Prof. Dr. Peter Haan

Prof. Dr. Peter Haan

Head of Department of the

Public Economics Department

Contact

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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 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.

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)

Publications

DIW Wochenbericht 6 / 2025

Mehr Klarheit schaffen: Klimageld als sozialer Ausgleich bei höheren CO₂-Preisen

2025| Sandra Bohmann, Lars Felder, Peter Haan, Claudia Kemfert, Merve Kücük, Laura Schmitz, Jürgen Schupp
DIW aktuell ; 104 : Sonderausgaben zur Bundestagswahl 2025 / 2025

Zusammenhang von Gesundheit und Lebenserwartung bei Renten- und Pflegeversicherung stärker berücksichtigen

2025| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
DIW Wochenbericht 48 / 2024

Rente nach 45 Jahren: Auch Personen mit geringer Arbeitsbelastung gehen frühzeitig abschlagsfrei in Ruhestand

2024| Hermann Buslei, Lars Felder, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Diskussionspapiere 2098 / 2024

Income Effects of Disability Benefits

2024| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Diskussionspapiere 2096 / 2024

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

2024| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
Refereed essays Web of Science

Effectiveness and Heterogeneous Effects of Purchase Grants for Electric Vehicles

In: Environmental & Resource Economics 88 (2025),S. 185–223 | Peter Haan, Adrián Santonja, Aleksandar Zaklan
Externe Monographien

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

Bonn: IZA, 2024, 54 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 16749)
| Peter Haan, Izabela Wnuk
Externe Monographien

Beschäftigungspotenziale Älterer: Umfang und Realisierungschancen bis 2035

Gütersloh: Bertelsmann-Stiftung, 2024, 158 S. | Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan. Unter Mitarb. von Pablo Neitzsch
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

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

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
Vortrag

Erwerbspotenzial Älterer

Johannes Geyer, Hermann Buslei, Peter Haan
Wiesbaden, 01.10.2024 - 02.10.2024
| Arbeitsmarkt und Demografischer Wandel - Empirische Befunde und Forschung zum Arbeitskräftebedarf: Fachtagung des Fachausschusses Erwerbstätigkeit/Arbeitsmarkt des Statistisches Beirats beim Statistischen Bundesamt
Vortrag

Early Retirement for Early Starters – A Well Targeted Policy for People with High Job Demand?

Lars Felder, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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
Berlin, 15.09.2024 - 18.09.2024
| Upcoming Labour Market Challenges: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 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

How to increase employment of the elderly

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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