Moritz Fischer

Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education | Returns to Education and Post-School Education
Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education | Skills that Matter: Workplace Skills in a Changing World

Vita

02/2026 – Today
Doctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in the "SKILLS" project
12/2022– 08/2025
Student Assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in the Working Unit "Returns to Education and Post-School Education"
10/2022– 12/2025
Master of Arts in Sociology, University of Bamberg
10/2022– 12/2025
Master of Science in Empirical Educational Research, University of Bamberg
10/2018– 03/2022
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, University of Tübingen

Research interests

  • Skill Mismatch
  • Social Inequalities in Education and the Labor Market
  • Returns to Education
  • Life Course Research (esp. educational and occupational transitions)
  • Methods of Modern Causal Analysis
  • Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research

    • Selected presentations and lectures

    2025

    Fischer, M. (2025, December 11 - 12). The primary effects of educational inequalites in German lower secondary education and time-specific mechanisms [Paper presentation]. 10th International NEPS Conference, Bamberg, Germany. https://www.neps-data.de/neps-conference2025