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Olivia Wirth

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Olivia Wirth

Room: HK 16, 111

Phone: +49 (0)851 509 5673

E-Mail: Olivia.Wirth@uni-passau.de

Research Area: C.2

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm

Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Bauernschuster

External Mentor: Prof. Jenny Aker, PhD

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Olivia Wirth is a doctoral researcher at the RTG DPE and at the Chair of Development Economics. She is researching 

  • the effects of digitalisation on firms, smallholder farmers and household welfare in developing countries
  • the effects of expanding mobile phone coverage in Africa
  • the potential of innovative digital platforms

36. BGPE Research Workshop, Munich , 2024

2024 NOVAFRICA Economic Development, Lisbon, 2024

European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Hannover, 2023

International Conference on Development Economics (ICDE), Paris, 2023

German Development Economics Conference (GDEC), Dresden, 2023

Dodlova, M., Kis-Katos, K., Kochanova, A., & Wirth, O. (2023). Mobile technologies and firm formalization: Evidence from Uganda (No. WP-2023-99). World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

Freundl, V., Grewenig, E., Kugler, F., Lergetporer, P., Schüler, R., Wedel, K., Werner, K., Wirth, O., & Woessmann, L. (2022). The ifo Education Survey 2014–2021: A new dataset on public preferences for education policy in Germany. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik.

Hermes, H., Lergetporer, P., Peter, F., Wiederhold, S., Freundl, V., & Wirth, O. (2021). Bewerbungsunterstützung erhöht die Kita-Inanspruchnahme von Kindern aus bildungsferneren Familien. ifo Schnelldienst, 74(09), 41–45.

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