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Dr. Monica Beeder is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Southampton .

She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics, where she was affiliated with FAIR, the Chr. Michelsen Institute, and the Development Learning Lab.

Dr. Beeder’s research lies at the intersection of development economics, conflict economics, the economics of crime, and exploitation. Her work examines how illicit markets, ethnic identity, and security interventions shape economic and social outcomes. Current projects focus on cocaine production and violence in Colombia, ethnic identity and discrimination in Ethiopia, the effects of military drone use on civilian attitudes and radicalization in African contexts, and economic exploitation across institutional and labor-market settings.

She is currently working with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law and the research group Behavioral Economics of Crime and Conflict as part of a research collaboration on exploitation, with projects spanning Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Dr. Beeder is strongly committed to transparency, reproducibility, and replication in social science research. Before starting her Ph.D., she worked as a research assistant on large-scale replication projects, and she is currently involved in multiple meta-studies on replication through The Institute for Replication (I4R).

She holds an MA in Economics from the University of Bergen, with a specialization in economic shocks and drug-related violence in Colombia.

Prior to her academic career in economics, Dr. Beeder studied Political Economy, Peace and Conflict Studies, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American studies, with academic training and field experience in Argentina, Brazil, Nepal, Nicaragua, Portugal, and Spain.

In addition to her academic work, Dr. Beeder serves as an international election observer for Norway. She has participated in short-term observation missions in Guyana, Kazakhstan, and Guatemala.

More information about her research, teaching, and public engagement in media is available on this website. Dr. Beeder considers the dissemination of research to broader audiences an important part of academic work and is open to interviews, media contributions, and other forms of public engagement.

Contact information can be found here.