Ludger Woessmann

Ludger Wößmann in the show Hart aber fair , 2016

Ludger Wößmann (born July 1, 1973 in Sendenhorst ) is a German education economist .

Studies, doctorate and chair

After graduating from high school in 1992, he studied economics at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1993 , where he also undertook studies at the University of Kent near Canterbury . After graduating in 1998 he went to Kiel at the Institute of World Economics and worked in the Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research with. In 1999 he became a research assistant at the same institute, where he worked in the research group for human capital and growth.

In 2001 he obtained his doctorate with Horst Siebert on the subject of Schooling and the Quality of Human Capital . He then moved to the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich in 2003 , where he headed the Human Capital and Innovation department . He obtained his habilitation in economics in 2006 at the Technical University of Munich at the Faculty of Economics. In the same year he took over the chair for economics of education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which was first established in Germany.

In 2013, Ludger Wößmann was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . The Verein für Socialpolitik awarded him the Gossen Prize in 2014 and the Gustav Stolper Prize in 2017 .

research

His research and publications in the economics of education, growth and innovation have led to invitations as visiting professors at Harvard University , Stanford University , Cornell University , the Aarhus School of Business and the National Bureau of Economic Research . His now over 100 publications on the topics of school autonomy in connection with achievable performance and equal opportunities made it possible to work as a coordinator in the European Expert Network of Economics of Education . On December 7, 2005, he and others founded the Education Action Council , which was supported by Bavarian industry. He also worked at the Association for Social Policy in the Committee for Educational Economics. At the German Research Foundation , he works in the research group Heterogeneity of Work .

His research work with Sascha O. Becker on the effects of Protestantism and the consequences on the level of education gained international attention in 2008. The basis of the investigations was formed by data from 450 rural districts in Prussia from the years around 1870 , which had previously not been recorded by research. The result was that Protestants had an average of ten percent advantage over Catholic districts in literacy.

Honors

2014: Gossen Prize from the Association for Social Policy
2017: Gustav Stolper Prize from the Association for Social Policy

Fonts

The Decline of Schooling Productivity in OECD Countries with Erich Gundlach and Jens Gmelin. In: Economic Journal , 111, 2001, p. 471
Schooling and the Quality of Human Capital , Berlin 2002
Central Exams Improve Educational Performance: International Evidence . In: Kiel Discussion Contributions , Vol. 397, Kiel 2002.
Schooling Resources, Educational Institutions, and Student Performance: The International Evidence . In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics , 65, 2003, p. 2
Last chance for good schools: the 12 big mistakes and what we really need to change . Gütersloh 2007
Alexandra Werdes: Educate yourself! Education economist Ludger Wößmann has re-explored the relationship between Protestantism and economic success . In: Die Zeit , No. 1/2009; interview