New Assistant Professor of Development Economics

Dr. Sarah Langlotz is the new Assistant Professor of Development Economics ("Juniorprofessur"). She joined the Department of Economics at the University of Göttingen Faculty of Business and Economics on July 1, 2024.

At the Faculty of Business and Economics, she will mainly offer courses at the bachelor’s and master’s programme levels, including a lecture on the “Introduction to Development Economics” and a seminar on the “Empirical Analysis of Conflict and Development.”

Her research focuses on development economics and political economy. Using modern econometric methods, she investigates policy-relevant questions with a focus on three topics: (i) conflict, (ii) migration and (iii) development finance. Her work has been published in renowned journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, der European Economic Review and the Journal of Health Economics.

Sarah Langlotz holds a diploma in Economics from the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. From 2013 to 2018 she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of International and Development Politics in Heidelberg for Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher. During her PhD she was a visiting researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and worked part-time for the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex. She defended her PhD thesis on "Conflict, Income Shocks, and Foreign Policy: Macro- and Micro-Level Evidence" in 2018. Her thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher and Prof. Philip Verwimp and was awarded the 1st Price for Excellence in Applied Development Research by the German Economic Association and KfW Development Bank.

After defending her PhD thesis, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International and Development Politics in Heidelberg hold by Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher, at the Heidelberg Institute for Global Health, and as an Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin a. Z.) at the Chair of Development Economics of Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs (University of Göttingen).