Understanding effect heterogeneity is crucial for designing targeted policies that promote societal goals such as gender equality and environmental sustainability. Although average effects provide general guidance, analyzing ...

This dissertation investigates key challenges in achieving healthy and sustainable diets for people around the globe, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in particular. It focuses on the roles of production, markets, ...

This thesis deals in six chapters with the legal classification and evaluation of sweepstakes in the media (here referred to as: media sweepstakes). It identifies the criteria by which such sweepstakes are evaluated and ...

This dissertation analyzes, empirically, the consequences of international trade along three dimensions: economic inequality, the environment, and international aid. First, building upon the argument that factor endowments ...

This dissertation studies how human decision-makers react to and adopt novel technology, with a particular focus on algorithmic prediction systems and artificial intelligence. To that end, it combines theory-guided economic ...

Pastoralism in the Sahel region, anthropologically well-researched, is commonly associated with Fulani economies in rural areas. Although studies on urban Fulani often recognize cities as site for alternative income sources ...

As global food systems face growing challenges of sustainability, plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) have emerged as a promising solution to reduce reliance on animal-based foods. Their success, however, depends on ...

In the dissertation, three controlling instruments were examined: methods for determining individual risk attitudes, remuneration systems and behaviour-oriented controls, which play important roles in a corporate context. ...

This doctoral dissertation is composed of three scientific articles investigating the role of land tenure on agricultural productivity, the responses of smallholders to climate change, and the consequences of Large-Scale ...

The dissertation takes as its starting point educational policy objectives pursued at EU and federal level, which call for the expansion of educational counselling. Given the background of changing social requirements, ...