Research

Our research activities lie at the intersection between

• international and comparative political economy,
• labour economics,
• gender and politcs, 
• climate and politics
• link between exposure to extreme and abnormal weather and climate policy preferences/voting behavior
• applied quantitative data analysis and political methodology.

In particular Prof. Dr. Vera Troeger studies the

• impact of parental leave policies on productivity, career development, and the gender pay gap
• gender in the legislative context
• economic policy diffusion and
• spill-overs of monetary and tax policy.

In addition, she contributes to the field of

• quantitative political methodology, especially pooled cross-section time series analysis
• the trade-off between bias and efficiency in finite sample econometrics and endogeneity issues.