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 member 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. 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
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13380
Things versus People: Gender Differences in Vocational Interests and in Occupational Preferences
Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12861
The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents
Andreas Kuhn, Stefan C. Wolter
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. 12159
Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training
Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri, Stefan C. Wolter
revised version forthcoming in: European Journal of Political Economy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11374
Are Apprenticeships Business Cycle Proof?
Samuel Lüthi, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 156, Article number: 3 (2020)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11349
Are They Coming Back? The Mobility of University Students in Switzerland after Graduation
Chantal Oggenfuss, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Review of Regional Research, 2019, 39(2), 189-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11217
The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education
Stefan C. Wolter, Maria Zumbühl
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