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Current Position and Affiliations
Since 10/2011 Full Professor of Empirical Economics
Chair of Empirical Economics, Potsdam University, Germany
Since 10/2011 Program Director for the research area "Evaluation of Labor Market Programs"
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
Since 06/2009 Research Affiliate
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany
Since 08/2005 Research Fellow
Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Education
05/2000-04/2005 PhD in Economics (summa cum laude)
J.W.Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
10/1994-04/2000 Diplom-Volkswirt (equiv. M.A. Economics), Grade: 1.4
J.W.Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
10/1997-06/1998 Undergraduate Studies in Economics
University of Manchester, England
10/1994-09/1997 Undergraduate Studies in Economics
J.W.Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
Professional Career
02/2009-09/2011 Director of Research
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
03/2010-05/2010 Research Visitor (short-term)
University of Miami, UC Santa Cruz, IQSS/Harvard, US
08/2007-01/2009 Senior Research Associate
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
05/2007-01/2009 Deputy Program Director for the Area: Evaluation of Labour Market Programs
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
01/2005-07/2007 Senior Research Associate
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany
04/2003-07/2003 Research Visitor
University College London, Department of Economics, UK
05/2000-12/2004 Research Associate
J.W.Goethe-University, Institute of Statistics and Econometrics, Frankfurt, Germany
Selected Research Projects (Project Leader)
2010-2013 'Evaluating Business Coaching for Start-Ups'
Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, KfW, Germany
2010-2012 'Evaluating the New Start-Up Subsidy for the Unemployed'
Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
2008-2009 'Job Search Behavior of the Unemployed' (CA 829/1-1, with A. Uhlendorff)
German Research Foundation (DFG), Bonn, Germany
2008-2009 'Long-Run Effects of Start-Up Subsidies'
Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
2004-2006 'Evaluating the Hartz-Reforms: Part 1e - Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed'
Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (now: BMAS), Berlin, Germany
Scholarships and Awards
2007 Best Paper Award
RATIO Colloquium for YSS: Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Policies
August 24-25, Stockholm, Sweden.
2006 Best Paper/Presentation Award
7th international GSOEP User Conference (presented by my co-author Katharina Wrohlich)
July 3-5, Berlin, Germany
1997-1998 Exchange Student Scholarship
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1996-2000 Student Scholarship
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Services to the Profession

Conference/Workshop Organization
2012 European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Annual Conference, Bonn
2010- Annual Workshop on Entrepreneurship Research
2012 (Potsdam), 2011 (Bonn), 2010 (Bonn, with DIW)
2007- Annual IZA Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation
2012 (Bonn, with IFAU), 2011 (Harvard, with IQSS), 2010 (Uppsala, with IFAU), 2009 (Washington DC), 2008 (Bonn, with IFAU), 2007 (Bonn)
2009-2012 IZA/CEPR European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics
2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 (Buch/Ammersee)
2009-2012 IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists
2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 (Buch/Ammersee)
2009- IZA Prize Conference on Frontiers in Labor Economics
2009 (The Economics of Well-Being and Happiness, Washington DC)
2006 Public Policy Evaluation - Labour Market Reforms in France and Germany (Seminar), French Embassy Berlin, April 6
Editorship
2012 Guest Editor, Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 33(2), Special Issue: 'Personality and Entrepreneurship'
2006 Guest Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, Special Issue: 'Evaluation of Labour Market Policies'
Refereeing Advances in Econometrics, Advances in Statistical Analysis, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, Applied Economics Quarterly, Biometrical Journal, Canadian Journal of Economics, China Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Economics of Transition, Empirical Economics, European Economic Association (Annual Meeting 2008, 2009), European Association of Labor Economists (Annual Meeting 2011, 2012), European Journal of Political Economy, European Society for Population Economics (Annual Meeting 2012), German Economic Association (VfS, Annual Meeting 2011), German Research Foundation (DFG), Handbook of Migration, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, International Economic Review, International Journal of Manpower, International Review of Law and Economics, Journal for Labour Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies/Schmollers Jahrbuch, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economics and Statistics/Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, National Science Foundation (US), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Income and Wealth, Review of Industrial Organization, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Small Business Economics, Social Policy and Administration.

 
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