CESifo / ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education
Since 2023, we are organizing the CESifo / ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education in Munich. The workshop aims to bring together leading junior researchers in the economics of education to discuss their research and to encourage broader international interactions. It is aimed at PhD students towards the end of their PhD phase and Postdocs within one year of their PhD completion. There were also a couple of precursor PhD workshops during Covid.
On April 16-17, 2024, the second CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on Economics of Education took place with a fantastic program of exciting presentations by young scholars in the economics of education. CamilleTerrier (Queen Mary London) and Petter Lundborg (Lund) gave the keynote lectures. Young researchers from Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, Yale, Columbia, UCLA, LSE, PSE, and other renowned European universities presented in Munich. Carolyn Tsao (Princeton) won the best paper award.
On April 26-27, 2023, the first CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on Economics of Education took place with many exciting presentations by young scholars in the economics of education. Barbara Biasi of Yale University gave the keynote lecture. Young researchers from Harvard, Oxford, the LSE and renowned European universities presented in Munich. Emilio Borghesan (Pennsylvania) won the best paper award.
On 30 September and 1 October 2021, the ifo Center for the Economics of Education organized the 2nd PhD Workshop on Causal Analyses of School Reforms in Berlin in the framework of the EffEE project, together with the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. The keynotes were given by Herman van de Werfhorst and Pia Pinger.
On October 8-9, 2020, the ifo Center for the Economics of Education organized the virtual PhD workshop "Causal Analysis of School Reforms" together with the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in the framework of the project "Efficiency and Equity in Education: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from School Reforms across German States (EffEE)". Eric Hanushek (Stanford), Susanna Loeb (Brown), Helena Skyt Nielsen (Aarhus), Edwin Leuven (Oslo), Roope Uusitalo (Helsinki), Margherita Fort (Bologna), and others participated as senior scientists.
