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Ludger Woessmann

Ludger Woessmann

Research Fellow

Universität München

woessmann@ifo.de

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economic history economics of education growth economics human capital

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 Discussion Papers World of Labour Articles IZA Standpunkte

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18247

Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks

Alexander Bertermann, Wolfgang Dauth, Jens Suedekum, Ludger Woessmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17991

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills

Frauke Baumeister, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17896

Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap

David Dorn, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher, Lisa Simon, Ludger Woessmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17395

Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2025, 17, 397-425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16494

Religion and Growth

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (3), 1094–1142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16458

Can Patience Account For Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests

Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Pietro Sancassani, Ludger Woessmann

published online as 'Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital: Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests' in: Economic Journal, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15648

Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Sarah Gust, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 166, 103205

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14991

Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann

forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14989

Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

W. Benjamin Arold, Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14796

The Legacy of COVID-19 in Education

Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Policy, 2023, 38 (115), 609-668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14386

Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition: Evidence from Representative Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104968

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14097

Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects

Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 1013-1062

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13820

COVID-19 and Educational Inequality: How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow

published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 140, 103920

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13453

Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann

published as 'Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment across Countries' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (646), 2290-2307

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann

published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13032

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020, 34 (2), 143-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12971

Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

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. 12749

Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63, 101876

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12249

Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 523-543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12217

Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs: Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

Elisabeth Grewenig, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 304-326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12175

The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann

now IZA Discussion Papers 14386 and 14991

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11799

Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Lisa Simon, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

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. 11730

Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11683

Testing

Annika B. Bergbauer, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 349-388

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11608

Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Alexander M. Danzer, Carsten Feuerbaum, Marc Piopiunik, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1297 - 1344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11453

Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economica, 2021, 88(351), 624-670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11283

Skills, Signals, and Employability: An Experimental Investigation

Marc Piopiunik, Guido Schwerdt, Lisa Simon, Ludger Woessmann

published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 123, 103374

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10948

Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: M.R. West, L. Woessmann (eds.), Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy around the World, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, 205-243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10357

How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10298

Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC

Franziska Hampf, Ludger Woessmann

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2017, 63 (3), 255-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10249

Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 153, 15-19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10001

The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (3), 3-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9968

Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9555

Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (4), 447-486

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9130

Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States

Eric A. Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9122

The Information Value of Central School Exams

Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 65-79

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8939

Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement

Oliver Falck, Constantin Mang, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (1), 1-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8016

Education Promoted Secularization

Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann

published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7850

Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann

published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 73, 103-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7151

Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6889

Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Marc Piopiunik, Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 31, 93-108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6829

iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Erik Hornung, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Historical Methods, 2014, 47(2), 57-66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6185

Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Eric A. Hanushek, Susanne Link, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, 212-232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6083

General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann, Lei Zhang

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (1), 48-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5773

Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann

published as 'Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide 'in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(3), 377-391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5747

Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 73-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5584

The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Sascha O. Becker, Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (590), 40-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5431

Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Guido Schwerdt, Dolores Messer, Ludger Woessmann, Stefan C. Wolter

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (7-8), 569-583

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5401

How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (67), 427-491

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5101

Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (3), 404-418

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5024

School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling

Oliver Falck, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (2), 459-478

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4999

The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation

Johannes Metzler, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 486 - 496

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4926

Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110 (2), 79-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4925

The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4725

Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices: A Non-Technical Guide

Martin Schlotter, Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (2), 109-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4576

Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4575

Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321