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Hi, I'm Monica Beeder, and I have a PhD in Economics from Department of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics where I was affiliated with FAIR, Chr. Michelsen Institute and Development Learning Lab.

                 

In January 2025, I will start working as a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Southampton. During the fall of 2024, I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the research group Behavioral Economics of Crime and Conflict in Freiburg, Germany.

       

You can read my CV here.

My main research interests are development economics, conflict economics, and economics of crime. I am working on cocaine production and violence in Colombia. I am also working on ethnic identity and discrimination in Ethiopia. Thirdly, I am working on military drones and radicalization in an African context.

 

Additionally, I am devoted to transparency, reproducibility, and replication in academic research. Before starting my Ph.D. I worked as an RA on a replication project, and I am currently part of different meta-studies on replication by The Institute for Replication (I4R) and RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research.

I hold an MA in Economics from the University of Bergen, where the focus was on economic shocks and drug-related violence in Colombia.

Previously, I have been studying Political Economy, Peace and Conflict Studies, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American culture studies in Argentina, Brazil, Nepal, Nicaragua, Portugal, and Spain.

I am also working as an international election observer for Norway. Last year I observed the elections in Kazakhstan and Guatemala short-term.

You can also read about my Research, my Teaching and my outreach in Media .

You can find my contact information here.