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Petra Thiemann is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Department of Economics and affiliated with the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University. Her research focuses on Applied Microeconometrics in Labor, Education, and Health Economics, emphasizing institutional factors shaping educational achievement and inequality. She holds a PhD from the University of St. Gallen and has held postdoctoral positions at USC Dornsife Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).
Education: PhD in Economics (2015, University of St. Gallen), M.A. Economics (2009, University of St. Gallen), Music and German Teacher Training (2006, University of Cologne).
Research interests include the causes/consequences of educational choices, labor market outcomes, and inequality reduction strategies. She has published in top journals like the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, and Management Science.
Her recent work examines how early adulthood recessions shape prosocial attitudes, school funding policies’ impact on inequality, and peer effects in higher education. She has secured grants from the Swedish Research Council and Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelse.
Teaching includes Intermediate Development Economics and supervision of over 40 theses. She co-organizes workshops on education economics and serves on university committees for gender equality and diversity.
