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About myself
Hi, and welcome to my website.
I am a development economist, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM). I studied economics at the University of Freiburg and psychology at the University of Hagen. I obtained my PhD degree in economics from the University of Göttingen. My dissertation called "The causes and consequences of violent conflict" was supervised by the professors Krisztina Kis-Katos, Marcela Ibañez Diaz and Andreas Fuchs.
I am working on research projects in the fields of the economics of conflict and health in developing countries. I am generally passionate about and motivated to understand how political, economic, and psychological factors shape human behavior and human living conditions.
My research uses methods of applied microeconometrics. I often utilize geospatial data and apply quasi-experimental and experimental methods for causal inference, such as high dimensional fixed effects models, instrumental variable approaches, difference-in-differences designs, but also laboratory and field experiments.
What is new?
My joint paper with Feicheng Wang on plastic waste imports to China is now published in JEEM: Link to the paper
I am happy to announce that I received the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship.
I am happy to announce that our working paper on the informal influence and its effect on regional favoritism is online. Link to the paper and to VoxEU Column
Research interests
Development economics
Health in developing countries
Health-related behavior
One health, global health
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Economics of conflict
Environmental economics