Michael Grimm

Research Fellow

University of Passau

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Michael Grimm is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Passau. He is also an affiliated with RWI Research Network and is a Research Professor at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. He holds an MA in Economics from Frankfurt University and an MA in Population Economics and PhD in Development Economics both from Sciences-Po Paris. He is a founding member of the Rotterdam Global Health Initiative, a member of the European Development Research Network (EUDN) and currently the chairman of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association (VfS). His research covers problems related to poverty and growth such as education, health and informal labour markets including the evaluation of policies in these domains.

He has published in journals such as the Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, Health Economics, Demography and the Journal of Economic Geography.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2012.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14892
Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Michael Grimm, Sidiki Soubeiga, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14760
Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen, Ann-Kristin Reitmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13400
Can Training Enhance Adoption, Knowledge and Perception of Organic Farming Practices? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Indonesia
Michael Grimm, Nathalie Luck
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12471
On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment: Evidence from Tunisia
Eleonora Nillesen, Michael Grimm, Micheline Goedhuys, Ann-Kristin Reitmann, Aline Meysonnat
published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105263
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11929
Unblurring the Market for Vision Correction: A Willingness to Pay Experiment in Rural Burkina Faso
Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig
forthcoming as 'All Eyes on the Price: An Assessment of the Willingness-to-Pay for Eyeglasses in Rural Burkina Faso' in: Health Economics, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10744
Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso
Fadima Bocoum, Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig, Nathalie Zongo
published as 'Can information increase the understanding and uptake of insurance? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 102-111.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10427
Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Michael Grimm, Luciane Lenz, Jörg Peters, Maximiliane Sievert
published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3): 417-454.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10351
Rainfall Risk and Fertility: Evidence from Farm Settlements during the American Demographic Transition
Michael Grimm
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21, 593-618.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10280
Does Crime Deter South Africans from Self-Employment?
Katharina Grabrucker, Michael Grimm
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (2), 413-435.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8719
Beer, Wood, and Welfare
Michael Grimm, Jörg Peters
published in: PLoS ONE, 2015, 10(8): e0132603, [Open Access]
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