Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2024 Research Associate/Economist, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
Since 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher/Research Manager, Development Economics Group, ETH Zurich
2018 – 2023 Doctor of Sciences in Development Economics, ETH Zurich (supervised by Prof. I. Günther, defending in December ’23)
Spring 2022 Visiting Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley (hosted by Prof. E. Saez) and Princeton University (hosted by Prof. Ellora Derenoncourt)
2014 – 2017 Master in Economics, University of Zurich (Summa Cum Laude)
Spring 2017 Visiting Student, University of São Paulo
2010-2014 Bachelor in Economics, University of Zurich
"Intersectional Inequality in Education in Africa, Asia, and the Americas", with Isabel Günther and Kenneth Harttgen, Review of Income and Wealth (2024), 71(2). (view paper)
“Indicators for sanitation quality in low-incomeurban settlements: Evidence from Kenya, Ghana, and Bangladesh”, with Schelbert, V., Alam, M., Simiyu, S., Antwi-Agyei, P., Adjei, K. A., Dwumfour- Asare, B., Rahman, M., Lüthi, C., Günther, I. Social Indicators Research (2021), 1-38. (view paper)
“When is shared sanitation acceptable in low-income urban settlements? Auser perspective on shared sanitation quality in Kumasi, Kisumu and Dhaka”, with Schelbert, V., Alam, M., Simiyu, S., Antwi-Agyei, P., Adjei, K. A., Dwumfour-Asare, B., Rahman, M., Ferdous, S., Sarker, S., Günther, I., Lüthi, C., Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development (2020), 10(4), 959–968. (view paper)
"Intersecting Inequality in Unemployment Scarring: Evidence from the Swiss Labor Market" , single-authored working paper (view paper).
"The Unequal Impact of Caseworkers on Job Seekers' Labor Market Outcomes", single-authored, draft available upon request.
“Shared Sanitation in Low-income Urban Settlements: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya and Bangladesh”, with Schelbert, V., Simiyu S., Alam M., Antwi-Agyei, P., Lüthi, C, Research for Policy (2021). (link)
“Why the Covid certificate requirement is not discriminatory” (2020, September 30), ETH Zukunftsblog (link)
2023 Young Swiss Economists Meeting, Zurich; LAGV Conference, Marseille; ECINEQ Conference, Aix-en-Provence; ECINEQ Ph.D. Workshop (online)
2022 International Association for the Research of Income and Wealth, Luxembourg; Bridges Conference (online); IRLE Seminar, UC Berkeley; Industrial Relations Section PhD Seminar, Princeton University
2021 ETH4D Research for Development PhD Seminar, ETH Zurich; Sandec-Eawag Seminar, ETH Zurich
2020 Water and Health Conference, University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (online)
2022 “Is Inequality Increasing or Decreasing?”, aha Festival, Bern
Social Indicators Research, BMC Public Health
2024, 2025 Contemporary Development Debate (CAS Nadel-ETH Lecture, Guest lecture)
2024 Development Economics, Ashesi University, Ghana (TA)
2021, 2023, 2024 Statistics II, ISTP-ETH (TA)
2020, 2022, 2024 Policy Evaluation and Applied Statistics, MAS Nadel-ETH (TA)
2020, 2023 Development Economics, D-GESS ETH (TA)
2019, 2021 International Aid and Development, D-GESS ETH (TA)
2021 Doc.Mobility Fellowship, CHF 9000, ETH Zurich
2017–2018 Research Assistant for Prof. Guilherme Lichand, Center for Child Wellbeing and Development, University of Zurich
2017 Research Intern, Monitoring and Evaluation Section, UNICEF Malawi, Lilongwe
2011–2012 Junior Assistant, Phytoceuticals AG, Zürich, Switzerland