Statistics and Empirical Economics | Prof. Schmitz - Statistik und Quantitative Methoden der Empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung

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to the pages of the Chair of Statistics and Quantitative Methods in Empirical Economics.

We conduct research primarily on topics in health economics, the economics of education, and the economics of aging. We work empirically and use individual data as well as modern methods of causal analysis. We also teach these methods in our courses.

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News

15.08.2023

New Publication in Scientific Reports

15.08.2023

New Publication in Journal of Health Economics

02.11.2022

New Publication in European Economic Review

14.03.2022

New Publication in Economic Journal

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Research

We do research in the field of applied microeconometrics, especially health economics. Often, however, questions also spill over into neighboring fields such as labor economics, economics of education, public economics, or industrial economics.

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Publications

Our research has been published in peer-reviewed journals.

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Working Paper

Our latest working papers can be found here.

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Projects

An overview of our ongoing and completed research projects can be found here.

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Teaching

We offer courses in statistics, (micro-)econometrics and empirical economic research and supervise empirical bachelor and master theses in this field. For more information on our courses, possible theses, the recommended curriculum as well as to exchange programs with international partner universities that we supervise, please visit our teaching page.

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