Prof. Thomas Siedler (PhD) – Microeconometrics

Research Interests

Applied Microeconometrics, Labor Economics, Health Economics, Family Economics

Short Biography

• Since April 2012
  Full Professor in Economics (W3), University of Hamburg, Germany
• Oct. 2011 – March 2012   
  Visiting Professor in Economics (Vertretung der Professur Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Mikroökonometrie), Department of Economics, University of Hamburg
• April – Sept. 2011   
  Visiting Professor in Empirical Economics (Vertretung der Professur “Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung”), Department of Economics, University of Potsdam
• 2008 – date   
  Senior Researcher, German Socio-Economic Panel Study, DIW Berlin
• 2007 – 2009   
  Chief Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
• 2003 – 2007   
  Senior Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Full CV (soon)

Selected Publications

Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective
Population and Development Review
(2012), forthcoming, with Helmut Rainer

The Complexity of Personality: Advantages of a Genetically Sensitive Multi-Group Design
Behavior Genetics
(2012), with Elisabeth Hahn, Christian Kandler, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp and Frank Spinath

One last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
Journal of Health Economics
(2011), 30(3), 591-601, with Silke Anger and Michael Kvasnicka

Parental Unemployment and Young People's Right-Wing Extremism and Xenophobia
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A.
(2011) 174(3), 737-758.

Schooling and Citizenship in a Young Democracy: Evidence from Post-War Germany
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
(2010), 112(2), 315-338.

The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults
Health Economics
(2010), 19(11), 1377-1384, with Marco Francesconi and Stephen Jenkins

Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Journal of Population Economics
(2010), 23(3), 1201-1231, with Marco Francesconi and Stephen Jenkins

Measuring People's Trust
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A
(2009), 172(4), 749-769, with John Ermisch, Diego Gambetta, Heather Laurie and Noah Uhrig

Does Democracy foster Trust?
Journal of Comparative Economics
(2009), 37(2), 251-269, with Helmut Rainer

The Role of Social Networks in Determining Migration and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the German Reunification
Economics of Transition
(2009), 17(1), 739-767, with Helmut Rainer

O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effect of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labour Market Outcomes
Economica
(2009), 76(303), 528-556, with Helmut Rainer

Subjective Income and Employment Expectations and Preferences for Redistribution
Economics Letters
(2008), 99(3), 449-453, with Helmut Rainer

Intergenerational Mobility and Marital Sorting
Economic Journal
(2006), 116(July), 659-679, with John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi

Discussion Papers

Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents (with Helea Holmlund and Helmut Rainer), conditionally accepted at Demography.

Job Loss Fears and (Extreme) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data” (with Ingo Geishecker).

Work in Progress

Job Information Centers, Education and Labor Market Outcomes (with Nils Saniter)

Intergenerational Transmission of Right-Wing Extremist Attitudes (with Alexandra Avdeenko)

Tuition Fees and Student’s Educational Expectations (with Benjamin Streim)