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Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics

University of Cologne

I am a researcher in economics at University of Cologne and a member of the ECONtribute Cluster of Excellence. My research interests lie in the area of public economics, political economy, and normative economics.

My doctoral studies at LMU Munich were complemented by long-term research stays at Columbia University and University of California, Berkeley.

In 2026, my dissertation received the inaugural Dissertation Prize from the Standing Field Committee in Public Economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik.

Research Topics

  • Inequality Measurement
  • Optimal Taxation
  • Redistributive Preferences
  • Tax Evasion

Education

  • Doctor oeconomiae publicae, 2025

    LMU Munich

  • MSc. in Quantitative Economics, 2019

    LMU Munich

  • BSc. in International Economics, 2017

    University of Tübingen

Publications

Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar (2025). Just Cheap Talk? Investigating Fairness Preferences in Hypothetical Scenarios. Journal of Economic Inequality 23. pp. 881–907.

Publication Code

Ingvild Almås, Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar (2025). Experimental Evidence on Attitudes Toward Inequality and Fairness. Annual Review of Economics 17. pp. 721-746.

Publication

Paul Hufe, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar (2022). Lower and upper bound estimates of inequality of opportunity for emerging economies. Social Choice and Welfare 58 (3), pp. 395 - 427.

Publication

Work in Progress

Tax Reforms and Multi-Dimensional Screening
Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar
Ungated Version (April 2026) CESifo Working Paper
Homes Incorporated: Offshore Ownership of Real Estate in the U.K.
Niels Johannesen, Jakob Miethe, Daniel Weishaar
Revise and Resubmit at Review of Economic Studies
Ungated Version (Apr. 2025) Oxford CBT Working Paper VoxEU Column FAZ Volkswirt (in German)
The Political Economy of Joint Taxation
Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar
Ungated Version (Feb. 2025) CEPR Discussion Paper
Self-Financing Tax Cuts Around the World: New Theoretical Results and Applications to 33 Countries
Emanuel Hansen, Daniel Weishaar
(Un)Fair inequality in the labor market: A global study
Ingvild Almås, Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar
RJ Project Funding

Other Writing

Dissertation

Daniel Weishaar (2025). Essays in Public Economics: Multidimensional Inequalities, Fairness Preferences, and Policy Instruments. Dissertation.

Publication

Book Chapters

Ingvild Almås, Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar (2023). Equality of Opportunity: Fairness Preferences and Beliefs About Inequality. Handbook of Equality of Opportunity.

Publication

Unpublished Manuscripts

Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar (2024). Pareto-Improvements, Welfare Trade-Offs, and the Taxation of Couples.

Ungated Version (Dec. 2024) CEPR Discussion Paper

Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar (2023). The Taxation of Couples.

Ungated Version (July 2023) CEPR Discussion Paper VoxEU Column

Policy Work (in German)

Felix Bierbrauer, Andreas Peichl, Dominik Sachs, Daniel Weishaar (2021). Mehrheitsfähige und wohlfahrtssteigernde Reformen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems: Von Entzugsraten, Mittelstands- und Wohlstandsbäuchen. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 22 (3), pp. 191–202.

Publication Podcast

Andreas Peichl, Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar (2018). Intergenerationelle Einkommensmobilität: Schlusslicht Deutschland?. ifo Schnelldienst 71 (20), pp. 20–28.

Publication Media Coverage

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