Professor in Economics, University of Surrey
I am an applied microeconomist studying how individuals and households respond to adverse shocks, how these responses shape economic trajectories, and how institutions and technologies affect adjustment, insurance, and recovery.
My research spans labor, development, health and crime. I use large-scale linked administrative and transaction data, together with quasi-experimental methods and field experiments, to study responses to health shocks, violence, economic shocks and other disruptions across the life cycle and within households.
One strand of my research studies how adverse shocks at critical stages of the life cycle affect human-capital formation, careers and retirement. A second studies household risk-sharing through remittances and financial technology, including how households respond to economic, health and environmental shocks across countries.
I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey, an Invited Researcher at J-PAL MIT, and a Research Fellow at IZA. I hold grants from the ESRC, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust, and the Ministry of Justice, and serve as adviser to the Evaluation and Trial Advice Panel of the UK Evaluation Task Force, the Home Office, and state departments in Brazil.
You can find me on Bluesky: @koppensteiner.bsky.social.
