CV

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Positions

Assistant Professor, Toulouse School of Economics: 2023–present
Postdoctoral Fellow, briq Institute on Behavior & Inequality: 2022–2023

Education

PhD in Economics, UC Berkeley, 2015–2022
M.Phil. in Economics, University of Oxford, 2013–2015
B.Sc. in Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2009–2013

Research fields

Behavioral economics, economics of education, economics of the family, development economics.

Affiliations

Selected grants and awards

UniCredit Foundation 2nd Education Research Grant, €200,000, with Lea Cassar and Christina Felfe, 2024
ECONtribute funding, with Eugen Dimant, Kwabena Donkor, Lorenz Götte, and Michael Kurschilgen, 2021
Joachim Herz Foundation Research Grant, 2019
Nominated, CESifo Affiliate Award in Behavioral Economics, 2022
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2021–22
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2018
German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung), 2014–16
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2013–15

Service

Refereeing: American Economic Review; Empirical Economics; European Economic Review; Journal of the European Economic Association; Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Journal of Public Economics; Labour Economics; Management Science; Population Studies; Review of Economics and Statistics.

Media

Crossing Channels podcast: Why do we choose what we choose? (2025), Marginal Revolution, Stanford GSB Insights, Teach Economy, Berkeley Social Science Matrix