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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)

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Publications

Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Lohn statt Bürgergeld: mehr Anreize für mehr Arbeit

In: Der Tagesspiegel (27.11.2023), S. 16 | Wolfgang Schroeder, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Externe Monographien

Long-term Care in Germany

Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023, 48 S.
(NBER Working Paper Series ; 31870)
| Johannes Geyer, Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Peter Haan, Elsa Perdrix
Externe Monographien

Zur Entwicklung der Altersarmut bei Änderungen der Rentenanpassungsregeln und weiterer Reformen

Wiesbaden: Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Lage, 2023, X, 68 S.
(Arbeitspapier / Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der Gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung ; 5/2023)
| Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Refereed essays Web of Science

Working Life and Human Capital Investment: Causal Evidence from a Pension Reform

In: Labour Economics 84 (2023), 102426 | Elisabeth Fürstenau, Niklas Gohl, Peter Haan, Felix Weinhardt
Nicht-referierte Aufsätze

Förderung von Rentenbeiträgen im Übergangsbereich wenig zielgenau

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

Lectures

Vortrag

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

Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Prag, Tschechien, 21.09.2023 - 23.09.2023
| Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists: EALE 2023
Vortrag

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

Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Barcelona, Spanien, 28.08.2023 - 01.09.2023
| 38th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association - 76th European Meeting of the Econometric Society: EEA - ESEM 2023
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
Poster

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

Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
Berlin, 28.04.2023
| Summer Workshop of the Berlin Network of Labor Market Research (BeNA)
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

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

Unequal ageing: life-expectancy, care needs and reforms to the welfare state

Current Project| Public Economics
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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