Rainer Kotschy

Rainer Kotschy is an assistant professor of economics at LMU Munich. He studied economics at LMU Munich and received his doctorate in economics in 2018. In his research, he investigates the determinants of economic development with a particular focus on demography and population health. In his job market paper, he shows that major improvements in population health raised aggregate incomes in the United States over the episode 1960—2000 and that this effect varied across age cohorts.