Chair of Development Economics

We are looking for a Student Assistant in the position of a Program Assistant (m/f/d) within the Hel…

On March 13, Michael Grimm presented a paper entitled “Supporting small firms in a fragile context:…

On February 18, Michael Grimm visited the University of Indonesia (UI) in Jakarta to discuss…

Irene Furlani, PhD student in the Research Training Group DPE and, Michael Grimm (PI in DPE)…

South Africa has one of the highest levels of income inequality worldwide as well as very high…

16-18 January 2025 the 2023/2024 batch of the Master Development Studies held a seminar in…

In the summer semester 2025, the Chair of Development Economics will offer a Master seminar on…

Prof. Dr. Ankel -Peters offers a master-seminar in the following summer term.

Development economics from research to practice: „Why more flexible grants worked better for small…

New publication in Nature – Digital Medicine: „Can social media encourage diabetes self screenings?…

New publication in the Journal of Development Economics: “Supporting small firms in a fragile…

On June 17 2024, a delegation of the University of Jember, Indonesia (East Java) visited the Chair…

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have surpassed infectious diseases as the leading global cause of…

Michael Grimm, Nathalie Luck and Udit Sawhney organized jointly with colleagues from of the…

Several Alumni and other current and former members of the Chair of Development Economics attended…

The EU-funded Horizon 2020 Project “Scaling-up non-communicable disease interventions in Southeast…

The authors assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education.…

The first fieldwork phase took place from June to November 2022. The Passau team joined the…

December 15, 2022 the Deutschlandfunk featured a podcast on research undertaken by Michael Grimm,…

In their paper “Experimenting with a green ‘Green Revolution’. Evidence from a randomised controlled…

German News Magazine „Spiegel“ features new research paper by Stefan Bauernschuster, Michael Grimm…

In her article „Temperature and non-communicable diseases: Evidence from Indonesia’s primary health…

In their blog "Short-term impacts of targeted cash grants and business development services in…

The Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS), in collaboration…

In their paper „All eyes on the price: An assessment of the willingness-to-pay for eyeglasses in…

The University of Groningen has awarded a Sustainable Society PhD Research grant to Manuela Fritz.…

In their paper "Political instability and households’ investment behavior: Evidence from Burkina…

How to Dampen the Surge of Non-Communicable Diseases in Southeast Asia: Insights from a Systematic…

The Fred van Raaij award for the best paper in the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2019 was…

On 31 May, Ingmar Weber, Research Director at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, was a guest at…

Households in rural areas depend on informal transfers to meet subsistence needs and cope with…

Katharina Grabrucker and Michael Grimm published in the world’s leading journal for agricultural…

The United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and…

On the Malleability of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from Implicit and Explicit Measures in Tunisia.

17 October has been designated by the UN as International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. From…

The Digital Development Dialogue (3D) seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and…

The Chair for Development Economics (Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm) hosted from 24 to 25 September 2020…

This paper starts from the observation that in many parts of the world, several decades of…

The paper "Gender attitudes in the Arab region - the role of framing and priming effects" by…

At the International Women’s Day, Prof. Isabel Günther (ETH Zürich) and Prof. Michael Grimm…

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7 February 2020 the chair held a workshop at the RWI in Essen to discuss ongoing research as well as…

1. J.-M. Baland, C. Guirkinger, R. Hartwig (2019) Now or later? The allocation of the pot and the…

The paper “Rainfall risk, fertility and development: Evidence from farm settlements during the…

The Chair of Development Economics is happy to welcome Dr. Hanna Fromell from the University of…

Prof. Michael Grimm (Chair of Development Economics) has been elected Chairman of the Research Group…

Prof. Dr. Peters offers the following seminar in the forthcoming winter term 2019/20:

Development…

Renate Hartwig published a paper entitled Now or later? The allocation of the pot and the insurance…

Burkina Faso (FIdES): In February a small team from the chair in collaboration with the IRSS in…

Research results by Profs. Michael Grimm and Jörg Peters as well as various co-authors from the
RWI…

Thursday 17 January 2019, 12h-14h

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