Professor Stephan Klasen is currently working on the following topics:

• Measurement and analysis of poverty, inequality, and pro-poor growth in developing and transition countries


• Measurement and analysis of chronic poverty and vulnerability in developing countries


• Measurement of gender-specific inequality in developing countries


• Excess female mortality in developing and in historical Europe


• Determinants of undernutrition and child mortality in developing countries


• Influence of aid on trade between donor and recipient countries


• Impact of gender specific inequality in education and employment on growth and development


• Aid effectiveness using econometric impact evaluations


• The linkages between poverty reduction and environmental decay in developing countries)

The other members of the research group on development economics led by Stephan Klasen have the following research interests:

• Boris Branisa: Development Economics, Applied Econometrics, Welfare Measurement, Latin America


• Adriana Rocío Cardozo-Silva: Latin America: Trade and Finance, Currency Crisis, and Poverty


• Dr. Melanie Grosse: Development Economics, Pro-Poor Growth, Multidimensionality of Welfare and Poverty, Subjective Wellbeing, Sustainability of Development, Analysis of Household Surveys


• Dr. Ken Harttgen: Development Economics, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance.


• Dr. Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann Danzinger: Empirical testing of growth models and growth theory, Trade modelling and trade theory/policy, Econometric methods and time series modelling, Research cooperation with Spain and Chile


• Jan Priebe: Applied Micro Economics, Applied Statistics, Measurement of Poverty and Inequality, Labor Markets, Health and Population Economics, Agricultural Economics


• Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada: Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship Policy, Regional Integration and Globalization, Poverty Inequality and Pro-Poor Growth, Mathematical Modeling for Economics, Econometrics


• Maria Ziegler: Development Economics, Institutions, Policy Analysis, Implementation Research


• Isis Gaddis: Poverty and Inequality Assessments, Impact Evaluation, Microsimulation Techniques, Benefit Incidence Analysis, Poverty Mapping and Geospatial Analysis, Quantitative-Qualitative Research


• Florian Johannsen: International Trade, Finance, Defence Economics


• Felix Povel: Measurement of Vulnerability, Poverty Dynamics, Risk and Uncertainty