Stefan C. Wolter

Research Fellow

University of Bern

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Stefan Wolter is Managing Director of the Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education and a Professor of Economics at the University of Bern, where he heads the Centre for Research in Economics of Education. Among others he is also Vice President of the Governing Board of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and Member of the Education Policy Committee of the OECD in Paris. His main research interests are labour economics and economics of education. Together with Prof. U. Backes-Gellner (University of Zurich) he is co-director of the Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education (www.leadinghouse.ch).

Among others he has published in American Economic Review (P&P), Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Economica, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Labour Economics and Economics of Education Review. He is Editor-in-Chief of "Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training" (ERVET).

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2000.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15652
Private Tutoring and Academic Achievement in a Selective Education System
Maria Zumbuehl, Stefanie Hof, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15619
"The Double Dividend of Training" – Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Stefan Denzler, Jens Ruhose, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15505
Much Ado about Nothing? School Curriculum Reforms and Students' Educational Trajectories
Maurizio Strazzeri, Chantal Oggenfuss, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15378
Sitting Next to a Dropout: Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers
Daniel Goller, Andrea Diem, Stefan C. Wolter
forthcoming in: Economics of Education Review, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14675
Is Being Competitive Always an Advantage? Degrees of Competitiveness, Gender, and Premature Work Contract Termination
Samuel Lüthi, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14345
"Too Shocked to Search": The COVID-19 Shutdowns' Impact on the Search for Apprenticeships
Daniel Goller, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2021,157, 6 (2021)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13968
High-Ability Influencers? The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Classmates
Simone Balestra, Aurélien Sallin, Stefan C. Wolter
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 10 February 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13380
Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences
Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 210-234
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12861
The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents
Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter
revised version published in: Kyklos, 2023, 76 (1), 101-124
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
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