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Stephan Maurer.

Stephan Maurer

Associate

Expertise: labour economics, economic history, political economy, economic geography, international trade

Email:
stephan.maurer@uni-konstanz.de
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University of Konstanz

Biography

Dr Stephan Maurer 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.

Current areas of research include:

  • How does natural resource wealth affect intergenerational mobility and the transmission of human capital across generations? (with D. Battiston, A. Potlogea, J.-V. Rodriguez Mora)
  • The Political Economy of the Southern Planter class and its persistence in power after the American Civil War (with L. Bellani, A. Hager)
  • Do female professors affect the study choices and outcomes of female students? (with G. Schwerdt, S. Wiederhold)

Publications

CEP discussion papers
Trade persistence and trader identity - evidence from the demise of the Hanseatic League

How do trade networks persist following disruptions of political networks? We study different types of persistence following the decline of the Hanseatic League using a panel of 21,590 city-level trade flows over 190 yea... Read more...

Max Marczinek, Stephan E. Maurer and Ferdinand Rauch

02 February 2022

Journal article
Of Mice and Merchants: Connectedness and the Location of Economic Activity in the Iron Age

We study the causal relationship between geographic connectedness 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... Read more...

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

01 October 2021

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
in brief... The long shadow of slavery

The politics and economy of the antebellum American South were dominated by those who practiced forced enslavement. Research by Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager and Stephan Maurer, which examines a database of Texas legislator... Read more...

Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager and Stephan E. Maurer

01 March 2021

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 E. 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

Journal article
Male-biased Demand Shocks and Women's Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Large Oil Field Discoveries

Do male-biased labour demand shocks affect women's labour market outcomes? To study this question, we examine large oil field discoveries in the southern USA from 1900 to 1940. We find that oil wealth has an overall posi... Read more...

Stephan E. Maurer and Andrei V. Potlogea

21 March 2020

Journal article
Oil discoveries and education provision 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

01 December 2019

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 E. 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 of the Centre 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 E. 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 E. 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 of the Centre 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

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