Prof. Ludger Wössmann, "Bildung schafft Wohlstand": 11.03.2016 an der ETH Zurich
University of Munich's Director of the Ifo center lectures on Economics of Education.
Friday, 11 March 2016, Semper Aula HG G 60, 17.15 - 18.15 h
Registration: external page https://www.bit.ly/Ludger-W?ssmann
Please be advised this lecture will be held in German.
Ludger Woessmann is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich and Director of the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education at the Ifo Institute. His main research interests are the determinants of long-run prosperity and of student achievement. Special focusses address the importance of education for economic prosperity - individual and societal, historical and modern - and the importance of institutions of the school systems for efficiency and equity.
His work was rewarded, among others, with the Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association, the Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association, the EIB Prize of the European Investment Bank, and the Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement.