Resumé

Henrike Sternberg is a research associate at the Professorship for Global Health since November 2020 and a Doctoral Candidate at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology since June 2021. Before joining the team, she obtained a MSc in Development Economics and a BA in Economics from the University of Goettingen. During her Master’s studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Professorship of Macroeconomics and Development, at the Research Training Group ‘Globalization and Development’ and at the Research Training Group ‘Transformation of Global Agri-Food Systems’. Henrike was further involved in the design of a randomized controlled trial and a lab-in-the-field experiment funded by the Center of Modern Indian Studies, which examined behavioral determinants of financial decision making among Indian spouses.

Henrike’s research interests lie in the fields of Development and Behavioral Economics as well as in the intersection between them. In her dissertation project, she utilizes primary collected data from online, field and lab-in-the-field experiments to reexamine social preferences as drivers of real-life cooperative behaviors. The first component of her dissertation investigates the role of social preferences for citizens’ cooperation in collective action and redistribution problems in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. In relation to this first component and as part of a collaboration between the Professorship of Global Health and the Chair of International Relations (Prof. Tim Büthe), Henrike is moreover involved in the EU Horizon 2020 PERISCOPE project on behavioral, social and economic impacts of the pan-European response to the pandemic. The second component of her dissertation extends research on social preferences to the context of intra-household cooperation: To that end, Henrike examines bargaining patterns in extended family households in India and considers social preferences as parameters to inform household-based policy interventions aimed at counteracting socially induced intra-household inequalities.

Publications

Veltri GA, Steinert JI, Sternberg H, Galizzi MM, Fasolo B, Kourtidis P, Buethe T & Gaskell G. Assessing the perceived effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-Cov-2 transmission risk: an experimental study in Europe. Scientific Reports. 2024; 14, 4857.

Sternberg H, Steinert JI, Büthe T. Compliance in the public versus the private realm: Economic preferences, institutional trust and COVID‐19 health behaviors. Health Economics. 2024; online first.

Steinert JI, Sternberg H, Prince H, Fasolo B, Galizzi M, Buethe T, Veltri GA. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Eight European Countries: Prevalence, Determinants and Heterogeneity. Science Advances. 2022; 8(17), eabm9825.

Steinert JI & Sternberg H, Veltri GA, Büthe T. How Should COVID-19 Vaccines be Distributed between the Global North and South? A Discrete Choice Experiment in Six European Countries. eLife. 2022; 11, e79819.

Eger J, Kaplan L, Sternberg H. How to reduce Vaccine Hesitancy? The Relevance of Evidence and its Communicator. Vaccine. 2023; 41(27), 3964-3975.