Matthias Doepke

Research Fellow

Northwestern University

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Matthias Doepke is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, an NBER Research Associate, and a CEPR Research Fellow. After undergraduate studies at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin he received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2000. In 2005, he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. His research interests include economic growth and development, political economy, macroeconomics, and monetary economics. Recently, Professor Doepke has worked population dynamics and economic growth, the political economy of child labor, endogenous preferences in macroeconomics, and redistributional effects of inflation. He has published or forthcoming papers in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Growth, and Journal of the European Economic Association.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15225
Educational Inequality
Jo Blanden, Matthias Doepke, Jan Stuhler
published in: E. A. Hanushek, S. Machin, L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam and Oxford, 2023, 6, 405-497
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15224
The Economics of Fertility: A New Era
Matthias Doepke, Anne Hannusch, Fabian Kindermann, Michèle Tertilt
published in: Handbook of the Economics of the Family, 2023, 1 (1), 151-254
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15013
Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries
Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Kristina Manysheva, Michèle Tertilt
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 272 - 276
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14223
From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
Titan Alon, Sena Coskun, Matthias Doepke, David Koll, Michèle Tertilt
published in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2022, 362022, 83–151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14222
A Soul's View of the Optimal Population Problem
David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13965
When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times
Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Fabrizio Zilibotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13562
This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession
Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13325
Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills
Matthias Doepke, Ruben Gaetani
published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 268–309
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13161
It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects
Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Fabrizio Zilibotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12108
The Economics of Parenting
Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Fabrizio Zilibotti
published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2019, 11, 55-84
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11262
Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries
Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 358–362
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9828
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke, Joel Mokyr
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (1), 1-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9803
Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
Matthias Doepke, Fabian Kindermann
published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (9), 3264 - 3306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9802
Families in Macroeconomics
Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8726
Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility
Matthias Doepke, Fabian Kindermann
published in: M. Cervellati, U. Sunde (eds.), Demographic Change and Long-Run Development, MIT Press, 2017,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8610
Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children
Matthias Doepke
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 59-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7459
Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
published in: Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2, 1-48, December 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7449
Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration
Matthias Doepke
published in: Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2013, 12(4), 375-391
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7108
Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1331-1371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6215
The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt, Alessandra Voena
published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 339-372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5637
Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4214
Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?
Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15(1), 1-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3742
International Labor Standards and the Political Economy of Child Labor Regulation
Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 508- 518
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3421
Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?
Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(4), 1541-1591
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3259
Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Matthias Doepke, Dirk Krüger
published in: Peter Rupert (ed.), Frontiers in Family Economics, Bingley: Emerald, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3253
The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan, Yishay D. Maoz
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2015, 82(3), 1031-1073
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2967
To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76(2), 597-628
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2949
Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 747-793
IZA World of Labor Article
Do rising returns to education justify “helicopter” parenting?
Matthias Doepke
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