GERRIT MUELLER

OFFICE ADDRESS Centre for European Economic Research L7, 1 68161 Mannheim Germany

+49 621 1235 152 (tel) [email protected]

FIELDS OF INTEREST Labor , , Economic Psychology and Sociology

EDUCATION Ph.D. Economics, TINBERGEN INSTITUTE, /Rotterdam, , 2006

Visiting Scholar, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, Chicago, Illinois, January – June 2005

M.Phil. Economics, TINBERGEN INSTITUTE, Amsterdam/Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2003

M.A. Economics, UNIVERSITY OF MAASTRICHT, Netherlands, 2000

PUBLICATIONS Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. (2006). Forthcoming. (with Erik Plug)

On the Role of Personality Traits and Social Skills in Adult Economic Attainment. PhD Thesis. Tinbergen Institute Research Series #375. (2006). Amsterdam: Thela.

WORKING PAPERS, SUBMISSIONS, AND WORK IN PROGRESS Friendship Relations in the School Class and Adult Economic Attainment. IZA discussion paper No. 1682. (with Andrea Galeotti)

Class Size and Students’ Friendships.

Parents’ Personality and Children’s Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from a Sample of Adoptees (with Erik Plug). In progress.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2005: CEPR European Summer Symposium in Labor Economics, Munich EALE/SOLE World Conference, San Francisco XIX Annual Conference of the European Society of Population Economics, Paris

2004: IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, Munich Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam, Rotterdam

ACADEMIC HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) grant to fund Ph.D. thesis research Travel grant for research visit at the University of Chicago GSB Prize for best M.A. graduation paper, University of Maastricht

REFEREEING FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS The Economic Journal, Labour Economics

ACTIVITIES Elected member of the board, Ph.D. council of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (2002 – 2004) Organizer of the Tinbergen Institute Ph.D. seminar series (2002 – 2004)

SKILLS Computer: Stata (programming), SPSS, LaTeX, MS Office applications, MS Windows and Mac OS platforms Languages: Fluent in English, German (native), Dutch (very good), French (basic)

REFERENCES Coen Teulings (principal advisor) Hessel Oosterbeek University of Amsterdam [email protected] [email protected]

Steve Pischke Erik Plug London School of Economics University of Amsterdam [email protected] [email protected]