CURRICULUM VITAE Professor Dr. Carsten Schröder Contact information: German Institute for Economic Research Head Applied Panel Data Analyses Socio-Economic Panel Mohrenstr. 58 10117 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 89789 284 Fax: +49 (0)30 89789 109 Email: cschroeder@diw.de Homepage: http://www.did.de/de/diw_02.c.221321.de/team.html Personal information Date and place of birth Citizenship Marital status August 30 1972, Bad Honnef, Germany German unmarried Research interests Public, distributional, and environmental economics; survey design CV of Carsten Schröder Page 1 of 9
Education 2010 Positive evaluation of my Junior-Professorship 2004 Dissertation, Variable Income Equivalence Scales: An Empirical Approach, University of Kiel (summa cum laude) 1999 Diploma in Economics, University of Kiel Academic positions Current positions Head of the section Applied panel data analyses, DIW/SOEP Professor of Public Economics and Social Policy, Freie Universitaet Berlin Previous positions Visiting professor at Kiel Institute for the World Economy, April 2012 to October 2012 Guest researcher at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, October 2011 to April 2012 Visiting professor at Kiel Institute for the World Economy, April to September 2011 Guest researcher at German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin), April to September 2010 Junior-Professor at University of Kiel, April 2007 to February 2014 Post-doc researcher, Chair of Public Economics, Department of Economics, Freie Universitaet Berlin, October 2005 to March 2007 Research assistant, Chair of Public Economics, Department of Economics, University of Kiel, August 1999 to September 2005 Lecturer, FernUniversität Hagen, 2000 to 2005 Honors and awards Faculty award for best doctoral thesis ( Erich-Schneider-Preis ), 2003 Research scholarship, Groupe de Recherche en Analyse et Politique Economiques (GRAPE), Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV, France (Professor Patrick Moyes), July to September 2002 Research scholarship, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Studies (Professor Erik Schokkaert), Belgium, January to April 2002 CV of Carsten Schröder Page 2 of 9
Publications Publications in refereed journals and book series European-wide inequality in times of the financial crisis, (201x) forthcoming in Journal of Income Distribution [with T. Bönke] Fast methods for jackknifing inequality indices, (2015) Applied Econometrics, 37, 125-138 [with L. Karoly]. The Decline of Average Family Size and its Implications for Aggregate Benefits from Withinhousehold Sharing (2015), Oxford Economic Papers, 18, 1-25 [with D. Narita, T. Okubo, and K. Rehdanz]. Wage Distributions and the Accounting Period: An Assessment of the Shorrocks effect (2014), Research on Economic Inequality, 22, 421-447. Inequality and the Time Structure of Earnings: Evidence from Germany (2014), Journal of Economic Inequality, 12, 393-409 [with S. Yitzhaki and J. Golan] On the Redistributive Effects of Germany s Feed-in Tariff (2014), Empirical Economics, 46, 1339-1383 [with P. Grösche] Compiling a Harmonized Database from Germany s 1978 to 2003 Sample Surveys of Income and Expenditure (2013), AStA, 7, 135-168 [with T. Bönke and C. Werdt] Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes (2012), Economics, 6, 2012-28 [with T. Bönke] The Sensitivity of Distributional Measures to the Income Reference Period (2012), Journal of Income Distribution, 21, 77-115 Profitability of Pension Contributions Evidence from Real-Life Employment Biographies (2012), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 11, 311-336 Demographic Trends in Germany and Their Economic Implications (2012), Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 132, 151-174 [with R. Scholz] Introduction to the Special Issue: Demography, Social Institutions, and Individual Outcomes (2012), Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 132, 147 150 [with R. Himmelreicher] Bewertung der Riester-Rente: Volkswirtschaftliche Kriterien und Anforderungen