Welcome to the Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy, held by Professor Thomas Siedler (PhD)

News

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 | Congratulations
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.

May 22 | 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics
We are pleased to announce that the ‘9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics’ will take place on 24-25 September 2025. Further information and the call for papers can be found here.

May 15 | Welcome
We are pleased to welcome Camilla Piovesan to our team today as student employee.

31.03.2025 | Guest Researcher
We are pleased to welcome Ariel Kalil from the University of Chicago to our team as a Guest Researcher.

March 25 | Welcome
We are pleased to welcome Mira Epremashvili and Álvaro Vaquerizo Villar to our team today as student employees.