Research Interests
Applied Microeconometrics, Human Capital, Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics
Short Bio
- Since 2019 Principal Investigator and co-speaker (since 2023), cluster of excellence ECONtribute
- Since 2019 Full Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne, Germany
- Since 2018 Principal Investigator, collaborative research center (SFB) TR 224
- Since 2018 CESifo Affiliate
- Since 2017 briq Research Associate
- Since 2017 Reinhard Selten Institute Affiliate 2017 and board member (since 2023)
- Since 2015 IZA Research Fellow
- Since 2017 Elected Member of the "Ausschuss für Bildungsökonomie"
- 2015 Prize for the best dissertation in education economics (Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss)
- 2014 HCEO Emerging Scholar
- 2014 Karin Islinger dissertation award
- 2014 Dissertation prize "The Future of Labor" (ZEW/Volksbank Weinheim Foundation)
- 2013-2019 Assistant Professor, University of Bonn
- 2013 Dr. rer. pol, University of Mannheim
- 2009-2013 Researcher, University of Mannheim
- 2008-2013 Researcher, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
- 2008 and 2011 Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago
- 2006-2007 Advanced Studies Program, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
- 2006 Master in International Economic Studies, Maastricht University
- 2004-2005 Exchange student, Sciences Po, Paris
Working Papers
Selected Publications
Kiessling, L., Pinger, P., Seegers, P., & Bergerhoff, J. (2024). Gender differences in wage expectations and negotiation. Labour Economics, 87, 102505. DOI
Vågerö, D., Pinger, P. R., Aronsson, V., & van den Berg, G. J. (2021). Author Correction: Paternal grandfather’s access to food predicts all-cause and cancer mortality in grandsons. Nature Communications, 12(1). DOI
Falk, A., Kosse, F., Pinger, P., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., & Deckers, T. (2021). Socioeconomic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences. Journal of Political Economy, 129(9), 2504–2545. DOI
Falk, A., Kosse, F., & Pinger, P. (2020). Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Ehrmantraut, L., Pinger, P., & Stans, R. (2020). The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Kosse, F., Deckers, T., Pinger, P., Schildberg-Hörisch, H., & Falk, A. (2020). The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment. Journal of Political Economy, 128(2), 434–467. DOI
Falk, A., Kosse, F., & Pinger, P. (2019). Re-Revisiting the Marshmallow Test: A Direct Comparison of Studies by Shoda, Mischel, and Peake (1990) and Watts, Duncan, and Quan (2018). Psychological Science, 31(1), 100–104. DOI
Kiessling, L., Pinger, P., Seegers, P., & Bergerhoff, J. (2019). Gender Differences in Wage Expectations: Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Pinger, P. R., Schaefer, S., & Schumacher, H. (2018). Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Vågerö, D., Pinger, P. R., Aronsson, V., & van den Berg, G. J. (2018). Paternal grandfather’s access to food predicts all-cause and cancer mortality in grandsons. Nature Communications, 9(1). DOI
Pinger, P. R. mname. (2017). Thinking About Tomorrow? Predicting Experimental Choice Behavior and Life Outcomes from a Survey Measure of Present Bias. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Deckers, T., Falk, A., Kosse, F., Pinger, P. R., & Schildberg-Hörisch, H. (2017). Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Carslake, D., Pinger, P. R., Romundstad, P., & Davey Smith, G. (2016). Early-Onset Paternal Smoking and Offspring Adiposity: Further Investigation of a Potential Intergenerational Effect Using the HUNT Study. PLOS ONE, 11(12), e0166952. DOI
Pinger, P., Ruhmer-Krell, I., & Schumacher, H. (2016). The compromise effect in action: Lessons from a restaurant’s menu. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 128, 14–34. DOI
van den Berg, G. J., & Pinger, P. R. (2016). Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes. Economics & Human Biology, 23, 103–120. DOI
van den Berg, G. J., Pinger, P. R., & Schoch, J. (2015). Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life. The Economic Journal, 126(591), 465–506. DOI
Piatek, R., & Pinger, P. (2015). Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Data Combination for the Identification and Inference of Factor Structure Models. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 31(4), 734–755. DOI
Pinger, P. (2010). Come Back or Stay? Spend Here or There? Return and Remittances: The Case of Moldova. International Migration, 48(5), 142–173. DOI