Prof. Dr.
Thilo Klein
Quantitative Economics / Quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung
Contact
Room
W2.3.04
Colloquium
FR., 08.00 - 09.30 Uhr, Raum W2.3.04, Terminvereinbarung per Email
Phone
(07231) 28-6289Thilo Klein is a professor of quantitative economics at Pforzheim University and a senior economist in ZEW's Research Unit "Market Design", where he is responsible for its research area "Design of Matching Markets". His work focuses on market design, matching theory and empirical methods, including the allocation of childcare and school places, food donations, environmental subsidies and the design of microfinance programmes. He has published in Games and Economic Behavior and the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design.
He has been the principal investigator in projects supported by DAAD, ESRC, Leibniz Association, Bertelsmann Foundation and the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and was awarded the prize for the best economic consulting project by the ZEW Sponsors' Association. Prior to joining Pforzheim University, he worked as a policy analyst at the OECD, as well as for the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Indian microfinance institution Spandana, and Bayer AG. He holds a PhD in business economics and an MPhil in operations research from the University of Cambridge.
Journal article
KLEIN, T., STEINBERG, H., SCHÜLLER, S., ÖZTÜRK, Y., SCHOBER, P. (2024). Alleinerziehende in der Betreuungsplatzvergabe. Status quo und Handlungsempfehlungen. Wirtschaftsdienst - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 104 (5). doi:10.2478/wd-2024-0090.
KLEIN, T., AUE, R., ORTEGA, J. (2024). School Choice with Independent versus Consolidated Districts. GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR, 147, 170-205. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2024.07.003.
KLEIN, T., OTT, M. (2023). Effiziente und faire Verteilung von Lebensmittelspenden. Wirtschaftsdienst - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 103 (8), 560-563. doi:10.2478/wd-2023-0156.
ORTEGA, J., KLEIN, T. (2023). The Cost of Strategy-Proofness in School Choice. GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR, 141, 515-528. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2023.07.008.
REISCHMANN, T., KLEIN, T., GIEGERICH, S. (2021). A deferred acceptance mechanism for decentralized, fast, and fair childcare assignment. Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, 6 (1), 59-100. doi:10.22574/jmid.2021.12.003.
GRETSCHKO, V., KLEIN, T., WAMBACH, A. (2019). Die Regeln machen den Unterschied: Marktdesign. WiSt Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 48 (4), 22-28. doi:https://doi.org/10.15358/0340-1650-2019-4-22.
Book/Monograph/Ebook
KLEIN, T. (2012). Why Do India's Urban Poor Choose to Go Private? Health Policy Simulations in Slums of Hyderabad. Ibidem-Verlag.
KLEIN, T. (2010). Microfinance 2.0: Group Formation & Repayment Performance in Online Lending Platforms. Ibidem-Verlag.
Chapter in Book
BADIEE, S., JÜTTING, J., KLEIN, T. (2017). The Role of National Statistical Systems in the Data Revolution. In Ida Mc Donnell (Ed.), Development Co-operation Report ( ed., pp. 55-76). OECD Publishing.
BADIEE, S., KLEIN, T., MOHAMEDOU, E. I. (2017). Rethinking Donor Support for Statistical Capacity Development. In Ida Mc Donnell (Ed.), Development Co-operation Report ( ed., pp. 77-94). OECD Publishing.
Publication in Collected Edition (encyclopedia...)
KLEIN, T., PHILIP, V. B. (2019). Matching Practices for Trainee Teachers in Germany. Matching-in-Practice Network, Brussels, Belgium.
HERZOG, S., KLEIN, T. (2018). Matching Practices for Childcare in Germany. Matching-in-Practice Network, Brussels, Belgium.
Contribution to Series of Ext. Research Institute
KLEIN, T. (2024). Matching for Credit: Identifying Information Asymmetries in Joint-Liability Lending. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-070.
BACH, M., KLEIN, T., MCNAMARA, S. (2024). Access, Achievements, and Aspirations: The Impacts of School Tracking on Student Outcomes. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-07x.
KLEIN, T., OTT, M. (2023). Mit Digitalisierung gegen Lebensmittelverschwendung. ZEW Policy Brief No. 09-23. Mannheim.
ATAYEV, A., CASPARI, G., HILLENBRAND, A., KLEIN, T. (2023). Tapping into People's Impatience for Better Environmental Subsidies. ZEW Policy Brief No. 04-23. Mannheim.
ORTEGA, J., KLEIN, T. (2022). Improving Efficiency and Equality in School Choice. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-046. Mannheim.
AUE, R., KLEIN, T., ORTEGA, J. (2020). What Happens when Separate and Unequal School Districts Merge? ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-03. Mannheim.
AUE, R., KLEIN, T., BACH, M., HEIGLE, J., PFEIFFER, F., ZAPP, K. (2020). The Implication of School Admission Rules for Segregation and Educational Inequality, ZEW Research Report. Mannheim.
KLEIN, T. (2017). Intermediation in Peer-to-Peer Markets: Evidence from Auctions for Private Loans, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-073. Mannheim, Germany.
KLEIN, T., VERHULST, S. (2017). Access to New Data Sources for Statistics: Business Models and Incentives for the Corporate Sector, OECD Statistics Working Paper no. 17/01. Paris, France.
ROBIN, N., KLEIN, T., JÜTTING, J. (2016). Public-Private Partnerships for Statistics. Lessons Learned, Future Steps, OECD Development Co-operation Working Paper no. 27. Paris, France.
GREENWELL, G., KINYUA, J., KLEIN, T., RANJAN, R. (2016). Making Data Portals Work for SDGs: A View on Deployment, Design and Technology, Partnership in Statistics for Development Discussion Paper no. 8. Paris, France.
KLEIN, T. (2015). Does Anti-Diversification Pay? A One-Sided Matching Model of Microcredit. Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Article in Proceedings
KLEIN, T., GALDIN, A., MOHAMEDOU, E. I. (2016). An Indicator for Statistical Literacy Based on National Newspaper Archives. International Association for Statistical Education 2016 Roundtable.