Labor Economics
Büro / Office 3.42
Dr. Ulrike Unterhofer
Research associateWirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ
Arbeitsmarktökonomie
Research associate
Peter Merian-Weg 6
4052
Basel
Schweiz
Current position
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. I obtained my PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Basel in October 2022. In spring 2022 I visited the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Fields of interest
- Labor Economics
- Social Spillovers and Networks
- Applied Microeconometrics
- Causal Mediation Analysis
Work in Progress
- Peer Effects in Active Labour Market Policies
- Macroeconomic Effects of Active Labour Market Policies: Evidence from Germany
(with Conny Wunsch) - Hours Mismatch and Income Tax Incentives for Low-Earning Workers
(with Véra Zabrodina) - The Performance of Estimators for Causal Mediation Analysis in Double Randomization Designs (with Renate Strobl, Conny Wunsch and M.H. Clark)
Current Working Papers
- Unterhofer U., C. Welteke und K. Wrohlich (2017) "Das Elterngeld hat soziale Normen verändert" DIW-Wochenbericht No. 34
- Unterhofer U. and Wrohlich, K. (2017) “Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms” DIW-Discussion Paper No. 1657
Education
- PhD in Applied Economics, Universität Basel (Supervisors: Conny Wunsch and Rafael Lalive)
- M.Sc. Economics, Freie Universität Berlin
- B.Sc. Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Teaching Assistance
- HS 2021 & 2022, Lecture: Causal Inference for Policy Evaluation (Master’s and PhD Level)
- HS 2020, Lecture: Applied Empirical Analysis (Master’s and PhD Level)
- HS 2018 & 2019, Lecture: Arbeitsmarktökonomie (Bachelor Level)
- FS 2019, Seminar: Bachelorarbeit in empirischer Arbeitsmarkt- und Gesundheitsforschung (Bachelor Level)
- FS 2019, 2020 & 2021, Seminar: Aktuelle Themen der Ökonomie (Bachelor Level)