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Johanna Arlinghaus

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Assistant Professor of Economics and Sustainability, Hertie School, Berlin and Honorary Research Affiliate

University of Oxford

PhD in Economics, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Master of Public Policy, Hertie School, Germany
Bachelor of Science, Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Johanna Arlinghaus is an environmental economist with a focus on fiscal and climate policy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of finance, environmental and public economics, and she mainly uses econometric methods for causal inference and large micro-level datasets to evaluate policies.

Johanna currently is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School in Berlin, and an Honorary Research Affiliate at the University of Oxford. Prior to her appointment at the Hertie Schoool, Johanna was a postdoctoral researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

She completed her PhD at TU Berlin and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in 2023, and she worked as an economist at the OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration for more than four years, prior to her PhD studies.