Ria Wilken

I am a Research Assistant and PhD Student at the Economics Department at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin.

My research interests are in economic inequality and mobility, economic history, housing and urban inequalities and gender economics.

Feel free to contact me via email.

Current News

February, 2025 I got accepted for the UC Berkeley Stone Center Summer Institute 2025.

February, 2025 The Institute for Family Studies featured insights from my research in their article How to Marry a Billionaire.

January, 2025 The London Times interviewed me for their article Men are sadder when their wives earn more, study finds.

January, 2025 "Marrying a Billionaire - Studying US American billionaires' family biographies using the Forbes World's Billionaires List, 2012-2022" was published in the Review of Economics of the Household.

November 2023 Book review of The Gender of Capital: How families perpetuate wealth inequality, Céline Bessière & Sibylle Gollac (2023).

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