M.Sc. Andrea Lendewig

http://www.agrarpol.uni-kiel.de/de/mitarbeiter/wiss-mitarbeiter/andrea-lendewig-m-sc

Project

Information, voter behavior and government performance: An experimental approach for Honduras

The aim of this project is to help developing countries to better understand their political processes in order to guarantee a higher political performance that contributes to get them out of poverty and under-nutrition. More specifically, we will analyze how the level of information induces changes in voter behavior and in adaptive and observational learning by the government. In addition, we want to identify mechanisms to incentive governments to reduce political performance gaps. To this end, we will derive a theoretical model of candidate competition based on a probabilistic voter model framework including effort of governmental candidates as a specific valence issue. Subsequently, we will conduct an empirical experimental study based on the ACS program in Honduras to test the main implications of our theoretical model.

Education

Since 10/2016	Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Agricultural Economics University of Kiel
10/2008 – 11/2009	MSc in International Business Economics, Awarded with distinction City University, London, England

Work Experience

2013 – 2015	Head of the Purchasing and Costs Department MADECO C.A., San Cristóbal, Venezuela
2012	Lecturer in Statistics Universidad Rafael Urdaneta, Maracaibo, Venezuela
2010 – 2011	Basel Analyst Decision Science Department, Lloyds Banking Group, London, United Kingdom
2004 – 2007	Assistant in the Department of General Accountancy Pasteurizadora Táchira C.A., Venezuela
2004	Internships in the Department of General Accountancy Pasteurizadora Táchira C.A., Venezuela

Research Interests

Voter Research, Probabilistic Voter Models, Agricultural Policy, Field Experiments