Esther Gehrke is an applied microeconomist with interests in education, development, and agriculture. She is Assistant Professor in the Section Economics (Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy) at Wageningen University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Passau, and has previously worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Goettingen (Germany), and as research fellow at the German Development Institute.