Dominik Naeher, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher and Interim Professor of Development Economics
(Chair of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer)

Dominik Naeher joined University of Göttingen in 2021. Prior to his current position he worked as Assistant Professor of Economics at University College Dublin and earned his PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt (GSEFM) in 2018. His research combines economic modeling with empirical methods to study topics across development economics, information economics, and agricultural and environmental economics, with a particular focus on how information frictions and departures from rational expectations shape economic decisions and development outcomes. His recent work encompasses areas such as technology adoption, climate adaptation, agricultural productivity, information regulation, regional integration, and policy evaluation. Dominik Naeher has taught at universities in Germany, France, Ireland, China, Korea, and South Africa. He also regularly shares his expertise by providing policy advice to international organizations and NGOs, including the World Bank, EBRD, Asian Development Bank, UNU-CRIS, and African Center for Economic Transformation.

Curriculum Vitae: CV

Research Interests: Development Economics, Information Economics, Agricultural and Environmental Economics

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Working Papers:

  • Backfiring Effects of Category-Specific Information Provision in a Pricing Model with Rationally Inattentive Buyers (with Sergey Turlo).

  • Does Adoption of Zero Tillage Reduce Crop Residue Burning? Evidence from Satellite Remote Sensing and Household Survey Data in India (with Virginia Ziulu).

  • Assessing the Adoption and Outcomes of Early-Sown Wheat Varieties in Northwest India (with Basma Albanna, Gunnar Hesch, Daniel Otto, Mohammad Hassan, Meha Jain, Sebastian Vollmer, Hanna Ewell, Raphael Nawrotzki). International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, R&R.

  • The Long-term Consequences of the Global 1918 Influenza Pandemic: A Systematic Analysis of Census Data from 51 Countries (with Juditha Wójcik, Christian Bommer, Sebastian Vollmer).



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