Astrid Martina Krenz
November 2025: At the Regional Futures Conference of the Regional Studies Association, I presented our research on "Detecting Industrial Clusters in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Sustainability in Germany" which is joint with J. Laaguidi and X. Zhang.
October 2025: My new working paper on "Digital infrastructure, Regional Disparities, and Firm Location Decisions in the German Economy" is available here.
September 2025: New publication -- Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India, in the Journal of Population Economics.
July 2025: You can read my blog article in the LSE Business Review on "The return of domestic servants - thanks to AI and automation" here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2025/07/04/the-return-of-domestic-servants-thanks-to-ai-and-automation/. It is based on our recent publication "Automation and the fall and rise of the servant economy" in the European Economic Review.
July 2025: I presented my paper "Digital Infrastructure, Regional Disparities, and Firm Location Decisions in the German Economy" at the University of Reading.
June 2025: I presented my paper "Digital Infrastructure, Regional Disparities, and Firm Location Decisions in the German Economy" at the Kiel Institute.
June 2025: I presented my paper "Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India" at the LSE.
April 2025: GirlsDay -- We hosted a Data Science in Economics and Programming-Workshop for young female pupils at my Chair. You can find further information about it on the Chair's website and on LinkedIn.
March 2025: I presented my research on "Energy Costs and Location Choices of European Firms" at the Canada Blanch Centre at the LSE.
March 2025: New publication -- Does gender matter for export behavior? Evidence for German companies, in the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
February 2025: I presented my paper "Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India" at Imperial College London.
February 2025: New publication -- Automation and the Fall and Rise of the Servant Economy, in the European Economic Review.
You can hear me talk about Automation, Robots, Reshoring, and its implications for the Future of Work here: 'ForeignBrief TwentyTwenty Podcast': Automation Acceleration, at https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AatbH8EuFPwZf6gRFozQ0.
At the European Commission's Social Situation Monitor Seminar in Brussels I presented our work on "Robots, Reshoring, and the Lot of Low-Skilled Workers" Link.