Carsten Schröder heads the Applied Panel Data Analyses division of the Socio-Economic Panel and is a Professor of Economics with a focus on Empirical Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. His main areas of interest lie in public finance and social policy. He primarily investigates economic inequalities and the effects of government interventions in the economy. He has published articles in the Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, European Economic Review, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, among others. Carsten Schröder served as Chairman of the Social Policy Committee (AfS) of the Verein für Socialpolitik.