Professor of Economics, @LMU_Muenchen; Director, ifo Center for the Economics of Education, @ifo_Institut
Munich
Joined September 2020
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🎉Just out in @JPolEcon Micro:
🧑🎓Income Contingency and the Electorate’s Support for Tuition
w/ @lergetporer
❓Does the electorate’s support to finance higher education through tuition depend on whether payments have to be made upfront or are deferred and income-contingent? 1/4
➡️The treatment increases support for tuition by 18❗️percentage points, turning a minority into a majority of 62%.
Additional experiments show similar effects when framed as loan repayments and in a survey of adolescents. 3/4
💡Reduced fairness concerns and improved student situations act as strong mediators.
Payment deferral and means testing both contribute to the overall effect, but deferral accounts for most of it. 4/4
👉 doi.org/10.1086/744386
📢New working paper:🚨
“Integrated vs. Separated Schooling for Refugee Children: Long-Term Effects on Education and Assimilation”
w/ @CaterinaPavese1 and @MeulenSimon
👉 Does direct integration into native schools or temporary placement in separate schools … 1/5
2⃣ At the same time, integrated schooling increases cultural assimilation, measured by hormonal-contraceptive usage among teenage women, particularly for children from non-Muslim-majority countries. 4/5
A distinctive feature of separated schooling that may account for its positive educational effect is that it allows employing teachers specialized in native-language teaching for non-native speakers. 5/5
ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo1_wp13023…
Ausführliches Interview zu PISA in ZDFheute live:
zdfheute.de/video/zdfheute-l…
Ludger Woessmann retweeted
Studierende schließen ihr #Bachelorstudium früher ab, wenn sie regelmäßig Rückmeldungen zum eigenen Studienfortschritt im Vergleich zu ihren Mitstudierenden erhalten. #ifoStudie mit @unierfurt und der @TH_Nuernberg. 🔗ifo.de/pressemitteilung/2026…
🎙️Wie (un)gerecht ist das Bildungssystem in Deutschland?
🎧ifo Podcast
Wir berichten über die Rolle von Elternhaus & Geschlecht für die Bildungschancen von Kindern, was das für Wirtschaft & Gesellschaft bedeutet & wo die Politik jetzt ansetzen muss.
🔗 ifo.de/mediathek/2026-07-01/…
It was such a pleasure to teach this enthusiastic group - even with the heat! 🌞🥵😎 Thanks everyone for a great week.
This week, doctoral students from across Europe joined the Leading House course “Foundations of the Economics of Education: Educational Production,” taught by Ludger Woessmann (@Woessmann) from University of Munich (@LMU_Muenchen) and ifo Institute (@ifo_Institut).
📢 We are hiring 📢
Please spread the word:
We are hiring a 🧑🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education!
Come join our team as junior faculty:
ifo.de/en/job-offer/ifo-post…
Application deadline: July 22
Ludger Woessmann retweeted
Heute in BTO Refresh: Die Bildungsmisere schadet mehr als alle anderen Politikfehler zusammen. Mit dabei: @Woessmann
"Von ganz unten an die Spitze · Ist sozialer Aufstieg möglich?"
📺Spannende Doku im BR @BR24
ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD…
Auch mit kurzen Statements von mir (ab Min 10:00, 16:30, 24:30 und 27:15)
🚨Now out in the Economic Journal:
“Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital: Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests”
w/ @EricHanushek, @KinneLavinia & P. Sancassani
💡Patience accounts for ¾ of regional achievement diffs in 🇮🇹, ⅓ 🇺🇸
👉doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf045
Ludger Woessmann retweeted
📣 Thrilled to officially announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @TU_Muenchen, Campus Heilbronn.
Keynotes: Peter Bergman (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@MITEcon, @UZH_en) 🫶🏻
Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨
