Thomas Dohmen

Maastricht University
Professor

Thomas Dohmen is the Director of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour market (ROA) and professor of Education and the Labour Market at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht University. He holds Master's degrees in Economics from the University of Warwick (England) and Maastricht University. He obtained his doctoral degree at Maastricht University in May 2003. From 2003 until 2007 he was employed as a researcher at IZA in Bonn, where he specialized in labour economics, applied microeconometrics, as well as experimental and behavioral economics. He is a research fellow at IZA in Bonn and a research professor at DIW in Berlin, where he closely collaborates with the group that designs and develops the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). His research focuses on three main areas: (1) the nature and economic consequences of preferences, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, (2) the psychology of incentives, (3) personnel economics. In his empirical research he combines experimental methods and econometric techniques, for example to obtain behaviorally relevant measures of preferences and attitudes in large survey data sets.

Working Group

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)
Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)

Additional Information

Email: t.dohmen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Homepage: http://www.roa.unimaas.nl/cv/dohmen/dohmen.htm