Henning Mueller

Personal Information

Affiliation Johannes Gutenberg University of MainzChair of Public and Behavioral Economics

Email henning.mueller@uni-mainz.de

Telephone +49 6131 39 22563

Address Jakob-Welder-Weg 455128 MainzGermany

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ResearchInterests

Economics of Education, Behavioral Economics,Field and Lab Experimental Research,Economics of Child and Youth Development

Research Projects

InformationKid

Effects of Information Provision and Financial Support on Enrollmentin Childcare and Life Outcomes (joint work with Philipp Lergetporer,Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold; funded by the Jacobs Foundation)

Status:preparingfield phase

KIDS-WIN Can Working Memory Training and Self-Regulation Training at PrimarySchool Improve Self-Control Skills and School Performance? Evidencefrom a Randomized Field Experiment (joint work with Eva Berger,Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel; partially funded by theJacobs Foundation)

Status:preparingsubmission

Active LaborMarketTraining

Self-Regulation Training and Job Application Effort: A Natural FieldExperiment in an Active Labor Market Program (joint work with EvaBerger, Guenther Koenig, Felix Schmidt & Daniel Schunk; funded bythe Fritz Thyssen Foundation)

Status:manuscriptsubmitted

Beauty-ContestGame

Strategic Interaction and Empathy Skills — an ExperimentalBeauty-Contest Game with Children (single-authored project)

Status:preparingsubmission

MATHE-KIDS

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 ofEducation and Research)

Status:data analysis

Empathy andNegativeAffectivity

Perceiving is Suffering? How the Interplay of Empathic Facets IncreasesNegative Affectivity (joint work with Aleksa Kaurin, Nora Grote, DanielSchunk, Isabel Dziobek, Michael Witthoeft & Michele Wessa)

Status:manuscriptsubmitted

Cooperationand PeerEffects

Enhancing Cooperation and Investigating Peer Effects on HumanCapital Formation — a Randomized-controlled Field Study withPrimary School Children (joint work with Florian Hett, Mario Mechtel,Felix Schmidt & Daniel Schunk; funded by the German NationalScience Foundation)

Status:receivedfunding

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Education and Training

09/2011 – today PhD in Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Chairof Public and Behavioral EconomicsSupervisors: Prof. Dr. Daniel Schunk & Prof. Dr. Ernst Fehr (University ofZurich). Submitted in December 2016.

09/2013 – 10/2016 Several research stays at the University of Zurich, Chair of Microeconomicsand Experimental Economic Research, Prof. Dr. Ernst Fehr (in total > 6months)

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-Thuringen(Helaba), Frankfurt (final GPA: 1.0, with distinction)

08/1995 – 06/2004 Abitur (A levels) at humanistic secondary school in Darmstadt, intensivecourses: 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 ofthe office, marketing and research activities)

01/2007 – 01/2009 Student trainee at Helaba Frankfurt in the Human Resources Developmentdepartment (main project: talent management)

06/2005 – 08/2005 Internship at LBS Hessen-Thuringen in the marketing department (medialcommunication, conceptual design and development of software tools)

Teaching Experience

Fall 2016 Tutorial on “Principles of Public Economics” (MSc)Spring 2016 Tutorial on “Behavioral Economics” (MSc)Spring 2015 Lecture and Tutorial on “Behavioral Economics” (MSc)Spring 2014 Seminar on “Scarcity — Why Having Too Little Means So Much” (BSc)Fall 2013 Seminar on “Cost-Benefit Analyses of Early Childhood Intervention Programs” (MSc)Spring 2013 Seminar on “Public Economic Theory” (MSc)Fall 2012 Seminar on “Theories and Models on Intertemporal Choice” (MSc)Spring 2012 Seminar on “Social Preferences” (MSc)Fall 2011 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 Member of the Gutenberg Academy for Young Researchers, University of Mainz2013 – 2016 Full Doctoral Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation2011 Distinction for outstanding diploma thesis on “Development of a specific intervention

module for labor market reintegration by combining mental contrasting andimplementation intentions”

2011 Award for best diploma of the graduating class2008 – 2013 Full Student Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation

Presentations & Conferences

2017 Workshop on Microeconomics at Leuphana University of Luneburg2017 CESifo Institute for the Economics of Education, Munich2017 German Youth Institute DJI, Munich2016 Interdisciplinary Research Symposium for Empirical Research in Education, University

of Augsburg2016 Social and Biological Roots of Economics Workshop, IfW Kiel2016 Colloquium on Economics of Education at the SBE, Maastricht University,

Netherlands2016 Economic Colloquium at IAAEU Trier2016 Young Scholar at the Jacobs Foundation Conference on “Economizing Education

Policy: Tradeoffs, Incentives, and Generalizing from Evidence” in Marbach Castle2016 Spring Meeting of Young Economists in Lisbon/Portugal2016 Workshop on Microeconomics at Leuphana University of Luneburg2015 Workshop on Economics of Education at the University of Mainz2012 Experimental Design Workshop, GSEFM Goethe University Frankfurt

Participation at Summer & Winter Schools

2016 Marsilius Academy on “Early Childhood in Transition — Interdisciplinaryperspectives” (Christina Gathman, Sabina Pauen, Katharina Spiess), IAF Heidelberg

2016 Summer School on “Education, Preferences, and Economic Outcomes” (GeorgeLoewenstein, Rachel Croson, Matthias Sutter), Institute for the World Economy, Kiel

2015 Summer School on “Economics of Education” (Eric Bettinger, Alexander Koch &Helena Skyt Nielsen), University of Mainz

2014 PhD Course on “Personality traits, non-cognitive skills and education” (ThomasDohmen), University of Zurich, Switzerland

2013 PhD Course on “Econometric Methods in Economics of Education” (RainerWinkelmann), University of Bern, Switzerland

2012 PhD Course on “Lab and Field Experiments in Economics” (John List), ChoiceLab,NHH Bergen, Norway

2012 Summer School on “Behavioral Economics” (Jordi Brandts & Dan Houser),University of Mainz

2012 Winter School on “Applied Microeconometrics” (Markus Pannenberg), University ofTubingen

Refereeing

Journal of the European Economic AssociationJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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