Katharina Wrohlich

Dr. Katharina Wrohlich is a Head of the Gender Economics Research Group at The German Institute for Economic Research.
Her research focuses on the evaluation of the labor market, family, and tax policy on employment and wages of women.
Moreover, she is working on the issue of gender gaps in the labor market, in particular in terms of wages and leadership positions.
Before joining the gender economics research group at DIW, she was a research associate (2002-2012) and deputy head (2012-2016) of the public economics department at DIW Berlin.
She finished her Ph.D.
at the Free University of Berlin in 2007.
Before her doctoral studies, she studied at the University of Vienna and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.