Ingo E. Isphording

Team Leader

+49 228 38 94 204

isphording@iza.org

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Thematic Focus at IZA

Workers of the Future

Network Program Areas

Economics of Education

Research Interests

Ingo Isphording obtained his Ph.D. from Ruhr University Bochum in 2013. His research focus lies primarily in the field of economics of education, with overlaps to labor economics and political economy. As an applied micro-econometrician he addresses policy-relevant questions on how social environments and individual behavior and decisions interact in determining the formation of skills and affect economic inequality.

Ingo has joined the IZA network as a Research Affiliate in April 2013. Currently, he is a Senior Research Associate at IZA in Bonn and heads the research team “Skill Formation”. He further acts as deputy coordinator for IZA’s program area “Economics of Education”. He is an affiliate in the CESifo network.

External Publications

IZA Research Team Skill Formation

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14844

Schools under Mandatory Testing Can Mitigate the Spread of SARS-CoV-2

Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Diederichs, Reyn van Ewijk, Nico Pestel

revised version forthcoming in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14830

Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Ingo E. Isphording, Thu-Van Nguyen, Felix Pöge, Sebastian Siegloch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14320

Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording, Ulf Zölitz

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 640 (131), 3182 - 3206.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14000

Labour Market Shocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Inequalities and Child Outcomes

Claudia Hupkau, Ingo E. Isphording, Stephen Machin, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13790

School Re-Openings after Summer Breaks in Germany Did Not Increase SARS-CoV-2 Cases

Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Lipfert, Nico Pestel

revised version published as 'Does re-opening schools contribute to the spread of SARS2? Evidence from staggered summer breaks in Germany' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 198, 104426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13418

Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19

Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel

revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 108, 102448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12202

Peer Diversity, College Performance and Educational Choices

Arnaud Chevalier, Ingo E. Isphording, Elena Lisauskaite

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101833

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10417

Minority Salience and Political Extremism

Tommaso Colussi, Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 237-271