Kamila Cygan-Rehm

Kamila Cygan-Rehm is a Professor at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), specializing in the econometric evaluation of policy interventions. Her research examines parental allowance systems, prenatal care incentives, compulsory schooling extensions, citizenship law reforms, and mini-jobs regulations using high-quality administrative datasets and representative surveys.

Her primary research interests include Labor Economics, Education Economics, Health Economics, Migration Economics, and Public Policy Evaluation. She employs rigorous causal analysis methods to isolate policy effects, revealing critical insights such as improved newborn health from prenatal care incentives, enhanced educational outcomes for migrant children with early citizenship acquisition, and unintended displacement of social insurance employment due to mini-jobs reforms in small businesses.

Analysis of her 2025-2018 publications shows consistent methodological rigor in life-cycle policy evaluation, with dominant themes in education duration impacts, parental leave consequences, payroll tax subsidy efficacy, and citizenship policy outcomes. Her work bridges econometric theory with practical policy design through administrative data integration.

Scientific Awards:

• FAU Award 2024

Her empirical work leverages Federal Employment Agency process data, official birth registers, and microcensus surveys combined with self-collected policy frameworks. As a reviewer for academic journals (2013-2014 submissions), she contributes to scholarly discourse while maintaining focus on generating robust evidence for labor market and social policy design.