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Prof. Dr. Hendrik Schmitz holds the Chair of Empirical Economics at Paderborn University's Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, leading Department 4: Economics. He concurrently heads the Health Economics Department at RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research. His research focuses on health economics, education economics, aging, and applied microeconometrics, with recent emphasis on behavioral economics in sustainable finance. He teaches courses in econometrics and supervises empirical theses, collaborating closely with RWI and CINCH. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. His team includes Dr. Gunnar Gutsche (acting professor), Dr. Sonja Lück, and research assistants. He is based at Room Q4.325, reachable via hendrik.schmitz@uni-paderborn.de.
Research themes spill into labor economics, public economics, and industrial economics, leveraging individual data and causal analysis. Notable projects address retirement’s cognitive impacts, vaccination behavior during pandemics, and energy policies’ health linkages. Teaching spans statistics, econometrics modules (e.g., Microeconometrics in English), and thesis supervision. Exchange programs with Idaho and Illinois State Universities are coordinated. Ongoing collaborations include RWI and health data initiatives.
Recent publications (2022–2025) investigate retirement effects on cognition, compulsory schooling’s vaccination impact, and housing’s role in infection dynamics. His work bridges empirical methods with policy relevance, emphasizing causal inference and interdisciplinary health-energy studies.
