HELLO
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at University College Dublin. The central themes of my research are
1) causes and consequences of migration
2) determinants of human capital (education, environmental factors)
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I am a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn/Germany, the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy and the Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration at UCL.
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Contact: benjamin(dot)elsner(at)ucd(dot)ie
PUBLICATIONS
joint with Costanza Biavaschi, Michał Burzyński and Joël Machado
Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142
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Best Paper Award at the Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM) 2016
joint with Florian Buhlmann and Andreas Peichl
International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25(6), 1490-1518
joint with Gaia Narciso and Jacco Thijssen
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80(3), 659-688
joint with Ingo E. Isphording
Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381.
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Media coverage: Bloomberg, Boston Globe, BBC
IZA World of Labor, 2015
Journal of International Economics, 2014, 91(1), 154-163
Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(2), 531-553
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Winner of the FEEM Award by the European Economic Association in 2010
WORKING PAPERS
joint with Florian Wozny, 2018
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Winner of the Best Paper Award at the Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2018
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Winner of the Novartis Prize in Health Economics 2018
joint with Ingo E. Isphording and Ulf Zölitz, 2020
revise & re-submit at the Economic Journal
joint with Costanza Biavaschi 2014
TEACHING
At UCD I teach econometrics and public economics. I also taught courses in microeconomics, labor economics and the economics of migration at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Luxembourg, and the University of Regensburg and provided econometrics trainings at the Central Bank of Ireland and the European Business School.
ECONOMETRICS TRAININGS
I regularly provide econometrics trainings, ranging from crash courses for incoming PhD students at the European Business School to staff trainings in the latest causal inference methods at the Central Bank of Ireland. The trainings typically last 2-3 days and include theory lectures as well as lab sessions with Stata and R.
[Syllabus Causal Inference Training]
[Syllabus Econometrics Refresher]
GET IN TOUCH
University College Dublin
School of Economics, Office G208
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland
+353 716 8446