Ludger Woessmann

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University of Munich

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沃斯曼因大家ifo中心主任the Economics of Education and Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. He is also Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Being interested in the determinants of long-term prosperity of mankind, his main research focus is in the economics of education, especially the importance of education for economic prosperity and the effects of school systems on educational achievement and equality of opportunity. He is Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academic Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry of Economics, and the International Academy of Education.

He is co-editor of the Handbook of the Economics of Education and co-organizer of the annual CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Education. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Science, and many others. Google Scholar lists over 35,000 citations to his research (h-index 75).

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in September 2001 and became a Research Fellow in December 2003.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4575
Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Eric A. Hanushek,Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4557
The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
Sascha O. Becker,Francesco Cinnirella,Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4556
Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Sascha O. Becker,Erik Hornung,Ludger Woessmann
published as 'Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution' in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 92-126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3837
Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
Sascha O. Becker,Ludger Woessmann
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 777–805
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3818
"Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries
Martin R. West,Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(546), F229-F255
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2886
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Sascha O. Becker,Ludger Woessmann
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124(2), 531-596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2880
Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
Ludger Woessmann
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2010, 230 (2), 234-270
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1906
Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
Gabriela Schütz,Heinrich W. Ursprung,Ludger Woessmann
published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1901
Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries
Eric A. Hanushek,Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (510), C63-C76
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1287
What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
Thomas Fuchs,Ludger Woessmann
published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464
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