Jan Feld, PhD
Thorild Wulffsgatan 18, 41319 Gothenburg, Sweden
Nationality: German
[email protected]
http://www.economics.handels.gu.se/english/staff/senior_lecturers -lecturers-_researchers/feld-jan/
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Last updated: April 2 , 2015
EDUCATION
Post-doc researcher
April 2014 - present
Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Visiting Researcher
Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Nov. 2014 – Jan. 2015
Mar. –Apr. 2015
PhD student
Supervision: Andries de Grip and Thomas Dohmen
Apr. 2010 – Mar. 2014
Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht, The Netherlands
Visiting PhD student
Sept. 2013 – Dec. 2014
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
MSc International Economic Studies, track Behavioral Economics
2009-2010
Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Exchange Semester, program “International Marketing and Project Management with
Special View to Asia-Pacific Region”
2006-2007
European Overseas Campus, Bali, Indonesia
BA International Management
2005-2008
University of Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany
RESEARCH INTERTESTS
Economics of education, labor economics, behavioral economics
PUBLICATIONS
Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination, with Nicolás Salamanca and Daniel S. Hamermesh, The
Economic Journal, forthcoming
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ACADEMIC WORK IN PROGRESS
Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects, with Ulf Zölitz (SWOPEC
Working Paper, No. 596), Revise & resubmit, Journal of Labor Economics
Unskilled and Unaware? On Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence, with Andries de
Grip and Jan Sauermann
Skill and Overconfidence, with Andries de Grip and Jan Sauermann
Testing the Language Hypothesis, with Simon Georges-kot and Nicolás Salamanca
Bad Apples and Blinding Lights, with Ulf Zölitz
RESEARCH REPORTS
Research report “Grading Fairness and Grader Consistency” for Colfuturo, with Nicolás Salamanca
June 2014
Research report “Optimism and Performance in Call Centers” for Network Social Innovation,
with Andries de Grip
Jan. 2013
Research report “Behavioral Economics and Saudization” for the World Bank and Ministry
of Labor of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with Ahmed Shahen
Mar. 2012
CONFERENCE, SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
Victoria University Wellington, Wellington (2015); Auckland University of Technology, Auckland (2014);
Victoria University Wellington, Wellington (2014); University of Otago, Dunedin (2014); Melbourne Institute
Brown Bag Seminar, Melbourne Institute, Melbourne (2014); Accounting, Economics and Finance Seminar,
Deakin University, Melbourne (2014); Applied Micro Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra
(2014); European Economic Association, Toulouse (2014); Workshop on Educational Governance and
Finance, Oslo (2014); General Economics Seminar, University of Gothenburg (2013); Applied Micro Lunch
Seminar, University of Texas at Austin (2013); European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics (ESSLE),
IZA (2013); Conference on Discrimination and Labour Market Research, Linnaeus University (2013); 6th
Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium, Maastricht University (2013) ; 2nd Potsdam
PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, University of Potsdam (2013); Development and Utilization of Human
Resources (DUHR) seminar, Maastricht University (2012)
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TEACHING
Basic Econometrics (course coordinator, section leader)
2014, 2015
Macroeconomics (section leader)
2014
Economics of Labour Markets and Human Capital (section leader)
2012
Macro Sociology (course planner, lecturer, section leader)
2010, 2011, 2012
Economic Sociology (section leader)
2010
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCES
Management Assistant
Aug. 2007 – Feb. 2008
European Overseas Campus (EOC), Bali, Indonesia
Teacher & Education Coordinator
Nov. 2003 – Oct. 2005
Orphanage Santa Maria de Guadalupe, Santa Apolonia, Guatemala
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Co-organizer of the weekly General Economic Seminar (GES) at University of Gothenburg
Sept. - present
LANGUAGES
German (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Dutch (fluent), Swedish (advanced), Indonesian
(good)
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Stata, NetQuestionnaire (Internet survey software)
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REFERENCES
Professor Andries de Grip
Maastricht University School of Business and Economics
Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA)
Tongersestraat 53
Maastricht, The Netherlands 6211 LM
+31 43 388 3647
[email protected]
Professor Daniel S. Hamermesh
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Economics
1 University Station C3100
Austin, Texas 78712
+1 512 475 8526
[email protected]
Professor Thomas Dohmen
University of Bonn
Institute for Applied Microeconomics
Adenauerallee 24-42
Bonn, Germany 53113
+49 228 73 9303
[email protected]
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