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Prof. Dr. Peter Haan

Prof. Dr. Peter Haan

Head of Department of the

Public Economics Department

Contact

+49 30 89789 - 165
Research Topics and Working Areas

Head of department of Public Economics at DIW Berlin and Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. Ph.D in Economics with distinction (Supervisors: Prof. Viktor Steiner and Prof. Richard Blundell). Studies in Economics and Political Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Humboldt-University Berlin and University of Toronto (degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Visiting Fellow at Paris School of Economics, Institute for Fiscal Studies und UCL London. Recent publications in Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics and Econometrics Journal.

Selected Publikations/Working Papers:

Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-cycle model of Family Labor Supply and Savings (with Victoria Prowse), CRC-190 Discussion Paper 189, 2019, conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income (with Daniel Kemptner and Victoria Prowse), submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 188, 2019, revise and resubmit, Quantitative Economics

House price expectations (with Niklas Gohl, Claus Michelsen, and Felix Weinhardt), CRC-190 Discussion Paper 313, 2022, revise and resubmit, JEBO

Non-Additivity of Subjective Expectations over Different Time Intervals (with Chen Sun, Uwe Sunde and Georg Weizsäcker, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 337, 2022, revise and resubmit, Management Science 

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

Effectiveness and Heterogeneous Effects of Purchase Grants for Electric Vehicles (with Adrian Santonja and Aleksander Zaklan), submitted, DIW DP 2032

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Publications

DIW Weekly Report 7 / 2024

Expanding Long-term Care Insurance Could Reduce the Gender Care Gap in Germany

2024| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
DIW Wochenbericht 7 / 2024

Ausbau der Pflegeversicherung könnte Gender Care Gap in Deutschland reduzieren

2024| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
Diskussionspapiere 2070 / 2024

The Effect of Migration on Careers of Natives: Evidence from Long-term Care

2024| Peter Haan, Izabela Wnuk
DIW aktuell ; 91 / 2024

Bilanz der Grundrente: Weniger Menschen als erwartet profitieren davon

2024| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Nicht-referierte Aufsätze

Eine effektive Grundrente ermöglicht notwendige Rentenreformen

In: Wirtschaftsdienst 104 (2024), 2, S. 87-91 | Peter Haan
Refereed essays Web of Science

House Price Expectations

In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 218 (2024), S. 379–398 | Niklas Gohl, Peter Haan, Claus Michelsen, Felix Weinhardt
Refereed essays Web of Science

The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (2024), im Ersch. | Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
Externe Monographien

The Effect of Pension Wealth on Employment

London: IFS, 2023, 49 S.
(IFS Working Papers ; 23/01)
| Sebastian Becker, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Nicht-referierte Aufsätze

"Vorbild Österreich": Unterschiede in den Rentenleistungen und der Finanzierungsbasis im Vergleich zu Deutschland

In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung (2023), 3-4, S. 266-288 | Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan

Lectures

Vortrag

Is Migration Reducing Labor Scarcity? Evidence from Long-Term Care

Izabela Wnuk, Peter Haan
Regensburg, 24.09.2023 - 27.09.2023
| Growth and the 'sociale Frage': Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2023
Vortrag

Is Migration Reducing Labor Scarcity? Evidence from Long-Term Care

Izabela Wnuk, Peter Haan
Prag, Tschechien, 21.09.2023 - 23.09.2023
| Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists: EALE 2023
Vortrag

Effects of Increasing Disability Benefits on Employment, Earnings, and Mortality

Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Prag, Tschechien, 21.09.2023 - 23.09.2023
| Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists: EALE 2023
Poster

Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply

Maximilian Blesch, Philipp Eisenhauer, Peter Haan, Boryana Ilieva, Annekatrin Schrenker, Georg Weizsäcker
Paris, Frankreich, 19.09.2023
| Séminaires CREST
Vortrag

Effects of Increasing Disability Benefits on Employment, Earnings, and Mortality

Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Barcelona, Spanien, 28.08.2023 - 01.09.2023
| 38th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association - 76th European Meeting of the Econometric Society: EEA - ESEM 2023

Research Projects

Research Project

An empirical analysis of non-take up of social assistance for the elderly

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Behavioral and distributional effects of pension reforms

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Distribution effects and incentive effects of coordinated climate and social policy

Current Project| Public Economics, Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Economic Insights: Transfer and Capacity Building

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Female labor supply and fertility in times of demographic change (FemLab)

Current Project| Public Economics, Gender Economics
Research Project

GETTSIM – Contributions to an Open Source Tax- and Transfers Simulator

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Heterogeneous Mortality - Empirical Analyzes based on the SOEP

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Impact of recent pension reforms on old-age poverty

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Long term care and migration

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Netspar - Flexible combinations of work and retirement

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Rationality and Competition: The Economic Performance of Individuals and Firms

Current Project| Public Economics, German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Unequal ageing: life-expectancy, care needs and reforms to the welfare state

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Biased beliefs in dynamic decisions

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Distributional effects of financial support models for family caregivers

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Effects of the legal minimum wage on poverty

Completed Project| Public Economics, German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Expertise on Employment potential of older people

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

More Years better Lifes (LONGLIVES)

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Rates of return in pension schemes

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

The effect of pension reforms on old age poverty

Completed Project| Public Economics
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