Joshua Hassib is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economics at the University of Freiburg and the Walter Eucken Institute, and a Research Fellow at the Climate Action Research Lab. His doctoral research focuses on the quantitative evaluation of public policy, employing applied econometric methods such as synthetic control method, instrumental-variable approaches, and regression-discontinuity designs.

Joshua holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Freiburg. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Development Theory and Development Policy and at the Walter Eucken Institute. He has also completed internships at the German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Cairo, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Eschborn, and the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg. As a working student at GIZ’s Bonn office, he wrote his empirical Master’s thesis on the influence of gender equality on the resilience of government tax revenues.