Researchers

Martin Halla (PI in Austria)

Vienna University of Economics and Business

Martin Halla is a Full Professor of Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). As an empirically oriented economist, his research focuses on applied microeconometrics, particularly in the areas of labor, population, and health.

He has extensive experience working with Austrian administrative data, including the Austrian Social Security Database and various health registers. He serves on the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP), which is currently being established and integrated with the Austrian Micro Data Center (AMDC). He is also an active member of the Plattform Registerforschung (link), an informal network of researchers and stakeholders dedicated to enhancing access to public sector register data in Austria.

For more information about his research and publications, please visit his personal website.

Steven Stillmann (PI in South Tyrol)

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Steven Stillman is a Full Professor of Economics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz). His research focuses on empirical labor economics, specializing in the behavior of individuals and households, and the interplay between government policy and human behavior.

He combines novel identification strategies with empirical methods to identify these relationships. He has done extensive work examining the impact of migration on immigrants

For more information about his research and publications, please visit his personal website.

Federico Maggio (PostDoc)

University of Bologna

Federico Maggio is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics at the University of Bologna. His research lies at the intersection of empirical labor, development, and political economics, with a focus on how policies and institutional failures shape economic and social outcomes.

His work examines issues such as migration dynamics, conflict, and the long-term consequences of institutions for development and health. Methodologically, he combines experimental and quasi-experimental methods with historical, administrative, survey, and geospatial data.

More information about his research can be found on his personal website.

Starting from April 1, the affiliation will change to Postdoctoral Researcher at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

Vladimir Zabolotskiy (PostDoc)

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Vladimir Zabolotskiy is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, holding a PhD in Economics from the University of Bologna. His main areas of research are political economy and applied economics, with a particular focus on how information, emotions, and historical legacies shape norms and preferences. 

His work examines the effects of propaganda, state repression, and collective memory on political behavior and social norms. In his research, he combines quasi-experimental methods with computational text analysis, historical, administrative, survey, and social media data

More information about his research can be found on his personal website.

Francesca Anna Heinrich (PhD Candidate)

Vienna University of Economics and Business

Francesca Anna Heinrich is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). Her main areas of interest are applied microeconomics, network theory, and spatial econometrics, with a particular focus on how historical events influence current economic outcomes.