an die Daten (2012), Journal of Social Policy Research, 58, 235-257 [with G. Corneo]. The Evolution of Tangibles, Financial and Social Security Wealth over the Lifecycle: Estimates for Germany (2012), Historical Social Research, 37, 165-184 [with B. Beckers and R. Himmelreicher] Residential Energy Expenditures in Germany: Inter-temporal Evolution and Determinants (2011), Environmental Economics, 3, 104-117 [with K. Rehdanz] Zur Entwicklung der Einkommensverteilung unter älteren Menschen in Deutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung (2011), Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 80(2), 81-99 [with T. Bönke and K. Schulte] Cowell, F.: Measuring Inequality (2011), book review, Journal of Economics, 104, 281-285. Poverty in Germany: Statistical Inference and Decomposition (2011), Journal of Economics and Statistics, 231, 178-209 [with T. Bönke] CV of Carsten Schröder Page 3 of 9
Eliciting Public Support for Greening the Electricity Mix Using Random Parameter Techniques (2011), Energy Economics, 33, 363-370 [with P. Grösche] Incomes and Inequality in the Long Run: The Case of German Elderly (2010), German Economic Review, 11, 487-510 [with T. Bönke and K. Schulte] Non-Market Household Time and the Cost of Children (2009), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 27, 42-51 [with C. Koulovatianos and U. Schmidt] Income Distribution and the Family (2009), Journal of Income Distribution, 18, 1-3 [with C. Koulovatianos, U. Schmidt and C. Seidl] Per Capita Income Versus Household-need Adjusted Income: A Cross-country Comparison (2009), Journal of Income Distribution, 18, 3-11 [with C. Koulovatianos and P. Minkovski] The Effect of Elicitation Methods on Ambiguity Aversion: An Experimental Investigation (2009), Economics Bulletin, 645-650 [with A. Maffioletti and U. Schmidt] The Riester Scheme and Private Savings: An Empirical Analysis based on the German SOEP (2009), Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 129, 321-332 [with G. Corneo and M. Keese] Cigno, A. and Werding, M.: Children and Pensions (2008), Journal of Economics, 95, 87-91 Bestimmung ökonomischer Einkommen und effektiver Einkommensteuerbelastungen mit der Faktisch Anonymisierten Lohn- und Einkommensteuerstatistik (2007), Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 4, 585-623 [with T. Bönke and F. Neher] Economies of Scale in der Produktion versus Diseconomies im Transport: Zum Strukturwandel in der Milchindustrie (2006), German Journal of Agricultural Economics, 3, 152-167 [with O. Boysen] On the Income Dependence of Equivalence Scales (2005), Journal of Public Economics, 89, 967-996 [with C. Koulovatianos and U. Schmidt] Properties of Equivalence Scales in Different Countries (2005), Journal of Economics, 86, 19-27 [with C. Koulovatianos and U. Schmidt] Altruism, Warm Glow, and the Willingness-to-Donate for Green Electricity: An Artefactual Field Experiment (2005), Environmental and Resource Economics, 31, 431-458 [with R. Menges and S. Traub] Zahlungsbereitschaften für Frischmilch aus der Region: Ergebnisse einer Kontingenten Bewertung und einer experimentellen Untersuchung (2005), German Journal of Agricultural Economics, 54, 244-257 [with H.D. Thiele] Erhebung von Zahlungsbereitschaften für Ökostrom: Methodische Aspekte und Ergebnisse einer experimentellen Untersuchung (2004), Marketing Zeitschrift für Forschung und Praxis, 26, 247-258 [with R. Menges and S. Traub] Umweltbewusstes Verhalten aus ökonomischer Sicht: Eine experimentelle Untersuchung des Nachfrageverhaltens nach Ökostrom (2004), Umweltpsychologie, 8, 84-106 [with R. Menges and S. Traub] CV of Carsten Schröder Page 4 of 9
