Studying abroad next semester

Four of the Department's PhD candidates will be leaving our walls for a few months to pursue their research abroad at Columbia University, at Harvard, and at the University of California Berkeley.

Back in July we were pleased to announce that Felipe Lauritzen and Niklas Schoch were selected by the Columbia Alliance's Doctoral Mobility Programme as Visiting Scholars. 

Felipe Lauritzen's research focuses on electoral finance and representation policies, with a particular emphasis on empirical analysis within the context of Brazil. He is also engaged in investigations regarding media plurality, regulation, and their intricate connections with democracy in emerging economies. In these academic pursuits, he is supervised by Julia Cagé.

While at Columbia University, Felipe will be working on a project entitled Why Do Young People Not Consume High-Quality News?

Niklas Schoch is interested in the interplay of climate policy interventions and firms’ technology choices. In his thesis, he evaluates the incentives of firms to adopt green technology in response to carbon pricing schemes in varying competition environments. To do so, he is estimating a structural model of dynamic imperfect competition, using data on fuel consumption and green investments of industrial installations in France. His doctoral dissertation is supervised by Johannes Boehm and Stefan Pollinger.

Niklas will be working on a project entitled Climate Policy with Industry Concentration: The Role of Technology Adoption while at Columbia.

Sophia Praetorius will be visiting Harvard University as the Sciences Po-Harvard PhD Fellow during the spring term. Currently a PhD Fellow at PSE's Globalization Chair, Sophia is working on a thesis entitled Trade Cost and Global Production Networks under the supervision of Thierry Mayer.

While at Harvard, she will work with Marc Melitz and the trade group, allowing her to expand her research on innovation and collaboration in multinational production models. 

Johanna Roth will visit University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for three months starting at the end of January.  Johanna's thesis, entitled Essays on Unemployment, Job Search and Policy Evaluation, is supervised by Pierre Cahuc. 

While at UC Berkeley, Johanna will be hosted by Hilary Hoynes, an economist who works on poverty, inequality, and the social safety net as well as directs the Berkeley Opportunity Lab and co-directs the Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality. Johanna will work on a new research project examining the impact of housing instability and homelessness on job search behaviour and employment trajectories, during her stay.