Chair of International Economic Policy
DR. KERSTIN UNFRIED
Kerstin Unfried was a research assistant and PhD graduate at the Chair of International Economic Policy. She studied Economics at the University of Freiburg and Psychology at the University of Hagen. In March 2021, she successfully defended her PhD at the University of Göttingen on "The causes and consequences of violent conflict". Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine.
Her research focuses on the long-term consequences of conflicts. Moreover, she is interested in topics dealing with economic policy, global development, health, and the interlinkages between psychology and economics.Please go to her personal website for further information.
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Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3
2 OG , Room 2.166
37073 Göttingen
Tel. +49 (0)551/397354
kerstin.unfried@uni-goettingen.de
2022 - present
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg
2021 - 2022
Researcher at the IGES Institute, Berlin
2021
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of International Economic Policy, University of Göttingen
2016 - 2021
PhD in Economics at the Chair of International Economic Policy, University of Göttingen
2013 - 2019
B.Sc. Psychology, University of Hagen
2013 - 2015
M.Sc. in Economics, University of Freiburg
2010 - 2013
B.Sc. in Economics, University of Freiburg
Unfried, Kerstin and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2020): The heterogenous effects of conflict on education: A spatial analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa, IZA discussion paper no. 13069, Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn. (fth. Journal of Peace Research)
Unfried, Kerstin, Marcela Ibanez Diaz and Lina Restrepo Plaza (2021): Discrimination and intergroup contact in post-conflict settings: Experimental evidence from Colombia. (fth. World Development)
Unfried, Kerstin, Tilman Poser and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2021): Water scarcity and conflict, IZA discussion paper no. 14707, Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn. (fth. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management)
Kammerlander, Andreas and Kerstin Unfried (2021): Sending peace home?! The effects of political favoritism on conflict.
Unfried, Kerstin and Feicheng Wang (2021): Plastic waste imports and air pollution: Evidence from China.
Dreher, Axel, Andreas Fuchs, Andreas Kammerlander, Lennart Kaplan, Charlotte Robert and Kerstin Unfried (2021): Light of their life: country leaders' spouses and regional favoritism.