Pia Schilling

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Research interest

Education and Migration Economics

Short Bio

• Postdoc in Economics at the University of Konstanz (since 10/2023)
• Finishing PhD in Economics at the Free University of Bolzano (since 2019)
• Masters in Economics and Management of the Public Sector (2019) at the Free University of Bolzano
• Diplom in Economics and Business Management (2012) at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg

Working Papers

• Starting off on the Right Foot – Language Learning Classes and the Educational Success of Immigrant Children (with Lisa Sofie Höckel)
  • (link: https://www.rwi-essen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/RWI/Publikationen/Ruhr_Economic_Papers/REP_22_983.pdf and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufyyoZXkfNhl7sOfEyfMTMvJc0_dogeT/view
• The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country (with Steven Stillman)
  • (link https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/14728/the-impact-of-natives-attitudes-towards-immigrants-on-their-integration-in-the-host-country and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1--ag5ejGdTiML3OEee6HlJ1gsqXWG7BK/view )

Work in Progress

• What do you Want to become? Career Aspiration and School Performance. Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (with Federico Maggio)
• Lost in Translation. Information Frictions in School Track Choice - Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (with Friederike Hertweck & Lisa Sofie Höckel & Sven Werenbeck-Ueding)