Asri, Viola

Viola is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at the University of Konstanz and at the Thurgau Institute of Economics (TWI). Prior to that, she completed her PhD in the research group on Political Economy and Development at the University of Zurich. Before her PhD, she worked as a Research Associate in the Indo-German Social Security Programme of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and for the Micropension Foundation in New Delhi.

Projects:

• ­Increasing State Capacity and Accountability to Improve Local Governance: Evidence for the Targeting of Social Pensions in Bangladesh
• Agents of Social Change? Female empowerment in India

Research interests:

• Development Economics
• Applied Microeconomics
• Behavioral Economics

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