Patrick Puhani

Patrick Puhani

Research Fellow

Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in June 2025

Research area
Labor Economics Health Economics Economics of Education Applied Econometrics

About Patrick Puhani

Patrick Puhani is professor of Labour Economics at Leibniz University of Hannover. Previously, he was professor of Applied Econometrics at Darmstadt University of Technology.

Patrick Puhani received his undergraduate education in Economics at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, England, where he obtained a Master of Arts degree. From 1995 to 1999 he was working with the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Munich, Germany, in 1998. From 1999 to 2004, Patrick Puhani worked at SIAW, University of St. Gallen, where he obtained his Habilitation in 2004. During the academic year 2001/2002, Patrick Puhani was a visiting scholar at the Economics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA and during the academic year 2010/2011 he was visiting the Economics Department and the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, during 2015, CGEG, SIPA, Columbia University, NYC, and during 2019, CReAM, University College London.

Patrick Puhani's research interests are in the field of labor economics, health economics, economics of education and applied microeconometrics. His works have been published among others in Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, the Economic Journal, the German Economic Review, Kyklos, Labour, Labour Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of the German Statistical Society, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Population Economics, the Journal of Regional Science, and Research in Labor Economics.