Viola Hilbert successfully defended her dissertation

Viola Hilbert, formerly a research associate and currently a visiting researcher at SOEP, successfully defended her dissertation, “Where Does Wealth (Inequality) Come From? Three Empirical Essays on the Accumulation and Distribution of Wealth,” on October 26. The dissertation was supervised by Charlotte Bartels, also formerly a research associate and currently a visiting researcher at SOEP, and Melanie Kraus (both University of Leipzig). We congratulate Viola on this impressive achievement!