Katharina Wedel

Junior Economist at Ifo Institute, Doctoral student at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU)

Katharina Wedel is a doctoral candidate at ifo Institute and Munich University. She was a visiting PhD student at the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School in fall 2022. She studied economics at the University of Tuebingen and Lund University. Her research focuses on economics of education and labor economics.

Latest contributions 

Students and mentor in a classroom
VoxEU Column

Mentoring improves the school-to-work transition of disadvantaged adolescents

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  • Education
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  • Labour Markets