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In the summer semester 2025, the Chair of Empirical Macroeconomics and Family Economics offers for the first time 

• a lecture on Family Economics at Bachelor level
  • "On the theory and empirics behind key demographic changes in the past decades, related to marriage and fertility decisions, intra-family decision-making, family labor supply etc. You will learn important empirical methods to evaluate the effects of different policies (program evaluation methods, such as difference-in-difference method, instrumental variable method and so forth)" and
• a lecture on Survey Design and Analysis at Master's level
  • "On how to design and implement your own survey (theory and applications in terms of choice of a representative sample, designing survey questions and coding them), with applications to the design and analysis of survey questions eliciting people subjective beliefs and preferences in order to explain important economic outcomes." 

Furthermore, the chair offers, as last year,

• a lecture on Family Economics at Master's level
• a Bachelor-level seminar on Program Evaluation in Education and Health
• a Master's level seminar on Peer Effects and Social Interactions.