Ulf Zölitz

Research Fellow

University of Zurich

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Ulf Zölitz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Zurich and the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development. He is IZA research fellow and served as IZA Deputy Program Coordinator for the research area "Behavioral and Personnel Economics".

Ulf Zölitz has studied Economics at the University of Bonn and received his PhD in economics from Maastricht University in 2014. He worked at IZA as Research Associate and from 2014 to 2016. From 2016 to 2017 he worked at the Behavior and Inequality Research Institute (briq) in Bonn.

Ulf Zölitz primary research interests are in the field of applied microeconomics. He is interested in labor economics, economics of education and behavioral economics. His current research focuses on peer effects, the role of personality in education and interventions aiming to enhance the development of cognitive skills in children.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15257
Peers Affect Personality Development
Xiaoyue Shan, Ulf Zölitz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14320
Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College
Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E. Isphording, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 640 (131), 3182 - 3206.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13396
The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice in Business School
Ulf Zölitz, Jan Feld
published in: Management Science, 2021, 67 (11), 6936-6979
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13087
The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
Giuseppe Sorrenti, Ulf Zölitz, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner
published online in: Review of Economic Studies, rdae018, 22 February 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12582
Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation
Anne Ardila Brenøe, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (4), 1009-1054
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12491
Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching
Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, Article 101912
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11975
Are Professors Worth It? The Value-added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors
Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (3), 836-863
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11000
Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
Friederike Mengel, Jan Sauermann, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (2), 535-566
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9448
Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
Jan Feld, Ulf Zölitz
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35(2) 387-428
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9200
School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six
Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Ulf Zölitz
published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(7)
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