Prof. Christina Gathmann, Ph.D.

• Ph.D. in Economics at University of Chicago in 2004
• M.A. in Economics at University of Chicago in 2004
• Diploma in Economics at Humboldt University of Berlin in 1998
• Diploma in Social Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin in 1998

• Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Heidelberg, since October 2011
• Responsible Coordinator of "German Internet Panel" for the Collaborative Research Center SFB 884 "Political Economy of Reforms", University of Mannheim, since November 2010
• Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Research Associate, since 2009
• CESifo Institute, Research Affiliate, since 2007
• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Research Fellow, since 2003

Research Visits: University College London and IFS (Summer 2000, Summer 2002), DIW Berlin (Summer 2003), Institute for the Study of Labor (Summer 2005, Summer 2006), Humboldt University of Berlin (Summer 2006), University of Mannheim (Fall 2008), CESifo Institute (Fall 2008); University College London (Fall 2011); Columbia University (Spring 2012).

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, 2009-2011
• Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute, Research Affiliate, 2007-2009
• Stanford University, Center for Longevity, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, 2007-2009
• Hoover Institution, W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, 2006-2007
• Humboldt University Berlin, Lecturer at the 6th International Summer School (ISSEM), 2006
• CREES, Stanford University, Research Affiliate, 2005-2009
• Stanford University, Department of Economics, Visiting Faculty, 2004-2006
• Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Visiting Scholar, 2004-2006
• University of Chicago, Lecturer, 2001

Research Interests

• Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy, Policy Evaluation

• “Gorbachev’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis” (with Grant Miller and Jay Bhattacharya), December 2011, R&R at AEJ: Applied Economics.
• “Gender Gaps in Policy-Making: Evidence from Direct Democracy in Switzerland” (with Patricia Funk), December 2011, submitted.
• “Preferences Matter! Voter Preferences, Direct Democracy and Government Spending” (with Patricia Funk), January 2012, submitted.
• "Compulsory Schooling and Mortality in 20th Century Europe" (with Hendrik Jürges and Steffen Reinhold), February 2012, submitted.
• “Taxing Childcare: Effects on Labor Supply and Children” (with Björn Saß), March 2012, submitted.
• “Evaluating Recent Changes in US Welfare Policy: Addressing the Endogeneity and Multidimensionality of Welfare Policy,” (with Latika Chaudhary), under revision.
• “Death and Politics: Proportional Representation and the Mortality Decline,” (with Steffen Reinhold), December 2011.
• "Changes in Relative Wages and Household Income of Older Cohorts during East Germany's Transition, mimeo, University of Chicago, December 2004.

Work in Progress

• "The Mortality Decline in Switzerland from 1880-2000 (with Steffen Reinhold)
• "Voting Against Reform? Individual Gains and Voting Behavior during Economic Transition"
• "Benefits of Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's New Immigration Policy" (with Nicolas Keller)
• "Knowledge Spillovers in Local Labor Markets" (with Thomas Cornelissen and Uta Schönberg)
• "Displacement, Human Capital Spillovers and Local Labor Markets" (with Uta Schönberg)
• "Dynamic Tax Competition: Evidence from the Inner-German Border" (with Florian Misch)
• "The Effect of Wages and Human Capital on Fertility Choices: Lessons from East Germany's Fertility Decline after Unification (with Melanie Arntz and Martha Bailey)
• "The Political Economy of Innovation: Evidence from US States" (with Andreas Bernecker)

• Brittson Fellowship for Russian Studies, Hoover Institution, 2006-2007
• W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship, Hoover Institution, 2006-2007
• Henry Morgenthau Jr. Memorial Fund Dissertation Fellowship, 2003–2004
• Young Economist Award, European Economic Association, 2003
• Margaret G. Reid Memorial Fund Dissertation Fellowship, 2002–2003
• University of Chicago Fellowship, 1998–2002
• Röper Prize for Best Graduate in Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin, 1998
• Dean’s Honors List, University of Ottawa, Canada, 1994
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, 1993–1994 

• "Concept and Implementation of the German Internet Panel (GIP)" as responsible Coordinator of the Infrastructure Project Z1, Collaborative Research Center SFB 884 "Political Economy of Reforms", University of Mannheim.
  German Science Foundation, funding agency of  SFB 884, € 1.150,000, 2011-2013.
• "The Effect of (Relative) Wages and Human Capital on Fertility Choices: Lessons from East Germany's Fertility Decline after Unification", ZEW Mannheim, Forschungsprogramm 'Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in the European Knowledge Economies' (SEEK), € 100,000, 2011-2013.
• "Death and Politics: Political Representation and the Decline in Mortality", University of Mannheim, Forschungsfonds, € 9,400, 2010-2011.
• "How do Electoral Rules Affect Fiscal Policy?", Cliometrics Society, Early Career Grant, $ 1.200, 2008.
• "Gorbachev's Anti-Alcohol Campaign and the Russian Mortality Crisis", National Institute of Health, National Institute of Aging, NIH/NIA P30 Seed Grant, $ 30,000, 2007–2009.
• "Commerce and Crime: States, Property Rights, and the War on Trade, 1700-1815." National Science Foundation (SES-0550848), $ 118,209, 2006-2009.
• "The Evolution of Consumption Insurance during Russia's Economic Transition", Stanford University, VPUE Faculty Grant for Undergraduate Research, $ 3,750, 2006-2007.
• "Illegal Markets and the State: Evidence from 18th Century Privateering." Stanford University, OTL Research Incentive Fund Award, $ 24,978, 2005–2007.
• "The Political Economy of Illegal Organization: Evidence from 18th Century Privateering."  Stanford University, VPUE Faculty Grant for Undergraduate Research, $  6,450, 2005-2006.
• Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies, $ 500, 2003.  

