Luisa Wallossek

Luisa Wallossek is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo and affiliated with CESifo. She holds a PhD from LMU Munich. Her research focuses on public economics, examining topics such as taxation, redistribution, and gender inequality through empirical methods. She investigates how policy design influences individual behaviors, particularly in contexts like tax compliance, labor supply decisions, and pension enrollment.

Her work combines administrative and survey data to analyze real-world economic phenomena. Notable contributions include studying the marriage earnings gap in Germany, the impact of tax complexity on taxpayer behavior, and the role of defaults in pension enrollment choices. Media coverage of her research has appeared in outlets like Die Presse, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and ZEIT ONLINE.

Her research portfolio includes collaborations with scholars such as Tobias Hauck, Youssef Benzarti, and Elena Herold. Current projects explore taxpayers' mistakes in itemizing deductions and the effects of child-age dependent reforms in alimony policies.