Cäcilia Stapper

I am an applied development economist and a Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Development Economics and Global Political Economy at the University of Göttingen, supervised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs. I am also affiliated with the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research. I hold a MSc in Economics from the University of Heidelberg. In early 2026, I was a visiting researcher at GRADE in Lima, Peru. 

I co-organize the monthly Ibero-American Brown Bag Seminar.

Research interests:

• Development economics

• Political economy

• Urban economics

• Economic geography

• Experimental economics

• Economics of inequality

Regional focus:

• Latin America

• Sub-Saharan Africa