Sebastian Vollmer Author

The Author: Sebastian Vollmer, born in Stadtoldendorf in 1980, studied Mathematics and Economics at the University of Göttingen and Colorado College, Colorado Springs (USA). Between 2006 and 2009 he was a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Economics at the University of Göttingen and completed the Ph.D. Program Applied Statistics and Empirical Methods of the Center for Statistics at the University of Göttingen. During this time he also worked as a consultant to the World Bank’s World Development Report 2009. Presently, the author is conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Hannover and Harvard University.