Dr. Renke Schmacker

Renke Schmacker is a Research Associate at the DIW Berlin and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Before joining DIW, he spent three years as an SNF Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne. He received his PhD from the Berlin School of Economics in 2020 and previously studied at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Copenhagen, and Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research focuses on applying insights from behavioral economics to questions in environmental and health economics as well as public finance (taxation and social insurance systems).