Lea Nassal

Lea Nassal is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, specializing in labor and health economics with expertise in causal analysis of administrative datasets from Germany and Sweden.

Her academic qualifications include:

• PhD in Economics from University of Duisburg-Essen (October 2019 - March 2024)
• MSc in Economics from University of Bonn (October 2017 - September 2019)
• BSc in Economics from University of Bonn (October 2014 - September 2017)

Her research examines critical intersections between labor markets and health outcomes, employing quasi-experimental designs to investigate how job displacement alters retirement trajectories, how gender dynamics influence household mobility decisions, and how healthcare labor actions impact patient mortality. She leverages large-scale administrative records to isolate causal effects while controlling for selection bias through advanced methodologies like difference-in-differences and double selection LASSO algorithms.

Current publication trends reveal consistent application of natural experiments across three domains: retirement economics (analyzing pension claim eligibility constraints), gender economics (quantifying career prioritization norms in couples), and health policy (measuring mortality consequences of physician strikes). This interdisciplinary approach demonstrates methodological rigor in linking labor market shocks to long-term socioeconomic and health outcomes.

Fluency in English, German, and French enables direct engagement with European policy contexts and datasets, supporting her analysis of cross-national labor and health systems.