Simon Heß (sometimes: Hess)

Assistant Professor of Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

I am an applied microeconomist. My research focuses on social and economic networks and on policy evaluations using natural experiments.

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Publications

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia

Shared e-scooter services and road safety: Evidence from six European countries

Development Projects and Economic Networks: Lessons From Rural Gambia

Environmental Effects of Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from West African Dryland Forests

Randomization Inference with Stata: A Guide and Software

Work in progress

Social networks, local elections, and female representation: Evidence from Nepali voter registration data

Colonialism Inc. The Private Interests Behind Germany's Imperial Ambitions

A network perspective on heterogeneity measures

Altruism and the Topology of Transfer Networks

Software

ritest - randomization inference for Stata

ivcvscore - Stata program to compute covariance-weighted z-scores (see Anderson, 2008)

geocodehere - Stata program for geocoding using HERE maps

colorscatter - vary colors in scatterplots by values of a third variable in Stata

Teaching

I teach the following subjects at WU Vienna. Students can access all materials via Canvas.

development economics

microeconometrics (causal inference, identification)

introductory econometrics

Previously, I taught at Uni Vienna, and Uni Frankfurt.