Ludger Woessmann - Biography#

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 on 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. His work was rewarded, among others, with the Hermann Heinrich Gossen Award and the Gustav Stolper Award of the German Economic Association and the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association. He is Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech, the Academic Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry of Economics, and the International Academy of Education, and former coordinator of the European Expert Network on the Economics of Education (EENEE). He is co-editor of the Handbook of the Economics of Education and co-organizer of the annual CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Education. Among his over 400 academic publications are over 100 articles in refereed journals, including Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. Google Scholar lists over 45,000 citations to his research (h-index 87); and 8,114 Scopus citations (h-index 42). His research is regularly covered by the national and international media.

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