SIMON JÄGER - Scholars at Harvard

SIMON JÄGER
Contact Information
Department of Economics, Harvard University
1805 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: http://scholar.harvard.edu/jaeger/
Graduate Education:
2010 – present
2013
2008 - 2010
2008 - 2009
Ph.D. Program in Economics, Harvard University
A.M. in Economics, Harvard University
M.Sc. in Economics, University of Bonn
Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate Education:
2006 - 2008
2005 - 2006
B.Sc. in Economics, University of Bonn
Undergraduate Studies in Industrial Engineering, University of Karlsruhe
Research Fields:
Primary: Public Economics, Labor Economics
Secondary: Econometrics, Psychology and Economics, Economic History
Research Experience and Affiliations:
2013 – present
2009 – present
Summer 2011
Summer 2009
2007 – 2008
Research Affiliate, Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University
Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Visitor, Center for Economics and Neuroscience, Bonn
Research Assistant to Prof. Armin Falk, University of Bonn
Student Research Assistant, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Teaching Experience:
Fall 2012
and 2013
Graduate Public Economics, Harvard University, Teaching Fellow for Prof. Raj Chetty
(Certificate for Distinction in Teaching 2013)
Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships:
2014 – 2015
2014
2013 – 2015
2012 – present
NBER Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Taubman Center Fellowship, Humane Studies
Fellowship
IQSS Research Grant
Bradley Fellowship
Doctoral Fellow, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy,
2013
2013
2012, 2013
2010 – 2012
2010 – 2012
2009 – 2010
2008 – 2009
2006 – 2010
Harvard Kennedy School
Simon Kuznets Grant, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching – Graduate Public Economics, Derek Bok Center for
Teaching and Learning, Harvard University
Lab for Economic Applications and Policy, Harvard University
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Stipend
Douglas Dillon Fellowship Fund (2011 – 2012)
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
ERP Fellowship Program
Bonn Graduate School of Economics Fellowship
Fulbright Fellowship
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung
Professional Activities:
Presentations:
Munich
Field
Days
(2014),
NBER
Productivity
Seminar
(2014),
CEBID Conference "Taxation, Social Norms and Compliance" (2014), WZB-TU
Colloquium in Economics, Berlin (2013), University of Bonn, Applied Micro Workshop
(2013), Workshop on the Analysis of Administrative Data, Institute for Employment
Research (IAB), Nuremberg (2012), IZA Workshop: Sources of Welfare and Well-Being
(2011), IZA Workshop: Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills (2010), Thurgau
Experimental Economics Meeting (2010)
Referee Service:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, European Economic Review, Journal
of the European Economic Association, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Urban
Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Publications:
“Complex Tax Incentives” (joint with Johannes Abeler), forthcoming American Economic Journal:
Economic Policy.
Working Papers:
“A Permutation Test and Estimation Alternatives for the Regression Kink Design” (joint with Peter
Ganong), IZA DP No. 8282.
“The Economic Returns to Higher Education: Evidence from University Openings in Germany”, mimeo.