Thomas Siedler

Research Fellow

University of Potsdam

thomas.siedler@uni-potsdam.de

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Research Interests

Thomas Siedler is Professor in Economics, in particular Economic Policy at the Universität Potsdam and the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE). Thomas received his PhD in Economics at the University of Essex (UK) in 2007. His general research interests are labour economics, economics of education, health economics, family economics, and intergenerational mobility.

He developed the e-learning website www.mcempirics.com. mcEmpirics comprises more than 1,500 introductory econometric and statistic questions, answers to those questions, and references to manuals. It gives students an opportunity to assess their knowledge of (introductory) econometrics and refresh their skills by playing quizzes. Teachers and lecturers at universities with a mcEmpirics campus license can easily create their own courses and online tests, without any correction time needed.

Thomas published, for example, in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, Demography, European Economic Review, Economica, and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A.

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in October 2005 and became a Research Fellow in May 2008.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4878

Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective

Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

revised version published in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (2), 337-351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4873

One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler

revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (3), 591-601

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4398

Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents

Helena Holmlund, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

revised version published as 'Meet the Parents? Family Size and the Geographic Proximity Between Adult Children and Older Mothers in Sweden' in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 903-931

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4392

The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults

Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler

published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (11), 1377-1384

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2573

Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Thomas Siedler

revised version published as 'Schooling and Citizenship in a Young Democracy: Evidence from Postwar Germany' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (2), 315-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2411

Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Thomas Siedler

revised version published as 'Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: evidence from panel data' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2011, 174 (3), 737-758

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2154

Does Democracy Foster Trust?

Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37 (2), 251-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1847

Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating

John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi, Thomas Siedler

published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1842

O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

published in: Economica, 2009, 76 (303), 528-556