Kerstin Schneider

 

Education
M.A. in Economics, University of Georgia, USA (1990)
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Georgia, USA (1993)
Post-doctoral Degree (Habilitation), Universität Dortmund, Germany (2001)

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Present Positions
Since 2004, Professor, Public Economics and Business Taxation, Department of Business Administration and Economics, University of Wuppertal
Research Fellow, CESifo, Munich

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Selected Publications
Central exit exams increase performance... but take the fun out of mathematics, with Hendrik Jürges, Journal of Population Economics, 2009.
Fair Ranking of Teachers, with H. Jürges, in: Empirical Economics, 32, 411-431, 2007.
Teacher Quality and Incentives: Theoretical and Empirical Effects of Standards on Teacher Quality, with W. F. Richer and H. Jürges.  Finanzarchiv 61, 298-326, 2005.
The Effect of Central Exit Examinations on Student Achievement: Quasi-experimental Evidence from TIMSS Germany, with F. Büchel and H. Jürges, Journal of the European Economic Association, 3, 1134-1155, 2005.
Union Wage Setting and Progressive Income Taxation with Heterogeneous Labor: Theory and Evidence from the German Income Tax Reforms 1986-1990,  Labour Economics, 12, 204-222,  2005.
International Differences in Student Achievement: An Economic Perspective, with H. Jürges, German Economic Review, 5, 357-380, 2004.
Energy Taxation: Reasons for Discriminating in Favor of the Production Sector, with W. Richter, European Economic Review, 47, 461-476, 2002.
Taxing Mobile Capital with Labor Market Imperfections, with W. Richter, International Tax and Public Finance, 8, 245-262, 2001.
Competition for Stars and Audiences: An Analysis of Alternative Institutional Settings, with W. Richter, European Journal of Political Economy 15, 101-121, 1999.
Eco Dumping, Capital Mobility and International Trade, with D. Wellisch, Environmental and Resource Economics 10, 387-404, 1997.
Incentives to Participate in an International Environmental Agreement, with M. Hoel, Enviromental and Resource Economics 9: 153-170, 1997.
Involuntary Unemployment and Environmental Policy: The Double Dividend Hypothesis. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 99 (1), 45-59, 1997.