Olivia Wirth joined the University of Göttingen in September 2026 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Passau, supervised by Prof. Michael Grimm, and was a visiting researcher at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, hosted by Prof. Jenny C. Aker. She holds an MSc in Economics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and previously worked as a research assistant at the ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research.

Her research interests lie in development, behavioral, and agricultural economics, with a focus on technology adoption, financial inclusion, domestic revenue mobilization, and smallholder farmers’ adaptation to climate change. She uses field experiments and quasi-experimental methods and has conducted research in Ghana, Niger, and Uganda.