Matthias Rieger is Associate Professor Development Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies part of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

From 2013-2014 he was an economics post-doc in the Max Weber Program at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. In 2013 he did his PhD in International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. His fields of interest are Development Economics, Health Economics, as well as Behavioral & Experimental Economics. He has advised and consulted for the World Bank, the Gates Foundation, WHO and others. His work has been published in leading field journals including Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, Demography and Journal of International Economics.

Matthias Rieger joined IZA as a Research Fellow in May 2023.