© ifo Institut / Enno Kapitza
I am an Associate Professor of the Economics of Education at the University of Munich (LMU) and Deputy Director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute Munich.
My further affiliations are:
I am a behavioral and experimental economist, primarily using field experiments to study policy-relevant questions in the economics of education.
I co-organize the Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business.
I was a guest editor at the European Economic Review for the Special Issue on “Field Experiments to Reduce Inequality”.
Thank you for your interest in my work – I hope to provide a first overview here on this website. You can also follow me on BSky, LinkedIn, or Twitter to stay updated about my research. If you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact me or take a look at my CV.
Contact me at: hermes@ifo.de
We have published a policy brief about our paper Discrimination in Universal Social Programs? A Nationwide Field Experiment on Access to Child Care in the ifo Schnelldienst, which can be found here. Please also check out the other articles in this ifo Schnelldienst issue, covering a wide range of aspects on (access to) early child care in Germany!
Our paper Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the United States (with Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Marit Skivenes & Bertil Tungodden) is now accepted and online at the Economic Journal.
Our paper Early Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply, and Gender Equality: A Randomized Controlled Trial (with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold) has received an R&R at the Journal of Labor Economics!
I am so so SO happy that our paper Discrimination in Universal Social Programs? A Nationwide Field Experiment on Access to Child Care (with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold) was conditionally accepted at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy!
Like every year, our ifo Center for the Economics of Education hosted the CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education in Munich, with a keynote by John List (University of Chicago). It was great to see and (re-)connect with so many nice people working on education topics. More infos here and here on LinkedIn.
(with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). Revised & Resubmitted to the Journal of Labor Economics.
Media: VoxEU Column, Spiegel [German], BR [German].
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). Conditionally accepted at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
(with Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler & Philipp Heil). Revise & Resubmit at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
(with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
(with Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Marit Skivenes & Bertil Tungodden). Forthcoming at the Economic Journal.
Media: VoxEU Column
(with Michèle Belot, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). European Economic Review, 2026.
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). Nature Human Behaviour, 2026, 10(7), 1187–1190.
Media: Die ZEIT, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, hrinfo
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23(3), 1133-1172.
(with Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel). Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 133(2), 492-521.
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Guido Schwerdt & Simon Wiederhold). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106780.
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). AEA: Papers & Proceedings, 2023, 113, 427-431.
(with Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel). Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, 6(12), 1680-1690.
Media: Scienmag, Phys.org, The Hill, The Print, Spektrum [German], FAZ [German]
(with Eva Berger, Günther König, Felix Schmidt & Daniel Schunk). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 98, 101858.
(with Daniel Schunk). Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 229-253.
(with Martin Huschens, Franz Rothlauf & Daniel Schunk). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 45-59.
(with Florian Hett, Mario Mechtel, Felix Schmidt, Daniel Schunk & Valentin Wagner). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 638-652.
(with M. Hülsemann, A. Kaurin, B. Kollmann, A. Chmitorz, K. Ahrens, C. Schenk, M. Plichta, B. Lutz, U. Basten, C. Fiebach, R. Kalisch, K. Lieb, A. Reif, O. Tüscher, D. Schunk & M. Wessa). Scientific Reports, 2025, 15(27767).
(with Sally A. Brinkman, B. Lam, S. Dawson, R. Marrone, D. Schunk, K. Winkel, F. Gabriel, S. Fowler & D. Engelhardt). Trials, 2025, 26(120).
(with Ana Cubillo, Eva Berger, Kirsten Winkel, Daniel Schunk, Ernst Fehr & Todd Hare). Developmental Science, 2023, 26(1), e13252.
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). ifo Schnelldienst, 2026, 79(11), 10-17.
(with Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler & Philipp Heil). ifo Schnelldienst, 2026, 79(2), 4-8.
(with Björn Bartling, Alexander Cappelen, Marit Skivenes & Bertil Tungodden. VoxEU Column, Feb 2025.
(with Johannes Baur, Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Guido Schwerdt & Simon Wiederhold). ifo Schnelldienst, 2024, 77(10), 36–38.
(with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). Wirtschaft im Wandel, 2023, 29(3), 52–55.
(with Marina Krauss, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold). VoxEU Column, April 2023.
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold, Vera Freundl & Olivia Wirth. ifo Schnelldienst, 2021, 74(09), 41–45.
(with Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold. VoxEU Column, Dec 2021.
(with Philipp Höllermann, Ingo Isphording & Sebastian Riedmiller).
(with Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Akshay Moorthy, Marit Skivenes & Bertil Tungodden).
(with Raphael Brade, Tim Kaiser, Sarah Necker, Anke Windisch, and Ludger Woessmann).
(with Sabrina Herzog).