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Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner

Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner
Role
Executive Board Member
Department
Executive Board
Key activities
  • Research Management
  • Policy Advice
  • Resarch on Social Risk Management
  • Research on Survey Methodology
  • Teaching of Economics

    To keep response time short, the first list you get contains only publications from 2013.

    Selected Research Projects

    Aktuelles Projekt

    Leibniz Network "Non-Cognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences"

    Themen: Demographie und Bevölkerung
    Aktuelles Projekt

    Lebensläufe und Alterssicherung im Wandel ( LAW )

    Themen: Soziales und Gesundheit, Demographie und Bevölkerung, Private Haushalte und Familien
    Aktuelles Projekt

    Life Course, Ageing and Well-Being (LAW)

    Themen: Demography and Population, Private Households and Families, Social Affairs and Health
    Abgeschlossenes Projekt

    TESS Project

    Themen: Methodenforschung, Demographie und Bevölkerung
    Abgeschlossenes Projekt

    DynSoc - The Dynamics of Social Change in Europe

    Themen: Europa, Soziales und Gesundheit
    Abgeschlossenes Projekt

    Leibniznetzwerk "Nicht-kognitive Fähigkeiten: Erwerb und ökonomische Konsequenzen"

    Themen: Demographie und Bevölkerung
    Abgeschlossenes Projekt

    The “Discovery” of Youth’s Learning Potential Early in the Life Course

    Themen: Bildung, Kultursektor, Non-Profit-Sektor, Demographie und Bevölkerung, Private Haushalte und Familien
    Abgeschlossenes Projekt

    The “Discovery” of Youth’s Learning Potential Early in the Life Course (Die "Entdeckung" des Lernpotentials Jugendlicher in einem frühen Stadium des Lebensverlaufes)

    Themen: Bildung, Kultursektor, Non-Profit-Sektor, Demographie und Bevölkerung, Private Haushalte und Familien

    CV - Short Version

    Gert G. Wagner is Professor of Economics at the Berlin University of Technology (TUB), member of the Executive Board of DIW Berlin, and Max Planck Fellow at the MPI for Human Development (Berlin).

    Wagner is chairman of the German Census Commission and German Council for Social and Economic Data, and he serves on the Advisory Board to Statistics Germany.

    Wagner serves on the Study Commission "Growth, Waelth and Well-Being" of the German Parliament (Bundestag).

    In the last years he was a member of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat), an elected reviewer of German National Science Foundation (DFG), a member  of the Methodolgy and Infrastructure Committees (MIC) of ESRC/UK. a member of the Advisory Board to the British Household Panel study (BHPS) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), and a member of the user selection panel of the European Large Scale Facility European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS), University of Essex. He was the first treasurer of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ).

    He served as an expert 2003-04 on the German Council of Experts on Immigration and Integration, 2002-03 on the Federal Commission for the Sustainability of Financing the Welfare State, 2002 to 2005 on the Advisory Board to the Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, and 1995-98 he was a member of the Study Commission "Demographic Change of the German Parliament" (Enquete Kommission Demographischer Wandel des Deutschen Bundestags)

    From 1997-2002 he was Full Professor of Economics at Viadrina European University of Frankfurt (Oder) and 1992-97 he was Full Professor of Public Administration at Ruhr-University Bochum. In the academic years 2008  to 2010 Wagner taught as a fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social studies in the University of Erfurt.

    Gert G. Wagner was visiting professor at Cornell University, Syracuse University and American University, Washington, D.C., and a visiting scholar at numerous research institutes in Germany and the US. He is research fellow of IZA Bonn.

    In September 2007, Gert G. Wagner was  awarded the "Knight's Cross" of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

    Among others, he received grants under the European Framework Programs, from the German-American Academic Council, the National Institute on Aging (USA), G.I.F., Anlo-German Foundation (AFG), TESS (USA), and the German National Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

    Wagner is editor-in-chief of Schmollers Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies). He published in international journals such as  European Economic Review,  Environmental Policy and Governance, European Environment, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, International Migration Review, Journal of Conlict Resolution, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Gerontolgy, Journal of Human Ressources, Journal of Positive PsychologyJournal of Public Economics, Population and Development Review, PNAS, Psychology and Aging, Psychlogical Science, and Social Indicator Research.