Kathrin Kaestner has been working as a researcher in the research unit "Environment and Resources” at RWI since January 2020. She studied economics (B.Sc. 2016) at the University of Münster and at the Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan and economics (M.Sc. 2020) at the University of Cologne. She completed her PhD at the Ruhr-University Bochum in January 2025.
Her research focuses on behavioural, environmental and development economics as well as applied econometrics and experimental economics.