Department of Cultural and Social Sciences

Prof. Dr. Daniel Kamhöfer

Professor of Quantitative Methods in Economics

Contact

E-Mail: daniel.kamhoefer(at)rptu.de
Office: AC 004
Personal Homepage

Consultation hours

after prior agreement by e-mail

Address

Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft
August-Croissant-Str. 5
76829 Landau

Research focus

  • Economics of Education, formation of and return to skills
  • Education policy and economic inequality
  • Health Economics, Family Economics, Labor Economics

Personal data

  • Surveillance and Self-Control, 2024 (with Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch). The Economic Journal.
  • Self-Control and Unhealthy Body Weight: The Role of Impulsivity and Restraint, 2023 (with Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch). Economics & Human Biology, 50(2023):101263.
  • The Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden, 2023 (with Sarah Cattan, Martin Karlsson, and Therese Nilsson). The Economic Journal 133(650):888-903.
  • Marginal College Wage Premiums Under Selection Into Employment, 2022 (with Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal). The Economic Journal 132(646):2231-2272.
  • The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes, 2022 (with Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 197(2022):725-744.
  • Economic Downturns and Mental Health in Germany, 2021 (with Daniel Avdic, Sonja C. de New). European Economic Review (2021): 103915.
  • Heterogeneity in Marginal Non-monetary Returns to Higher Education, 2019 (with Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal). Journal of the European Economic Association 17(1):205-244.
  • Reanalyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany, 2016 (with Hendrik Schmitz). Journal of Applied Econometrics 31(5): 865-872.

2024 –        Professor of Quantitative Methods in Economics, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
2018/03 – 2023/12    Post-doctoral researcher, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2021/10 – 2022/03   Acting Professor of Applied Microeconomics, University of Konstanz
2018/12 – 2019/07    Acting Professor of Applied Microeconomics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2016/04 – 2018/03    PhD student / research assistant Department of Economics, Paderborn University
2012/04 – 2018/03    PhD student / research and teaching assistant, Department of Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen