University of Mannheim Department of Economics L7, 3-5 68131 Mannheim, Germany http://reinhold.vwl.uni-mannheim.de/ Date of birth: October 27th, 1976 Private address: Uhlandstr. 1 68167 Mannheim, Germany reinhold@uni-mannheim.de EDUCATION Baden-Württemberg Certificate in University Didactics November 2011, Mannheim Ph.D. in Economics Johns Hopkins University, August 2007. Thesis title: Essays in Demographic Economics, advisors: Robert Moffitt and Tiemen Woutersen. M.A. in Economics Johns Hopkins University, May 2006. Diplom-Volkswirt Freie Universität Berlin, August 2003. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, July 2011 present. Research Fellow The Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI), October 2012 present. Fellow Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), July 2011 present. Head of Research Department Economics of Health and Life Expectancy MEA, University of Mannheim, October 2010 June 2011. Post-Doc MEA, University of Mannheim, September 2007 September 2010. Research and Teaching Assistant Johns Hopkins University, September 2003 August 2007. Research Assistant DIW (German Institute for Economic Research), May 2000 June 2001. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member of Editorial Board Demography, June 2013 present
PUBLICATIONS The Effect of Children on Depression in Old Age, Social Science & Medicine, accepted for publication (with Kai Eberhard Kruk). Migration Experience and Earnings in the Mexican Labor Market, Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2013, 48(3), 768 820 (with Kevin E. Thom). The Long Run Consequences of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Children: Evidence from SHARELIFE, Journal of Population Economics, July 2013, 26(3), 1035 1056 (with Thorsten Kneip and Gerrit Bauer). The Effect of Compulsory Schooling on Health. Evidence from Biomarkers, Journal of Population Economics, April 2013, 26(2), 645 672 (with Hendrik Jürges and Kai Eberhard Kruk). Mental health of aging immigrants and native-born men across 11 European countries, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, March 2013, 68(2), 298 309 (with Keren Ladin). Parental Income and Child Health in Germany, Health Economics, May 2012, 21(5), 562-579 (with Hendrik Jürges). Does Community-Based Health Insurance Protect Household Assets? Evidence from a Household Panel Survey in Rural Burkina Faso, Health Services Research, April 2012, 47(2), 819-839, (with Divya Parmar, Aurélia Souares, Germain Savadogo, and Rainer Sauerborn). Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany, Economics of Education Review, October 2011, 30, 862-872 (with Hendrik Jürges and Martin Salm). Changes in Compulsory Schooling and the Causal Effect of Education on Health, Journal of Health Economics, March 2011, 30 (2), 340-354 (with Daniel Kemptner and Hendrik Jürges). Reassessing the Link between Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Instability, Demography, 2010, 47 (3), 719-733. Secondary School Fees and the Causal Effect of Schooling on Health Behavior, Health Economics, 2010, 19, 994-1001 (with Hendrik Jürges). Common Stock Returns in the pre-wwi Berlin Stock Exchange, Cliometrica, 2010, 4(1), 75-96 (with Caroline Fohlin). WORKING PAPERS The Effect of Schooling on Mortality. Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Europe, IZA Discussion Paper 6403 (with Christina Gathmann and Hendrik Jürges). Direct and Indirect Effects of Unilateral Divorce on Marital Stability, MEA Discussion Paper 248-11 (with Thorsten Kneip and Gerrit Bauer).
