Henning Mueller
Personal Information
Affiliation
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Chair of Public and Behavioral Economics
Email
[email protected]
Telephone
+49 6131 39 22563
Address
Jakob-Welder-Weg 4
55128 Mainz
Germany
Social Media
Twitter Profile
XING Profile
LinkedIn Profile
Research
Interests
Economics of Education, Behavioral Economics,
Field and Lab Experimental Research,
Economics of Child and Youth Development
Research Projects
Information
Kid
Effects of Information Provision and Financial Support on Enrollment
in Childcare and Life Outcomes (joint work with Philipp Lergetporer,
Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold; funded by the Jacobs Foundation)
Status:
preparing
field phase
KIDS-WIN
Can Working Memory Training and Self-Regulation Training at Primary
School Improve Self-Control Skills and School Performance? Evidence
from a Randomized Field Experiment (joint work with Eva Berger,
Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel; partially funded by the
Jacobs Foundation)
Status:
preparing
submission
Active Labor
Market
Training
Self-Regulation Training and Job Application Effort: A Natural Field
Experiment in an Active Labor Market Program (joint work with Eva
Berger, Guenther Koenig, Felix Schmidt & Daniel Schunk; funded by
the Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
Status:
manuscript
submitted
BeautyContest
Game
Strategic Interaction and Empathy Skills — an Experimental
Beauty-Contest Game with Children (single-authored project)
Status:
preparing
submission
MATHEKIDS
The Effects of Performance Transparency in E-Learning Applications —
Field Study in Primary Schools (joint work with Martin Huschens,
Franz Rothlauf & Daniel Schunk; funded by the Federal Ministry of
Education and Research)
Status:
data analysis
Empathy and
Negative
Affectivity
Perceiving is Suffering? How the Interplay of Empathic Facets Increases
Negative Affectivity (joint work with Aleksa Kaurin, Nora Grote, Daniel
Schunk, Isabel Dziobek, Michael Witthoeft & Michèle Wessa)
Status:
manuscript
submitted
Cooperation
and Peer
Effects
Enhancing Cooperation and Investigating Peer Effects on Human
Capital Formation — a Randomized-controlled Field Study with
Primary School Children (joint work with Florian Hett, Mario Mechtel,
Felix Schmidt & Daniel Schunk; funded by the German National
Science Foundation)
Status:
received
funding
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Education and Training
09/2011 – today
PhD in Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Chair
of Public and Behavioral Economics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Daniel Schunk & Prof. Dr. Ernst Fehr (University of
Zurich). Submitted in December 2016.
09/2013 – 10/2016
Several research stays at the University of Zurich, Chair of Microeconomics
and Experimental Economic Research, Prof. Dr. Ernst Fehr (in total > 6
months)
10/2008 – 03/2013
Diploma (equivalent to MSc) in Psychology at the University of Mainz
(final GPA: 1.5)
04/2007 – 08/2011
Diploma (equivalent to MSc) in Economics at the University of Mainz
(final GPA: 1.1, with distinction)
08/2005 – 01/2007
Apprenticeship as a qualified bank clerk at Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen
(Helaba), Frankfurt (final GPA: 1.0, with distinction)
08/1995 – 06/2004
Abitur (A levels) at humanistic secondary school in Darmstadt, intensive
courses: mathematics and physics (final GPA: 1.0)
Work Experience
09/2011 – today
Doctoral researcher at the Chair of Public and Behavioral Economics,
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
08/2008 – 09/2008
Internship in China at the Helaba Shanghai Representative Office (setup of
the office, marketing and research activities)
01/2007 – 01/2009
Student trainee at Helaba Frankfurt in the Human Resources Development
department (main project: talent management)
06/2005 – 08/2005
Internship at LBS Hessen-Thüringen in the marketing department (medial
communication, conceptual design and development of software tools)
Teaching Experience
Fall 2016
Spring 2016
Spring 2015
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Tutorial on “Principles of Public Economics” (MSc)
Tutorial on “Behavioral Economics” (MSc)
Lecture and Tutorial on “Behavioral Economics” (MSc)
Seminar on “Scarcity — Why Having Too Little Means So Much” (BSc)
Seminar on “Cost-Benefit Analyses of Early Childhood Intervention Programs” (MSc)
Seminar on “Public Economic Theory” (MSc)
Seminar on “Theories and Models on Intertemporal Choice” (MSc)
Seminar on “Social Preferences” (MSc)
Tutorial on“MATLAB in Public Economics” (BSc)
All courses were taught at the Department of Economics, University of Mainz; MSc in English, BSc in German.
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Scholarships & Awards
2014 – 2016
2013 – 2016
2011
2011
2008 – 2013
Member of the Gutenberg Academy for Young Researchers, University of Mainz
Full Doctoral Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
Distinction for outstanding diploma thesis on “Development of a specific intervention
module for labor market reintegration by combining mental contrasting and
implementation intentions”
Award for best diploma of the graduating class
Full Student Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
Presentations & Conferences
2017
2017
2017
2016
2016
2016
2016
2016
2016
2016
2015
2012
Workshop on Microeconomics at Leuphana University of Lüneburg
CESifo Institute for the Economics of Education, Munich
German Youth Institute DJI, Munich
Interdisciplinary Research Symposium for Empirical Research in Education, University
of Augsburg
Social and Biological Roots of Economics Workshop, IfW Kiel
Colloquium on Economics of Education at the SBE, Maastricht University,
Netherlands
Economic Colloquium at IAAEU Trier
Young Scholar at the Jacobs Foundation Conference on “Economizing Education
Policy: Tradeoffs, Incentives, and Generalizing from Evidence” in Marbach Castle
Spring Meeting of Young Economists in Lisbon/Portugal
Workshop on Microeconomics at Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Workshop on Economics of Education at the University of Mainz
Experimental Design Workshop, GSEFM Goethe University Frankfurt
Participation at Summer & Winter Schools
2016
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2012
2012
Marsilius Academy on “Early Childhood in Transition — Interdisciplinary
perspectives” (Christina Gathman, Sabina Pauen, Katharina Spiess), IAF Heidelberg
Summer School on “Education, Preferences, and Economic Outcomes” (George
Loewenstein, Rachel Croson, Matthias Sutter), Institute for the World Economy, Kiel
Summer School on “Economics of Education” (Eric Bettinger, Alexander Koch &
Helena Skyt Nielsen), University of Mainz
PhD Course on “Personality traits, non-cognitive skills and education” (Thomas
Dohmen), University of Zurich, Switzerland
PhD Course on “Econometric Methods in Economics of Education” (Rainer
Winkelmann), University of Bern, Switzerland
PhD Course on “Lab and Field Experiments in Economics” (John List), ChoiceLab,
NHH Bergen, Norway
Summer School on “Behavioral Economics” (Jordi Brandts & Dan Houser),
University of Mainz
Winter School on “Applied Microeconometrics” (Markus Pannenberg), University of
Tübingen
Refereeing
Journal of the European Economic Association
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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