Dr. Fabian Könings

• Economics of Education
• Development Economics
• Migration

• 01/2022–03/2022
  Postdoc in Economics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
• 04/2017–12/2021
  PhD Candidate in Economics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 10/2014–04/2017
  Master of Science, Economics, Leipzig University
• 08/2010–12/2013
  Bachelor of Science, Economics, University of Mannheim
• 07/2012–11/2012
  Visiting Student, School of Economics, University of Adelaide

• Coming to stay or to go? Stay intention and involved uncertainty of international students (with T. Haussen, S. Toepfer, and S. Uebelmesser) (2021), Journal of Regional Science 61(2), 329-351.
• Economics education, childhood socialization, and the transmission of allocation preferences (with B. Suessmuth and B. Gawellek) (2021), International Review of Economics Education 38, 100224.
• Framing of economic news and policy support during a pandemic: Evidence from a survey experiment (with P. Bareinz) (2022), European Journal of Political Economy, 102249 (online first).
• Non-academic involvement of international students and its role for academic progress (J. Peter and S. Uebelmesser) (2022) im Erscheinen in Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung
• University rankings as information source: do they play a different role for domestic and international students? (with G. Di Meo and S. Uebelmesser) (2020), Applied Economics 52(59), 6432-6447.

• Can there be Too Much Information? Heterogenous Responses to Information from Language Proficiency, Jena Economic Research Papers (JERP) 2021-016, Jena, 2021.
  
• Accounting for intergenerational social immobility in low- and middle-income countries (with J. Schwab), Jena Economic Research Papers (JERP) 2020-008, Jena, 2020. (R&R: Journal of Human Resources)

• Does information on an implemented policy simplifying international students' labor market entrance increase international students' intention to stay in the host country?
• New national socialist terror in Germany and its effect on political and social attitudes - A matching approach (with P. Bareinz)

• 2021
  - Verein für Socialpolitik - Jahrestagung (online, September 2021)*
  - EEA-ESEM Congress (European Economic Association) (online, August 2021)*
  - 77th Annual Congress of the IIPF (online, August 2021)*
  - SMYE (Spring Meeting of Young Economists) (online, June 2021)
  - GCEE (SVR Wirtschaft) Staff Member Seminar (online, February 2021)*
  - Empirical Micro Workshop (online, January 2021)*
• 2020
  - Verein für Socialpolitik - Jahrestagung (online, September 2020)
  - 76th Annual Congress of the IIPF (online, August 2020)
  - Empirical Micro Workshop (online, July 2020)
  - ZEW Public Finance Conference - Mutual Review Process (online, May 2020)
  - Annual Meeting of the EPCS (Lucerne, April 2020) cancelled due to Corona
  - CGDE - Doctoral Workshop (Halle, March 2020) - cancelled due to Corona
  - Jena Economic Research Workshop (Jena, February 2020)
• 2019
  - 18. Finanzwissenschaftliches Seminar (Berlin, December 2019)
  - Empirical Micro Workshop (Jena, December 2019)
  - 9th ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics (Dresden, September 2019)
  - 75th Annual Congress of the IIPF (Glasgow, August 2019)
  - ESPE - Annual Conference (Bath, June 2019)
  - Development Economics Seminar (Göttingen, April 2019)
  - Conference on Skilled Migration and Labor Shortage in Non-Metropolitan Areas (Jena, March 2019)
  - Empirical Micro Workshop (Leipzig, March 2019)*
  - CGDE - Doctoral Workshop (Leipzig, March 2019)
  - Paris School of Economics Applied Lunch Seminar (Paris, February 2019)*
• 2018
  - PEGNet Conference 2018 (Cotonou, October 2018)
  - 20th INFER Annual Conference (Göttingen, September 2018)
  - Verein für Socialpolitik - Jahrestagung (Freiburg, September 2018)
  - 12th Summer Academy on 'Innovation and Uncertainty' (Jena, July 2018)
  - Volkswirtschaftsliches Doktorandenseminar (Leipzig, July 2018)
  - Development Studies Association 2018 Conference (Manchester, June 2018)
  - Empirical Micro Workshop (Bamberg, June 2018)
• 2017
  - Jena Economic Research Workshop (Jena, November 2017)
  - Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik - Research Seminar (Bonn, October 2017)
  - Empircal Micro Workshop (Leipzig, July 2017)

* co-author presented

• Research on Framing of Economic News During the Corona Crisis: https://www.uni-jena.de/210415_CoronaExperimentFraming de (only available in German)
• Presentation of "Accounting for Intergenerational Social Mobility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: https://germanyinafrica.diplo.de/zadz-en/-/2156680 (German Version: https://www.dandc.eu/de/article/gute-bildung-fuer-alle-hilft-soziale-ungleichheit-zu-ueberwinden)
• Research on International Student Migration in Thuringia: https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/wirtschaft/bachelor-studenten-bleibengern-in-thueringen-id224645701.html (only available in German)

Bachelor level

• Tutorial Basismodul Finanzwissenschaft (Introcudtion to Public Economics)
• Tutorial Vertiefungsmodul Finanzwissenschaft (Advanced Public Economics)
• Organisation and Supervision of Bachelor Seminars with varying topics, e.g. causal inference, recent topics in public economics
• Tutorial Makroökonomik (Introduction to Macroeconomics) [Leipzig University]

Master level

• Lecture and Tutorial Advanced Public Economics II: Education Economics
• Tutorial Advanced Public Economics IV: Education and Population Economics
• Organisation and Supervision of Master Seminars with varying topics, e.g. causal inference, recent topics in public economics 

• Since 09/2021
  Referee for Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung
• 10/2019–09/2022
  Elected PhD representative in faculty council
• Since 05/2020
  Mentor for international students