Renate Strobl is a senior researcher and a scientific collaborator at the University of Neuchâtel and the University of Lucerne. She studied Economics and Human Resource Education at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the University of Geneva. After obtaining her PhD in Economics from the University of Basel in 2017, she pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Basel and at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel. Her primary research fields are experimental health and development economics. She is particularly interested in how risk constraints influence the decision-making of the poor, and in understanding why seemingly cost-effective technologies, such as health insurance and savings devices, are only reluctantly adopted in developing countries. She mainly collects novel data using experimental methods, including laboratory experiments with slum dwellers in Kenya and field experiments with cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire.