Ludger Woessmann

Research Fellow

University of Munich

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Research Interests

Ludger Woessmann is Director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education and Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. He is also Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Being interested in the determinants of long-term prosperity of mankind, his main research focus is in the economics of education, especially the importance of education for economic prosperity and the effects of school systems on educational achievement and equality of opportunity. He is Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academia Europaea, the Academic Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry of Economics, and the International Academy of Education.

He is co-editor of the Handbook of the Economics of Education and Joint Area Director for Economics of Education of the CESifo Network. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Science, and many others. Google Scholar lists over 49,000 citations to his research (h-index 91).

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in September 2001 and became a Research Fellow in December 2003.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1906
Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
Gabriela Schütz, Heinrich W. Ursprung, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1901
Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries
Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (510), C63-C76
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1287
What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
Thomas Fuchs, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1284
How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
Ludger Woessmann
published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70
IZA Discussion Paper No. 746
Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition
Andreas Ammermüller, Hans Heijke, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 579-599
IZA Discussion Paper No. 745
Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
Ludger Woessmann
published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (3), 331-353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 744
Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
Martin R. West, Ludger Woessmann
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (4), 944-968
IZA Discussion Paper No. 485
Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
Ludger Woessmann, Martin R. West
published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 695-736
IZA Discussion Paper No. 484
Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production
John H. Bishop, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Education Economics, 2004, 12 (1), 17-38
IZA World of Labor Article
Central exit exams improve student outcomes
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