Economist
Ifo Institute Social Policy and Labour Markets Poschingerstraße 581679 München
Phone: +49(0)89/9224-1252 Fax: +49(0)89/9224-1608
Empirical Labour Economics, Life and Job Satisfaction, Income and Inequality in Transition Countries, Human Capital; Competition and Innovation
German, English, Russian.
Coordination of the 8th report on family affairs
Ex Post Evaluation of Monetary Family Related Benefits in Germany (Child Benefits and Allowances)
Ex-Post-Evaluation of Public Subsidies for Child Care
Weisshaar, Natalia (with Tilman Brück, Alexander Danzer, Alexander Muravyev), "Poverty during transition: Household survey evidence from Ukraine", Journal of Comparative Economics, 38(2), 2010, 123-145
Weisshaar, Natalia (with Philippe Aghion, Heike Harmgart), "Fostering growth in transition economies", EBRD: Transition Report, 2008, Chapter 3: 48-63
Weisshaar, Natalia (with Alexander M. Danzer), "Armut in der Ukraine in Rezession und Aufschwung", Ukraine-Analysen, Nr. 78, 2010
Weisshaar, Natalia (with Christine Binzel, Alexander M. Danzer, Hella Engerer, Franziska Holz, Alexander Muravyev, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Kati Schindler, Mechthild Schrooten, Ulrich Thießen, Georg Zachmann), "Deutschlands EU-Ratspräsidentschaft: Chancen zur Gestaltung der Zukunftsfähigkeit Europas nutzen", DIW Wochenbericht 51-52, 2006, 729-738
Weisshaar, Natalia (with Philippe Aghion, Heike Harmgart), "Fostering Growth in CEE countries: a country-tailored approach to growth policy", European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), WP 117, 2010
2008 - 2010 "Principles of Economics", Seminar class, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK
2007, 2008 "Education and Development", Guest lecture in the course "Development Economics", Humboldt Universität, Berlin
2002 - 2003 "Introductory Economics", Teaching assistant, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Canada, 2002-2003
Natalia Danzer, "Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment", Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society 2011 (Royal Holloway College, University of London), 18 - 20 Apr. 2011, London, UK
Natalia Danzer, "Can Sectoral Policy Enhance Competition and Ultimately Innovation? First Evidence from Russia" (joint paper with Philippe Aghion and Heike), International Conference on Diversification of the Russian Economy, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 03 - 04 Feb. 2011, London, UK
Natalia Weisshaar, “Job Satisfaction and Sorting into the Public and Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Conference on "The Economic and Social Implications of Health and Safety at Work", July 2010, Milan, Italy
Natalia Weisshaar, “Job Satisfaction and Sorting into the Public and Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Annual Conference of the Scottish Economic Society, Apr. 2010, Perth, UK
Natalia Weisshaar, “The Long Run Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe on Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health in Ukraine. Evidence from Two Large Data Sets”, Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Sept. 2009, Tallinn, Estonia
Natalia Weisshaar, “Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Ukraine: Comparing Soviet and Post-Soviet Evidence” and “The Long Run Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe on Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health in Ukraine”, ESPE 2009 / XXIII Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, June 2009, Seville, Spain
Natalia Weisshaar, “Remembering better times. Subjective Well-being and the Role of Diachronic Comparisons during Transition”, ESPE 2008 / XXII Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics; University College London, June 2008, London, UK
Natalia Weisshaar, “Mother Russia in Transition: Analysing the Fertility Decline in Russia in the 1990s using Matching and Decomposition Techniques”, 11th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, May 2008, Buch am Ammersee, Germany
Natalia Weisshaar, Mother Russia in Transition: Analysing the Fertility Decline in Russia in the 1990s using Matching and Decomposition Techniques”, Economic and Social Consequences of Industrial Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine (ESCIRRU): Interim Workshop; DIW Berlin, Febr./March 2008, Berlin, Germany
Natalia Weisshaar, “Changes in Determinants of Poverty and Inequality during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine”, DSA 2007 / Development Studies Association Annual Conference; University of Sussex, Sept. 2007, Brighton, UK
Natalia Weisshaar, “Changes in Determinants of Poverty and Inequality during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine”, EEA 2007 / Annual Conference of the European Economic Association, Aug. 2007, Budapest, Hungary
Natalia Weisshaar, “Changes in Determinants of Poverty and Inequality during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine”, ECINEQ 2007: 2nd meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality; International Conference, Juli 2007, Berlin, Germany
Natalia Weisshaar, “Changes in Determinants of Poverty and Inequality during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine”, Annual Conference of the “Research Committee Development Economics 2007” of the “Verein für Socialpolitik”, Juni 2007, Göttingen