Taxation, Inequality, Tax Evasion, Fairness Preferences, Labor Market Policies

Daniel Weishaar is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne and a YEP Fellow of ECONtribute. He holds a PhD in Economics from LMU Munich and has completed extended research stays at the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University.

His research lies at the intersection of public economics, welfare economics, political economy, and normative economics. He is particularly interested in multidimensional inequalities, how they are perceived, and how public policies can address them. To this end, he combines insights from theoretical models with empirical analyses based on observational data and specially developed survey experiments.

Published papers

• Just Cheap Talk? Investigating Fairness Preferences in Hypothetical Scenarios

  Hufe, P., & Weishaar, D. (2025). Just cheap talk? Investigating fairness preferences in hypothetical scenarios. Journal of Economic Inequality.

Discussion papers

• Tax Reforms and Multi-Dimensional Screening

• The Political Economy of Joint Taxation