Prof. Dr. Peter Haan

Peter Haan is Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin and Head of department of Public Economics at DIW Berlin. Studies in Economics and Political Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Humboldt-University Berlin and University of Toronto (degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Visiting Fellow at LSE, Paris School of Economics, Institute for Fiscal Studies und UCL London. Publications for example in American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics. He is also Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London and the Rockwool Foundation Berlin, a member of the Sozialbeirat (advisory group in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs) and spokesperson of the DFG Research group Labor market transformation.

Selected Publikations/Working Papers:

Income effects of disability benefits (with Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen and Johannes Geyer), IZA Discussion Papers, 17298, 2024, conditionally accepted at Journal of Labor Economics

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income (with Daniel Kemptner, Maximilan Schaller and Victoria Prowse), Quantitative Economics, 16, (2), pp. 565-613

Non-Additivity of Subjective Expectations over Different Time Intervals (with Chen Sun, Uwe Sunde and Georg Weizsäcker, forthcoming, Management Science

Long-Term Care around the World (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Chap. 4, (with Johannes Geyer, Axel Börsch-Supan and Elsa Perdrix)  

Biased expectations and female labor supply (with Max Blesch, Philipp Eisenhauer, Boryana Ilieva, Annekatrin Schrenker and Georg Weizsäcker), CRC-190 Discussion Paper 411, 2023, revise and resubmit at JPE Micro

Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-cycle model of Family Labor Supply and Savings (2024), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 16, (2), (pp. 127-81 (with Victoria Prowse)

Expectation management of policy leaders: Evidence from COVID-19 (2022), Journal of Public Economics, 209, 104659 (with Andreas Peichl, Annekatrin Schrenker, Georg Weizsäcker und Joachim Winter)