Clara Sievert

Bio

Hello and welcome!

I’m an economist, researcher, and educator. My research lies in the fields of political economy, development economics, and health. I primarily use original survey data collection and field experiments.

I am an assistant professor in Economics (tenure track) at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. I received my PhD from Harvard University in 2024. More in my CV.

Working Papers

Supernatural Beliefs about Illness and Modern Medicine Use: Evidence from the DR Congo

Publications

Graduate Student and Faculty Mental Health: Evidence from European Economics Departments

American Journal of Health Economics, 2025

Is Religion an Inferior Good? Evidence from Fluctuations in Housing Wealth

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024

Work in Progress

The Impact of Access to Cities on Development: Experimental Evidence from the D.R. Congo

Data collection finished

How Market Access Shapes Wellbeing and Values: Experimental Evidence from the D.R. Congo

Data collection finished

The Religious Landscape of Kananga, D.R. Congo

Data collection finished

Teaching

  • Data Science: Foundations of Statistics (M.Sc., Lecturer, CERGE-EI, 2024)
  • Economic Development (Ph.D., Lecturer, CERGE-EI, 2025)
  • Comparative Historical Economic Development (Ph.D., Teaching Fellow for Nathan Nunn, Harvard, 2021)
  • Economics and Morality (B.Sc., Teaching Fellow for Ben Enke, Harvard, 2021)
  • Religion and Political Economy (B.Sc., Teaching Fellow for Robert Barro, Harvard, 2020)
  • A Libertarian Perspective on Economic, Social, and Foreign Policy (B.Sc., Teaching Fellow for Jeff Miron, Harvard, 2020)

Contact

Clara Sievert
CERGE-EI
Politických vězňů 7
110 00 Prague 1
Office 312
clara.sievert@cerge-ei.cz