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I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). In September 2024, I completed my PhD in Political Science as part of DYNAMICS (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). During my PhD, I was a visiting researcher at The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. I am also involved in The Humboldt Governance Lab (Humboldt GovLab).

My research focuses on the political economy of crime and discrimination. In particular, I investigate (1) how judicial reforms affect hate crimes, (2) how the police strategically report about crime, and (3) how social policies targeting marginalized groups are used for political gain. My side projects include work on parties, social norms, and protest. Methodologically, I specialize in causal identification and computational social science, combining field, natural, and survey experiments, with recent advancements in Natural Language Processing to extract and quantify relevant concepts from unstructured text.

On this website you can find my publications, download my CV and learn more about my research and teaching profile. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my research and would like to chat

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Haas, V. I., Bogatyrev, K., Abou-Chadi, T., Klüver, H., Stoetzer, L. F. (2025). The Electoral Effects of State-Sponsored Anti-LGBTQ Measures conditional accept at the Journal of Politics
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