Team > Prof. Katja Maria Kaufmann, Ph.D.

Faculty of Law, Business & Economics
Macroeconomics

Academic Background/CV

Katja Maria Kaufmann is Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Prior to this appointment, she was Professor at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Assistant Professor of Empirical Macroeconomics at Mannheim University and Assistant Professor at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy).

Her research interests are in the areas of Empirical Macroeconomics, Family Economics and Demography, Economics of Education, Labour and Development Economics, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility, and Peer Effects/Social Interactions.

Katja Maria Kaufmann is also Research Fellow at briq, at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and the CESifo Research Network, Member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group and Principal Investigator at the CRC Collaborative Research Center TRR 224.

Her updated CV can be found here: CV

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Positions

Education

Stanford University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2003-2008

Stanford University, M.A. in Economics, 2003-2005

University of Cologne, M.A. (Diplom) in Economics, 1999-2002 (Summa cum Laude)

University of Cologne, B.A. (Vordiplom) in Economics, 1997-1999 (Summa cum Laude)

Grants, scholarships, honors and awards

Publications

An overview of the publications can be found under the tab "Publications".

Media

​The Economist, May 9th 2019: “New research traces the intricate links between policy and politics” about the research papers “The Political Economy of Program Enforcement: Evidence from Brazil” (with Fernanda Brollo and Eliana La Ferrara), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (2). and “Learning Spillovers in Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil” (with Fernanda Brollo and Eliana La Ferrara), Economic Journal, 2020, Vol. 130, Issue 628, 853-879. Link

Interview in the BBC Radio Show “Bringing up Britain” about the research paper “Gender Peer Effects, Non-Cognitive Skills and Marriage Market Outcomes: Evidence from Single-Sex Schools in the UK” (with Lina Cardona), CRC DP 231/2020.

LSE’s EUROPP (European Politics and Policy blog), September 2nd 2021, and CenterPiece article (CEP at LSE), June 21st 2022, about the research paper “The Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences and Adjustment Process” (with Ghazala Azmat), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024. Link and Link

CRC LatestThinking Video, July 9th 2023: “What Are Some Unintended Consequences of Pension Reform?”, CRC press release, July 8th 2024 „Später in Rente: Großmütter in Holland arbeiten auf Kosten ihrer Töchter“, covered in articles of the Münchner Merkur and Südkurier, about the research paper “Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data” (with Han Ye and Yasemin Özdemir), IZA DP, CRC DP 403/2023. Link and Link 

CRC press release, March 26th 2024: “Why Only Every Second Woman Wants To Work Full-Time As Mother” about the research paper “Beliefs about Maternal Labor Supply” (with Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin and Chris Rauh), CEPR WP, IZA WP, CRC DP 517/2024. Link

CRC press release interview, February 20th 2024: "Economy Meets History: How Reunification Still Affects Social Skills of East Germans” about the research paper “Socioemotional Development during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock” (with Ghazala Azmat and Yasemin Özdemir), IZA DP, CRC DP 506/2024. Link 

CRC LatestThinking Video "What are the Long-Run Effects of Elite Universities on Individuals and Society?" about the research paper “Elite Higher Education, the Marriage Market and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital” (with Matthias Messner and Alex Solis), CRC DP 269/2021. Link

Faculty of Law, Business & Economics
Macroeconomics

Current research areas

• Empirical Macroeconomics
  
• Inequality and Social Mobility
• Family Economics and Demography
  
• Economics of Education and Labor Economics
  
• Development Economics
  
• Social Interaction, Social Networks, Peer Effects
  

Faculty of Law, Business & Economics
Macroeconomics

Publications

Journal article

Katja Kaufmann: Discussion of: School schedules and the quality of mothers' employment. In: Economic Policy, 39 (2024). - S. 847-850.
doi:10.1093/epolic/eiae046

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Kaufmann: Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences, and Adjustment Process. In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 22 (2024). - S. 669-711.
doi:10.1093/jeea/jvad042

Katja Kaufmann: Discussion of: The Legacy of COVID-19 in Education. In: Economic Policy, 38 (2023). - S. 669-671.
doi:10.1093/epolic/eiad038

Fernanda Brollo, Katja Kaufmann, Eliana La Ferrara: Learning Spillovers in Conditional Welfare Programmes : Evidence from Brazil. In: The Economic Journal, 130 (2020). - S. 853-879.
doi:10.1093/ej/ueaa032

Fernanda Brollo, Katja Kaufmann, Eliana La Ferrara: The Political Economy of Program Enforcement: Evidence from Brazil. In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 18 (2020). - S. 750-791.
doi:10.1093/jeea/jvz024

Orazio P. Attanasio, Katja Kaufmann: Education choices and returns on the labor and marriage markets : Evidence from data on subjective expectations. In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 140 (2017). - S. 35-55.
doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2017.05.002

Orazio P. Attanasio, Katja Kaufmann: Education choices and returns to schooling : Mothers' and youths' subjective expectations and their role by gender. In: Journal of Development Economics, 109 (2014). - S. 203-216.
doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.04.003

Katja Kaufmann: Understanding the income gradient in college attendance in Mexico : The role of heterogeneity in expected returns. In: Quantitative Economics, 5 (2014). - S. 583-630.
doi:10.3982/QE259

Katja Kaufmann, Luigi Pistaferri: Disentangling Insurance and Information in Intertemporal Consumption Choices. In: American Economic Review, 99 (2009). - S. 387-392.

Working paper

Katja Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir, Michaela Paffenholz: Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2024. - 34 S.

Katja Kaufmann, Mark Jeffrey Spils: The Longrun Effects of STEM-hours in High School: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2024. - 39 S.

Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Katja Kaufmann, Christopher Rauh: Beliefs About Maternal Labor Supply. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2024. - 86 S.

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir: Socioemotional Development during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2024. - 47 S.

Katja Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir, Han Ye: Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations : Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes. - IZA Discussion Paper, Bonn, 2022. -
doi:10.2139/ssrn.4148133

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir: Fragile Boys (and Girls)? Determinants and Long-term Consequences of Socioemotional Development. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2021. -

Teodora Boneva, Katja Kaufmann, Christopher Rauh: Maternal Labor Supply : Perceived Returns, Constraints, and Social Norms. - IZA Discussion Paper, Bonn, 2021. -

Katja Kaufmann, Matthias Messner, Alex Solis: Elite Higher Education, the Marriage Market and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2021. -

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Kaufmann: Formation of College Plans : Expected Returns, Preferences and Adjustment Process. - IZA Discussion Paper, Bonn, 2021. -

Lina Cardona, Katja Kaufmann: Gender Peer Effects, Non-Cognitive Skills and Marriage Market Outcomes : Evidence from Single-Sex Schools in the UK. - Discussion Paper Series - CRC TR 224, Bonn ; Mannheim, 2020. -

Orazio Attanasio, Katja Kaufmann: Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints. - NBER Working Paper, Cambridge, MA, 2009. -

Faculty of Law, Business & Economics
Macroeconomics

Prof. Katja Maria Kaufmann, Ph.D.
Head of Research

Room: 2.52 (RW II)
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-6320
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-6322
E-mail: vwl1@uni-bayreuth.de; katja.kaufmann@uni-bayreuth.de
Consultation-hour: Wednesday, 08:30 - 10:00 (with pre-registration via email)