Clara Schäper

Clara Schäper is a researcher at DIW Berlin. She is also a member of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA Potsdam), a guest researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research, and serves as a board member of the Women in Economics Initiative since 2023. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Potsdam, the Berlin School of Economics and the DIW Graduate Center. During her PhD, she was also a visiting research fellow at Harvard University. Her research interests lie in the fields of economics of crime, labour economics, gender economics, and family economics. Over the past years, she has studied gender differences and inequalities in the labour market and the educational sector. Her research further focuses on gender-based violence, institutional support structures, and their effects on family and labour market decisions. In particular, she examines the role of women’s shelters, legal reforms, and social infrastructure in shaping reporting behaviour and separation decisions among victims of domestic violence.