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development economics, with a focus on political economy, inequality and the provision of public goods.
Democracy and Aid Donorship (with Andreas Fuchs), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(4): 217-238. doi: 10.1257/pol.20180582
Academic appointments:
2022
PostDoc at the Professorship of Macroeconomics and Digital Transformation
Institute of Economics and Law
University of Stuttgart, Germany
2015-2022
Research Associate and PhD candidate at the Chair of International and Development Politics
Alfred-Weber Institute
University of Heidelberg, Germany
2021-2022
Research Associate at the Chair of Development Economics
University of Göttingen, Germany
Research stays (> 2 weeks):
University of California Berkeley, USA, March-May 2019
The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India, Sept 2010 – Feb 2011
Education:
- PhD in Economics, University of Heidelberg, 2022
- PhD courses in Economics, University of Mannheim, 2015-2016
- MSc in Environment and Development, London School of Economics, 2012
- BA in Philosophy and Economics, University of Bayreuth, 2011
Auswirkungen eines abgebrochenen Cash-Transfer-Programmes im Südsudan in KfW Quarterly Review, 4. Quartal 2021.
Broken promises: Evaluating an incomplete cash transfer program (with Utz Pape and Laura Ralston) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9016 (2019).
Are Democracies More Likely to Give Development Aid? The Answer Is Surprising (with Andreas Fuchs) in The First Tranche (AidData’s Blog), October 8, 2019.
Russia’s Foreign Aid Re-emerges (with Gerda Asmus and Andreas Fuchs) in The First Tranche (AidData’s Blog), April 9, 2018.
2021-2022
Research Grant, German Research Foundation (DFG)
Project „Empirical Analyses of Emerging Donors in Development Cooperation“, contributed to proposal (principal investigators: Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs)
2019-2020
Research Grant, heiDOCS Grant, University of Heidelberg
Project „On the Willingness to Pay for Clean Air“ with Tillman Eymess
2019
Travel Grant, heiDOCS Grant, University of Heidelberg
Funding for 3 month research stay at University of California Berkeley, United States
2018-2019
Fellow at HCE Zukunftskolleg, Heidelberg Center for the Environment
2017
Workshop funding, Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Workshop “Tracking International Aid and Investment from Developing
and Emerging Economies”, September 22-23, 2017, Heidelberg.
2010-2011
Research Scholarship Holder, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Field research at The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi