Hi, I’m Luzia!

I am a 5th-year PhD student in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In the academic year 2025/2026, I will be a visiting student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

I hold a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Göttingen and an M.Sc. in Economics and Management Science from Humboldt University Berlin. 

Prior to joining LSE, I was a predoctoral research fellow at the Global Priorities Institute Oxford, an interdisciplinary research institute that tried to answer the question of how we can do the most good in the world. This inspired me to take the Giving What We Can Pledge to donate 10% of my income to effective charities for the rest of my life.

My main research interests are fertility choices and the strong trend of falling birth rates everywhere in the world. I want to help understand why fertility is falling even further below replacement and what we can do to help people have the number of children they want.

I have a Substack called “Illuminating fertility” where I blog about my research and related topics.

You can contact me at l.bruckamp[at]lse.ac.uk.