Clara von Bismarck-Osten

I am a PhD candidate at University College London “on the market” for an academic position in 2027.

Please find some CV items below; for more, click here.

Papers

The Role of Schools in Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (with Kirill Borusyak and Uta Schönberg, building on my MSc dissertation), Economic Policy, 2022.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Morgenbladet, The European, Berliner Zeitung, Stuttgarter Zeitung, VoxEU
On the Impact of Maternity Leave and the Fragility of Regression Discontinuity (with Andrei Zeleneev).
Who Enters the Public Sector? IFS Working Paper 26/17, 2026.
Financial Times, IFS Comment (2025), IFS Comment (2026)
Mapping Tax Elasticities (with Jakob Wegmann; main project).
Some Papers Are More Equal Than Others.

Affiliations

Institute for Fiscal Studies / UCL Stone Centre / RFBerlin / CReAM

Conferences / Seminars

North American Winter Meeting 2026, 82nd Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, EALE Conference 2026, 73rd Economic Policy Conference, ZEW Public Finance Conference, UCL/CeMMAP 3rd Annual Econometrics Research Day, CAGE–Warwick Longitudinal Educational Outcomes data event.

UC Berkeley “casual causal” seminar, Stockholm School of Economics, Institut des Politiques Publiques, Catholic University of Brasília (online).

Teaching

2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26: Programme Evaluation (MSc module on causal inference, assisting Liyang Sun)
2022/23: Economics of the Public Sector (BSc module)

Happy to share drafts / code, just email me:

clara.bismarck-osten@ucl.ac.uk / clara.vonbismarck-osten@ifs.org.uk