Michael Knaus
Michael Knaus
Assistant Professor of Econometrics
Büro 06-206
Varnbüelstrasse 14
9000 St. Gallen
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Applied Econometrics
Causal Machine Learning
Labor Economics
Education Economics
Sports Economics
09/2013 - 03/2018 PhD in Economics and Finance, University of St. Gallen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Lechner
10/2010 - 09/2013 Economics, M.Sc., University of Hohenheim
09/2012 - 02/2013 Semester abroad, University of Bologna
10/2007 - 09/2010 Business Administration and Economics, B.Sc., University of Hohenheim
since 02/2019 Assistant Professor for Econometrics, University of St. Gallen
since 02/2018 Consultant for Empirical Economic Research, University of St. Gallen
03/2018 - 01/2019 Post-Doc, University of St. Gallen
09/2013 - 03/2018 Research assistant, University of St. Gallen, Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research.
04/2013 - 09/2013 Teaching assistant in Macroeconomics, Department of Labor and Service Economics, University of Hohenheim.
07/2012 - 09/2012 Intern, German Council of Economic Experts, Wiesbaden.
05/2012 - 06/2012 Intern, ifo Institute, Ifo Center for International Economics, Munich.
10/2011 - 04/2012 Student Assistant, Chair for Statistics and Econometrics, University of Hohenheim.
02/2010 - 01/2012 Student Trainee, Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart.
First price as the best graduate of the Master program
"Economics" at the
University of
Hohenheim in the summer semester 2013
2020: EALE-SOLE-AASLE (Online); Annual Conference Verein für Socialpolitik (Online); Machine Learning in Labor, Education, and Health Economics (Online); Econometrics Seminar Series University of Southern Denmark (Online)
2019: Econometrics and Business Statistics Seminar (Aarhus University); European Meeting of the Econometric Society (Manchester); IAAE Annual Conference (Nicosia); BGSE Sommer Forum ”Machine Learning for Economics” (Barcelona); European Causal Inference Meeting (Bremen); SKILS (Engelberg)
2018: European Causal Inference Meeting (Florence); Statistical Week (Linz); Machine Learning in Economics and Econometrics (Munich)
2017: 13th IZA Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation (Bonn); EALE Conference (St. Gallen); Computational Social Science, 6th Workshop Konstanz - St. Gallen; Essen Health Conference; 20th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, (Buch am Ammersee)
2016: SKILS (St. Anton)
2015: European Society for Population Economics (Izmir)
Refereeing Activities: Journal of Labor Economics, Econometrics and Statistics, German Economic Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Sports Economics, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations