Axel Börsch-Supan: advisors and students

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Axel Börsch-Supan

German mathematician and economistborn 1954

Supervised 20 doctoral students at Universität Mannheim and Technische Universität München; Wikidata names Daniel McFadden as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, and lists 8 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Students20

cited by a thesis record
May Khourshed “The Lost, the Confused and the Haunted: Modelling subjective beliefs on and hindrances to economic integration for forced migrants”
2021 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nicolas Goll “Reforms, incentives and flexibilization”
2020 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Klaus Josef Härtl “Fostering Sustainability in Times of Aging: Pension Policies and Household Behavior in a Macroeconomic Setting”
2019 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Felizia Hanemann “Labor market inactivity and health in old age”
2018 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Johannes Rausch “Reformen der Sozialsysteme”
2016 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sebastian Constantin Kluth “From Bismarck to Riester - An Empirical and Institutional Analysis of the German Pension System”
2014 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bettina Lamla “From Information to Informed Decision”
2014 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Tabea Bucher-Koenen “Financial literacy, cognitive abilities, and long-term decision making : Five essays on individual behavior”
2010 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Edgar Vogel “Human capital investment and population dynamics”
2010 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mathias Sommer “Aspects of savings, wealth, portfolio choice, and inequality in the life-cycles of German households”
2009 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker “Essays in applied microeconometrics”
2007 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Barbara Berkel “Empirical analyses of financial markets and population aging”
2006 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Melanie Lührmann “Essays on the impact of demographic change on capital, goods and labor markets”
2006 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Daniel Schunk “Essays on individual and household decision-making : experimental and survey evidence”
2006 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Florian Heiss “Essays on specification and estimation of latent variable models”
2005 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Alexander Ludwig “The macroeconomics of demographic change : essays on economic modelling”
2005 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lothar Essig “Savings behavior of private households in Germany”
2004 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ulrike Vogelgesang “Essays on access to financial institutions, inequality, and redistribution”
2002 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Andreas Ziegler “Simuliertes klassisches Schätzen und Testen in Mehrperioden-Mehralternativen-Probitmodellen”
2001 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Peter Schmidt “Die Wahl des Rentenalters : theoretische und empirische Analyse des Rentenzugangsverhaltens in West- und Ostdeutschland”
1994 · Universität Mannheim · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Daniel McFadden

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Joachim Winter
born 1967

Taught8

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Michael Lechner
born 1962
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Daniel Schunk
born 1976
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Bettina Lamla
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Felizia Hanemann
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Florian Heiss
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Johannes Rausch
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Sebastian Constantin Kluth
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Tabea Bucher-Koenen

The line above and below2 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataDaniel McFadden
2 steps up
stated by WikidataLeonid Hurwicz

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 23 people: 21 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

1984 to 1987
Harvard University
worked
until 1989
Technical University of Dortmund
worked
1989 to 2011
University of Mannheim
worked
from 2011
Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
worked
undated
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
studied
undated
LMU Munich
studied
undated
University of Bonn
studied
undated
Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium
studied
undated
Technical University of Munich
worked

Sat beside the lineage7

referee, not advisor

cited by a thesis record
May Khourshed “The Lost, the Confused and the Haunted: Modelling subjective beliefs on and hindrances to economic integration for forced migrants”
referee · 2021 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nicolas Goll “Reforms, incentives and flexibilization”
referee · 2020 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Klaus Josef Härtl “Fostering Sustainability in Times of Aging: Pension Policies and Household Behavior in a Macroeconomic Setting”
referee · 2019 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Felizia Hanemann “Labor market inactivity and health in old age”
referee · 2018 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Johannes Rausch “Reformen der Sozialsysteme”
referee · 2016 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sebastian Constantin Kluth “From Bismarck to Riester - An Empirical and Institutional Analysis of the German Pension System”
referee · 2014 · Technische Universität München · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bettina Lamla “From Information to Informed Decision”
referee · 2014 · Technische Universität München · doctoral

At a glance

known as: mathematician, economist, university teacher
fields: economics
member of: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Wikipedia: in 4 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere10

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaAxel Börsch-Supan
stated by WikidataWikidataQ792057
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0003-0470-8850
stated by WikidataVIAF91730052
stated by WikidataGND122353838
stated by WikidataIdRef156946378
stated by WikidataISNI0000000108592037

papers

stated by WikidataGoogle Scholara4BpE3IAAAAJ
stated by WikidataScopus6701392501

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project183996

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q792057,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Axel Börsch-Supan: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q792057},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Axel Börsch-Supan: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q792057