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 the SARS-CoV-2 Virus: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Germany (with Kirill Borusyak and Uta Schönberg, building on my MSc dissertation), Economic Policy, 2022.
- Who Enters the Public Sector? IFS Working Paper 26/27, 2026.
- An Empirical and Methodological Examination of Reforms to Maternity Leave in the United Kingdom (with Andrei Zeleneev).
- Some Papers Are More Equal Than Others: An AI-led Meta-Analysis.
- Who Responds to Taxation? (with Jakob Wegmann; main project).
Affiliations
Institute for Fiscal Studies / UCL Stone Centre / ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin / 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 Education 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: Causal Inference / Programme Evaluation (MSc module, 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