Current working papers Fiscal federalism and tax enforcement (2015), Discussion Papers 2015/15, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics, [with T. Bönke and B. Jochimsen]. On the emissions-inequality trade-off in energy taxation: Evidence on the German car fuel tax (2015), Discussion Papers, 2015/6, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics [with D. Nikodinoska] Reasonable Sample Sizes for Convergence to Normality (2014), SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 714, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) [with S. Yitzhaki] Do demographics prevent consumer aggregates from reflecting micro-level preferences? (2014), CFS Working Paper Series 484, Center for Financial Studies (CFS) [with C. Koulovatianos and U. Schmidt] Book chapters, volume introductions, and non-refereed publications Income Inequality Remains High in Germany: Young Singles and Career Entrants Increasingly At Risk of Poverty, (2015), DIW Economic Bulletin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, 25, 325-339 [with J. Göbel and M. Grabka] Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland bleibt weiterhin hoch junge Alleinlebende und Berufseinsteiger sind zunehmend von Armut bedroht (2015), DIW Wochenbericht, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, 25, 571-586 [with J. Göbel and M. Grabka] Private Bildungsausgaben für Kinder: einkommensschwache Familien sind relativ stärker belastet (2015), DIW Wochenbericht, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, 8, 158-169 [with K. Spieß and J. Storck] Private Spending on Children s Education: Low-Income Families Pay Relatively More (2015), DIW Economic Bulletin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, 5(8), 113-123 [with K. Spieß and J. Storck] A note on... inequality (2014), SOEP newsletter, 105, 2. Kosten und Nutzen von Mindestlöhnen (2014), DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus, 22. Riester-Rente: Verbreitung, Mobilisierungseffekte und Renditen: Expertise im Auftrag der Abteilung Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (2011) WISO-Diskurs, November 2011. Tagungsbericht zum achten Workshop des Forschungsdatenzentrums der Rentenversicherung (2011), Deutsche Rentenversicherung, 3, 264-267 [with R. Himmelreicher] Mobilität von Erwerbseinkommen, DRV-Schriften, 194-208 [with B. Jungermann] Vorüberlegungen zur statistischen Verknüpfung von Querschnitts-Surveydaten mit prozessproduzierten Längsschnittdaten: EVS und VSKT, Deutsche Rentenversicherung, 65,2, 208-216 [with R. Himmelreicher] Kosteneffizienter Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien Die mehrheitsfähige EEG-Umlage (2010), Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen, 6, 8-12 [with P. Grösche] Die Funktionsweise des bundesdeutschen Finanzausgleichs und seine ökonomischen Anreizeffekte auf Länderebene (2010), Christiana Albertina, 70, 6-17 [with T. Bönke and B. Jochimsen] CV of Carsten Schröder Page 5 of 9
Die Verteilung der Bruttojahresarbeitsentgelte der Geburtsjahrgänge 1942 bis 1973 nach der Deutschen Einheit (2010), DRV-Schriften, 55, 194-213 [with F. Eberhardt] The Construction and Estimation of Equivalence Scales and Their Uses (2009), in: Slottje, D. (Ed.), Quantifying Consumer Preferences, Contributions to Economic Analysis, 288, Emerald: Bingley (UK) Individuelle Erwerbsbiografie-basierte Rentenbeitragsrenditen (2008), DRV-Schriften, 55, 192-211 [with J. Fuhrmann, S. Glaser and M. Rengel] Arbeitslosengeld II: Arbeitsanreize und Verteilungsgerechtigkeit (2008), Wirtschaftsdienst Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 7, 461-466 [with C. Koulovatianos and U. Schmidt] Zur Wahrnehmung von Kosten im Gesundheitswesen (2007), Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Mikrodaten-Analyse, Band 11, Kiel [with T. Drabinski] Soziale Pflegeversicherung: Status Quo und Reformvorschläge (2006), in: Seidl, C. und J. Jickeli (eds.): Steuern und Soziale Sicherung in Deutschland. Reformvorschläge und deren finanzielle Auswirkungen, Physica/Springer, 111-136 [with K. Schulte] Anhang 2: Rentenformeln ab 1957 (2006), in: Seidl, C. and J. Jickeli (eds.): Steuern und Soziale Sicherung in Deutschland. Reformvorschläge und deren finanzielle Auswirkungen, Physica/Springer, 279-285 [with K. Schulte] A New Subjective Approach to Equivalence Scales: An Empirical Investigation (2005), in: Schmidt, U. and S. Traub (eds.): Advances in Public Economics: Utility, Choice and Welfare, Springer, 