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

Faculty of Law, Business & Economics
Macroeconomics

Academic Background/CV

Katja Maria Kaufmann is Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Prior to this appointment, she was Professor at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Assistant Professor of Empirical Macroeconomics at Mannheim University and Assistant Professor at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy).

Her research interests are in the areas of Empirical Macroeconomics, Family Economics and Demography, Economics of Education, Labour and Development Economics, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility, and Peer Effects/Social Interactions.

Katja Maria Kaufmann is also Research Fellow at briq, at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and the CESifo Research Network, Member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group and Principal Investigator at the CRC Collaborative Research Center TRR 224.

Her updated CV can be found here: CV

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Positions

Education

Stanford University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2003-2008

Stanford University, M.A. in Economics, 2003-2005

University of Cologne, M.A. (Diplom) in Economics, 1999-2002 (Summa cum Laude)

University of Cologne, B.A. (Vordiplom) in Economics, 1997-1999 (Summa cum Laude)

Grants, scholarships, honors and awards

Publications

An overview of the publications can be found here.

​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”]

Faculty of Law, Business & Economics
Macroeconomics

Current research areas

• Empirical Macroeconomics
  
• Inequality and Social Mobility
• Family Economics and Demography
  
• Economics of Education and Labor Economics
  
• Development Economics
  
• Social Interaction, Social Networks, Peer Effects
  

Faculty of Law, Business & Economics
Macroeconomics

Publications

Journal article

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Kaufmann: Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences, and Adjustment Process. In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 22 (2024). - S. 669-711.
doi:10.1093/jeea/jvad042

Katja Kaufmann: Discussion of: The Legacy of COVID-19 in Education. In: Economic Policy, 38 (2023). - S. 669-671.
doi:10.1093/epolic/eiad038

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

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: 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

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. -

Faculty of Law, Business & Economics
Macroeconomics

Prof. Katja Maria Kaufmann, Ph.D.
Head of Research

Room: 2.52 (RW II)
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-6320
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-6322
E-mail: vwl1@uni-bayreuth.de; katja.kaufmann@uni-bayreuth.de
Consultation-hour: Wednesday, 08:30 - 10:00 (with pre-registration via email)