Andrea R. Hofer

Andrea R. Hofer

University of Zurich

Welcome!

I am an economist interested in topics of labor, gender and family economics. I obtained my PhD from the Economics Department at the University of Zurich in 2022. I currently work for the Swiss National Bank and will join the OECD in summer 2023.

DOWNLOAD CV

Research

A Purse of Her Own: Married Women's Access to Financial Services and Female Labor Supply
Granting married women more control over their own resources increases their likelihood to participate in the labor market significantly.
Cultural Attitudes and Unemployment Benefit Take Up: Evidence from the Swiss Language Border
Does stigma decrease unemployment benefit uptake? We find that stigma has a significant negative effect on benefit uptake in times of economic crises.
Mothers' Labor Force Participation and the Availability of Part-Time Jobs
In this paper, we show that mothers' labor force participation declines following a labor market shock that reduces the availability of part-time jobs, while fathers and women without children remain unaffected.
Norms vs. Law Changes: What matters for Female Labor Force Participation?
We study whether a signal of a norm change or the actual law change has a larger impact on real world outcomes by looking at a vote on the Swiss marriage law which passed in 1985 (signal), but was only implemented in 1988 (law change). While the old marriage law allowed the husband to prohibit his wife from working, the new law did not anymore.

Teaching

Courses and teaching material
Overview over courses taught and teaching material written.

CV

You can download my CV here:

DOWNLOAD CV

Contact