Remo Agovic

PhD Candidate

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Remo Agovic

PhD Candidate

Remo Agovic is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Political Science of the University of Bern, based at the Environmental Governance and Global Development research team at the Wyss Academy for Nature. He holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Zurich, with a specialization in development and public policy. Remo's research sits at the intersection of political science and economics, focusing on the political economy of community-based conservation and land governance in settings shaped by environmental pressures and institutional change. His dissertation examines how collective land formalization shapes political incorporation and electoral dynamics in local Brazilian elections. Alongside this, he works on community-based fire monitoring and gender inclusion in Viet Nam through a randomized controlled trial, preferences for community-based conservation via conjoint experiments, the global relationship between armed conflict and land-use dynamics, and narrative economics around media stereotyping of immigrants. Methodologically, he combines causal inference with econometric and geospatial approaches, randomized controlled trials, and survey and text-based experiments. His master's thesis analyzed how drought affects coffee plantation workers in Brazil and the role of social assistance policies. For his bachelor's thesis, he secured a research grant to study labor-market polarization in the context of technological change.

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