Welcome!

Hi, I'm Monica Beeder, a fourth-year economics Ph.D. Research Scholar at the Department of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and 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 plan to be 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 a meta-study on replication by The Institute for Replication (I4R).

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. This fall, I plan going on longer missions. 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.