Dr. Ivo Steimanis

Visit https://ivosteimanis.github.io/ for more information on my past and current research projects and publications

Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics and Development Economics

since 01/2016
PhD student at the chair of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources at the Philipps university of Marburg (Germany)

07/2015 - 09/2015
Internship with National Rural Support Program (NRSP) in Pakistan

09/2012 – 06/2015
Master in Applied Economics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria)

09/2008 – 09/2012
Bachelor Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)

Steimanis, Hofmann, Mbidzo & Vollan (2020) "When female leaders believe that men make better leaders: Empowerment in community-based water management in rural Namibia", Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 79, 205-215.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.013

Vollan, Blanco, Steimanis, Petutschnig & Prediger (2020) “Procedural fairness and nepotism among traditional and democratic leaders in rural Namibia”, Science Advances, Vol. 6, no. 15, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay7651
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/15/eaay7651

Henry, Egelund Christensen, Hofmann, Steimanis & Vollan (2017) "Influence of sea level rise on discounting, resource use, and migration in small island communities: An agent-based modelling approach" Environmental Conservation,  44, 4, 381-388.

Namibia (2014 - now)
Local Leadership, nepotism and Procedural Fairness: Field evidence from rural Namibia (link)

Solomon Islands (2016 – 2018)
The shadow of the future: Studying the impact of climate change on human behavior (link)