Dr. Marc Diederichs
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Vita
2024: Post-doc at the Chair of Organization, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Passau.
2023: Ph.D. in Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Title: Essays in Network and Health Economics;
Advisor: Reyn van Ewijk; Committee members: Joshua Angrist, Reyn van Ewijk, Guido Friebel, Daniel Schunk;
Grade: summa cum laude.
2022: Three-month Research visit to Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2020: Master in Quantitative Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Title: Evaluation of a Medical
Emergency Call Software.
2017: Master in International Economics and Public Policy, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Title:
The Effect of Parental Age at Birth on Education Outcomes and Wages: An Empirical Analysis with the German
SOEP.
2015: Bachelor in Management and Economics, University Ouest Nanterre la Defense Paris; Johannes
Gutenberg-University Mainz, French-german double degree with a bachelor thesis in the domain of behavioral
economics.
2023 - Present: Senior Research Officer, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin, Institute for the Economy and the
Future of Work.
2018 - 2023: Doctoral Researcher, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Chair of Statistics and Econometrics,
Reyn van Ewijk.
2020 - 2023: Advisor, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mentoring work with students from non-academic
backgrounds as part of the organization Arbeiterkind.de.
2015 - 2017: AIESEC, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Member of the non-profit student’s organization
AIESEC. Contact with businesses from Mainz, organization of a conference with 100 participants.
2016: 2 Weeks Voluntary Service, Kenya, Volunteering work in an orphanage.
2015: 2 Months Internship at Taxeo, Paris, Building up a database about customers, contact with potential
new customers and affiliates via telephone.
2012: 3 Months Voluntary Service, Kenya, Work as a volunteer in an orphanage for HIV orphans. Coaching
of homework and German classes, organization of activities.
2011: 2 Months Internship at Ekkharthof, Switzerland, Supervision and guidance of handicapped children.
Winter terms 2021/2022 and 2022/2023: Micro Econometrics Lecture with Integrated Exercises Dis-
cussion of articles; Applications with Stata; Theory covered: OLS, FE, DiD, Lim. dep. vars.
Summer terms 2021 and 2022: Empirical Economic Research Exercise Sessions Obligatory course for
about 600 undergraduate students.
Winter term 2020/2021: Lecture on Introductory Econometrics Statistics and introduction to simple and
multiple regression analysis for first year master students.
Summer term 2018 - 2022: Supervision of 4 Master Theses Topics: Replication of "Did austerity cause
Brexit?" by Thiemo Fetzer using specification-curve analysis; The effect of lecture-style teaching on student test
scores, an empirical analysis using specification-curve analysis; Evaluation of a medical emergency call software.
Summer term 2018 - 2022: Supervision of about 50 Bachelor Theses Topics: Attitudes towards climate
change; Determinants and consequences of obesity; Favouritism in academic peer review; The effect of technology
on education outcomes.
Summer term 2016: Tutor in Econometrics teaching activity in the most advanced undergraduate econometrics
course using Stata.
2022: Schools under mandatory testing can mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. Joint work with Reyn van Ewijk, Ingo Ishpording and Nico Pestel.
2022: Is large-scale rapid CoV-2 testing a substitute for lockdowns? PLOS ONE. Joint work with René
Glawion, Peter G. Kremsner, Timo Mitze, Gernot J. Müller, Dominik Papies, Felix Schulz and Klaus Wälde.
03/2023: Best paper award for my PNAS article from the DGGÖ 5000 Euro.
04/2022 - 07/2022: Interdisciplinary Public Policy 2000 Euro.
10/2019 - 09/2020: Deutschlandstipendium 300 Euro per month.
10/2018 - 09/2019: Deutschlandstipendium 300 Euro per month.
09/2014 - 08/2015: Erasmus + 270 Euro per month.
2023: DGGÖ Conference on Health Economics, Hannover; PhD conference, Frankfurt; Young Economists
Meeting, Breno; ESPE, Belgrade; NBER Summer Institute and Innovation Summer School, Cambridge; EALE,
Prag
2018 - 2022: Annual Conference Verein für Socialpolitik, Basel; EuHEA PhD Conference, Rotterdam; DGGÖ
Conference on Health Economics, Nuremberg; International Health Economics Workshop, Mainz; Summer School
on Advanced Econometrics by Prof. Wooldridge, Mainz; Annual Conference Verein für Socialpolitik, Freiburg;
Course on Econometric Analysis of Experimental Data, Mainz
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