Topic: Country, Culture or Competition - What Drives Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Sub-Sahara Africa?

We welcome Tobias Heidland (Kiel University & ifw) to the research seminar of the Department of Economics at Freie Universität Berlin.

Tobias Heidland is Professor of Economics at Kiel University and heads the research center "International Development" at the Kiel Institute. He studied economics and development economics at the universities of Mannheim and Nottingham and holds a doctorate in Quantitative Economics from Kiel University. After that he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at DIW Berlin and as a Senior Researcher at the Kiel Institute.

His research focuses on international aspects of economic development with a particular focus on migration and capital flows in developing countries, especially in Africa.

Here you can find the Homepage of T. Heidland

More information about the Reseach Seminar of the Department of Economics of the FU Berlin can be found HERE.