He is Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academia Europaea, the Academic Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry of Economics, and the International Academy of Education.

He is co-editor of the Handbook of the Economics of Education and Joint Area Director for Economics of Education of the CESifo Network. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Science, and many others. Google Scholar lists over 49,000 citations to his research (h-index 91).

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in September 2001 and became a Research Fellow in December 2003.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14796
published in: Economic Policy, 2023, 38 (115), 609-668
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13820
published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 140, 103920
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13453
published as 'Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment across Countries' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (646), 2290-2307
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371
published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12971
Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2022, 17 (4), 608-640
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12249
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 523-543
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12217
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 304-326
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11799
published as 'Can Internet Surveys Represent the Entire Population? A Practitioners’ Analysis' in: European Journal of Political Economy 2023, 78, 102382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11683
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 13 October 2021
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