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I am a Senior Researcher (with tenure) in the Economics Department at IOS (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies), Regensburg (Germany) and a Research Fellow at IZA-Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany.

I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, the Journal of Happiness Studies, and of Comparative Southeast European Studies. In addition, I serve as a section editor for the Handbook "Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics". 

I am an applied microeconomist. RePEc ranks me in the top 5% of female economists and in the top 8% of all economists globally (based on publications in the last 10 years).  My research interests include Health and Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Quantitative Economic History, and Applied Labor Economics

I am running the IOS Tuesday Seminar Series. You can see the program and sign up here

You can access my papers on RePEc, Google Scholar Citations, ORCID, or ResearchGate. 

News and updates

• November 2024: Read The Washington Post interview with me on religion, well-being, and the most satisfying jobs

• September 2024: I am excited to join the Executive Committee of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES)

• September 2024: Our paper on communism and free speech is now published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

• October 2023: A new DP on the societal costs of inflation and unemployment has just been released

• July 2023: My paper on extreme weather and violence featured by GEO

• June 2023: Read an alumni interview with me at the CERGE-EI blog