WORK IN PROGRESS GRANTS Endogeneity and Imperfect Instruments: Estimating Bounds for the Effect of Early Childbearing on Household Income, unpublished manuscript (with Tiemen Woutersen). Do Electoral Systems Affect Your Health? Evidence from the Epidemiological Transition, unpublished manuscript (with Christina Gathmann). The Relationship between Education and Smoking: Evidence from a Life-Cycle Model, unpublished manuscript (with Kevin E. Thom). The Causal Effect of Education on Religiosity and Church Attendance: Evidence from Schooling Reforms across Europe, unpublished manuscript. Education, Gender and Political Participation: Evidence from Actual Voting Behavior and Schooling Reforms in Western Germany, unpublished manuscript (with Sascha Huber). The Effect of Parental Job Displacement on Child Health: Evidence from Swedish Register Data (with Gerard van den Berg), funded by DFG, September 2012-March 2015, (129,400 Euro). A New Perspective for Aging Research in Germany (with Axel Börsch-Supan et al.), funded by VolkswagenStiftung, July 2009 June 2012, (342,600 Euro). CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS Meeting of the Section for the Economics of Education, Verein für Socialpolitik Wuppertal, March 2013. European Society for Population Economics Bern, June 2012. PhD Seminar on Health Economics and Policy Grindelwald, January 2012. Annual Meeting, Verein für Socialpolitik Frankfurt, September 2011. Sharelife User Conference Tallinn, September 2011. European Society for Population Economics Essen, June 2010. Demography of Migrants in Germany Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in co-operation with the German Association of Demography (DGD), Nuremberg, May 2010.
Annual Meeting, Verein für Socialpolitik Magdeburg, September 2009. European Society for Population Economics Seville, June 2009. Effects of Migration on Population Structures in Europe Vienna Institute of Demography, December 2008. Annual Meeting, Verein für Socialpolitik Graz, September 2008. International Economic Association Istanbul, June 2008. Society of Labor Economists New York, May 2008. Causal Analysis in Population Studies Vienna Institute of Demography, November 2006. Allied Social Science Association Philadelphia, January 2005. Sixth Trento Summer School University of Trento, Summer 2005. INVITED SEMINARS AND TALKS TEACHING University of Mainz, June 2012. University of Augsburg, June 2011. CERGE-EI, Prague, April 2011. Erasmus University Rotterdam, May 2010. SFI (Danish National Center for Social Research), April 2010. ZEW (Centre for European Economic Research), November 2009. University of Rostock, October 2009. MEA, University of Mannheim, February 2007. Bundesbank, February 2007. University of Southampton, February 2007. Erasmus University Rotterdam, January 2007. Applied Econometrics, Fall 2012/2013. Health Economics, Spring 2012. Introductory Econometrics, Spring 2012. Applied Econometrics, Fall 2011/2012. Applied Economics and Econometrics Seminar Co-organizer since Fall 2008.
Empirical Methods Teaching Assistant to Hendrik Jürges, University of Mannheim, Fall 2009. Introduction to Econometrics Teaching Assistant to Carsten Trenkler, University of Mannheim, Spring 2008. Introduction to Econometrics Teaching Assistant to Hendrik Jürges, University of Mannheim, Fall 2007. Economics of Gender Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Winter Intersession 2006. Elements of Microeconomics Teaching Assistant to Bruce Hamilton, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2004 and 2005. Game Theory and Social Sciences Teaching Assistant to Ben Klemens, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2004. FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES Fontana Publication Prize for Changes in Compulsory Schooling and the Causal Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from Germany, (with D. Kemptner and H. Jürges). Bruce Hamilton Research Seminar Award Johns Hopkins University, 2007. Fellowship Johns Hopkins University, 2003 2007. Stipend, Berlin Consortium for German Studies Johns Hopkins University, 2001 2002. Fulbright Travel Grant Johns Hopkins University, 2001 2002. Prize for the Best Intermediate Exam Freie Universität Berlin, May 2000. PRESS COVERAGE Financial Times, www.marginalrevolution.com, Toronto Star. REFEREEING American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics, Labour Economics, Demography, Health Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Review of Income and Wealth, Education Economics, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Economics and Human Biology, European Journal of Population, Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Advances in Life Course Research, Social Science Journal, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health CERGE-EI / Global Development Network, Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2012.
LANGUAGES German (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate). REFERENCES Gerard J. van den Berg, University of Mannheim email: gerard@uni-mannheim.de, phone: +49 (0)621-181 1923 Axel Börsch-Supan, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging e-mail: axel@boersch-supan.de, phone: +49-(0)89-38602-357 Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University e-mail: moffitt@jhu.edu, phone: +1 (410) 516-7611 Tiemen Woutersen, University of Arizona e-mail: tiemen.woutersen@gmail.com, phone: +1 (520) 621 4281 Mannheim, September 4th, 2013