Ludger Woessmann

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Ludger Woessmann is Professor of Economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Director of the ifo Centre for the Economics of Education. Having previously worked at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, Woessmann has been a visiting scholar at both Harvard and Stanford Universities. Central to his research are the links between education and economic prosperity and the interconnections between school systems, efficiency, and equality. Having received the IEA Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award (2005) for his doctoral thesis, Woessmann has gone on to win the German Economic Association’s Hermann Heinrich Gossen (2014) and Gustav Stolper (2017) awards.