2026 Michael Lechner: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	51	1307	1161	20	20	274	14869

Overview

Michael Lechner is affiliated with the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple interconnected disciplines, primarily within engineering and mathematics. The main fields of study covered in their work include Engineering and Mathematics, with significant contributions to subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Statistics and Probability, Economics and Econometrics, Mechanics of Materials, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their scholarly output includes both journal articles and conference publications. Frequent publication venues for their research include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering
Labour Economics
Production Engineering

Michael Lechner's research topics are diverse, reflecting interdisciplinary expertise. Key topics addressed in their work include:

Metal Forming Simulation Techniques
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Statistical Methods and Inference
Advanced Welding Techniques Analysis
Metallurgy and Material Forming
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference

Their most recent papers include:

"Review on mechanical joining by plastic deformation," 2022, Journal of Advanced Joining Processes
"Cyber-Physical Systems in the Context of Industry 4.0: A Review, Categorization and Outlook," 2022, Information Systems Frontiers
"Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programs," 2020, The Journal of Human Resources
"Priority to unemployed immigrants? A causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium," 2022, Labour Economics
"Causal Machine Learning and its use for public policy," 2023, Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics

Michael Lechner has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Marion Merklein, Simon Wituschek, Hugo Bodory, Martin Huber, and Andreas Hetzel. These collaborations reflect a broad network of scholarly interaction across both engineering and economics-related fields.

Best Publications

Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects of Multiple Treatments Under the Conditional Independence Assumption

Michael Lechner

1987
Citations
The Estimation of Causal Effects by Difference-in-Difference Methods

Michael Lechner

1115
Citations
Program Heterogeneity and Propensity Score Matching: An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policies

Michael Lechner

683
Citations
Earnings and Employment Effects of Continuous Off-the-job Training in East Germany after Unification

Michael Lechner

669
Citations
A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Michael Gerfin;Michael Lechner

648
Citations
LONG-RUN EFFECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR SPONSORED TRAINING IN WEST GERMANY

Michael Lechner;Ruth Miquel;Conny Wunsch

596
Citations
Some practical issues in the evaluation of heterogeneous labour market programmes by matching methods

Michael Lechner

483
Citations
An Evaluation of Public Sector Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany

Michael Lechner

387
Citations
The performance of estimators based on the propensity score

Martin Huber;Michael Lechner;Conny Wunsch

382
Citations
Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities.

Michael Lechner

376
Citations
The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification

Michael Lechner;Ruth Miquel;Conny Wunsch

261
Citations
A Note on the Common Support Problem in Applied Evaluation Studies

Michael Lechner

248
Citations
Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work? Aneconometric analysis of two different schemes

Michael Gerfin;Michael Lechner;Heidi Steiger

235
Citations
Sports and Child Development

Christina Felfe;Michael Lechner;Andreas Steinmayr

235
Citations
What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Conny Wunsch;Michael Lechner

226
Citations
Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High

Michael Lechner;Conny Wunsch

222
Citations
East German Fertility After Unification: Crisis or Adaptation?

Christoph Conrad;Michael Lechner;Welf Werner

194
Citations
An Evaluation of Public Employment Programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt

Martin Eichler;Michael Lechner

187
Citations
Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Michael Gerfin;Michael Lechner

178
Citations
Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Michael Lechner

129
Citations
A Microeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Michael Gerfin;Michael Lechner

17
Citations
Effects of continuous off-the-job training in East Germany after unification

Michael Lechner

13
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Smith University of Wisconsin–Madison

Paul Downward Loughborough University

Jörg Breitung University of Cologne

Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research

Arthur van Soest Tilburg University

Richard Blundell University College London

Bernd Fitzenberger University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Almas Heshmati Jönköping University

External Links

Personal website of Michael Lechner Google Scholar page

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