Journal Articles

Key publications

Quality Signaling and Demand for Renewable Energy Technology: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (with A. Coville, J. Zivin, and A. Reitmann). Journal of Development Economics 103514, 2025. [Link]

Personnel Shortages and the Provision of Long-term Care: An Empirical Analysis of German Nursing Homes (with D. Heger, A. Herr, M. Lückemann, and L. Tycher), European Journal of Health Economics. [Link]

Climate Anomalies and International Migration: A Disaggregated Analysis for West Africa (with F. Martínez Flores, S. Milusheva, A. Reitmann), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 126, 2024. [Link]

The Social Value of Health Insurance: Results from Ghana (with S. Garcia Mandico and C. Strupat), Journal of Public Economics 194, 2021. [Link] 

New Evidence on Employment Effects of Informal Care Provision in Europe (with I. Kolodziej and H. Schmitz), Health Services Research 53(4): 2027-2046, 2018. [Link]

Workforce Reduction, Subjective Job Insecurity, and Mental Health (with H. Tauchmann), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 133:187-212, 2017. [Link] 

Nursing Home Prices and Quality of Care - Evidence from Administrative Data (with M. Stroka), Health Economics 27(1): 129-140, 2017. [Link].

Obesity, Weight Loss, and Employment Prospects – Evidence from a Randomized Trial, Journal of Human Resources 50(3): 759–810, 2015. [Link] 

Self-perceived Job Insecurity and the Demand for Medical Rehabilitation: Does Fear of Unemployment Reduce Health Care Utilization? (with B. Augurzky and H. Tauchmann), Health Economics 24(1): 8–25, 2015. [Link]

Interdisciplinary and other peer-reviewed publications 

The Impact of Shock-Responsive Social Cash Transfers: Evidence from an Aggregate Shock in Kenya (with C. Strupat and E. Nshakira-Rukundo), Journal of Development Studies, 2025 [Link]

Obesity and Cash Rewards (with B. Augurzky, T. K. Bauer, C. M. Schmidt, and H. Tauchmann), Economics & Human Biology, 2025 [Link]

Can mass media campaigns increase demand for renewable energy? Experimental evidence from Senegal (with A. Coville and V. Orozco-Olvera), Oxford Open Economics 13, 2024. [Link]

Experimenting to increase the effectiveness of a national campaign on hygiene behavior in Tanzania (with R. Aunger, A. Coville, L., Kwezi,  A. Mwakitalima, K. Mwambuli,  and J. Sansonetti), Nature Scientific Reports 14, 2024. [Link] 

The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of google searches (with R. Marty, M. Ramos-Maqueda, and N. Khan), Nature Scientific Reports 13, 2023. [Link]

Biting Back at Malaria: Assessing Health-Service Providers' Compliance with Treatment Guidelines (with A. R. Paloyo), Review of Development Economics 21(3): 591–626, 2017. [Link]. 

Who responds to financial incentives for weight loss? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial (with A. R. Paloyo, M. Reuss-Borst, and H. Tauchmann), Social Science & Medicine 145: 44–52, 2015. [Link]

The Causal Link Between Financial Incentives and Weight Loss – An Evidence Based Survey of the Literature (with A. R. Paloyo, H. Reinermann, and H. Tauchmann), Journal of Economic Surveys 28(3): 401–420, 2014. [Link]

When Outcome Heterogeneously Matters for Selection: A Generalized Selection Correction Estimator (with H. Tauchmann), Applied Economics 46(7): 762–768, 2014. [Link]