Team > Prof. Katja Maria Kaufmann, Ph.D.


Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Makroökonomik
Werdegang
Katja Maria Kaufmann ist Professorin für Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Bayreuth, an der sie den Lehrstuhl VWL I innehat. Sie war vorher Professorin an der Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Juniorprofessorin der Empirischen Makroökonomik an der Universität Mannheim und Assistant Professor an der Bocconi Universität (Milan, Italy).
Ihre Forschungsinteressen sind auf dem Gebiet der Empirischen Makroökonomik, Familienökonomik und Demographie, Bildungs- und Arbeitsmarktökonomik, Entwicklungsökonomik, Ungleichheit und Soziale Mobilität und Soziale Interaktion/Netzwerke/Peer Effekte.
Katja Maria Kaufmann ist Research Fellow am briq (Bonn), am Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) und beim CESifo Research Network, sie ist Mitglied der Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group und Principal Investigator am CRC Collaborative Research Center TRR 224.
Einen ausführlichen Lebenslauf finden Sie hier.
Wissenschaftliche Tätigkeiten
2022 | Universität Bayreuth, Professur für Volkwirtschaftslehre |
2020 | Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Professur für Volkwirtschaftslehre |
2018/19 | briq - Institute on Behavior & Inequality, Universität Bonn, Visiting Researcher, on sabbatical from Mannheim Uni. |
2014-2019 | Universität Mannheim, Departement of Economics, Assistant Professor |
2008-2015 | Bocconi University, Departement of Economics and IGIER: Assistant Professor |
Juli 2015 | IZA, Bonn, Visiting Researcher |
Nov 2014 | Princeton University Visiting Researcher |
Sommer 2014 | Ludwig Maximilian Universität Visiting Researcher |
Sommer 2013 | CES (Center for Economic Studies), Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Visiting Researcher |
Frühjahr 2012 | Yale University Visiting Researcher |
Herbst 2011 | Harvard Kennedy School of Government Research Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program and NBER, Visiting Researcher |
Frühjahr 2011 | Stanford University Visiting Researcher and Lecturer (Principle Instructor for PhD course in Development Economics |
Ausbildung
Stanford University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2003-2008
Stanford University, M.A. in Economics, 2003-2005
Universität zu Köln, M.A. (Diplom) in Economics, 1999-2002 (Summa cum Laude)
Universität zu Köln, B.A. (Vordiplom) in Economics, 1997-1999 (Summa cum Laude)
Drittmittel, Preise und Auszeichnungen
2018 | Collaborative Research Center Mannheim-Bonn (CRC TRR 224), German Research Foundation (DFG), Co-PI on individual project with Hans-Martin von Gaudecker (funding €500,000 for individual project plus €100,000 for additional data collection) |
2014 | Grant of the Elite Program of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Foundation (sole PI, €95,000) |
2012 | IGIER Seedgrant (Bocconi Univ, €5000) |
2010 | Winner of the CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award for the Economics of Education |
2009 | Bocconi University Research Prize (€7500) |
2007-08 | Sawyer Seminar Fellowship (Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford) and Taube Scholarship Fund Fellowship (SIEPR, Stanford Univ) |
2007 | Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford University |
2006-07 | Shultz Graduate Student Fellowship in Economic Policy (SIEPR, Stanford Univ) |
2003-05 | Stanford Economics Department Fellowship (Stanford Univ) |
2000-03 | Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des dt Volkes). |
Publikationen
Eine Übersicht über die Publikationen finden Sie hier.
Selected Working Papers
"Impact of a Macro Shock on Psychosocial Functioning and Longrun Health and Well-being Implications (with Ghazala Azmat and Yasemin Özdemir), mimeo.
“The Fall of the Aspirations Wall: Educational Aspirations, Achievement and Societal Change” (with Ghazala Azmat), CRC DP 207, 2020.
“Elite Higher Education, the Marriage Market and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital” (with Matthias Messner and Alex Solis), mimeo.
“Gender Peer Effects, Non-Cognitive Skills and Marriage Market Outcomes: Evidence from Single-Sex Schools in the UK” (with Lina Cardona), NBER conference paper 2017 and CRC DP 213, 2020.
Refereed Journal Publications
“Disentangling Insurance and Information in Intertemporal Consumption Choices” (with Luigi Pistaferri), American Economic Review, 99 (2), May 2009.
“Understanding the Income Gradient in College Attendance in Mexico: The Role of Heterogeneity in Expected Returns”, Quantitative Economics, The Econometric Society, November 2014, 5(3).
“Education Choices and Returns to Schooling: Mothers' and Youths' Subjective Expectations and their Role by Gender.” (with Orazio Attanasio), Journal of Development Economics, 109C (2014).
“Education Choices and Returns on the Labor and Marriage Markets: Evidence from Data on Subjective Expectations.” (with Orazio Attanasio), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017.
“The Political Economy of Program Enforcement: Evidence from Brazil” (with Fernanda Brollo and Eliana La Ferrara), the Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (2).
“Learning Spillovers in Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil” (with Fernanda Brollo and Eliana La Ferrara), the Economic Journal, 2020, Vol. 130, Issue 628, 853-879.
[Media: The latter two articles and the first article under research papers are discussed in The Economist, May 9th, 2019 edition “New research traces the intricate links between policy and politics”]

Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Makroökonomik
Aktuelle Forschungsgebiete
- Empirische Makroökonomik
- Ungleichheit und Soziale Mobilität
- Familienökonomik und Demographie
- Bildungs- und Arbeitsmarktökonomik
- Entwicklungsökonomik
- Soziale Interaktion, soziale Netzwerke, "peer effects"

Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Makroökonomik
Publikationen
Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Fernanda Brollo, Katja Kaufmann, Eliana La Ferrara: Learning Spillovers in Conditional Welfare Programmes : Evidence from Brazil. In: The Economic Journal, 130 (2020). - S. 853-879.
doi:10.1093/ej/ueaa032
Fernanda Brollo, Katja Kaufmann, Eliana La Ferrara: The Political Economy of Program Enforcement: Evidence from Brazil. In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 18 (2020). - S. 750-791.
doi:10.1093/jeea/jvz024
Orazio P. Attanasio, Katja Kaufmann: Education choices and returns on the labor and marriage markets : Evidence from data on subjective expectations. In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 140 (2017). - S. 35-55.
doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2017.05.002
Katja Kaufmann: Understanding the income gradient in college attendance in Mexico : The role of heterogeneity in expected returns. In: Quantitative Economics, 5 (2014). - S. 583-630.
doi:10.3982/QE259
Orazio P. Attanasio, Katja Kaufmann: Education choices and returns to schooling : Mothers' and youths' subjective expectations and their role by gender. In: Journal of Development Economics, 109 (2014). - S. 203-216.
doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.04.003
Katja Kaufmann, Luigi Pistaferri: Disentangling Insurance and Information in Intertemporal Consumption Choices. In: American Economic Review, 99 (2009). - S. 387-392.
Working paper
Katja Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir, Han Ye: Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations : Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes. - IZA Discussion Paper, Bonn, 2022. -
doi:10.2139/ssrn.4148133
Katja Kaufmann, Matthias Messner, Alex Solis: Elite Higher Education, the Marriage Market and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2021. -
Ghazala Azmat, Katja Kaufmann: Formation of College Plans : Expected Returns, Preferences and Adjustment Process. - IZA Discussion Paper, Bonn, 2021. -
Ghazala Azmat, Katja Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir: Fragile Boys (and Girls)? Determinants and Long-term Consequences of Socioemotional Development. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2021. -
Teodora Boneva, Katja Kaufmann, Christopher Rauh: Maternal Labor Supply : Perceived Returns, Constraints, and Social Norms. - IZA Discussion Paper, Bonn, 2021. -
Lina Cardona, Katja Kaufmann: Gender Peer Effects, Non-Cognitive Skills and Marriage Market Outcomes : Evidence from Single-Sex Schools in the UK. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2020. -
Orazio Attanasio, Katja Kaufmann: Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints. - NBER Working Paper, Cambridge, MA, 2009. -

Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Makroökonomik
Prof. Katja Maria Kaufmann, Ph.D.
Lehrstuhlinhaberin
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