My research is in labor, education, and health economics. Below, you will find my current research, selected publications, and a complete list of publications.
Inequality & human capital
How does exposure to economic inequality while growing up shape human-capital investment and later labor-market outcomes?
Current version
Discussion paper releases:
CESifo WP 12295 ·
IZA DP 18289 ·
RF Berlin DP 142/25
Human capital & innovation
How did local human-capital losses during World War I affect innovation and the inventive activity of surviving inventors?
Current version
Discussion paper release:
CESifo WP 12529
Peer motivation & educational success
How does classmates' academic motivation affect students' own educational success?
Read paper →Economic experiences & social preferences
How do adverse macroeconomic experiences during early adulthood shape prosocial attitudes later in life?
Read paper →Tuition fees & educational attainment
What happens to university enrollment and educational attainment when public universities introduce tuition fees?
Read paper →Childhood peers & long-run outcomes
How does exposure to low-achieving classmates in childhood affect educational and labor-market outcomes later in life?
Read paper →ILR Review, accepted (with Natalie Irmert, Linn Mattisson, and Felix Weinhardt).
Media: LSE Business Review
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 249, article 107679 (with Lukas Maschmann, Therese Nilsson, and Devon Spika).
Economic Inquiry, 64(2), 491-507 (with Natalie Irmert and Therese Nilsson).
Journal of Public Economics, 243, article 105327 (with Uwe Sunde and Petra Thiemann).
Economic Journal, 135(665), 36-58.
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 38(5), 786-794 (with Petra Thiemann).
Economics of Education Review, 96, article 102437 (with Natalie Irmert and Mohammad H. Sepahvand).
Published version · Replication package · Media: The Conversation
European Economic Review, 154, article 104431 (with Andreas Leibing, Jan Marcus, and Felix Weinhardt).
Published version · Popular-science summary · Media: Hamburger Abendblatt, Berliner Morgenpost, WAZ, Deutschlandfunk
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 38(3), 423-431 (with Matthew Collins).
Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(1), 392-426.
Published version · Online appendix · Replication package · Media: Tagesspiegel, Weser Kurier
Economics and Human Biology, 39, article 100901 (with Inés Berniell).
Published version · Media: The Academic Times, Vox China, Dagens ETC
Special mention of the Premio ANCE Julio H. G. Olivera 2019.
Journal of Health Economics, 66, 136-144 (with Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, and Dan-Olof Rooth).
Economics of Education Review, 73, article 101909 (with Sanna Ericsson and Fredrick M. Wamalwa).
Published version · Online appendix · Replication package · Media: The Conversation, The Standard (Kenya)
Journal of Human Resources, 53(3), 553-578 (lead article, with Marc Piopiunik and Simon Wiederhold).
Published version · JHR summary
Winner of the ifo Institute Research Prize 2018.
Labour Economics, 30, 143-153.
Published version · Replication package · Media: Nada es Gratis
Winner of the IEA Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award 2012 and the UAM-Accenture Award in Economics and Management of Innovation 2011.
Ekonomisk Debatt, 51(2), 34-41, 2023 (with Steve Berggreen and Gunes Gokmen).
Winner of the Prize for the Best Dissertation in Economics of Education 2015/16 by the German Economic Association.