Prof. Dr. Peter Haan

Prof. Dr. Peter Haan

Head of Department of the

Public Economics Department

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Research Topics and Working Areas

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)

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Publications

DIW Weekly Report 41 / 2025

Basic Pension Recipients Are More Likely to Be Employed than Other Pensioners

2025| Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Lukas Harder
DIW Wochenbericht 41 / 2025

Warum die Rente besser ist als ihr Ruf: Kommentar

2025| Peter Haan, Johannes Geyer
DIW Wochenbericht 41 / 2025

Grundrentenberechtigte häufiger erwerbstätig als andere Rentner*innen

2025| Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Lukas Harder
DIW Wochenbericht 37 / 2025

Größter Pflegedienst in Deutschland: Millionen Menschen pflegen Angehörige inner- und außerhalb ihres Haushalts

2025| Martina Brandt, Ulrike Ehrlich, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Nadiya Kelle
DIW Discussion Papers 2130 / 2025

Measuring Long-Run Expectations that Correlate with Investment Decisions

2025| Peter Haan, Chen Sun, Felix Weinhardt, Georg Weizsäcker
Weitere externe Aufsätze

Können ausländische Pflegekräfte Fachkräfteengpässe reduzieren? Erkenntnisse aus der Zuwanderung infolge der EU-Osterweiterung

In: Ifo-Schnelldienst
78 (2025), 11, S. 19-23
S. 19-23
| Peter Haan, Julia Schmieder, Izabela Wnuk-Soares
Refereed essays Web of Science

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

In: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 32 (2025), 100600, 15 S. | Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
Newspaper and Blog Articles

Rente: Panik und Realität

In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (02.09.2025), S. 17 | Peter Haan, Johannes Geyer
Non-refereed Articles

Zum Zusammenhang sozialer Ungleichheit mit Pflegerisiken und Lebenserwartung

In: Gesundheit und Gesellschaft Wissenschaft 25 (2025), 3, S. 15-23 | Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Refereed essays Web of Science

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

In: Quantitative Economics 16 (2025), 2, S. 565–613 | Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria Prowse, Maximilian Schaller

Lectures

Vortrag

The Impact of Immigration on the Availability and Price of Long-term Care

Izabela Wnuk, Peter Haan, Julia Schmieder
Köln, 14.09.2025 - 17.09.2025
| Revival of Industrial Policy: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2025
Vortrag

Elasticity of Demand for Individual Transport

Renke Schmacker, Sandra Bohmann, Lars Felder, Peter Haan
Berlin, 17.07.2025 - 18.07.2025
| Expectation of Climate Change – Households, Firms, and the Labor Market: Workshop. CRC TRR 190, WZB, DIW Berlin, DFG Research Unit Labor Market Transformation, HU Berlin, LMU München
Vortrag

Elasticity of Demand for Individual Transport

Laura Schmitz, Sandra Bohmann, Lars Felder, Peter Haan, Merve Kücük, Jürgen Schupp
Berlin, 26.06.2025 - 27.06.2025
| BSoE-DIW Berlin Graduate Center 2025 Summer Workshop
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

Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria Prowse, Maximilian Schaller
Berlin, 24.10.2024 - 25.10.2024
| Workshop on Life-course Inequality Dynamics: DIW, SOEP

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

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

Employment of older individuals

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Employment of women

Current Project| Gender Economics, Public Economics
Research Project

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

Current Project| Public Economics, Gender Economics
Research Project

Heterogeneous Mortality - Empirical Analyzes based on the SOEP

Current Project| Public Economics, Gender Economics
Research Project

Impact of recent pension reforms on old-age poverty

Current Project| Public Economics, Gender Economics
Research Project

Long term care and migration

Current Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Biased beliefs in dynamic decisions

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Climate dividends and public support for carbon pricing

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

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

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

How to increase employment of the elderly

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

More Years better Lifes (LONGLIVES)

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Netspar - Flexible combinations of work and retirement

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Rates of return in pension schemes

Completed Project| Public Economics
Research Project

Rationality and Competition: The Economic Performance of Individuals and Firms

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

The effect of pension reforms on old age poverty

Completed Project| Public Economics
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