CESifo Research Network Fellow

Ludger Woessmann

Director
ifo Institut
ifo Center for the Economics of Education
Poschingerstr. 5, 81679, Munich, Germany

Affiliated Research Network Area

Economics of Education

Fields of Interest

  • Economics of Education
  • Industrial Economics
  • Growth Economics

Other Activities

Professor of Economics, University of Munich

CESifo Working Papers

Religion and Growth

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10688

Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests

Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Pietro Sancassani, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10660

Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Sarah Gust, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 10029

Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 9520

Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

Benjamin W. Arold, Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 9504

The Legacy of Covid-19 in Education

Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 9358

Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition: Evidence from Representative Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 9102

Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolscence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects

Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 8870

Covid-19 and Educational Inequality: How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8648

Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8365

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8164

Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura M. Talpey, Ludger Woessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8111

Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Maria Cattaneo, Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann, Stefan C. Wolter
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7936

Do Party positions affect the public's policy preferences?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7579

Incentives, search engines, and the elicitation of subjective beliefs: evidence from representative online survey experiments

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7556

The political economy of higher education finance: how information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7536

Can Online Surveys Represent the Entire Population?

Elisabeth Grewenig, Philipp Lergetporer, Lisa Simon, Katharina Werner, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7222

Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7192

 

also published as: IZA Discussion Paper 11283, Information

 

Testing

Annika Barbara Bergbauer, Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7168

Growing up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Alexander M. Danzer, Carsten Feuerbaum, Marc Piopiunik, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7097

Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7000

Skills, Signals, and Employability: An Experimental Investigation

Marc Piopiunik, Guido Schwerdt, Lisa Simon, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 6858

 

also published as: IZA Discussion Paper 11283

 

Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany

Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6602

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

Martin R. West, Ludger Wößmann, Philipp Lergetporer, Katharina Werner
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 6192

 

Also published as: NBER Working Paper 22808, Information

 

Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC

Franziska Hampf, Ludger Wößmann
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 6116