Michèle Tertilt

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Michèle Tertilt (* 1972 in Münster ) is a German economist and professor at the University of Mannheim . On December 6, 2018, the German Research Foundation announced that it would receive the Leibniz Prize 2019 for its work at the interface of macroeconomics, development economics and family economics.

Life

Michèle Tertilt studied economics at Bielefeld University and received her doctorate from the University of Minnesota . She then spent eight years at Stanford University as an assistant professor with research stays at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Hoover Institution . Since 2010 she has been a full professor at the University of Mannheim.

research

Tertilt's research focuses on macroeconomics with a particular focus on development economics and the impact of family relationships on the economy. In her PhD thesis, Polygyny and Poverty , which won the University of Minnesota Best Dissertation Award in 2004, she looks at polygamy as an economic factor in developing countries and presents models of overlapping generations with a marriage market and fertility. Later, for example, she dealt with the interaction between economic growth in the 19th century and the strengthening of women's rights. For her project on gender differences from a macroeconomic perspective, she received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council from 2012 to 2019 .

It also conducts research on consumer credit markets and personal bankruptcies , which can be considered their second foothold in economic research.

In 2013, she was appointed to the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies , one of the leading economics journals, as the first scientist to teach in Germany . She is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics .

She is also a Research Affiliate at BREAD and the European Development Research Network (EUDN) and a Research Fellow at CEPR .

Michèle Tertilt was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation .

Awards and honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DFG - German Research Foundation - Prof. Dr. Michèle Tertilt - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Winner 2019. Accessed December 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ CV from Michèle Tertilts webpage . 
  3. ↑ Mannheim economist receives the highest award in Europe. In: FORUM - The magazine of the University of Mannheim. September 2017, accessed December 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Spotlight: Michele Tertilt. In: Gender Matters. November 6, 2016, accessed December 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ ERC Project: Gender Differences: A Macroeconomic Perspective. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Michael Kläsgen: From polygamy to personal bankruptcy . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 9, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 23, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Prof. Michèle Tertilt appointed co-editor of the Review of Economic Studies. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
  8. ↑ People | BREAD. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
  9. ↑ History of EUDN. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Excellent: Three alumni of the Studienstiftung receive the 2019 Leibniz Prize. German National Academic Foundation, accessed on January 9, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 2017 Election of Fellows | The Econometric Society. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Announcement Of The Winners Of The 2017 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics , European Economic Association , Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
  13. ^ Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects new members. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
  14. ^ Bert Losse: Verein für Socialpolitik: Gossen Prize for Michèle Tertilt. In: Wirtschaftswoche. September 6, 2013, accessed December 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tertilt, Michèle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and professor at the University of Mannheim
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster