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Matthias Doepke
Matthias Doepke
Research Fellow
London School of Economics
m.doepke@lse.ac.uk External Homepage CV

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.

IZA Publications

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
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