Working papers
"Neighbor Effects on Human Capital Accumulation through College-Major Choices"
(with Annika Backes), October 2024
(2nd Best paper award at the Economics of Education Association – AEDE 2024)
Harvard Kennedy School CID Voices - Research Summary; How Neighborhood Influences Shape College Choices and Academic Paths for Students: Insights from Croatia | Harvard Kennedy School
"College Choices, Truth-telling and Behavioural Patterns on a Repeated Deferred Acceptance System"
(with Christopher Neilson and Johanna Raith), October 2024
"Decomposing School Starting Age Policy Effects"
(with Jonas Y. Jin), November 2024
Publications and R&R
“Can Music Concerts Boost Nationalist Identity”
(with Jacob N. Shapiro and Manu Singh), R&R at the Journal of Comparative Economics
“The Impact of Delay: Evidence from Formal Out-of-Court Restructuring” ( Journal of Corporate Finance)
(with Jacob N. Shapiro, Randall K. Filer and Stjepan Srhoj), February 2023
World Bank. 2022. "Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement : A Synthesis of New Research. " (2 publications included in the report)
Washington, DC : World Bank. January 2023
“Forced Displacement, War Exposure and Long-run Education and Income Inequality: Evidence from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina” (Defence and Peace Economics)
(with Jacob N. Shapiro and Adnan Efendić), July 2022,
"Forced Displacement, Exposure to Conflict and Long-run Education and Income Inequality" (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper)
(with Adnan Efendic, and Jacob N. Shapiro), April 2022
"O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries" (Quarterly Journal of Economics)
(with Adam Altmejd, Andres Barrios-Fernandez, Marin Drlje, Michael Hurwitz, Joshua Goodman, Christine Mulhern, Christopher Neilson and Jonathan Smith), August, 2021
"Names and Behavior in a War" ( Journal of Population Economics)
(with Stepan Jurajda), lead paper in issue 1/2021, January, 2021
"Information Feedback in Temporal Networks as a Predictor of Market Crashes", (Complexity)
(with Stjepan Begusic, Zvonko Kostanjcar, Eugene H. Stanley and Boris Podobnik), September 2018
(with Nikol Scrbec and Boris Podobnik) , September 2018
"Predicting the Rise of EU Right-Wing Populism in Response to Unbalanced Immigration" (Complexity)
(with Boris Podobnik, Marko Jusup and H.E. Stanley), August 2017
"To Invest or Not to Invest, That is the Question: Analysis of Firm Behavior Under Anticipated Shocks" (PLOS ONE )
(with Vuk Vukovic, Nikola Kleut, and Boris Podobnik), August 2016
Submitted Working Papers
"Oxytocin, Empathy, Altruism and Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from Blood Donations " (IWH Discussion paper)
(with Danijela Vuletic and Irena Jukic)
January 2023, under review Journal of Health Economics
"Do Fathers Matter: Paternal Mortality and Children's Long-run Outcomes" ( Industrial Relations Section WP, Princeton University)
March 2017, under review
"Beyond the Call of Duty: Intergenerational Transmission of Costs of War"
(with Stepan Jurajda), October 2017
Work in progress
"Losing Peers in Schools: Migration Effects on Education Outcomes in Sending Countries"
(with Diego A. Martin)
“The Elasticity of Nationalism”
(with Jacob N. Shapiro and Manu Singh)
"The Second-Generation Sibling: Forced Displacement, War Exposure and Long-run Education Outcomes"
(with Jacob N. Shapiro and Adnan Efendić)