Dr. Vera Troeger

Biography

Vera E. Troeger holds the Chair of Comparative Political Science at the University of Hamburg and serves as Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs in the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences. Before moving to Hamburg, she was a Professor of Quantitative Political Economy in the Department of Economics at Warwick University, and a Director at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). From 2007 to 2011, she directed the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and has held previous positions at the University of Essex, the Max Planck Institute of Economics, and the University of Exeter. Vera has been active in various professional societies, serving as the past president of the European Political Science Association's diversity committee and as the founding editor-in-chief of the flagship journal of EPSA, Political Science Research Methods. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal Politics and has held editorial board positions for prestigious political science journals. Her research focuses on the intersection of comparative political economy, labor economics, and gender politics, utilizing applied quantitative data analysis. She examines issues such as parental leave policies' impact on productivity and career development, as well as the gender pay gap within the legislative context.

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