Kati Krähnert is a researcher at the Economic Policy Lab “Climate Change, Development, and Migration” at the RWI and professor of climate change and development at Ruhr University Bochum. In her research, she examines the decisions of private households in the context of climate change. To this end, she employs an empirical, microeconomic research approach based on the econometric analysis of household and individual data. Another focus of her research is the evaluation of climate adaptation instruments, such as weather insurance and anticipatory humanitarian aid in the context of extreme weather events. Her research is partly based on new household surveys that she conducts with her team and in collaboration with local partners. Completed and ongoing data collection projects are taking place in Mongolia, Ghana, and Vietnam.  

Kati studied social anthropology and economics at Free University Berlin and at Wake Forest University and earned her doctorate in agricultural sciences from Humboldt University Berlin. Her research findings have been published in journals such as the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Demography.