My colleague Prof. Markus Nagler and I will teach the seminar jointly.  In the winter term 2025/2026, we will focus on reproducibility of empirical studies and each student will reproduce and extend one recently published paper . 

You can find more information in the description

Registration / Expression of interest:

• To register, please use this form

• Send it to markus.nagler@fau.de

• Send it by 12 October 2025

Some important dates in winter term 2025/26: 

• Introductory session on 21 October, 9.45-11.15, FG 1.036

• Confirmation of topics by 12 November 

• First presentation on 15 December, 9.00-14.30, LG 5.153 

• Submission of Stata code by 18 January

• Second presentation on 30 January, 9.00-14.30, LG 5.153 

Syllabus: here 

Logistics in summer term 2025: 

• Monday, 8:45-11:15 in room LG 3.155

• Exceptions: 

  • 28 April, 9:45 to 11:15

  • No sessions on 16 June, 23 June, and 30 June

  • Extra sessions on 4 June, 11 June, and 18 June 

In Studon, you can find the course here. Please join the course, so that I can contact you via Studon. 

I’m happy to supervise theses that relate to my own research, see my publications and current research.  To write your thesis under my supervision you should have attended on of my courses or similar courses by my colleagues. 

You ideally develop an topic of your own based on your studies and courseworks. This could also be replication a study that you found worthy of further investigation. Some other ideas that could be developed into topics are below (updated occasionally).

• Bachelor-level (should contain some empirical work): 

  • Do workers leave the unions? (Allbus)

  • Greedy work in Germany (Allbus)

  • Shortages of skill workers at the establishment level (IAB Establishment Panel)

• Master-level (should contain substantial empirical work):

  • The gender pay gap across cohorts
    Inspired by Claudia Goldin's "Career and Family"

  • The role of workplaces in fathers' decision to take (no) parental leave? 
    Inspired by Huebener et al. "Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability and Firms’ Employment"

  • Labour market effects of switching on daylight saving time
    Inspired by the literature on accidents, well-being, etc. 

  • Firm-size wage premium or workgroup-size wage premium
    Apply the reasoning from Barth / Dale-Olsen (2011, ILRR) to Germany

Topic and data access go hand in hand. We discuss both jointly. 

Logistics: 

• There is no specific timeline - reach out. 

• Theses can be written in German or in English

• You can find more information in my guidelines