• Labor Economics Seminar, Undergraduate, University of Heidelberg (Spring 2012)
• Immigration and Public Policy Seminar, Undergraduate, University of Heidelberg (Fall 2011)
• Labor Economics, Undergraduate, University of Heidelberg (Fall 2012)
• Immigration and Public Policy, Graduate (MA), University of Mannheim, University of Heidelberg (Spring 2010-2012)
• Immigration and Public Policy Seminar, Graduate (MA), University of Mannheim (Fall 2010)
• Empirical Public Finance and Policy Evaluation, Graduate, University of Mannheim (Fall 2008-2010)
• Topics in Labor Economics, Graduate Lecture Series, University of Munich (Fall 2008)
• Longevity (Guest Instructor), Undergraduate, Stanford University (Spring 2008, Spring 2009)
• Advanced Labor Economics, Undergraduate, Stanford University (Spring 2006)
• Transition Economics, Undergraduate, Stanford University (Spring 2005-2007)
• Industrial Organization, Undergraduate, University of Chicago (Fall 2001)

• 2012 (scheduled): University of Helsinki; Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen; EBRD London; MZES Mannheim; LMU Munich (Workshop on Natural Experiments and Field Experiments); TU Darmstadt.
• 2011: Uppsala University, Aarhus Business School (Workshop on Health, Work and the Workplace), University of Aarhus; University of Vienna, LMU Munich (Workshop on Natural Experiments and Field Experiments); University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; University of Bonn (MPI Institute for the Study of Collective Goods); German Federal Statistical Office; MESS workshop, Tilburg University; DIW Berlin.
• 2010: Bocconi, University of Cologne, University of Heidelberg, LMU Munich (Workshop on Natural Experiments and Field Experiments), University of Rotterdam (Political Economy Workshop), University of St. Gallen, ENTER-Jamboree at University of Toulouse, MEA Mannheim, University of Hohenheim, ZEW Mannheim, University and MPI Jena.
• 2009: University of Southern California, VA Palo Alto Center for Health Care Evaluation, Stanford University (School of Medicine, Stanford Center for Longevity), IMT Lucca.
• 2007: Arizona State University, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Hoover Institution, San Francisco State University
• 2006: UQAM Montreal, University of Mannheim, University of Frankfurt, University of Darmstadt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• 2005: University of Rochester, University of Washington at Seattle, University of California - Santa Cruz, University of Chicago, Humboldt University of Berlin, Stanford GSB, Stanford University
• 2004: Stockholm School of Economics, Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), CERGE-EI Prague
• 2003: University of Basel, University of Chicago

• 2012: Program Committee European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) in Bonn, Germany
   
• 2012: Seminar series organizer "Mannheim Seminar Series on Panel Methodology", SFB 884
• 2011: Workshop organizer "GIP Organisational Meeting", SFB 884
• 2011: Workshop organizer "Questionnaire Design", SFB 884
• 2011: Workshop organizer "Concept of the German Internet Panel", SFB 884
   
• 2011: Selection Committee, Annual Meeting of the "Verein für Socialpolitik"
  
• 2011: Scientific Committee, ZEW workshop "Health and Human Capital"
• 2010: Scientific Committee,ZEW conference "Tax Policy Decision-Making"
• 2010: Scientific Committee, ZEW conference "Evaluation of Policies Fighting Social Exclusion"
   
• 2010: Discussant, 1st TEMPO Conference on International Migration, Dublin.
• 2010: Session Chair, Tax Policy Decision Making, ZEW Mannheim
• 2009: Session Chair, International Society of New Institutional Economics Meeting, UC Berkeley-Haas
• 2009: Discussant, American Economic Association Meeting, San Francisco
• 2008: Session Chair, World Congress of Cliometrics, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 2007: Discussant, UNDP Conference on Migration and Development, Stanford University
• 2006: Discussant, Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago
• 2006: Discussant, China Conference, Stanford University
• 2004: Discussant, Society of Labor Economists Meeting, San Antonio
• 2003: Session Chair, European Econometric Society Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2003: Discussant, Latin-American Economic Association Meeting, Puebla, Mexico

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