Resumé
Research focus
Dr. Nathalie Luck is a postdoctoral researcher in the TransforM Cluster at the Technical University of Munich and affiliated with the professorship of Global Health. Her research interests lie in the field of development economics and agricultural economics. In her work, she uses randomized controlled trials, survey experiments, and mixed methods and qualitative research to examine the green transition in the agricultural sector and environmental conservation in developing countries. She is also interested in climate finance, green energy, and political economy.
In her doctoral research, she examined sustainable farming, the adoption of new agricultural technologies among smallholder farmers, and the role of religion in shaping pro-environmental behavior in Indonesia.
Academic Career
Nathalie holds a Bachelor degree in International Business Administration from the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, including a semester abroad at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Afterward, she went on to complete a Master in Economic Development at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and a PhD in Development Economics at the University of Passau. In Passau, she then worked as a postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of two third-party funded projects, before joining TUM as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to joining the Global Health team in June 2026, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the SHIELD project at the Professorship of Public Policy for the Green Transition, also at TUM.
Publications
Peer-Review-Publikationen:
Grimm M, Luck N, Raya AB & Sawhney U (2026). Smallholders’ willingness to pay for information: A comparison of individual purchase decisions with contributions to a club good. Evidence from Indonesian rice farmers. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 138, 103343.
Grimm M & Luck N (2023). Experimenting with a green ‘Green Revolution’. Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Indonesia. Ecological Economics, 205, 107727.
Grimm M, Luck N & Steinhübel F (2023). Consumers’ willingness to pay for organic rice: Insights from a non-hypothetical experiment in Indonesia. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 67(1), 83–103.
Fritz M, Grimm M, Keilbart P, Laksmana DD, Luck N, Padmanabhan M, Subandi N & Tamtomo K (2021). Turning Indonesia Organic: Insights from Transdisciplinary Research on the Challenges of a Societal Transformation. Sustainability, 13(23), 13011.
Pre-Review Work:
Fritz M, Luck N & Sawhney U (2025). My opinion, your opinion – Do group norms and perceptions influence farmers’ fertilizer practices? OSF Preprint.
Working Paper:
Luck N & Grimm M & Tamtomo K (2026). Cultivating Change: Long-Term Effects of Repeated Training on Organic Farming Adoption in Indonesia. IZA Discussion Paper No. 18479.