Dr. Micha Kaiser

Academic Career

06/2017	Successful participation at the “Barcelona Data Science Summer School”, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain.
08/2016 - 09/2016	Research stay, “Oxford Institute of Population Ageing”, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
07/2016	Successful participation at the “Short Course: Dynamic Programming – Theory, Computation and Empirical Applications”, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.
06/2016	Successful participation at the “Dynare Summer School 2016”, University of Maine, Le Mans, France.
since 10/2015	FernUniversität in Hagen (German distance learning institute), Hagen, Germany. Studies of Mathematics.
08/2015	Successful participation at the LSE summer school program. “LSE Methods Summer Programme 2015: Tools for Macroeconomists: The Essentials”, London, UK.
since 02/2015	University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. Participation in the Ph.D. (Economics) program.
10/2012 - 10/2014	University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. Economics (M.Sc.). Focus on econometrics and labor economics.
04/2012 - 09/2012	Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen. Philosophy studies.
10/2008 - 11/2011	University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. Economic Sciences (B.Sc.).

Professional Experience

since 04/2016	Teaching position in Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy, DHBW – Heilbronn (University of Cooperative Education), Germany.
since 01/2015	Research assistant and doctoral student, Chair of Household and Consumer Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
10/2014 - 12/2014	Research assistant, Chair of Innovation Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
since 06/2014	Private tutor in mathematics, Abacus, Calw, Germany.
11/2012 - 10/2014	Student assistant, Chair of Innovation Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
07/2012 - 09/2012	Internship, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW), Tuebingen, Germany.
01/2012 - 04/2012	Internship, Chair of Innovation Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
07/2007 - 03/2008	Alternative service, Maria – Theresia Klinik, Munich, Germany.

Research interests

Health Economics
Health Policy Evaluation
Consumer Behavior
Econometrics, statistical methods and machine learning

Selected publications

	Kaiser, M. (2019). Benford’s law as an indicator of survey reliability – Can we trust our data? Accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Surveys.
	Kaiser, M., & Bauer, J. M. (2019). Preschool child care and child well-being in Germany: Does the migrant experience differ? Social Indicators Research, 144(3), 1367-1390.
	Sunstein, C. R., Reisch, L. A., Kaiser, M. (2018). Trusting Nudges? Lessons from an International Survey, Journal of European Public Policy. Online available at doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2018.1531912.
	Buchmann, T., Kaiser, M. (2018). The effects of R&D subsidies and network embeddedness on R&D output. Evidence from the German biotech industry, Industry & Innovation. Online available at doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2018.1438247.
	Kaiser, M., Reutter, M., Sousa-Poza, A., Strohmaier, K. (2018). Smoking and the Business Cycle. Evidence from Germany, Economics and Human Biology, 29, 138-147.
	Kaiser, M., Schiller, J., & Schreckenberger, C. (2018). The effectiveness of a population-based skin cancer screening program: evidence from Germany. The European Journal of Health Economics, 19(3), 355-367.
	Mburu, S., Kaiser, M., Sousa-Poza, A. (2017). Livestock asset dynamics among pastoralists in Northern Kenya,Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences 25-2017, University of Hohenheim.
	Kaiser, M., Bauer, J. M., & Sousa-Poza, A. (2016). Does unemployment lead to a less healthy lifestyle? Applied Economics Letters, 24(12), 815-819, available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2016.1231888.