Ludger Woessmann

Research Fellow

Universität München

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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. 16494
Religion and Growth
Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Literature
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
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
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
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
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