Judith Niehues

Judith Niehues is Senior Economist at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) and Research Affiliate at the IZA. She received her PhD for her thesis on Income Inequality, Inequality of Opportunity and Redistribution from the University of Cologne. Her main research interests include (empirical) public and labour economics, in particular tax benefit microsimulation, the analysis of income and wealth inequality as well as behavioral and redistributive effects of tax benefit systems.