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Lukas Hensel

Lukas Hensel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford in 2019. His main research interests lie in political economy, labor economics and development economics. He is a member of the Mind and Behaviour Research Group at the Centre for the Study of African Economies and Mansfield College.

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Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety

Article By Thiemo Fetzer, Lukas Hensel, Johannes Hermle, and Christopher Roth | Jul 28, 2020

When people recognize just how dangerous covid is, they worry more about the economy