Jana Bauch/Uni Köln
Prof. Dr. Pia Pinger
Research Focus
My research revolves around human capital and socioeconomic inequalities. It includes work on educational decision-making, early childhood health, applied microeconometrics, and behavioral economics.
Academic Career
- 2019 Full Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne, Germany
- 2018 CESifo Affiliate
- 2017 briq Research Associate
- 2017 Reinhard Selten Institute Affiliate
- 2015 IZA Research Fellow
- 2017 Elected Member of the "Ausschuss für Bildungsökonomie"
- 2015 Prize for the best dissertation in education economics (Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss)
- 2014 HCEO Emerging Scholar
- 2014 Karin Islinger dissertation award
- 2014 Dissertation prize "The Future of Labor" (ZEW/Volksbank Weinheim Foundation)
- 2013-2019 Assistant Professor, University of Bonn
- 2013 Dr. rer. pol, University of Mannheim
- 2009-2013 Researcher, University of Mannheim
- 2008-2013 Researcher, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
- 2008 and 2011 Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago
- 2006-2007 Advanced Studies Program, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
- 2006 Master in International Economic Studies, Maastricht University
- 2004-2005 Exchange student, Sciences Po, Paris