Biography

Stephan Maurer is a Ramon y Cajal Researcher at the UPF Barcelona School of Management. He joined the CEP in 2013 and is a member of the Neighbourhoods and Labour Markets programmes. He is also affiliated with in the Cluster "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz and with IZA@LISER.

Current areas of research include:

• The individual and long-run consequences of slum demolitions without rehousing (with Ran Abramitzky, Elibeth Cirilo, Yiming He, Guy Michaels, and Omry Yoresh)
• The importance of key waterways for global trade (with Max Marczinek, Luke Heath Milsom, and Ferdinand Rauch)
• The Political Economy of the Southern Planter class and its persistence in power after the American Civil War (with L. Bellani, A. Hager)
• The Dynamics of the Great Gatsby Curve (with D. Battiston, A. Potlogea, J.-V. Rodriguez Mora)
• The health consequences of modern production technologies (with M. Arntz, S. Findeisen, O. Schlenker)