In this project, Vasanthi Pillai (TUM) and I explore the argument that women’s safety, above all the risk of sexual harassment or violence, presents a barrier to women’s (economic) mobility. We propose that concerns about women's safety are part of the intra-household bargaining process, implying that not only their own concerns, but also other household members’ and community's concerns aboout their safety matter. To better understand the formation and role of safety in this regard, we conducted an initial scoping study in urban India eliciting both spouses' safety concerns, their beliefs about each other’s and community's concerns, and correlations with women’s economic mobility. The scoping study was conducted together with LEAD at Krea University.
Household and Community Risk Perceptions around Women's Public Safety [Data analysis stage]
(with Vasanthi S. Pillai)
Conferences and Workshops: ECHO Seminar Series @RHUL 2025
The project builds on early field work in India during my Master’s program, where I, together with Janina Steinert and Sebastian Vollmer, found that household-based interventions vary substantially in their effectiveness based on the accuracy of spouses’ assumptions about each others’ behaviors. Expanding on these insights, I explore, together with Vasanthi Pillai (TUM), how different norms related to gender are perceived by household and community members, to what extent these perceptions are accurate, and how they affect individuals’ actual behaviors. The project is funded by my Joachim-Herz Add-on Fellowship.
Gender Norm Perceptions and Parental Son Preference [Draft writing stage]
(with Vasanthi S. Pillai)
Conferences and Workshops: Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics 2025, IHEA 2025 (presented by Vasanthi Pillai)
Spousal Trust Alignment and Intra-Household Cooperation [Submitted]
(with Janina Isabel Steinert and Sebastian Vollmer)
CRC-PEG Discussion Papers, No. 279
Conferences and Workshops: EUDN 2023, Field Days 2023, AFE 2023, GDE 2022, DENeB 2022, NCDC 2021, MBEES 2021, GlaD 2021
This project originated from one of my dissertation papers, which asks how inequality aversion shapes public support of international redistributive policies, investigated in the context of the global Covid-19 vaccine rollout. Building on these insights, the project seeks out to more generally decipher different types of inequality aversion in the population and understand how they are related to citizens’ perceptions of economic inequality in the world and their support of national and international redistribution schemes. This project is funded by my Joachim-Herz-Add-on Fellowship, while the initial dissertation paper was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 PERISCOPE project.
Deciphering Distributional Preferences [Preparing data collection]
Inequality aversion and international distribution preferences: The case of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout [Submitted]
(with Janina Isabel Steinert and Tim Buethe)
MPPE working paper, No. 07/2025
Conferences and Workshops: APSA 2025, RHUL PhD Conference 2025, EuHEA 2024, DGGÖ Conference 2024, BSE Summer Forum 2023, THEEM 2023
This line of my research was part of the EU Horizon 2020 project PERISCOPE (2020-2023), which investigated the broad socio-economic and behavioral impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, to make Europe more resilient and prepared for future large-scale risks. Together with Janina Steinert and Tim Buethe (both TUM) as well as colleagues from the LSE and the University of Trento, our work package specifically focused on better understanding citizens’ behavioral responses to and perceptions of various existing and potential future pandemic policies across Europe.
Compliance in the public versus the private realm: Economic preferences, institutional trust and COVID‐19 health behaviors (with Janina Isabel Steinert and Tim Buethe)
Health Economics, 2024, 33(5), 1055-1119.
Assessing the perceived effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-Cov-2 transmission risk: an experimental study in Europe (with Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri, Janina Isabel Steinert, Matteo M. Galizzi, Barbara Fasolo, Ploutarchos Kourtidis, Tim Buethe and George Gaskell)
Scientific Reports, 2024, 14, 4857.
How to reduce Vaccine Hesitancy? The Relevance of Evidence and its Communicator (with Jens Eger and Lennart Kaplan)
Vaccine, 2023, 41(27), 3964-3975.
How Should COVID-19 Vaccines be Distributed between the Global North and South? A Discrete Choice Experiment in Six European Countries (with Janina Isabel Steinert, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri and Tim Buethe)
eLife, 2022, 11, e79819.
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Eight European Countries: Prevalence, Determinants and Heterogeneity (with Janina Isabel Steinert, Hannah Prince, Barbara Fasolo, Matteo M. Galizzi, Tim Buethe and Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri)
Science Advances, 2022, 8(17), eabm9825.
Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Evidence and Takeaways (with Ploutarchos Kourtidis, Janina Isabel Steinert, Tim Buethe, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri, Barbara Fasolo, Matteo M. Galizzi). In: Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics: Insights from Responses to COVID-19 (edited by Joan Costa-Font and Matteo M. Galizzi)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, S.191-219.