Dr. Thomas Dufhues
Research Associate
Department:
External Environment for Agriculture and Policy Analysis (Agricultural Policy)
Dr. Thomas Dufhues
Research Associate
Department:
External Environment for Agriculture and Policy Analysis (Agricultural Policy)
Balkan & Central Asia
Decision-making & choice experiments
Migration
Decentralization and participation
Rural institutions and social networks
Subjective wellbeing
Rural and micro financial intermediation
Dr. Thomas Dufhues joined IAMO in late 2005 as a senior researcher in the Department of Agricultural Policy. He studied agricultural sciences (with a focus on agricultural economics) at the Universities of Bonn and Hohenheim in Germany. At the University of Hohenheim he also gained his doctoral degree within the DFG financed "Sonderforschungsbereich 564". The doctorate research was on rural finance in Vietnam. He worked as a senior research associate not only at IAMO but also at the Philipps-University of Marburg, the Technical University of Munich, and the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale). Dr. Thomas Dufhues was involved in the proposal writing of several successful DFG funded projects, in which he worked as senior scientist. Most of his research is empirically based and is theoretically embedded in microeconomics. His current areas of expertise and professional interest focus on rural areas in transformation countries in Southeast Europe and Central and Southeast Asia. He researches, among others, how migration dynamics impact on these regions, their institutions, farms and people.
- Internal migration in Kazakhstan – New Institutionalism and Bayesian Networks: Establishing an analytical framework to model migration decision making in rural Kazakhstan
- RuWell – Rural well-being in transition: multidimensional drivers and effects on (im)mobility
- Social comparisons and inequality – Perceptions of inequality through social comparisons and transference on subjective wellbeing: a micro perspective on reference groups
- Staying rural and the status quo bias – The role of the status quo bias in the perpetuation of farm work and remaining in situ – exemplified with data from Southeast Europe
- TraFFF – Transnational Families, Farms and Firms: Migrant Entrepreneurs in Kosovo and Serbia from the 1960s to today
- UzFarmBarometer – Better understanding of the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in Uzbekistan