Dieter von Fintel is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University, where he conducts research within the Research on Socioeconomic Policy (ReSEP) and Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past (LEAP) groups. He is also a research affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA). His research focuses on microeconometric applications in the fields of labour, agriculture, poverty and inequality (both historically and in the present day).