Matthias Doepke

Matthias Doepke

Research Fellow

Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in July 2025

Research area
Family Economics Macroeconomics Development Economics Economic History

About Matthias Doepke

Matthias Doepke is the Nicholas Kaldor Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Doepke received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2000. Doepke's research explores how decisions taken within families shape macroeconomic outcomes and how, in turn, economic conditions feed back into what families do. His research has been published in leading international journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies. He is coauthor (with Fabrizio Zilibotti) of the bestselling book “Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids.” Doepke is a Co-Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.