Welcome!

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Bonn. My research interests include quantitative macroeconomics with a focus on climate change, public, and labor economics.

I hold a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim. During the fall semester 2023, I visited the University of Minnesota.

I am on the 2024/25 job market.

   

Lennard Schlattmann

Working Papers

Spatial Redistribution of Carbon Taxes (Job Market Paper)

| current version | Econtribute Discussion Paper

Policies to mitigate climate change are high on the political agenda and their distributional consequences are actively discussed. This paper makes two contributions to this discussion. First, it empirically identifies the spatial dimension between rural and urban households as important for the distributional consequences of carbon taxes, because the average annual carbon footprint of rural households in Germany is 2.2 tons higher than that of urban households, around 12 percent of the average carbon footprint. Second, it builds a quantitative spatial general equilibrium model to evaluate different policies of recycling carbon tax revenues in terms of their redistributive effects and their political support along the transition to clean technologies. I find that recycling carbon tax revenues as lump-sum transfers redistributes from rural to urban households. For a carbon tax of 300 Euros per ton, the difference in the present value of net transfers is 8,000 Euros. In contrast, place-based transfers avoid this spatial redistribution without reducing the speed of the transition to clean technologies. This has important implications for the political support for these policies, as place-based transfers allow to set a higher carbon tax under the constraint that the policy is beneficial to a majority of households in both regions. Finally, carbon taxes have sizeable general equilibrium effects on housing prices, increasing those of non-emitting houses by 5 percent, while decreasing those of carbon emitting houses by the same amount.

Distributional Consequences of Climate Policies | with Moritz Kuhn

revise & resubmit, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

| current version | CEPR Discussion Paper | Media coverage: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, VoxEU column

Policies to support the transition to a carbon-neutral economy are high on the policy agenda. Their effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions and their distributional consequences are actively debated. One key reason for the ongoing debate is that quantitative answers regarding the reduction-redistribution trade-offs of such policies remain limited. Looking at the emissions of household consumption, this paper makes two contributions to the discussion. First, we empirically show that infrequently adjusted consumption goods, i.e. consumption commitment goods such as cars or heating systems, together with their complementary consumption (gas, oil), account for more than 35 percent of household carbon emissions. Second, we develop a quantitative life-cycle model with heterogeneous adoption rates of carbon-neutral commitment goods by income to quantify the reduction-redistribution trade-off of different policy mixes. Our results for the reduction-redistribution trade-off show that a percentage subsidy for carbon neutral consumption effectively reduces emissions by targeting high-income households. If the subsidy is financed by a progressive income tax, it yields a policy mix that leads to rapid emission reductions and a majority of households supporting its distributional effects.

Regional Labor Demand, Occupational Persistence and Social Mobility in Germany

| current version

Intergenerational persistence in occupational choice is one of the main drivers of income persistence and thus a key determinant of social mobility. In studying this phenomenon, the existing literature has focused exclusively on supply-side mechanisms by assuming that children can freely choose which occupation to work in. This paper, however, quantifies the importance of regional labor demand by merging regional and occupation-specific vacancy shares covering 400 regions and 436 occupations with the German Socioeconomic Panel. The main result indicates that controlling for labor demand reduces occupational persistence by up to 10 percent, the same magnitude as controlling for children's education does. Furthermore, I find that the degree of occupational persistence is relatively homogeneous across parent-child combinations. A child is about 20 times more likely to work in a given occupation if the parent works in that occupation. Finally, children who follow into their parent's occupation experience an initial wage premium of about 6 percent and their annual unemployment risk is halved.


Work in Progress

Spatial Structural Change and Labor Mobility | with Georg Duernecker

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Distributional Effects of Climate Policies along the Liquid Wealth Distribution

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Teaching

Macroeconomics B | with Thomas Hintermaier

Teaching assistant: 2021 (no evaluation), 2022 (evaluation), 2023 (evaluation)

Macroeconomics A | with Moritz Kuhn

Teaching assistant: 2021 (no evaluation), 2022 (evaluation, best tutor award)


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Education

2019 - present PhD in Economics, University of Bonn
2019 - 2021 MSc in Economic Research, University of Bonn
2017 - 2019 MSc in Economics, Mannheim University & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2014 - 2017 BSc in Economics, Mannheim University & University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Teaching

Spring 2021, 2022, 2023 Teaching assistant Macroeconomics B, Professor Hintermaier, University of Bonn
Fall 2021, 2022 Teaching assistant Macroeconomics A, Professor Kuhn, University of Bonn

Honors & grants

2023 Best tutor award, University of Bonn
10/2024 - present PhD Scholarship, German Research Foundation (through Institute for Macroeconomics and Econometrics)
04/2024 - 09/2024 PhD Scholarship, German Research Foundation (through Bonn Graduate School of Economics)
10/2021 - 03/2024 PhD Scholarship, German Research Foundation (through Research Training Group 2281 "The Macroeconomics of Inequality")
10/2019 - 09/2021 PhD Scholarship, German Research Foundation (through Bonn Graduate School of Economics)

Further contact details

Email: lennard.schlattmann@uni-bonn.de
Address: Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn
Department of Economics
Institute for Macroeconomics & Econometrics
Adenauerallee 24-42
53113 Bonn, Germany
Office phone: +49 228 73-62193
Office location: Kaiserplatz 7-9, 53113 Bonn, 4th floor