Matthias Rieger
Ph.D, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva
Research interests:
Development Economics, Health Economics, Experimental Economics, Policy Evaluation
- Gender, Ethnicity and Teaching Evaluations: Evidence from Mixed Teaching Teams (with Natascha Wagner and Katherine Voorvelt), Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.
- Media coverage: Times Higher Education Polygyny and Child Health Revisited (with Natascha Wagner), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Letters), 2016
- Corruption and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (with Elissaios Papyrakis and Emma Gilberthorpe), Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming.
- Trans Fat and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: Evidence from Bans in Restaurants in New York (with Brandon Restrepo), Journal of Health Economics, 2016. Coverage on blogs: VOX or the World Economic Foru
- Age-Specific Correlates of Child Growth (with Sofia Trommlerovà), Demography, 2016
- Trust and Trustworthiness in Young and Older Adults (Phoebe Bailey, Gillian Slessor, Matthias Rieger, Peter Rendell, Ahmed Moustafa and Ted Ruffmann), Psychology & Aging, 2015
- Denmark’s Policy on Artificial Trans Fat and Cardiovascular Disease (with Brandon Restrepo), American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2016. Media coverage: TIME; Jyllands-Posten
- Risk aversion, Time preference and Health Production: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Cambodia, Economics and Human Biology, 2015
- Child Health, its Dynamic Interaction with Nutrition and Health Memory –Evidence from Senegal, (with Natascha Wagner), Economics and Human Biology, 2015
- The Impact of Landmines on Child Health in Angola (with Jean-Louis Arcand and Aude-Sophie Rodella-Boitreaud), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015


