Current Updates

As part of the research project "Understanding, Detecting, and Mitigating Online Misogyny against Politically Active Women", Prof. Janina Steinert and Prof. Jürgen Pfeffer organise two public talks with discussion tackling recent findings in the wake of the Brazilian elections this year. [read more]

Together with Prof. Tim Büthe (TUM) and Prof. Guiseppe A. Veltri (Universita di Trento), they examined public preferences in six European countries regarding the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines between the Global South and Global North. [read more]

The fellowship program addresses researchers who intend to deepen their skills in fields related to economics and whose research could benefit from such skills. They are supported with an amount of up to € 12.500 over the course of two years. The funds can be spent flexibly, e.g. attending… [read more]

Manzura presents insights on "The Role of Gender and Birth Order in Child Nutrition: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan". This is part of her PhD-project she conducts at the Professorship for Global Health of Prof. Janina Steinert. The conference is organised jointly by the University of Central Asia (UCA,… [read more]

Friederike Suhr wrote her bachelor thesis at Prof. Janina Steinert focussing on what health related effects floods can impose on Sub-Saharan Africa. For her quantitative study, she recieved the Young Scientist Award of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology.… [read more]

From 08.09.-10.09.2022 Prof. Janina Steinert is going to participate at the First International Behavioural Public Policy Conference at the London School of Economics. There, she gives a presentation with Prof. Giuseppe Veltri from the University of Trento focussing on heterogenity in social data. [read more]

Manzura presented her short paper "The Role of Gender and Birth Order in Child Development: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan" at the 22nd PhD-Confence of the European Health Economics Association at the National University of Ireland in Galway (29.08.-31.08.2022). [read more]

Adolescents living with HIV exhibit lower levels of adherence to antiretroviral treatment (ART) than other age groups. Poverty is a key barrier to ART adherence. This study aims at understanding how alleviating poverty through structural and internal pathways can help increase ART adherence among… [read more]

On July 27, 2022, Janina Steinert (Global Health, TUM) will talk about “COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in eight European countries: Prevalence, determinants, and heterogeneity". Abstract: We examine heterogeneity in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy across eight European countries. We reveal striking… [read more]

During the first year of the pandemic, reported numbers of domestic violence rose by about 4%. In the second year, by over 8%. 82% of victims are women, and only less than 10% of them seek help. For male victims these numbers are even lower. This article focusses on how victims of domestic violence… [read more]