CEP | People | Dr Stephan Maurer

Biography

Stephan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Konstanz. He joined the CEP in 2013 and is member of the Growth and Labour Markets programmes. His research interests include labour economics, economic history, political economy and economic geography.

Publications

Blog

Enslavers dominated Southern politics long after the Civil War ended

Before the Civil War, the politics and economy of the Southern US were dominated by those who practiced immoral - but at the time legally permissible - forced enslavement. In new research, Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager, and... Read more...

Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager and Stephan Maurer

23 October 2020

CEP discussion papers

The long shadow of slavery: the persistence of slave owners in Southern law-making

This paper documents the persistence of the Southern slave owning elite in political power after the end of the American Civil War. We draw on a database of Texan state legislators between 1860 and 1900 and link them to ... Read more...

Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager and Stephan E. Maurer

20 August 2020

Blog

How the Panama Canal reshaped the economic geography of the United States

In the early 20th century a ship travelling from San Francisco to New York or on to Europe first had to travel over 13,000 miles around the entirety of South America. That all changed in August of 1914 with the opening o... Read more...

Stephan Maurer and Ferdinand Rauch

27 July 2019

CEP discussion papers

Economic geography aspects of the Panama Canal

This paper studies how the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 changed market access and influenced the economic geography of the United States. We compute shipment distances with and without the canal from each US count... Read more...

Stephan E. Maurer and Ferdinand Rauch

09 July 2019

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance

Trade and growth in the Iron Age

Stephan Maurer and colleagues investigate the growth effects of one of the first trade expansions in history: the crossing of the Mediterranean by the Phoenicians ... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Stephan Maurer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch

01 March 2019

CEP discussion papers

Of mice and merchants: trade and growth in the Iron Age

We study the causal connection between trade and development using one of the earliest massive trade expansions: the first systematic crossing of open seas in the Mediterranean during the time of the Phoenicians. We cons... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Stephan Maurer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch

12 July 2018

Journal article

Voting behavior and public employment in Nazi Germany

This article analyzes whether the German National Socialists used economic policies to reward their voters after coming to power in 1933. Using newly-collected data on public employment from the German censuses in 1925, ... Read more...

Stephan E. Maurer

01 March 2018

CEP discussion papers

Oil discoveries and education spending in the Postbellum South

This paper studies the effect of oil wealth on the provision of education in the early 20th century United States. Using information on the location and discovery of major oil fields, I find that oil wealth increased loc... Read more...

Stephan E. Maurer

03 January 2018

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance

In brief... Oil: the impact on women's work

Stephan Maurer and Andrei Potlogea explore whether oil-dominated economies are naturally biased against women's labour market participation.... Read more...

Stephan E. Maurer and Andrei V. Potlogea

30 July 2015

CEP discussion papers

Voting behaviour and public employment in Nazi Germany

This paper analyses whether the German National Socialists used economic policies to reward their voters after their rise to power in 1933. Using data on public employment in the armed forces, public administrations and ... Read more...

Stephan E. Maurer

09 February 2015

CEP discussion papers

Fueling the Gender Gap? Oil and Women's Labor and Marriage Market Outcomes

This paper analyzes the effect of resource-based economic specialization on women's labor market outcomes. Using information on the location and discovery of major oil fields in the Southern United States coupled with a ... Read more...

Stephan E. Maurer and Andrei V. Potlogea

24 June 2014