Ludger Woessmann

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Ludger Woessmann

Professor of Economics, University of Munich
Director, Ifo Center for the Economics of Education

Bio and Research Interest

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. He is Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Academic Advisory Council of the German Federal Ministry of Economics, and the Academia Europaea.

Recent Positions and honors

W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2010; Visiting Scholar, 2014-15

Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Member, Academic Advisory Council, Federal Ministry of Economics, Germany

Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik)

IEA Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)

Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association

PhD

“Schooling and the Quality of Human Capital”, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, 2001

Publications

The Knowledge Capital of Nations: Education and the Economics of Growth (with E.A. Hanushek). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015

Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 5 (edited with E.A. Hanushek and S. Machin), Amsterdam: North Holland, 2016

Knowledge Capital, Growth, and the East Asian Miracle (with E.A. Hanushek). Science 351 (6271): 344-345, 2016

The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement. Journal of Economic Perspectives 30 (3): 3-31, 2016

Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History (with S.O. Becker). Quarterly Journal of Economics 124 (2): 531-596, 2009