Curriculum Vitae Dipl.-Sozialwiss. Sonna Pelz

Forschungsinteressen

Umweltbewertung, Geldpsychologie, Empirische Sozialforschung

Dissertation

“Contingent Valuation and Money Attitudes” People differ in terms of their attitudes towards spending money, reaching from carefree expenditure to neurotic money retention. Given the empirical evidence regarding the influence of money attitudes on consumption patterns, it is hypothesised that this psychological variable also affects individuals’ behaviour on hypothetical markets, e.g. their answers to payment questions asked in contingent valuation surveys. In my dissertation I deal with the effect of money retention on stated willingness to pay for environmental improvements. The study provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of this respondent characteristic. It discovers a useful, hitherto overlooked predictor variable for stated willingness to pay.

Forschungsprojekte

SuMaRiO (Sustainable Management of River Oasis along the Tarim River), Teilprojekt “Contingent valuation of a more sustainable oasis management in the Tarim Basin”

Surumer (Sustainable Rubber Cultivation in the Mekong Region), Teilprojekt "Welfare economic valuation of sustainable rubber production”

Forschungsaufenthalte und Konferenzen

November 2011-August 2012 sowie März 2013-Oktober 2013 Feldforschung in Peking, VR China März 2015 IAFOR 5th Conference on Psychology and Behavioural Science, Osaka, Japan

Bildungsabschluss

M.Sc. Economics (Economics of Public Policy and Management an der Universität Utrecht, NL) Dipl. Sozialwissenschaften (Doppeldiplom-Studiengang Politikwissenschaft an der WWU Münster in Verbindung mit dem IEP Lille, F)

Preise und Auszeichnungen

Promotionsstipendium im Bereich Volkswirtschaft der Talentstiftung Henning Tögel (2014) Studienstipendiatin bei der Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (2008-2011)

Lehrerfahrung

Vorlesung Wirtschaftspolitik an der Dualen Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW)