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---
title: "Simon Heß"
subtitle: "Department of Economics, University of Vienna"
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```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
cites<-scholar::get_publications("E_zs3XIAAAAJ")[c("cites","pubid", "title")]
```

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| Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria               |                 +43 678 780 2437 |
| [simon.hess@univie.ac.at](mailto:simon.hess@univie.ac.at)     |   [hessS.org](https://hesss.org) |

#  Positions
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| from 2024       | **Vienna University of Economics and Business**, assistant professor (tenure track) |
| 2022 -- 2024    | **University of Vienna**, assistant professor (non-tenured) |
| 2020 -- 2022    | **Goethe University**, postdoc, Chair of Development Economics, M Schündeln |
| 2018            | **Stanford University**, visiting researcher at SIEPR, invited by M Fafchamps |
| 2014 -- 2019    | **Goethe University**, part-time employed at the Chair of Development Economics |
| 2013 -- 2014    | **European Bank for Reconstruction & Development**,\setbox0\hbox{i} \spaceskip=\wd0 plus .15em minus .5em research analyst, Office of the Chief Economist |
| 2012 -- 2013    | **University of Konstanz**, student research assistant to H Ursprung and C Alós-Ferrer |
<!-- | 2010            | **KfW Development Bank**, trainee, Country Office Ghana | -->

# Degrees
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| 2020            | **Goethe University**, PhD in Economics (summa cum laude), *Prize for scientific excellence and practical relevance* by the German Economic Association's Committee on Development Economics and the KfW |
| 2013            | **University of Konstanz**, MSc in Economics|
| 2011            | **University of Konstanz**, BSc in Economics, visiting the American University in Cairo during 2011 |

# Publications
*Shared e-scooter services and road safety: Evidence from six European countries*
  (with C Cloud and J Kasinger)  <!-- two empty spaces at the end of a line ensure a whitespace -->
  **European Economic Review**,
	[doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104593](http://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104593)

*Environmental Effects of Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from West African Dryland Forests*
  (with M Schündeln and D Jaimovich) <!-- two empty spaces at the end of a line ensure a whitespace -->
  **Journal of Development Economics**, vol. 153: 102737, 2021,
  [doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102737](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102737)

*Development Projects and Economic Networks: Lessons From Rural Gambia*
  (with M Schündeln and D Jaimovich)  <!-- two empty spaces at the end of a line ensure a whitespace -->
  **The Review of Economic Studies**, vol. 88(3): 1347--1384, 2021,
  [doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa033](https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa033)

*Randomization Inference with Stata: A Guide and Software* [`r cites$cites[which(cites$title=="Randomization inference with Stata: A guide and software")]` citations](https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=E_zs3XIAAAAJ)   <!-- two empty spaces at the end of a line ensure a whitespace -->
  **Stata Journal**, vol. 17(3): 630--651, 2017,
	[doi.org/10.1177/1536867X1701700306](https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867X1701700306)


# Working Papers
*Political Influence through Kinship Networks: Evidence from the Universe of Registered Voters in Nepal*
  with P Pathak and M Schündeln (Goethe University).

*Causal evidence that herpes zoster vaccination reduces the incidence of dementia* [medRxiv 2023.05.23.23290253](https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.23.23290253)
  with M Eyting (Mainz and Stanford) and M Xie (Heidelberg and Stanford), P Geldsetzer (Stanford).

*The effect of herpes zoster vaccination on the occurrence of deaths due to dementia in England and Wales* [medRxiv 2023.09.08.23295225 ](https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.08.23295225)
  wtih F Michalik (Heidelberg and Stanford), M Eyting (Mainz and Stanford) and M Xie (Heidelberg and Stanford), S Chung (Stanford), P Geldsetzer (Stanford).

*Altruism and the Topology of Transfer Networks*,  [CEPR Discussion Paper 16561](https://hesss.org/Gambia_Topology.pdf)
  with M Fafchamps, (Stanford).

# Work in progress
*Social Networks and the Effect of Political Debates in Young Democracies: Evidence from Gambia*
  with J Detemple, and M Schündeln (both Goethe University Frankfurt) and H Jawara (University of The Gambia)

*German Colonialism*
  with SO Becker, N Jahangirli, and R Ramachandran (Monash University)


# Teaching
## As course instructor

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| 2022, 2023    | **Introductory Econometrics**, undergraduate lecture with ~100 students, University of Vienna |
| Sept 2023     | **Causal inference**, 3-day mini course, Monash University Malaysia |
| Spring 2023   | **Causal inference**, undergraduate course with 38 students, University of Vienna |
| Spring 2022   | **Development Economics: Microeconomic Aspects of Development**, MSc lecture, Goethe University; co-taught with M Schündeln |
| Fall 2021     | **Microeconometric Methods and Applications**, MSc seminar, Goethe University |
| 2020, 2021    | **Empirical Development Economics** undergraduate lecture, Goethe University; co-taught with M Schündeln |

## As teaching assistant

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| 2014 -- 2020  | **Development Economics II, Development Economics III, Evaluation of Development Policy**, MSc courses, Goethe University |
| 2008 -- 2013  | **Microeconomics II -- Game Theory** (undergraduate), **Advanced Microeconomics I** (MSc), **Mathematics for Economists I**  (undergraduate), **Mathematics for Economists II**  (undergraduate), University of Konstanz |

# Awards & grants

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| 2023          | Small research grant, University of Vienna € 2,000 |
| 2021          | Dissertation award  by the KfW Development Bank and the Development Group of the German Economic Association, € 5,000 |
| 2020          | Sturm & Drang Prize 2020 for the best publication by a young researcher of the Faculty of Economics and Business at Goethe University, € 1,500 |
| 2019 -- 2022  | Joachim Herz fellow for interdisciplinary economics, € 12,500 |
| 2013 -- 2014  | Carlo Schmid fellow for placements in international organizations |
| 2013	        | VEUK-Award for the best graduate in economics at the University of Konstanz |
| 2011 -- 2013  | Scholarships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)


# Professional activities and memberships
## Presentations and invited seminars
**2024**: Central European University (planned);
**2023**: Vienna University of Economics and Business; Standing Committee on Development Economics of the German Economic Association; University of Passau; TU Dresden (planned);
**2022**: Trinity College Dublin; University of Vienna; HEC Lausanne; DIME/Worldbank; Annual Conference of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association;
**2021**: Theory Seminar at Aix Marseille School of Economics;
**2020**: 12^th^ World Congress of the Econometric Society; Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association;
**2019 and before**: CSAE Conference 2019 at Oxford University;  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Research Seminar;
Workshop on Geodata and Economics 2018 by the TU Braunschweig and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW);
70^th^ European Meeting of the Econometric Society;
Annual Conference of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association 2016

## Scientific refereeing
Journal of Development Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Land Use Policy, Party Politics

## Affiliations and memberships
[German Economic Association](https://www.socialpolitik.de/) (Verein für Socialpolitik);
[Research Committee on Development Economics of the German Economic Association](http://entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de/?lang=en)

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