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. 10948

Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: M.R. West, L. Woessmann (eds.), Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy around the World, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, 205-243

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10357

How Information Affects Support for Education Spending: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9968

Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157