Jörn-Steffen Pischke

I am a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance.

Research Interests: Labour Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics.

Contact Details

Books
Unpublished Papers
Articles
CV
Nobel 2021
Teaching
Office Hours
Pictures
PhD Supervision

Books

Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
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Princeton University Press, 2015
(with Joshua Angrist)

Unpublished Papers

• "A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income," NBER Working Paper 18384, September 2012 (with Hannes Schwandt).
  
• "Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure," NBER Working Paper 17056, May 2011.
  
• "Comprehensive Versus Selective Schooling in England and Wales: What Do We Know?" NBER Working Paper 12176, April 2006 (with Alan Manning).
• "Unions and the Labor Market for Managers," CEPR Working Paper 2418, April 2000 (with John DiNardo and Kevin Hallock).

Articles

• "Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices," Economica 89, January 2022, 110-130 (with Grace Lordan)
• "Of Mice and Merchants: Connectedness and the Location of Economic Activity in the Iron Age," Review of Ecomomics and Statistics 103, October 2021, 652-665 (with Jan David Bakker, Stephan Maurer, and Ferdinand Rauch). Appendix
• "Poorly Measured Confounders are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 37, April 2019, 205-216 (with Zhuan Pei and Hannes Schwandt).
• "Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations: Evidence from the Housing Sector," Economica 85, July 2018,407-427.
• "Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through our Classes, Darkly," Journal of Economic Perspectives 31, Spring 2017, 125-144 (with Joshua Angrist).
• "The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics," Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, Spring 2010, 3-30 (with Joshua Angrist)
• "Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS," Journal of Labor Economics 27, July 2009, 315-348 (with Andreas Ammermueller). Supplemental material on size and power
• "The Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms," Scandinavian Journal of Economics 104, December 2008, 733-753 (with Josef Fersterer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer)
• "Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation," Review of Economics and Statistics 90, August 2008, 592-598 Longer working paper version, April 2006 (with Till von Wachter).
• "The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years," Economic Journal 117, Oct. 2007, 1216-1242. Longer working paper version.
• "Comments on 'Workplace Training in Europe' by Bassanini et al.," in: G. Brunello, P. Garibaldi, E. Wasmer (eds.) Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University Press 2007, 330-342.
• "Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment: Review and Implications," CESifo Economic Studies 51, 1/2005, 47-75.
• "Minimum Wages and On-the-job Training," Research in Labor Economics 22, 2003, 159-202 (with Daron Acemoglu).
• "Continuous Training in Germany," Journal of Population Economics 14, Sept. 2001, 523-548.
• "Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education," European Economic Review 45, May 2001, 890-904 (with Daron Acemoglu).
• "Certification of Training and Training Outcomes," European Economic Review 44, May 2000, 917-927 (with Daron Acemoglu).
• "The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training," Journal of Political Economy 107, June 1999, 539-572 (with Daron Acemoglu).
• "Beyond Becker: Training in Imperfect Labor Markets" Economic Journal Features 109, February 1999, F112-F142 (with Daron Acemoglu).
• "Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle," in Third Public GAAC Symposium: Labor Markets in the USA and Germany, Bonn: German-American Academic Council, 1998, 99-126 (with Alan Krueger).
• "Testing for Liquidity Constraints in Euler Equations with Complementary Data Sources," Review of Economics and Statistics 80, May 1998, 251-262 (with Tullio Jappelli and Nicholas Souleles).
• "Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence," Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, Feb. 1998, 79-119 (with Daron Acemoglu).
• "Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: An Analysis Based on Local Labor Markets," Review of Economics and Statistics 79, Nov 1997, 594-604 (with Johannes Velling).
• "The Returns to Computer Use Revisited: Have Pencils Changed the Wage Structure Too?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, Feb. 1997, 291-303 (with John DiNardo).
• "A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany," Journal of Human Resources 32, Winter 1997, 182-209 (with Alan Krueger).
• "Individual Income, Incomplete Information, and Aggregate Consumption," Econometrica 63, July 1995, 805-840.
• "A Comparison of East and West German Labor Markets Before and After Unification," in R. Freeman and L. Katz (eds.) Differences and Changes in Wage Structures, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1995, 405-455 (with Alan Krueger).
• "Measurement Error and Earnings Dynamics: Some Estimates from the PSID Validation Study," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 13, July 1995, 304-314.
• "The Effect of Social Security on Labor Supply: A Cohort Analysis of the Notch Generation," Journal of Labor Economics 10, Oct. 1992, 412-437 (with Alan Krueger).
• "Measuring Persistence in the Presence of Trend Breaks: The Case of U.S. GNP," Economics Letters 36, Aug. 1991, 379-384.

Nobel 2021

• "Natuerliche Experimente im Arbeitsmarkt und Darueber Hinaus" Wirtschaftsdienst 101, December 2021, 977-983 (with Simon Jäger)
• "Why Natural Experiments Won the Nobel" Interview with Tim Phillips, Vox Talks Economics, 3 December 2021
• "Natural Experiments in Labour Economics and Beyond: The 2021 Nobel Laureates David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens" VoxEU, 16 October 2021
  

Teaching

• EC2C1 Econometrics II
• EC443 Econometrics for MRes Students
  

Office Hours

• Individual: Fri 13:30-14:30 SAL 2.16
• EC2C1 Groups: even weeks Tue 11-12:30
  • 23rd January – SAL.LG.08
  • 6th February – SAL.G.02
  • 20th February – SAL.G.15
  • 5th March – CLM.G.03
  • 19th March – SAL.LG.10

Pictures

• At ESSLE with Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Andrea Ichino
  
• Intel factory visit, Hudson, Massachusetts. I am second from the right
  
• Advertising Mostly Harmless t-shirts at the BENA Lecture
  
• With Gene Fama and Josh at the Fama Prize Dinner
  
• With Josh after a talk
  
• Congratulating Mike Kremer to his Nobel at LSE
  
• With Michal Myck at the Hurwicz Lecture 2019
  
• At the Broadstreet pump (see here for the significance of the pump)