Katja Maria Kaufmann
Bocconi University
Assistant Professos
Katja Maria Kaufmann has completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2008. Since then she is Assistant Professor at Bocconi University in Milan and currently on sabbatical leave until summer 2012 visiting Stanford, Yale, Boston and UCL. Her research interests are in the areas of labor, education and development economics. She has studied determinants of educational decisions, such as analyzing the importance of expected returns to schooling, of ability and parental background and of credit constraints. In particular she is interested in the role of people's (subjective) expectations about labor market returns (and perceptions of unemployment and earnings risk), and the role of marriage market returns and how these determinants differ for boys and girls. Katja is also interested in the intra-household decision-making process with respect to educational decisions (role of children versus parents).
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Email: katja.kaufmann@unibocconi.it
Homepage: www.igier.unibocconi.it/kaufmann