About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at TU Dresden, where I work at the Chair of Economic Policy and Economic Research. I expect to submit my dissertation in November 2026.

My research lies at the intersection of political economy and applied microeconomics. I study how institutions and social environments shape political participation and preferences, with a particular interest in causal inference and large-scale administrative data.

My dissertation comprises three papers on electoral participation in Germany. Using electoral data from Bavaria and Berlin, I examine how changes in voting procedures, administrative failures, and electoral stakes relate to turnout and voting behavior.

My ongoing research increasingly focuses on political socialization and the influence of local communities. Drawing on longitudinal voter-registration records and detailed geographic data from North Carolina, I investigate how school assignments, family circumstances, and social environments relate to partisan identification and political behavior. Related work examines residential mobility and political sorting following environmental shocks.