My research, expertise, and teaching was covered by the following news outlets:
Handelsblatt (German daily financial newspaper)
Financial Times
Deutschlandfunk (German national public radio)
WDR Fernsehen (West German public television station)
WDR 2 (West German public radio station)
El Peruano (Peruvian national newspaper)
Westdeutsche Zeitung (West German regional newspaper)
Solinger Tageblatt (West German regional newspaper)
Radio Wuppertal (local radio station)
Radio Solingen (local radio station)
Wuppertal Rundschau (local newspaper)
Stadtzeitung Wuppertal (local newspaper)
Forum Wermelskirchen (local newspaper)
My coauthors and I wrote columns about our research on
VoxEU
Ökonomenstimme
I frequently write for outlets that transfer research to the public. Among them:
IZA Newsroom
BUW Output (Magazine of the University of Wuppertal)
Kölner Impulse zur Wirtschaftspolitik
Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen
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I was interviewed by WDR 2 (German regional public radio) for its midday news magazine about the reform of Germany's public pension system (June 2026).
My paper "Labor Market Power and the Effects of Fiscal Policy", coauthored with Babette Jansen and Roland Winkler, was featured in a press release by the University of Wuppertal (in German, February 23, 2026) and in an article by the University of Jena (in English, February 19, 2026). The articles discuss how government spending affects employers' labor market power and the effectiveness of fiscal policy.
My colleague Marie Grün and I wrote this article for the Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen (in German, November 3, 2025) about the research recognized by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics and its implications for economic growth.
I was interviewed by the University of Wuppertal about the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded for research on innovation and economic growth (October 13, 2025). An English version of the interview is available here.
My research on the economic costs of having children was covered in an article by the Handelsblatt, "Kostenfalle Kind – und warum Eltern immer weniger Nachwuchs kriegen" (in German, September 2025). The article discusses Germany's declining birth rate and the economic challenges facing families (Handelsblatt's LinkedIn post).
The Westdeutsche Zeitung covered my participation in a panel discussion on green economic policy, public investment, and government debt in the article "Priorisieren und investieren" (in German, February 15, 2025).
The Westdeutsche Zeitung reported on my contribution to a school project on democracy education at Gymnasium Am Kothen in Wuppertal. I discussed inflation, its economic causes, and its implications for society with students (in German, July 2025).
The Solinger Tageblatt covered my public lecture on Germany's pension system and the need for reform in this article (in German, June 2024).
I was interviewed by the regional newspaper Westdeutsche Zeitung about the proposed industrial electricity price subsidy in Germany and its economic implications ("Die Energiekosten sind nur einer von vielen Faktoren", September 9, 2023, in German).
I was interviewed by the regional newspaper Westdeutsche Zeitung about the economic importance of childcare, shortages of childcare places, and the benefits of public investment in early childhood education ("Das ist sinnvoll ausgegebenes Geld", April 2023, in German).
I was interviewed by WDR Fernsehen (German regional public television) for its late-evening news program about the division of unpaid household work between men and women (March 2023).
The University of Wuppertal's research-transfer department interviewed me about the challenges facing Germany's public pension system and possible reforms (in German, 2023).
The research-transfer department of our university interviewed me about the field of family economics (here, in German). The interview was covered by the local newspapers Stadtzeitung Wuppertal (here, in German), Forum Wermelskirchen (here, in German), and Wuppertaler Rundschau (here, in German).
The Peruvian national newspaper El Peruano published an article (here, in Spanish) I wrote jointly with Francisco Bolanos Vainstein on advantages and disadvantages of a universal basic income and alternatives to help families in need.
On the occasion of Equal Pay Day 2021, I was interviewed by the local radio station Radio Wuppertal (written summary here, in German) and by the regional newspaper Westdeutsche Zeitung (here, in German). On this day, the local radio station Radio Solingen also covered my research (written summary here, in German) and the local newspaper Stadtzeitung Wuppertal published an interview with me (here, in German).
Regional newspaper Westdeutsche Zeitung interviewed me for an article about teaching during the Covid pandemic (here, in German).
Deutschlandfunk (German National Public Radio) interviewed me for a report about the consequences of a German divorce law reform (transcript here, in German).
On the occasion of winning a university teaching award for my online teaching in summer 2020, I wrote this article for the university's website (here, in German) and the university magazine BUW.Output presented my teaching here (in German, page 28).
The paper "Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps: A Family Economics Perspective" by my coautors Dorothée Averkamp and Falko Juessen and me was covered in this article in the IZA Newsroom. A German version can be found here.
I wrote this article (in German) about the gender wage gap for the university magazine BUW.output. An english version can be found here.
My coauthors Falko Juessen and Roland Winkler and I wrote this column on VoxEU and this column on Ökonomenstimme (in German) about our paper "Bringing back the jobs lost to Covid-19: The role of fiscal policy", The paper was further covered in this entry of the Business and Economics Blog of the University of Antwerp as well as by the local radio station Radio Wuppertal (here, in German) and the local newspapers Wuppertaler Rundschau (here, in German) and Stadtzeitung Wuppertal (here in German).
I wrote this article (in German) about the gender pay gap and the role of the family for Kölner Impulse zur Wirtschaftspolitik (January 7, 2020).
My paper "Gender gaps in pay and inter-firm mobility" was covered in this article in the IZA Newsroom (December 19, 2019). A German version can be found here.
I was interviewed by the Financial Times for this article on the division of household chores between men and women (May 10, 2019).