Focus areas: Empirical analyses, survey research, labor market economics, gender economics

Dr. Cornelia Chadi has been working as a research associate at the iff since February 2026. She is an economist and social and economic statistician and received her doctorate in labor market economics in 2019.

At the iff, Dr. Chadi is investigating the determinants and effects of financial violence against women—a research and transfer project funded by the TARGOBANK Foundation. She is also involved in a project within the BMBF funding line “Research on Financial Education” as part of the nationwide initiative “Financial Education” (BMF and BMBF). Together with Dr. Sally Peters and Dr. Hanne Roggemann, she is also responsible for the annual Over-Indebtedness Report.

Dr. Chadi has been working on topics related to applied econometrics since 2014, most recently as a research assistant at the Methodology Center at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. There, she has taught several courses in statistics and data analysis and published numerous empirical studies. Ms. Chadi continues to teach at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen.

Cornelia Chadi completed her studies in economics at the University of Hamburg (bachelor’s degree) and the University of Trier (master’s degree). In 2019, she received her doctorate in political science from the University of Trier. In her dissertation, she uses modern microeconometric methods to empirically examine the interplay between work, well-being, and family formation.