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Ludger Woessmann is Professor of Economics, especially Economics of Education, at the University of Munich, and Head of the Department Human Capital and Innovation at Ifo Institute for Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from Kiel University and his Habilitation from Technical University Munich, and he holds degrees from the Universities of Kent at Canterbury, Marburg, and the Advanced Studies Program at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, where he also worked before moving to Munich.
His main research interests are in the economics of education, with special focus on microeconometric analyses of international student achievement tests, in the determinants of economic growth, and in economic history. His research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Economic Journal, and the European Economic Review. He has been the 2009/10 National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and has spent extended research visits at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Education and Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Currently, he coordinates the EU-funded European Expert Network on the Economics of Education (EENEE), a forum to promote and disseminate research on the Economics of Education in Europe.
He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in September 2001 and became a Research Fellow in December 2003. |
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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Sascha O. Becker
Ludger Woessmann
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
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| 6889 |
Marc Piopiunik
Guido Schwerdt
Ludger Woessmann
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
(forthcoming in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013) |
| 6829 |
Sascha O. Becker
Francesco Cinnirella
Erik Hornung
Ludger Woessmann
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iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database
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| 6185 |
Eric A. Hanushek
Susanne Link
Ludger Woessmann
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
(forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics) |
| 6083 |
Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Lei Zhang
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
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Sascha O. Becker
Ludger Woessmann
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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide
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Stefan Bauernschuster
Oliver Falck
Ludger Woessmann
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
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Sascha O. Becker
Katrin Boeckh
Christa Hainz
Ludger Woessmann
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The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
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Guido Schwerdt
Dolores Messer
Ludger Woessmann
Stefan C. Wolter
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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (7-8), 569-583) |
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Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
(published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (67), 427-491) |
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (3), 404-418) |
| 5024 |
Oliver Falck
Ludger Woessmann
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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
(forthcoming in: Small Business Economics) |
| 4999 |
Johannes Metzler
Ludger Woessmann
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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 486 - 496) |
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Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110(2), 79-82) |
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Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, pp. 89-200, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2011) |
| 4725 |
Martin Schlotter
Guido Schwerdt
Ludger Woessmann
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Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices: A Non-Technical Guide
(published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (2), 109-137) |
| 4576 |
Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512) |
| 4575 |
Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Growth) |
| 4557 |
Sascha O. Becker
Francesco Cinnirella
Ludger Woessmann
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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204) |
| 4556 |
Sascha O. Becker
Erik Hornung
Ludger Woessmann
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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
(published as 'Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution' in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 92-126) |
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Sascha O. Becker
Ludger Woessmann
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Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 777–805) |
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Martin R. West
Ludger Woessmann
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"Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(546), F229-F255) |
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Sascha O. Becker
Ludger Woessmann
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596) |
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Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2010, 230 (2), 234-270) |
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Gabriela Schütz
Heinrich W. Ursprung
Ludger Woessmann
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Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308) |
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Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (510), C63-C76) |
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Thomas Fuchs
Ludger Woessmann
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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464) |
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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70) |
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Andreas Ammermueller
Hans Heijke
Ludger Woessmann
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Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 579-599) |
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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
(published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (3), 331-353) |
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Martin R. West
Ludger Woessmann
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (4), 944-968) |
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Ludger Woessmann
Martin R. West
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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 695-736) |
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John H. Bishop
Ludger Woessmann
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Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production
(published in: Education Economics, 2004, 12 (1), 17-38) |
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