I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Experimental and Behavioral Economics (EEG) group at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Economics.
Prior to this position I was a Ph.D. candidate at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, where my advisors were David K. Levine and Thomas F. Crossley.
I am an applied micro-economist working at the intersection of development economics, political economy, and behavioral economics. My research examines how shocks—such as insurgent violence, territorial occupation, or shifts in political representation—shape individual choices, social norms, and institutional resilience. I am particularly interested in how conflict affects human development and fragile communities.
Much of my work focuses on the micro-level consequences of conflict for education, ideology, and livelihoods. Using geospatial and survey data, I study how exposure to armed groups’ governance and ideology alters household preferences, children’s schooling outcomes, and attitudes. Other projects investigate how violence shapes democratic behavior, trust in institutions, and political participation.
In various ongoing projects, going beyond conflict-specific contexts, I examine how interviewer–respondent interactions in large-scale surveys can generate systematic biases when social identity cues shape expected norms, and how shifts in political respresentation of ethnic groups affects' political participation.
Contact
stoelinga[at]coll.mpg.de