Malte Sandner

Malte Sandner is a Professor at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg specializing in labor market, education, health, migration, and family economics. He serves as Associate Editor for Empirical Economics and Journal of Labour Market Research, and co-leads the CARRI doctoral center. His contact information indicates office BB.118 with consultation hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm or by appointment.

Dr. Sandner received his doctorate from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Leibniz University Hannover. Following his doctorate, he held postdoctoral positions at various research institutes in Germany and abroad. Since May 2017, he has been affiliated with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) as a Senior Researcher, where he has provided policy advice to the Federal Employment Agency (BA), the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BAMS), and the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ).

His research spans multiple interconnected domains within applied microeconomics. His primary focus areas include labor market economics with emphasis on gender wage gaps and career patterns, education economics particularly regarding school-to-work transitions, health economics examining early childhood interventions, migration economics analyzing integration processes, and family economics investigating fertility decisions and child development. His methodological approach frequently employs randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental designs to evaluate social policies.

His recent publications (2023-2025) demonstrate a consistent focus on early childhood interventions and their long-term effects, gender economics including the child penalty phenomenon, pandemic impacts on youth well-being and education, and health economics examining environmental factors in child development. His work often bridges academic research with practical policy applications, as evidenced by his advisory roles with government agencies.

• Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• Research Fellow of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO)
• Research Fellow Center for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM)
• Research Fellow at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB)
• Member of the Education Economics Committee of the Association for Social Policy

Professor Sandner has secured substantial research funding from multiple sources including the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Nuffield Foundation, and German Research Foundation (DFG). His current projects (2024-2027) include investigating how inclusive education and individual coaching affect labor market outcomes for students with disabilities. He has led multiple research teams focused on early childhood interventions, particularly the Pro Kind program, with longitudinal follow-up studies tracking participants into adolescence.