CESifo Conferences

Since 2009, together with Eric Hanushek I organize the CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Education, for which leading international education economists from both sides of the Atlantic gather in Munich each year. The following links lead to the programs of the respective conferences.


Keynote Lecture: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Adam Altmejd (Stockholm School of Economics); other Candidates: Stephanie Owen (Colby College), Wayne Sandholtz (Nova School of Business and Economics)

Jacobs Foundation Lecture: Imran Rasul (UCL)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Mikko Silliman (Harvard University); other Candidates: Mikkel Høst Gandil (University of Oslo), Elizabeth Setren (Tufts University)

Jacobs Foundation Lecture: Philippe Aghion (Collège de France, INSEAD, and LSE)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Barbara Biasi (Yale School of Management), Alexander L.P. Willén (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)

Jacobs Foundation Lecture: Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)


Jacobs Foundation Lecture: Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Camille Terrier (University of Lausanne); other Candidates: Jeff Denning (Brigham Young University), Hedvig Horvath (University College London) 


Jacobs Foundation Lecture: Robert J. Barro (Harvard University)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Jason Cook (University of Pittsburgh), Ulf Zölitz (University of Zurich)


Jacobs Foundation Lecture: Armin Falk (briq Bonn)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Will S. Dobbie (Princeton University), Simon Jäger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jens Ruhose (Leibniz University Hannover)


Jacobs Foundation Lecture: Joseph G. Altonji (Yale University)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Sarah R. Cohodes (Columbia University); other Candidates: Esteban M. Aucejo (London School of Economics), Michela Maria Tincani (University College London)


Jacobs Foundation Lecture: Richard Freeman (Harvard University)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Lesley J. Turner (University of Maryland); other Candidates: Eric S. Taylor (Harvard University), Abhijeet Singh (University of Oxford)


Jacobs Foundation Lecture: John Van Reenen (London School of Economics)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Andrew C. Barr (University of Virginia); other Candidates: Krzysztof Karbownik (Northwestern University), Nirav Mehta (University of Western Ontario)


Keynote Lecture: Victor Lavy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Warwick)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Peter L. S. Bergman (Columbia University); other Candidates: David Deming (Harvard University), Richard Murphy (University College London)


Keynote Lecture: Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Monique De Haan (University of Amsterdam); other Candidate: Michael F. Lovenheim (Cornell University) 


Keynote Lecture: Andrew Leigh MP (House of Representatives, Parliament of Australia)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego); other Candidates: Scott A. Imberman (University of Houston), Steffen Mueller (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) 


Keynote Lecture: Paul Romer (Stanford University)

CESifo Young Affiliate Award: Katja Maria Kaufmann (Università Bocconi); other Candidates: Martin R. West (Harvard Graduate School of Education), Maria D. Fitzpatrick (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research)


Conference on the Handbook of the Economics of Education (Vol.3/4) and Inaugural Meeting of the CESifo Area on Economics of Education