Ludger Woessmann
Ludger Wößmann is a German economist and professor of economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). Moreover, being… more

by Philipp Lergetporer — Reposted by Ludger Woessmann
Reposted by Ludger Woessmann, Wayne Sandholtz
Even on inner attitudes + values such as religiosity
What you learn in school is for life, indeed‼️
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🧑🏭 Higher labor-market participation + earnings (consistent with shift towards worldly norms + economic activities) 🌎
👨👩👧👦 Reduced fertility
By contrast, no effects on ethical + political values or non-religious school outcomes
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Similar reductions in specific religious actions:
1️⃣ personal act of prayer
2️⃣ public act of church-going
3️⃣ formal (+costly) act of church membership
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Uses variation in abolishment of compulsory religious education across states + over time to study effects on outcomes in adulthood
3️⃣ datasets:
▶️ NEPS
▶️ ALLBUS
▶️ SOEP
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🏫 Religious education was compulsory in state schools: 1000 hours over school career (>4x physics)
Abolished in staggered reforms across states 1972-2004
Replaced by option to choose between religious education + non-denominational “ethics”
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⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?
Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education
w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow
👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives
🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...
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by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by Alberto Bisin
by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by Lars P. Feld
by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by Mika Maliranta
by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by Lars P. Feld
Reposted by Ludger Woessmann
Topics:
🔷What adolescents and adults think about social media
🔷Socioeconomic gap in child care
🔷Peers at college entry improve performance
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👉http://sendlx.com/display.php?M=111124773&C=71415e53f9fcb9e9f5c8facfea005ae8&S=198827&L=2481&N=109616
Reposted by Ludger Woessmann
Reposted by Ludger Woessmann
🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩
30-31 March 2026, Munich
Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)
PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...
Deadline: 11 Jan 2026
@caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social
by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by Lars P. Feld
by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Simon Wiederhold
Reposted by Ludger Woessmann
by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by Simon Wiederhold
Mein Einleitungsvortrag in das Bildungspolitische Forum 2025 des @leibnizbildung.bsky.social
Livestream: www.youtube.com/@Leibniz_bil...
www.leibniz-bildung.de/veranstaltun...