Teaching

Teaching in the Summer Term 2024

Due to parental leave, I will not be teaching any courses in the Summer Term 2024.

Theses

I am always happy to supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses in the areas of labor economics, economics of education, and economics of innovation. If you are interested in writing your thesis in one of these areas, please send me an e-mail so we can discuss potential topics and my availability.

Current potential topics for theses:

Master’s level (own econometric work strongly encouraged):

Gender differences in job amenities
Libraries and educational attainment

Bachelor’s level:

Pay transparency in the labor market
Peer effects in science
Compensating wage differentials in the labor market
Strategic supply of job amenities
First-in-Family University Students
Homophily in Social Networks at University
Working from home: A labor economics perspective

If you are interested in a different topic in labor, education, or innovation economics, please let me know!

Topics of recent graduates include:

Green Innovation in the Automotive Industry (Master’s thesis)
The Impact of Technology on the Labor Market
Peer Effects in the Workplace
Leisure Value and Labor Supply
The Impact of Patents on Follow-On Innovation
Classroom Peer Effects of Immigrants: New Empirical Approaches (Master’s thesis)

For some guidance on how to write your thesis, see this PDF (English) or this PDF (German).

Past Teaching at FAU

Winter Term 2023/2024: Bachelor’s course „Labor Econonomics“
Winter Term 2023/2024: Master’s course „Labor Markets in the Knowledge Economy
Winter Term 2023/2024: Master’s Seminar on Labor and Education Economics Syllabus
Summer Term 2023: Master’s course „Economics of Innovation„
Summer Term 2023: Master’s seminar „Economics of Human Capital“
Winter Term 2022/23: Bachelor’s course „Labor Econonomics“
Winter Term 2022/23: Master’s course „Labor Markets in the Knowledge Economy“
Summer Term 2022: Master’s course „Economics of Innovation„
Summer Term 2022: Master’s Seminar „Economics of Human Capital“
Winter Term 2021/22: Master’s course „Labor Markets in the Knowledge Economy“, Syllabus
Winter Term 2021/22: Bachelor’s course „Labor Econonomics“, Syllabus
Summer Term 2021: Master’s Seminar „Economics of Human Capital“, Course website
Summer Term 2021: Master’s course „Economics of Innovation„, Syllabus
Winter Term 2020/21: Master’s course „Labor Markets in the Knowledge Economy“, Syllabus
Winter Term 2020/21: Bachelorseminar „Herausforderungen der Wissensgesellschaft“, Syllabus
Summer Term 2020: Master’s course „Economics of Innovation“, Syllabus
Winter 2019/20: Proseminar „Experimente und Quasi-Experimente in der Arbeitsmarktökonomik“ (Campus Erlangen): Details
Winter 2019/20: Bachelorseminar „Herausforderungen der Wissensgesellschaft“: Details
Winter 2019/20: Master’s course „Panel- and Evaluation Methods“