Bernhard Schmidpeter is a Researcher at the RWI in Essen and Affiliated Researcher at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz (JKU). He completed his Ph.D. at the JKU. Before joining the RWI, he was a Researcher at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex.

His areas of interest include labor economics, family economics and applied microeconometrics.

Bernhard Schmidpeter joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in March 2020.