I am Acting Professor of Empirical Microeconomics (Vertretungsprofessorin) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in Germany since October 2025 as well as a Postdoctoral Researcher (on leave) at the Chair of Behavioral Social Policy at Otto von Guericke University (OvGU) Magdeburg since October 2021. Additionally, I am Associate Researcher at the New Zealand Policy Research Institute (NZPRI, former NZWRI) and a Research Fellow at IZA.
Before joining OvGU, I have been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NZWRI from October 2019 to September 2021. I received a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in July 2019.
RESEARCH I am an Applied Microeconomist. My research lies at the intersections of labor, family, crime, and health economics. I study how institutional and contextual factors shape individual behavior and well-being. I am particularly interested in how workplace conditions influence well-being and decision making within households, and how experiences such as e.g. crime victimization, health shocks or experiences in the medical care sector affect behavior and quality of life. My work is primarily empirical (based on administrative and survey data), increasingly complemented by experimental approaches.
PRIVATE In my second job, I am running a successful little „family firm“ 😉 together with my husband in an old farmhouse in the countryside. We have 3 little employees in the age of 9 years, 7 and 3 year.
LATEST NEWS
September 2025 Our paper “Kiwi Dads at Play: What Influences Fathers Childcare Involvement in New Zealand?” (joint work with Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco and Alex Turcu) has been accepted for publication by New Zealand Economic Papers.
August 2025 Starting from October 2025, I will be taking over the interim professorship for the Chair of Empirical Microeconomics at the Faculty of Law and Economics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
June 10-14, 2025 I will be presenting our paper (joint work with Andreas Knabe) on the teleworkability of jobs and emotional well-being of workers at the Annual meeting of the Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO) in Zaragoza (Spain) as well as at the 8th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) in Naples (Italy) this week. Looking forward to meeting you there!
March 5, 2025 I will be presenting our paper (joint work with Andreas Knabe) on the teleworkability of jobs and emotional well-being of workers at the Department of Economics Research Seminar at University of Crete. Feel free to join the talk via Zoom: https://economics.soc.uoc.gr/el/seminar/311/homebound-happiness-teleworkability-of-jobs-and-emotional-well-being-during-labor-and-non-labor-activities .
February 2025 I will be visiting Leeds University Business School on February 12th 2025, where I was invited to present our paper on crime victimization and mental health at the local research seminar.
February 2025 I feel honored to have received one of the Faculty Teaching Awards (ranked third in in the undergraduate teaching) of the Faculty of Economics and Management at OvGU for my teaching in Winter Term 2024/25. My course „Labour Economics“ was ranked second best Bachelor course.
January 2025 Our new working paper “Homebound Happiness? Teleworkability and emotional well-being during labor and non-labor activities” (joint work with Andreas Knabe) is now available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 17634.
January 2025 After five years as a research affiliate, I’ve been promoted to Research Fellow at Institut of Labour Economics (IZA). You can find my profile here.
September 2024 Our grant application for the Endeavour Research Programmes Fund of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in New Zealand was successful. Together with a team at Auckland University of Technology and multiple other national and international institutions, we’ll be working on the topic `` Boosting productivity growth by creating equal workplace opportunities for all” in the next 5 years.
September 2024 Our paper “Do you really want to share everything? – The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples” (joint work with Clemens Hetschko) has been accepted for publication by Oxford Economic Papers.
July 2024 I will be presenting our paper on crime victimization and mental health at the research seminar of the Faculty of Economics and Management at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg on the 3rd of July.
May 2024 I will be presenting our paper on the dynamic relationships between criminal offending and victimization at this years 6th Applied Economics Workshop for Young Researchers at Leibniz University Hannover on the 3rd of May.
March 2024 My job market paper “The Independent Woman – Locus of Control and Female Labor Force Participation” is now published in the Review of Economics of the Household.
March 2024 I will be presenting our current work on determinants of the use of physician quality information at this years dggö annual meeting in Halle on the 5th of March (Vortragssitzung C, session Qualität und Qualitätsmessung, in German).
March 2024 I will be presenting our brand-new work (joint with Andreas Knabe) on the role of occupational characteristics for the affective well-being during labor and non-labor activities at this years BeWell meeting in Magdeburg on the 7th of March.
February 2024 I gave an interview to the Volksstimme Magdeburg on the topic fathers parental leave taking in Germany. You can find the article here.
Contact
School of Economics and Business
Chair of Empirical Microeconomics
mail: juliane.hennecke@wiwi.uni-halle.de
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8169-4862
Juliane Hennecke 