Dennis Egger

Introduction

Dennis Egger grew up in Eggersriet, Switzerland. In 2013, he obtained his BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University (Lincoln College). After stints as a journalist, a researcher at the Swiss National Bank, an analyst at a development NGO, and a teacher in a refugee reception centre in Switzerland, he read for an MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he subsequently stayed for an additional year as a pre-doctoral research fellow. He completed my PhD in Economics at UC Berkeley in spring 2022 and returned to Oxford as an Associate Professor of Economics at the Economics Department and a Tutorial Fellow at Queen’s College later that year.

Teaching

Dennis teach tutorials in Probability and Statistics and Quantitative Economics at Queen’s. At the Economics Department, he is involved in teaching the undergraduate options course in Development Economics, and he also lecture as part of the MSc in Economics for Development. In addition, he supervise a few MPhil and DPhil students each year.

Research

He conducts empirical research on migration, networks, and spatial linkages between economic agents. For instance, one of his current projects investigates to what extent co-national social networks help newly arriving refugees integrate in the local labor market and society more broadly, and how this affects local firms, workers, and politics. In another, he studies how unconditional cash transfers to rural households in Kenya shape their social and economic interactions, and how the benefits of cash ripple through existing social networks within their villages.