Matthias Doepke is Professor and the Nicholas Kaldor Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is also the Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History at Northwestern University. He is affiliated to a number of research institutions and networks: the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency (CASEE), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), the Institute for Policy Research of Northwestern University and the CESifo Research Network. Among his editorial duties, he is Co-Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is Member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (Becker Friedman Institute) and Member of the Board of the Society of Economics of the Household. 

His research interests include economic growth and development, political economy, macroeconomics, and monetary economics. His work explores how decisions taken within families shape macroeconomic outcomes and how, in turn, economic conditions feed back into what families do. He publishes regularly in the top tier economic reviews and his work is recognised internationally. In 2005, he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, in 2020 he received the Schmölders Foundation Prize (with Fabian Kindermann) and was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and in 2022, he received the GPI and Forethought Foundation Prize in Global Priorities Research (with David de la Croix). 

Matthias Doepke's website

Matthias Doepke will present a paper, joint with Mariko Klasing, at the first Applied Microeconomics Seminar of the year on the topic:

Preparing Kids for Capitalism: The Effect of German Reunification on the Intergenerational Transmission of Preferences (read abstract, PDF 42 KB)

The next Applied Microeconomics Seminar will host Nathan SEEGERT (Northeastern University) on September 18th.