RWI Team

Dr. Philipp Jäger

Researcher in the research department "Macroeconomics and Public Finance"

Philipp Jäger joined the research department „Macroeconomics and Public Finance” as a researcher in April 2014. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ruhr University of Bochum (2019) supervised by Christoph Schmidt. Prior to that, he studied  Business and Economics (B.Sc.)  in Leipzig and Maynooth (Ireland) as well as International Economics (M.A.) in Göttingen and Seoul. His research focuses on the long-run causes and consequences of demographic change.

Research Interests

Population economics, Applied econometrics, Economic history