Current Updates

In her presentation Janina Steinert is going to present insights of her research project "Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Marriage, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Domestic Violence in India and Zambia", which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). You can find more…

Luise Koch presents her research on the prevalence and impact of online misogyny against female candidates in the 2022 Brazilian Elections at the Fifth Early Career Workshop of DGGÖ Working Group on Health Economics and Development Cooperation held on April 12, in Erlangen. The study sheds light on…

Luise Koch received an invitation to give an expert talk about the topic “Microaggressions online: a threat to diversity and representation” at the annual Diversity Day of the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. The Diversity Day is aimed at raising awareness about discriminatory practices that might…

Prof. Janina Steinert and PhD Student Shruti Shukla recently published a paper entitled “Navigating distress: Exploring factors affecting adolescent girls' wellbeing during and after a violence-focused survey in Maharashtra, India” in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect. The paper examines how…

Henrike Sternberg receives dissertation stipend by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). In her dissertation, she examines the relation between individuals' social preferences and their cooperative behaviors in different contexts. In the next two years,…

Shruti Shukla, a second-year PhD student at the Professorship, recently published a protocol for her forthcoming second Ph.D. paper entitled “‘Mechanisms behind gender transformative approaches targeting adolescent pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries’” in the journal Systematic Reviews. …

Henrike presents insights on the topic "Inequality aversion and preferences for international redistribution: The case of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution" at the 16th Annual Conference of The German Health Economics Association e.V. (dggö) in Halle (Saale) on March 5 2024.

Prof. Janina Steinert, Henrike Sternberg, and Prof. Tim Büthe recently published an article in "Scientific Reports" under the lead of Prof. Giuseppe Veltri from the University of Trento. The article presents insights from a series of large (N = 6567) online experiments to measure the features of…

Henrike Sternberg, Janina Steinert, and Tim Büthe recently published an article in "Health Economics". Their article presents a new approach to better understanding social distancing behavior among Germans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the authors distinguish between behavior in the…

Nikolay Lunchenkov, PhD student of Prof. Janina Steinert, and colleagues published their first research article on chemsex in The Journal of Sex Research.