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Christina Petrik is a doctoral researcher at the Chair of Development Economics and a member of the DFG Research Training Group 2720 "Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE)." She obtained both her Master’s degree in International Economics and Business and her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Passau.
During her studies, she worked as a teaching assistant for microeconomics at the Chair of Development Economics. In addition, she gained further research and teaching experience as a student assistant at the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, the Chair of Economic Theory, and the Computational Statistics and Mathematics Teaching Unit.
Her research interests lie in the field of development economics, with a particular focus on digitalization, technology adoption, microcredit, and the impacts of climate change. In her dissertation, she uses a field experiment in Ghana to examine the effects of a digital platform for farmers on their production and income. She also analyzes how droughts affect agricultural production and farmers’ adaptation strategies. In a second field experiment, she investigates the adoption of digital financial platforms and their effects on rural households in Niger. Furthermore, she conducts a systematic review on the construct validity of field experiments on microcredit.
Summer term 2025:
Mikroökonomik, tutorial (BA)
Seminar in Public Economics (MA)
Past terms:
Micro Development Economics, Tutorial (MA)
Evaluation of Development Policies, Tutorial (MA)
Growth and Development, Tutorial (BA)
Mikroökonomik, tutorial (BA)
Development Economics Seminar (BA)
Pre-Semester Refresher Course Economics for Development Studies – Helmut-Schmidt-Programme (MA)
