About
Welcome to my academic profile. I am a PhD Researcher at the European University Institute. My research focuses on the causal impacts of higher education on political behaviour and orientation.
I am supervised by Prof. Herman van de Werfhorst and Prof. Simon Hix.
Feel free to explore my current projects, past work, and future research directions using the navigation above.
Ongoing Projects
Exposure Effects of Cultural and Communicative University Courses
This paper investigates whether differences among graduates reflect genuine educational treatment effects or self-selection. Using panel data from a Californian public university, I track individual students' political orientations and civic engagement before and after coursework exposure, employing continuous difference-in-differences methods with entropy balancing. [DiD / IV]
Learn more →Beyond Attainment: Field of Study and Political Returns to Higher Education
This paper decomposes tertiary education effects by field of study, contrasting Humanities and Social Sciences against STEM fields in Germany and the UK. Using a harmonised panel dataset (N = 26,335), we examine how field of study shapes political interest and left-right orientation. [Heterogeneous Treatment Effects]
Learn more →Shopping for Sovereignty: Trump's Influence on Political Communication
This registered report investigates how Trump's 2024 reiterated proposition to purchase Greenland reconfigured the discursive relationship between Danish and Greenlandic political elites leading up to Greenland's March 2025 election. Using embedding regression techniques on Facebook communications from all elected officials in both parliaments. [Embedding Regression]
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