Jasper Tjaden
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His research is focused on migration and integration issues including ethnic educational inequality, discrimination.
Jasper Tjaden is a Professor for Applied Social Research and Public Policy at the Economic and Social Science Department of the University of Potsdam, Germany. Before joining the University of Potsdam, he worked for the United Nations as data analytics coordinator for the International Organization for Migration’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre, for the World Bank as research consultant, and for the Migration Policy Group as policy analyst. Jasper holds a PhD degree in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Bamberg. He was a Fulbright scholar in 2016 at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, and holds a Msc. in European Studies (2011) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research is focused on migration and integration issues including ethnic educational inequality, discrimination, migration decisions as well as applied quantitative research methods.