Profile
Renate Hartwig heads the research group Population and Development at RWI and is Professor of Empirical Development Economics at Ruhr University Bochum.
Her research interests lie in the fields of family economics, demography, health, and political economy. Methodologically, Renate works with both randomized and non-randomized research designs and in interdisciplinary teams. A large share of her work is based on primary data, mainly collected in West, Central, and East Africa as well as Indonesia.
Renate Hartwig has extensive experience in development policy practice, including work for the World Bank and in various advisory roles for governments and non-governmental organizations.
The results of her research have been published in leading academic journals, including Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development & Cultural Change, World Development, and Health Economics.
Renate Hartwig is a member of the Standing Field
Committee of Devleopment Economics of the Verein für Sozialpolitik. In
addition, she is part of the leadership level of the Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS and a member of the
advisory board of the International
Centre for Antimicorbial Resistance Solutions (ICARS).