Katharina Werner

Research Fellow

ifo Institute, University of Munich

wernerk@ifo.de

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Katharina Werner is currently the Deputy Director of the ifo Center for Education Economics and a member of the junior faculty at the University of Munich (LMU). She is an education economist and applied microeconomist with research interests in questions related to education, political economy, labor, and human capital.
Katharina received her PhD in Economics from the University of Munich in July 2018. During 2021-2022 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University. Previously, she received a MPhil in Economic Research at St. Edmund’s College at the University of Cambridge, where she also carried out her undergraduate studies.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16687

Automatability of Occupations, Workers' Labor-Market Expectations, and Willingness to Train

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Wedel, Katharina Werner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16511

The E-Word – On the Public Acceptance of Experiments

Mira Fischer, Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Helen Zeidler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14796

The Legacy of COVID-19 in Education

Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Policy, 2023, 38 (115), 609-668

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13820

COVID-19 and Educational Inequality: How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow

published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 140, 103920

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. 12249

Do Party Positions Affect the Public's Policy Preferences?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 523-543

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12217

Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs: Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments

Elisabeth Grewenig, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 304-326

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11799

Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Lisa Simon, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published as 'Can Internet Surveys Represent the Entire Population? A Practitioners’ Analysis' in: European Journal of Political Economy 2023, 78, 102382

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11730

Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 188, 104226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11453

Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economica, 2021, 88(351), 624-670