“The Leopoldina originated in 1652 as a classical scholarly society and now has 1,600 members from almost all branches of science. In 2008, the Leopoldina was appointed as the German National Academy of Sciences”.
Klaus F. Zimmermann has been elected Member of Leopoldina in 2001.
He has been elected Senator of Leopoldina and Chair (“Obmann”) of its Section 25 “Economics and Empirical Social Sciences” starting on December 13, 2023 for a period of 4 years.
April 24-25, 2025: Potsdam, Germany. 2025 Leopoldina Meeting of Section 25, Economics and Empirical Social Sciences, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), annual conference.
24. April 2025
Group photo day I, April 24. From the left: Ottmar Edenhofer, Regina T. Riphahn, Karl Ulrich Mayer, Bernd Fitzenberger, Anke Hoeffler, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Bernd Skiera, Christian Welzel, Agnieszka Turska-Kawa, Markus Gangl, Walter Müller, Andreas Diekmann, Armin Falk
13:45 Ottmar Edenhofer, Klaus F. Zimmermann: Willkommen
14:00 – 15:30 Chair: Ottmar Edenhofer
- Andreas Diekmann. Wie werden Policy-Interventionen künftig die CO2-Emissionen von Haushalten beeinflussen? Zur Erhebung von Mikro-Daten von CO2-Emissionen mit dem Deutschen Umweltpanel (GLEN)
- Christian Welzel. The Cool Water Effect: Geo-Climatic Sources of Western Exceptionalism
- Markus Gangl. The Great Gatsby curve over the long run: Economic inequality and intergenerational reproduction across 20th century birth cohorts in 32 Western countries
15:30 Break
16:00 – 17:45 Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann
- Walter Müller. Karl Ulrich Mayer – Eine Einführung
- Karl Ulrich Mayer. Über die Ursprünge der Leopoldina-Sektion “Ökonomik und empirische Sozialwissenschaften” und einige Spätfolgen
- Diskussion
- 17:00 Sektionsversammlung
25. April 2025
Group photo day II, April 25. From the left: Kai Konrad, Walter Müller, Anke Hoeffler, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Regina T. Riphahn, Ottmar Edenhofer, Bernd Skiera, Andreas Diekmann, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Sönke Neitzel, Karl Ulrich Mayer, Bernd Fitzenberger
09:00 – 10:30 Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann
- Anke Hoeffler. The Global Cost of Violence
- Kai Konrad. Alliance Formation in Regional Space: Shifting the Battlefront Between Competing Hegemonial Powers
- Sönke Neitzel. (Gast) Militärische Gewaltkulturen: Was können wir aus der Geschichte lernen?
10:30 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Chair: Regina T. Riphahn
- Bernd Skiera. Cohort Analysis in Customer Management
- Bernd Fitzenberger. Changing Fertility and Heterogeneous Motherhood Effects: Revisiting the Effects of a Parental Benefits Reform
March 14-15, 2024: Köln/Cologne, Germany. Leopoldina Meeting of Section 25, Economics and Empirical Social Sciences, University of Köln, annual conference.
From the left: Thomas König, Dietmar Harhoff, Andreas Diekmann, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Axel Börsch-Supan, Werner Raub, Bettina Rockenbach, Axel Ockenfels, Ottmar Edenhofer, Regina T. Riphahn, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Martin Weber, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Hartmut Esser, Bernd Skiera.
