Welcome to the Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy, held by Professor Thomas Siedler (PhD)
Job advertisement (student employee)
We are looking for a student employee to start no later than the summer semester of 2026. Applications can be submitted from now until 15 November 2025. Further information can be found here: [Download]
Teaching in winter term 2025/26
Our current courses in the winter term can be found here.
News
November 11: PhD Defense - Congratulations!
Congratulations to Agata Galkiewicz! She successfully defended her PhD thesis „Essays in Economics of Education: Fostering Human Capital Accumulation by lmproving Educational Outcomes and Well-Being of Children, Teenagers and Young Adults"“ and was awarded „Summa Cum Laude".
November 3 | Best Poster Award
Our PhD candidate Adrián Santonja participated in this year’s Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he received the Best Poster Award for his project “Health Impacts of Transboundary Air Pollution: Evidence from the German-Polish Border,” co-authored with Thomas Siedler and Shushanik Margaryan.
September 1 | Welcome
We are pleased to welcome Josephine Devrient to our team today as student employee.
August 04: Lecture Series with Jens Hainmueller
We are pleased to announce that the joint lecture series “Practical Guidance for Survey and Field Experiments” with Jens Hainmueller (Stanford) will take place on 24/25 September 2025. Further information can be found here. Please note the registration deadline.
July 29 | Publication
The study "E-Learning at Universities: Does Starting with Difficult Questions Affect Student Performance?" by Agata Galkiewicz, Jan Marcus, and Thomas Siedler has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Human Capital.
July 15 | Best Poster Award
Thomas Siedler received the Best Poster Award at the Sixth World Labor Conference (Toronto, 27-29 June) for the study "A Library in the Palm of Your Hand? A Randomised Field Experiment with Low-Income Children" together with Silke Anger, Bernhard Christoph, Agata Galkiewicz, Shushanik Margaryan, Frauke Peter and Malte Sandner.