Uta Bolt’s main research interest is the development of inequalities over the lifecycle and across generations. Her research combines factor models of human capital development with structural dynamic lifecycle models.

Her research agenda at CESifo will focus on human capital development from childhood to adulthood. She has recently started working with text data using Natural Language Processing, in particular applied to a large-scale data set of essays written by children. During her stay at CESifo, she hopes to advance a project that 1) measures creativity of individuals 2) estimates determinants of creativity and 3) estimates returns to creativity.

Professor Dhammika Dharmapala is the CESifo and IIPF Richard Musgrave Guest Professor 2025. He is Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Dhammika Dharmapala is a Fellow of the CESifo Research network. He serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Law and Economics.

Professor Dharmapala received a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley; his thesis was awarded the National Tax Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. His research spans the fields of taxation and public finance, the economic analysis of law, and corporate finance and governance, and has been published in leading journals in law, economics, and finance.