Dr. Wolfgang Stojetz is the Director of the Behavior Research Program at ISDC and a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Previously, he was a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University and a Research Affiliate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
Wolfgang studied physics, mathematics and economics at the University of Colorado (Boulder), the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal, the University of Regensburg, Germany, and in the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS). He holds a PhD in Economics from Humboldt-University of Berlin, and a Diplom in Physics from the University of Regensburg (equivalent to M.Sc.). Wolfgang is an alumnus of the Fulbright program, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, and RES Junior Researcher Symposium, and has received grants from the BDPEMS, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), German Excellence Initiative, German Physical Society (DPG), Humboldt-University of Berlin, Portuguese Research Council (FCT) and United States Institute of Peace (USIP). He has also served as a consultant to FAO, ILO, Mercy Corps, PBSO, UNHCR, UNDP, and the World Bank.
Selected recent papers:
Civic Legacies of Wartime Governance (with P. Justino), American Journal of Political Science, conditionally accepted.
Building Resilience in Conflict Areas: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Borno State in North-east Nigeria (with T. Brück, M. d’Errico, J. Pinay, and P. Ronzani), Journal of African Economies, accepted.
Coping with compounding challenges in conflict crises: Evidence from North-east Nigeria (with T. Brück), Feminist Economics, accepted.
The COVID-19 pandemic and food security: Micro-level evidence from Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Mozambique (with M.D. Regassa et al.), 2026, Food Security, 1-24.
Shocking social safety: Evidence on violence and drought in North-east Nigeria (with T. Brück et al.), 2026, Food Policy, 138, 103005.
Armed conflict and gendered participation in agrifood systems: Survey evidence from 29 African countries (with P. Ronzani et al.), 2025, Global Food Security, 44, 100821.
Effects of the intensity and duration of COVID-19 lockdown policies on the use of coping strategies: Evidence from four African countries (with G. Baliki et al.), 2025, Journal of African Economies, 34(3), 404-420.
The double burden of female protracted displacement: Survey evidence on gendered livelihoods in El Fasher, Darfur (with T. Brück), 2024, Journal of Development Studies, 1-28.
The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity fuel the mental health crisis in Africa: a consecutive cross-sectional study (with J. Beck, A. Koebach, L. Abreu, M. D. Regassa, A. Hoeffler, and T. Brück), 2024, International Journal of Public Health, 68, 1606369.
Institutional trust in the time of corona: Evidence from countermeasures in Germany (with N.T.N. Ferguson, G. Baliki, S. Fenzl, P. Justino, and T. Brück), 2024, WIDER Working Paper 14/2024, UNU-WIDER
Prevalence of Depression and Associated Socio-economic Outcomes during Violent Conflict: A Matched Analysis for Palestine Using Nationally Representative Survey and Conflict Event Data (with P. Ronzani et al.), 2024,
Exposure to gender-based collective violence causes intimate partner violence (with T. Brück), 2023, Journal of Development Economics, 164, 103054.
The Life with Corona survey (with N.T.N. Ferguson et al.), 2022, Social Science & Medicine, 306, 115109.
Life with Corona: Increased gender differences in aggression and depression symptoms due to the COVID-19 pandemic burden in Germany? (with L. Abreu et al.), 2021, Frontiers of Psychology, 12, 2705.
Data Options for Assessing Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement: A Background Note (with T. Brück), 2021, Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
Can Job Programs Build Peace? (with T. Brück, N.T.N. Ferguson, and V. Izzi), 2020, World Bank Research Observer, September, lkaa004. https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkaa004.
Trust in the Time of Corona (with T. Brück, N.T.N. Ferguson, and P. Justino), 2020, IZA Discussion Paper 13386.
Food security and conflict: Empirical challenges and future opportunities for research and policy making (with C. Martin-Shields), 2019, World Development, 119, 150-164.
Rural youth in the context of fragility and conflict (with G. Baliki, T. Brück, and N.T.N. Ferguson), 2019. IFAD Research Series Special Issue 54.
Working papers:
An Analytical Framework For Measuring Food System Resilience in Fragile Situations (with E. Serfilippi et al.), 2026, under review.
The polycrisis in agrifood systems: Climate-conflict interactions and labor dynamics for women and youth in 21 African countries (with C. Azzarri et al.), 2025, IZA Discussion Paper 17968, under review.
The pandemic at home: COVID-19 and intra-household tensions in Africa (with M.D. Regassa et al.), 2025, HiCN Working Paper 432, under review.
Carrying the Past with you Across the Border: Long-term Effects of Conflict and Environmental Stress Exposure in Syria on the Social Well-being of Refugees in Jordan (with F. Castro et al.), 2025, HiCN Working Paper 431, under review.
Causes and Consequences of Polarization in Fragile Democracies: Evidence From Kyrgyzstan (with F. Castro et al.), 2025, Registered Report.
The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on anxiety: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in four African countries? (with M. Castelnau et al.), 2025, under review.
Prevalence of depression and associated socio-economic outcomes during violent conflict: A matched analysis for Palestine using nationally representative survey and conflict event data (with P. Ronzani et al.), 2024, HiCN Working Paper 410, under review.
Work permits for refugees as social protection during polycrises: Evidence from refugees in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic (with P. Ronzani et al.), 2024, UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2024/83.
Institutional trust in the time of corona: Evidence from countermeasures in Germany (with N.T.N. Ferguson et al.), 2024, UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2024/24.
Trust in the time of Corona (with T. Brück et al.), 2020, IZA Discussion Paper 13386.
