Rainer Winkelmann is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. He studied economics at the University of Konstanz, Paris IX-Dauphine, Washington University in St. Louis, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Munich (1993). He taught at Dartmouth College, USA, and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and was visiting professor at Harvard University, Syracuse University and UCLA. He is Steering Committee member of the UZH Center for Reproducible Science, member of the

Executive Committee of the Swiss Society for Economics and Statistics as well as Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics.

His research interests are in micro-econometrics, in particular models for discrete data and panel data, with applications to social policy analysis, including work, family and well-being.