Dr. Asmus Zoch

Asmus Zoch joined the MZES in January 2023. Asmus Zoch has a lot of practical experience in large household data collections in Asia and Africa. At the MZES he works in Prof. Dr. Markus Frölich’s project “Education, Poverty and Inequality in South Asia”.

Asmus Zoch received his PhD in economics from the University of Stellenbosch South Africa in 2016 and his master’s degree in economics from the University of Göttingen in 2012. His research focusses on development economics, poverty and inequality, education, and labour economics. Before joining the MZES, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim and part of the SFB from 2018 until 2022.