Felipe Lauritzen
Research fields
CV
Felipe Lauritzen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the WZB and a memeber of the Berlin School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Sciences Po Paris. Throughout his career, Felipe has provided consulting services for the OECD, UNESCO, UNDP, and the French Development Agency.
since 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher of the research group Information, Incentives, Inequality, WZB
2022-2026 Ph.D. in Economics, Sciences Po, Paris, France
2015 Visiting Scholar at Columbia Business School, New York, USA
2022-2026 M.Res. in International Development, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Selected Publications
Working Papers:
Media Ownership and News Selection: Evidence from Indian TV Channels (with Julia Cagé)
Performance-Tied Public Funding and Minority Representation: Evidence from Brazilian Elections, 2002-2022 (with Julia Cagé and Olivia Tsoutsoplidi)
Vote remittances
Selected Work in Progress:
AI Assistants as News Intermediaries: A Field Experiment on Curating Sources and Countering Misinformation (with Maja Adena, Marita Freimane and Fidel Petros)
Educating for Democracy: A Randomised Evaluation of Media Literacy and Civic Education Among Youth (with Julia Cagé, Tássia Cruz, Claudio Ferraz and Andrea Prat)
Judging Disinformation: The Causal Impact of Electoral Courts on Online Misinformation and Democratic Trust (with Émeric Henry, Filippo Lancieri and Caio Pereira)