Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies
Prof. Dr Simona Helmsmüller
Professor for 'Economics of Social Protection'/Director of the International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE)/Academic Head MSc Social Protection
Unit
Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies
Research fields
- Entwicklungsökonomik, Ökonomie der sozialen Sicherung, insbesondere Krankenversicherungen, Mikrofinanzierung
- Angewandte Mikroökonometrie, Wirkungsevaluierungen, Treatment Effects
Location
Sankt Augustin
Room
F 208
Address
Grantham-Allee 2-8
53757 Sankt Augustin
Telephone
+49 2241 865 9875Profile
Teaching areas
- Quantitative and qualitative methods of empirical social research
- Development economics, education economics
- Digital data analysis (Excel, SPSS, R)
Research areas
- Development economics, economics of social security, especially health insurance, microfinance
- Applied microeconometrics, impact evaluations, treatment effects
Advisory Focus
- Evaluation
- Microfinance and microinsurance, in particular non-financial benefits, agricultural insurance
- Development of social security systems
- Large-scale surveys of households and SMEs
Personenseite der Professorin Simona Helmsmüller
Curriculum vitae
Curriculum vitae
- Studied mathematics, chemistry, economics and economics in Saarbrücken, Montréal, Hagen and Mannheim
- Graduated in 2008 with a degree in mathematics specialising in actuarial mathematics from Saarland University
- Graduated in 2012 with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Hagen
- Graduated in 2020 with a doctorate in economics from the University of Mannheim (Graduate School Centre for Doctoral Studies in Economics)
- Since 09/2024: Director at the International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE)
- Since 09/2022: Professor for ‘Economics of Social Protection’, specialisation professorship
- 2019-2022: Lecturer at the Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in Sankt Augustin
- 2019-2022: Post-doctoral researcher at the Friedrich Alexander University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, Institute of Economics
- 2010-2016: Project manager and consultant at AFC International GmbH, Financial Sector Development Department, Bonn
- 2017-2019: Research Assistant, Chair of Econometrics, University of Mannheim
- 2019-2020: Project Director AFC International GmbH, Financial Sector Development Department, Bonn
Memberships
Projects
- 2023: Impact evaluation of the Social Protection Health Initiative (SPHI) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on behalf of KfW
- 2020: Social Protection Reform in Georgia – Principles and Perspectives from Germany, on behalf of Friedrich-Ebert foundation
Publications
2024
Alexandra Avdeenko, Markus Frölich, Simona Helmsmüller:
The Critical Role of Implementing Partners: Evidence From Training Micro and Small Enterprises Across 12 Financial Service Providers.
doi:10.1080/00220388.2024.2339929
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2022
Remi Maier-Rigaud, Simona Helmsmüller:
Social protection reform in Georgia : principles and perspectives from Germany.
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Simona Helmsmüller, Andreas Landmann:
Does free hospitalization insurance change health care consumption of the poor? Short-term evidence from Pakistan.
PDF Download (CC BY 4.0) doi:10.1057/s10713-021-00069-0 urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-59809
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2021
Alexandra Avdeenko, Markus Frölich, Simona Helmsmüller:
Changing Business Practices of Micro and Small Enterprises: Evidence from an RCT with 12 Financial Service Providers.
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