I am an economist specializing in education and labor economics, with a focus on the role of institutions in shaping skills, inequality, and labor market outcomes.

I am Professor and Deputy-Head of Institute at Corvinus University of Budapest and Senior Research Fellow at the ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (KRTK). I also serve as Academic Director of the Rajk College for Advanced Studies.

My research has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Economic Psychology, Labour Economics, Social Science Research Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization or European Sociological Review. 

In between 2019 and 2023 I was the director of the Institute of Economics of the KRTK. I currently act as the president of the National Statistical Council and have been the president of the Hungarian Society of Economics in 2023-24.

Previously, I have held positions at the Institut für Höchere Studien (AT), Eötvös Lóránd University (HU), Education Authority (HU), European University Institute (IT), Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Socialforschung (GER) and at the National Institute for Public Education (HU).

I hold an MA (2004) and a PhD (2010) in Political Science from the Central European University, and an MSc in Economics (2002) from the Budapest University of Economics (now Corvinus), where I was a member of the Rajk College for Advanced Studies.

Here are my institutional websites: KRTK, Corvinus

Here are my scholarly webpages: Google Scholar, Researchgate, LinkedIn,

Here is my newest CV

Here is a list of selected publications

Here are all the young scholars that I have worked with.

You can reach me at daniel.horn@uni-corvinus.hu or horn.daniel@krtk.elte.hu