Head of Department of the
Public Economics Department
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:
Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income (with Daniel Kemptner, Maximilan Schaller and Victoria Prowse), CRC-190 Discussion Paper 188, 2019, conditionally accepted Quantitative Economics
Non-Additivity of Subjective Expectations over Different Time Intervals (with Chen Sun, Uwe Sunde and Georg Weizsäcker, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 337, 2022, revised and resubmitted, Management Science
The effect of migration on careers of natives: evidence from long-term care (with Izabela Wnuk-Soares), IZA Discussion Papers, 16749, 2024, reject and resubmit at the Journal of Labor Economics
Biased expectations and female labor supply (with Max Blesch, Philipp Eisenhauer, Boryana Ilieva, Annekatrin Schrenker and Georg Weizsäcker) submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 411, 2023
The effect of pension wealth on employment (with Sebastian Becker, Hermann Buslei and Johannes Geyer), submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 363, 2022
Income effects of disability benefits (with Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen and Johannes Geyer), IZA Discussion Papers, 17298, 2024, submitted
The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care: Evidence on Prices (with Johannes Geyer and Mia Teschner), IZA Discussion Papers 17197, 2024, submitted
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)