Katja Kaufmann

Prof. Katja Kaufmann serves as Professor and Chair of Empirical Macroeconomics and Family Economics at the University of Bayreuth, where she leads projects within the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 (CRC TRR 224), a major German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded initiative.

Her research bridges empirical macroeconomics with family, labor market, and education economics, focusing on inequality and social mobility, social interaction mechanisms, peer effects in economic behavior, and the role of subjective expectations in decision-making. She utilizes diverse administrative datasets and self-collected surveys spanning industrialized and developing economies to analyze these interdisciplinary connections.

Funded through CRC TRR 224 with over half a million euros for her specific projects, Prof. Kaufmann's work examines how social structures influence economic outcomes across different cultural contexts. Her methodological approach combines large-scale quantitative analysis with targeted field data collection to address complex socioeconomic questions.