PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt
Andre Groeger is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Economic History at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). He is also Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
His research agenda includes a range of interdisciplinary topics between the fields of Development, Environmental, and Labor Economics as well as the Economics of Migration. In his work, Groeger often combines novel micro survey data with remote sensing and/or machine learning approaches.
His articles have been published in some of the top journals in general science and Economics, and he has been head researcher of several research projects.
- Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research – BBVA Foundation Award in the category "Best contribution in Statistics and Operations Research applied to Data Science and Big Data" for the paper, "Monitoring war destruction from space using machine learning" with Hannes Mueller, Jonathan Hersh, and Joan Serrat (2023)
- ERC Starting Grant: "Rural Structural Transformation in Developing Countries" (2022)
- BSE Seed Grant, "Raising Boys and Girls: Gender Gaps in Child Development" (2021)
- BSE Seed Grant, "Digital Trace Data for Measurement and Prediction of Migration, Production and Trade Networks" (2019)
- BSE - "la Caixa" Foundation Research Grants on Socioeconomic Well-being (2017)
Working Papers
Forecasting Bilateral Refugee Flows with High-dimensional Data and Machine Learning Techniques
Publications
Hannes Mueller, Andre Groeger, Jonathan Hersh, Andrea Matranga and Joan Serrat
Monitoring war destruction from space using machine learning
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol.118, No 23, e2025400118, June 2021, 10.1073/pnas.2025400118Recognition Program
Andre GroegerEasy come, easy go? Economic shocks, labor migration and the family left behind
Journal of International Economics, Vol.128, January 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2020.103409Recognition Program
Marcus H. Böhme, Andre Groeger and Tobias Stöhr