Michael Grimm

Welcome to my webpage. I am a development economist with a strong interest in policies and interventions that can help to solve economic and social problems in lower income countries and to contribute to global poverty reduction and equity. My research covers in particular problems related to health, agriculture, and small firms. I am also much interested in population economics and have done some work on the historical determinants of the demographic transition in the US, but my main regional focus is on Western Africa and Southeast Asia.

I am a Professor at the University of Passau. I am also affiliated with IZA, the DIW, the RWI Research Network and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). I studied in Frankfurt and Paris and earned my PhD at Sciences Po Paris. Before joining the University of Passau, I had positions at the World Bank, the University of Göttingen and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. I was a guest professor at the Paris School of Economics and the University of Bordeaux. 

Apart from teaching and research, I love endurance sports and playing the drums. Recently, I also wrote a children’s book.