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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11608
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1297 - 1344
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11283
published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 123, 103374
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10948
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. 10298
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2017, 63 (3), 255-269
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10249
published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 153, 15-19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10001
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (3), 3-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9555
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (4), 447-486
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9130
published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9122
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 65-79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8939
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (1), 1-38
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8016
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
published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 73, 103-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7151
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6889
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 31, 93-108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6829
published in: Historical Methods, 2014, 47(2), 57-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6185
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, 212-232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6083
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (1), 48-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5773
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. 5401
published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (67), 427-491
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5101
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (3), 404-418
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4999
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 486 - 496
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4926
published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110 (2), 79-82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4925
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. 4576
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4575
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4557
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4556
published as 'Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution' in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 92-126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3837
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 777–805
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2886
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2880
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2010, 230 (2), 234-270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1906
published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1287
published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1284
published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 746
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 579-599
IZA Discussion Paper No. 745
published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (3), 331-353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 744
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (4), 944-968
IZA Discussion Paper No. 485
published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 695-736
IZA Discussion Paper No. 484
published in: Education Economics, 2004, 12 (1), 17-38
IZA Standpunkt Nr. 69
published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2014, 15 (2), 105-132
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