PhD candidate in Economics

LMU Munich

I am a doctoral candidate in economics at LMU Munich. My research interests lie in the area of public economics, political economy, and normative economics.

In Fall 2022, I visited Columbia University. From February until May 2023, I was a visiting student scholar at University of California, Berkeley.

Research Topics

Inequality Measurement
Optimal Taxation
Redistributive Preferences
Tax Evasion

Education

MSc. in Quantitative Economics, 2019

LMU Munich
BSc. in International Economics, 2017

University of Tübingen

Publications

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

The Political Economy of Joint Taxation

Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar

Ungated Version (Feb. 2025) CEPR Discussion Paper

Just Cheap Talk? Investigating Fairness Preferences in Hypothetical Scenarios

Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar

Ungated Version (Jan. 2025) IZA Discussion Paper

Pareto-Improvements, Welfare Trade-Offs, and the Taxation of Couples

Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl, Daniel Weishaar

Ungated Version (Dec. 2024) CEPR Discussion Paper

Experimental Evidence on Attitudes Toward Inequality and Fairness

Ingvild Almås, Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar

Ungated Version (Oct. 2024) CEPR Discussion Paper

Homes Incorporated: Offshore Ownership of Real Estate in the U.K.

Niels Johannesen, Jakob Miethe, Daniel Weishaar

Ungated Version (Aug. 2024) Oxford CBT Working Paper VoxEU Column FAZ Volkswirt (in German)

Self-Financing Tax Cuts Around the World: New Theoretical Results and Applications to 33 Countries

Emanuel Hansen, Daniel Weishaar

Draft in preparation

(Un)Fair inequality in the labor market: A global study

Ingvild Almås, Paul Hufe, Daniel Weishaar

Data collection in preparation

RJ Project Funding

Other Writing

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Unpublished Manuscripts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 (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