Students who wish to write their thesis at the Chair of Labour Market and Health Economics are asked to register for the colloquium by emailing Prof. Kühnle. At the beginning of each semester, both a Bachelor's and a Master's thesis colloquium take place. The exact date will be announced in advance on the chair’s website (under "Courses").

Important Information:

Formal Requirements:

• For Bachelor's students: Empirical Health Economics
• For Master's students: Applied Labour Economics

An empirical thesis is expected, involving:

• Working with large datasets (microdata)
• Data analysis using R or Stata

Participation in the colloquium is a prerequisite for successful thesis registration.

Official information on formal requirements can be found here.

Examples of datasets:

Household-based panel (=longitdudinal) survey data:

• British Household Panel Survey (BHPS, 1991 - today)
• German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 1989 -today)
• Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA, - today)
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID, 1968 - today). This US study is probably the world’s longest running household panel survey
• Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS) (Destatis)
• Mikrozensus (Gesis)  

International panel surveys: 

• European Community Household Panel (ECHP, 1994- 2001)
• Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, 2004 - today). 

Others: 

• Allbus (Gesis)
• IPUMS: The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is the world's largest individual-level population database.
• BIBB/BAuA-Erwerbstätigenbefragung (BIBB)