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.

ria [dot] wilken [at] fu [hyphen] berlin [dot] de

Current News

January, 2026 I started my temporary position as a Visiting Student Researcher at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Hilary Hoynes and supported by Fulbright Germany with a Doctoral Student Research Fellowship.

January, 2026 "Housing Question Old and New: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of 148 European Cities around 1900 and Today" coauthored with Sebastian Kohl and Florian Müller was published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

October, 2025 I presented my paper "Marrying a Billionaire" at the ISI Wealth Conference 2025 in Munich.

July, 2025 I participated in the Statistical Machine Learning for Large and Unstructured Data Summer School at the Barcelona School of Economics.

June, 2025 I participated in 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.

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