Florian Hoffmann

Assistant Professor
Vancouver School of Economics
University of British Columbia

Buchanan Tower
997 - 1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z1
CANADA

phone: (604) 822-4792

email: florian.hoffmann@ubc.ca

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Primary Interests: Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics

Secondary Interests: Search Theory and Estimation of Models with Search Frictions, Economics of Education, Computational Methods

Publications

Hoffmann, F. and P. Oreopoulos (2009) "Professor Qualities and Student Achievement." The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 91 (1), pp. 83-92.

Working Paper Version

Hoffmann, F. and P. Oreopoulos (2009) "A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement." Journal of Human Resources, vol. 44 (2), pp. 479 - 494.

Working Paper Version

Working Papers

HIP, RIP and the Robustness of Empirical Earnings Processes (submitted; version April 2013)

This paper is a substantially revised version of a paper that circulated previously as "The Different Life-Cycle Income Trajectories of Less and More Educated Workers".

"An Empirical Model of Life-Cycle Earnings and Mobility Dynamics." [NEW VERSION COMING SOON]

A Community Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom (joint with Rob Fairlie and Philip Oreopoulos) (submitted; version March 2013)

Work in Progress

Structural Changes, Labor Mobility and Wage Dispersion (joint with Shouyong Shi).

Estimation of Models of Directed Search (joint with Shouyong Shi).

Network Effects and the Educational Attainment of Young Immigrants.

Teaching

Shouyong Shi's lecture slides (Invited Lecture, April 2013):

ECON 326 (Methods of Empirical Research in Economics)

ECON 560 (Labor Economics for PhD-Students)