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Prof. Dr. Peter Haan

Prof. Dr. Peter Haan

Head of Department of the

Public Economics Department

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+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:

Regression with Selectively Missing Covariates (joint with Christoph Breunig), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 206, 2019

Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-cycle model of Family Labor Supply and Savings (with Victoria Prowse), submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 189, 2019

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

Working Life and Human Capital Investment: Causal Evidence from Pension Reform (with Niklas Gohl, Elisabeth Kurz and Felix Weinhardt), submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 212, 2019

The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings – Distributional implications for the pension system (2019), The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 14 (with Daniel Kemptner and Holger Lüthen)

Wind electricity subsidies – Windfall for land owners? Evidence from a feed-in tariff in Germany (2018), Journal of Public Economics (with Martin Simmler), 159, pp 16 -32

Pension incentives and early retirement (2017), Labour Economics, 47, pp. 216-231 (with Barbara Engels and Johannes Geyer)

Longevity, Life-cycle Behavior and Pension Reform, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 178, No. 3, pp. 582-601, 2014 (with Victoria Prowse).

Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment, Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 1116-1125, 2009 (with Michal Myck).

Optimal income taxation of lone mothers: an empirical comparison for Britain and Germany, Economic Journal, Vol. 119, No. 535, pp. 101-121, 2009 (with Richard Blundell, Mike Brewer and Andrew Shephard).

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Publications

DIW Weekly Report 17/18 / 2023

Reform of Reduced Earning Capacity Pension Cuts Risk of Poverty, but Comes Late

2023| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
DIW Wochenbericht 17 / 2023

Reform der Erwerbsminderungsrente senkt Armutsrisiko, kommt aber spät

2023| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
DIW Weekly Report 14/15/16 / 2023

Heating and Electricity Expenses: Saving Incentives Not Impacting Basic Income Recipients

2023| Lars Felder, Peter Haan, Stefan Bach, Wolf-Peter Schill
DIW Wochenbericht 16 / 2023

Ausgaben für Heizung und Strom: Sparanreize greifen nicht für Menschen in der Grundsicherung

2023| Stefan Bach, Lars Felder, Peter Haan, Wolf-Peter Schill
DIW Weekly Report 7 / 2023

Midijob Reform: Increased Redistribution in Pension Insurance – Noticeable Costs, Relief Not Well Targeted

2023| Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Weitere externe Aufsätze

Förderung von Rentenbeiträgen im Übergangsbereich wenig zielgenau

In: Soziale Sicherheit 72 (2023), 4 | Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Externe referierte Aufsätze

The Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age on Health Care Costs: Evidence from Administrative Data

In: The European Journal of Health Economics im Ersch. (2023), [online first: 2022-10-23] | Johannes Geyer, Mara Barschkett, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Die Sehnsucht nach der frühen Rente

In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (26.04.2022), [Online-Artikel] | Peter Haan, Johannes Geyer, Arthur Seibold
Weitere externe Aufsätze

Debatte: Politik nachhaltiger gestalten

In: Gesundheit und Gesellschaft 3 (2022), [Online Artikel] | Peter Haan, Johannes Geyer
Externe referierte Aufsätze

The Effect of Unemployment on Care Provision

In: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 23 (2022), 100395, 14 S. | Björn Fischer, Peter Haan, Santiago Salazar Sanchez

Lectures

Vortrag

Vorbild Österreich?: Welche Unterschiede bestehen in den Rentenleistungen im Vergleich zu Deutschland und wie lassen sie sich erklären?

Johannes Geyer, Hermann Buslei, Peter Haan
Berlin, 11.05.2023 - 12.05.2023
| Pressefachseminar DRV Bund
Vortrag

Demographic Change and Optimal Insurance Mix of Life-Cycle Risk

Peter Haan, Osman Kücüksen, Alexander Ludwig, Matthias Schön
Basel, Schweiz, 11.09.2022 - 14.09.2022
| Big Data in Economics: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2022
Vortrag

Effectiveness and Heterogeneous Effects of Purchase Grants for Electric Vehicles: Evidence from Germany

Adrián Santonja di Fonzo, Peter Haan, Aleksandar Zaklan
Basel, Schweiz, 11.09.2022 - 14.09.2022
| Big Data in Economics: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2022
Vortrag

Effectiveness and Heterogeneous Effects of Purchase Grants for Electric Vehicles: Evidence from Germany

Adrián Santonja di Fonzo, Peter Haan, Aleksandar Zaklan
Barcelona, Spanien, 01.09.2022 - 03.09.2022
| X. Conference of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural and Environmental Resources Economics
Vortrag

Effectiveness and Heterogeneous Effects of Purchase Grants for Electric Vehicles: Evidence from Germany

Adrián Santonja di Fonzo, Peter Haan, Aleksandar Zaklan
Mailand, Italien, 22.08.2022 - 26.08.2022
| 37th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association - 75th European Meeting of the Econometric Society: EEA - ESEM 2022; Hybrid

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

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
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