Ludger Woessmann#
Photo: Tobias Hase
| Membership Number: | 6604 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://sites.google.com/view/woessmann-e |
| Twitter: | @Woessmann |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/woessmann/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2006 Professor of Economics, esp. Economics of Education, Department of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- Since 2004 Director, ifo Center for the Economics of Education, ifo Institute, Munich
- Since 2019 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- 2010, 1-7 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- 2002, 3-6 Visiting Researcher, Harvard University
- 1999 - 2003 Economist, Kiel Institute for World Economics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Fields of Scholarship
- Economic history
- Economics of education
- Economic growth
- Labor economics
- Economics of religion
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Gustav Stolper Award, German Economic Association
- 2014 Hermann Heinrich Gossen Award, German Economic Association
- 2013 Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2012 Member, German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech
- 2009 Member, Academic Advisory Council, German Federal Ministry of Economics
- 2007 Fellow, International Academy of Education
- 2005 IEA Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)
- 2003 Young Economist Award, European Economic Association
- 2001 EIB Prize of the European Investment Bank
