Florian Hoffmann

Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group within the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago,Member

I am an Assistant Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2010. Since 2012 I am a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group within the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago.

My research interests are in the determinants of life-cycle earnings and career dynamics, dynamic discrete choice models of human capital formation, estimation of equilibrium search models, and the importance of student-instructor interactions for academic achievement on the post-secondary education level.

My PUBLICATIONS:

• A Community Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom.

(joint with Rob Fairlie and Philip Oreopoulos)

forthcoming,American Economic Review

• Professor Qualities and Student Achievement.

(with P. Oreopoulos)

The Review of Economics and Statistics

vol. 91 (1) pp. 83-92, 2009.

• A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement.

(with P. Oreopoulos)

Journal of Human Resources

vol. 44 (2) pp. 479 - 494, 2009.

WORKING PAPERS

• HIP, RIP and the Robustness of Empirical Earnings Processes.

(submitted; version April 2013)

• An Empirical Model of Life-Cycle Earnings and Mobility Dynamics.

TEACHING

• ECON326 Methods of Empirical Research in Economics
• ECON 560 (Labor Economics for PhD-Students)

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