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Petra Thiemann is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Lund University, also affiliated with the Centre for Economic Demography. She holds roles including Senior Lecturer and Associate Senior Lecturer. Her research focuses on Applied Microeconometrics, with emphasis on Labor, Education, and Health Economics, exploring educational choices, institutional factors affecting academic achievement, and inequality in educational and labor market outcomes. She collaborates with international datasets from the U.S., Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland. Currently, she teaches Intermediate Development Economics (NEKG71) and supervises Bachelor's and Master's theses in Labor, Education, Health, and Development Economics.
Thiemann has led multiple research projects funded by institutions like the Swedish Research Council and Forte, focusing on needs-based school funding to improve student achievement and reduce inequalities. She actively participates in academic events, organizing workshops like the Ph.D. Summer School in Causal Machine Learning and the 7th CEN/Arne-Ryde Workshop on Economics of Education.
Her work has been recognized with awards including the EEA Young Economist Award (2017), Excellence in Reviewing for the Journal of Human Resources (2023), and the Arthur Berge stipend (2024). Her research contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to quality education and reduced inequalities.
