Vincent Heddesheimer

Vincent Heddesheimer is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He studies political economy with a focus on the political causes and consequences of economic inequality and insecurity, with work on housing markets, climate politics and place-based policies. His dissertation, The Politics of Housing Supply, argues that short electoral horizons and organized local opposition lead elected officials to systematically underprovide housing despite large long-run social and economic benefits, a claim he tests using German municipal data from 1995 to 2024 combined with an original survey experiment of local politicians. Methodologically, his work combines administrative microdata and causal inference designs. Vincent holds degrees from Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the University of Konstanz, and his research has been published or is forthcoming in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Nature Scientific Data.

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