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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 (PDF, 2.98 MB)

Publications

Diskussionspapiere 2096 / 2024

The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care: Evidence on Prices

2024| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
DIW Wochenbericht 31/32 / 2024

Abschaffung der Mütterrente würde Altersarmut erhöhen

2024| Maximilian Blesch, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Stefan Klotz
DIW Wochenbericht 25 / 2024

Höheres Haushaltseinkommen geht bei Frauen und Männern mit höherer Lebenserwartung einher

2024| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Julie Tréguier
DIW Wochenbericht 23 / 2024

Rentenpaket II: Großes Versprechen ohne Deckung: Kommentar

2024| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Leeres Versprechen: mit dem Rentenpaket II erreicht die Ampel nicht, was sie will - es muss ergänzt werden.

In: Frankfurter Rundschau (05.06.2024), S. 10 | Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Engpässe in der Langzeitpflege

In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (08.04.2024), S. 16 | Peter Haan, Izabela Wnuk
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 16 (2024), 2, S.127–181 | Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse

Lectures

Vortrag

Public Support for Climate Dividends and for Carbon Pricing: The Relevance of Information and Perceived Fairness

Lars Felder, Jürgen Schupp, Peter Haan, Laura Schmitz, Merve Kücük, Sandra Bohmann
Berlin, 06.11.2024 - 08.11.2024
| Lost in Social Policy? Research for an Integrated Welfare State: FIS Forum and Social Policy Biennale 2024
Vortrag

Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply

Maximilian Blesch, Philipp Eisenhauer, Peter Haan, Boryana Ilieva, Annekatrin Schrenker, Georg Weizsäcker
Berlin, 15.09.2024 - 18.09.2024
| Upcoming Labour Market Challenges: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2024
Vortrag

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

Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Berlin, 15.09.2024 - 18.09.2024
| Upcoming Labour Market Challenges: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2024
Vortrag

Selection Effects and the Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap - A Novel Approach

Egshiglen Batbayar, Christoph Breunig, Peter Haan, Boryana Ilieva
Berlin, 15.09.2024 - 18.09.2024
| Upcoming Labour Market Challenges: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2024
Vortrag

Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply

Maximilian Blesch, Philipp Eisenhauer, Peter Haan, Boryana Ilieva, Annekatrin Schrenker, Georg Weizsäcker
Rotterdam, Niederlande, 26.08.2024 - 30.08.2024
| 39th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association - 77th European Meeting of the Econometric Society: EEA - ESEM 2024

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

Career penalties of long term-care provision

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Climate dividends and public support for carbon pricing

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

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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