Annica Gehlen

I'm a PhD candidate in Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Freie Universität Berlin. I work in the public economics department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). During fall 2024, I visited the Department of Economics at Yale University for a research stay.

I am interested in labor and public economics. My research focuses on labor markets and social security systems, especially disability insurance and public pensions. In my work, I combine dynamic structural models and quasi-experimental methods with administrative labor market data and household survey data.

I am also interested in open-source projects and have been involved in the development of several Python implementations of structural dynamic life-cycle models and a German tax and transfer simulator. 

I served on the board of the Berlin Network of Labor Market Research (BeNA) from 2024 until 2026.

Feel free to reach out to discuss research or policy work!