Empirical Development Economics

About us

The Professorship for Empirical Development Economics does research in the fields of family economics, political economy, demography and global health.

Our research is mainly based on new and carefully designed survey data and we apply a myriad of empirical research methods in our analysis.

The Professorship for Empirical Development Economics is part of the Economic Policy Lab "Climate Change, Development and Migration" at the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research.

Team

Prof. Renate Hartwig, PhD

Lehrstuhlinhaberin, Professor, Professorin

Teaching

Teaching offers

Lecture and Tutorial

WiSe

Research

Research projects

Collaborative Project

Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS in an Urbanizing World - Humans, Animals, Environments

Collaborative Project

Leibniz-Forschungsverbund INFECTIONS in an Urbanizing World - Humans, Animals, Environments

Publications

Bocoum, Fadima Yaya, Renate Hartwig, Moumouni Koala, Lena Merkel, Salfo Ouedraogo (2024). Self-Medication Under Uncertainty: Insights on Drug Quality and Consumer Behavior in Burkina Faso. Ruhr Economic Papers No. 1110. RWI, Essen.

Link

Hartwig, Renate, Dimitri Japaridze, Nana Khetsuriani, and Sebastian Vollmer. 2024. Information Signal and Medical Diagnosis: Audit Study Evidence from Georgia. Ruhr Economics Papers No. 1112. RWI, Essen.

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