119-134 [with U. Schmidt] Marktpotenziale regionaler Milchvermarktung (2005), in: G. Rahmann, Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft (ed.), Ressortforschung für den Ökologischen Landbau, Sonderheft 290, 88-90 [with H. Burchardi and H.D. Thiele] Regionale Vermarktung von Molkereiprodukten (2004), in: E. Hetzner (ed.), Handbuch Milch, Behrs Verlag, Hamburg [with H.D. Thiele] Potentiale der Regionalvermarktung bei Frischmilch: Empirische Ergebnisse einer Befragung im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel (2004), Kieler Milchwirtschaftliche Forschungsberichte, 56 [with H. Burchardi] Eine Analyse der Steuer- und Sozialpolitik mit Hilfe von Äquivalenzskalen (2000), Finanznachrichten, 77, 16/17 [with U. Schmidt] Books Variable Income Equivalence Scales: An Empirical Approach (2004), Contributions to Economics, Physica/Springer Current research projects The career-fertility tradeoff [with J. Goldstein and C. Koulovatianos] The information content of ordinal data [with S. Yitzhaki] Germany s Riester scheme [with G. Corneo] Inequalities in income, consumption and wealth [with Viktor Steiner] Inequalities in Europe and the Financial Crisis [with Timm Bönke] CV of Carsten Schröder Page 6 of 9
Grants Current projects DFG Seed Money: Comparing Augmented Wealth in the US and Germany [with M. Grabka and Edward Nathan Wolff] Leibniz Competition (SAW): EvaMin Evaluation of the Minimum Wage in Germany [coapplicant] Research Network on Old Age Security: Cui prodest? The Redistributive Effects of Subsidized Old-Age Savings [with G. Corneo] Completed projects Research Network Old Age Security: Private Old-Age Provision in Germany: Data and Research Requirements, 2011 Friedrich Ebert Foundation: Fiscal Effects of Germany s Riester Scheme, 2011 Bertelsmann Foundation, sponsoring for conference Income Distribution and the Family, 2008 in Kiel (Germany) Innovationsfond Schleswig-Holstein, sponsoring for Income Distribution and the Family, 2008 in Kiel (Germany) Horbach Price, devoted to honor excellent seminar theses Gesundheitsnetzwerker: Perception of Health Costs, 2006 E.ON, study on the willingness-to-pay for different electricity mixes, 2002 Selected conferences, workshops, and research seminars Conferences Royal Economic Societies, European Economic Association, Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Verein für Socialpolitik, International Institute of Public Finance, Austrian Economic Association, Global Economic Modeling Network, Statistische Woche, etc. Workshops and research seminars Invited Research seminar, Max-Planck-Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, January 2015, Potsdam Research Seminar in Economics, 2014; DenkwerkZukunft, December 2013, Bonn; Hebrew University, October 2013, Jerusalem; Rotary Club Kiel Eider, July 2013, Kiel; Friedrich- Ebert-Foundation, June 2012, Magdeburg; Research Network Old Age Security, February 2012, Berlin; BeNA Seminar, Universities of Berlin and DIW, November 2011; conference on capital and labor markets in aging societies, University of Rostock, September 2011; research seminar, Max-Planck-Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, January 2011; research seminar, December 2010, University of Duisburg-Essen; workshop of the University of Jena (SFB 580), November 2010; Bayreuth Dialogue, October 2010; Committee of Social Policy of the Verein für Socialpolitik, October 2010, Tuebingen; research seminar of the Technical University Darmstadt, 2010; research seminar of the Hanse Research College, 2010, Oldenburg; research seminar of the Research Centre of the German Pension Insurance, Delmenhorst, 2009; research seminar of the CV of Carsten Schröder Page 7 of 9
University of Muenster 2009; research seminar of the University of Kassel, 2007; European lecture, University of Nicosia, 2002. Others International Energy Workshop, 2013, Paris; workshops of the research center of the German public pension insurance, 2008-2012; WZB conference on federalism, 2008, Berlin; ARGE Workshop, 2007, Berlin; Workshop on Labor Markets and Demographic Change, 2006, Rostock; FINEXE Workshop on Applied Microeconomics, 2005, Joensuu; Frontier Estimation, Inference, and the Bootstrap, 2004, Louvain-la-Neuve; Public Economics Day, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2002; STICERD Annual Workshop, 2002, London. Professional activities Reviewer for scientific journals (alphabetical order) Contemporary Economics, Economica, Economics, Empirica, European Economic Review, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, German Economic Review, German Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Energy Policy, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Land Economics, Leviathan, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Resource and Energy Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Schmollers Jahrbuch, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, WSI Mitteilungen Reviewer for scientific foundations and consultancy Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft: Reviewer Hans-Böckler Foundation: Member of the Advisory Board Research Network Old-Age Security (Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung): Reviewer Senior Research Associate of DIW Econ Editorship Managing Editor of the Journal of Income Distribution (September 2013 - present) Guest-Editor Proceedings of the SOEP2014 11th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (forthcoming) Guest-Editor Special Issue: Demography, Social Institutions, and Individual Outcomes, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 132 Guest Editor of the special issue Income Distribution and the Family, Journal of Income Distribution, 18, 2009 Guest Editor of the conference volume 8th workshop of the Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2012 Organization of conferences, editorial and other activities International Association for Research in Income and Wealth: representative from DIW Berlin Organizer: Crises and the Distribution, 2014, Berlin Local organizer: 11 th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference, 2014, Berlin CV of Carsten Schröder Page 8 of 9
Local organizer: 8 th workshop of the Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance, 2011, Kiel Organizer: Income Distribution and the Family, 2008, Kiel Organizer: Eigenverantwortung aus Perspektive des Patienten - Kooperation aus Perspektive der Leistungserbringer, 2007, Berlin Memberships Ausschuss für Sozialpolitik of the Verein für Socialpolitik (elected member since October 2010), Econometric Society, European Economic Association, International Institute of Public Finance, The Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Verein für Socialpolitik Current supervision of doctoral students Wealth disparities and inheritances (Christian Westermeier, Freie Universität Berlin) Cui prodest: The German Riester scheme from a distributional perspective (Johannes König, Freie Universität Berlin) tba, Maria Metzing (Freie Universitaet Berlin) Essays in Energy Economics, Dragana Nikodinoska (University of Kiel) Government Social Assistance Programs and Inequality in South Africa- A CGE Micro Simulation Model, C. Gomo (University of Kiel) Administrative responsibilities Elected member of the Think Tank of Junior Researchers, University of Kiel, 2010 Elected member of the Convention of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Kiel, 2008-2010 Teaching experience Lectures Economics of the Welfare State: master level, Freie Universitaet Berlin Measuring Inequality: master and PhD level, University of Kiel and Freie Universitaet Berlin Public Economics: bachelor, master, and PhD level, University of Kiel, Freie Universitaet Berlin Microeconomics: bachelor and master level, University of Kiel Seminars and other specialized courses Empirical Seminars, University of Kiel and Freie Universitaet Berlin Various Seminars in Public Economics/Social Policy, University of Kiel and Freie Universitaet Berlin Programming in STATA, University of Kiel Teaching evaluations Upon request CV of Carsten Schröder Page 9 of 9