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Renate Strobl studied Economics and Human Resource Education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the University of Geneva. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Basel in 2017. Since then, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Labour Economics at the University of Basel where she is currently involved in an experimental study about educational and occupational choices of Swiss university students in the light of digitalization. She is also affiliated to the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel in the framework of a randomized controlled trial investigating health insurance take-up and its effects on household well-being in rural Côte d’Ivoire. Since February 2022, she is a Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of Lucerne. Her primary research fields include experimental health and development economics. She is especially interested in households’ informal strategies to cope with risk and shocks, in the interaction of these practices with formal insurance as well as in barriers that hinder households’ access to health insurance and health care. She primarily collects novel data using experimental methods such as laboratory experiments with slum dwellers in Kenya and field experiments with cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire.

CV Dr. Renate Strobl