My research is in microeconometrics, both theory and applications in health and labor economics.
Structural Models for Policy-Making: Coping with Parametric Uncertainty, with Philipp Eisenhauer, Janos Gabler and Christopher Walsh. International Economic Review, forthcoming. [arXiv] [IZA DP 14317] [Code]
Mental Health and Abortions among Young Women: Time-varying Unobserved Heterogeneity, Health Behaviors, and Risky Decisions, with Bettina Siflinger. Journal of Econometrics, 238(1), 2024, 105580. [Journal] [arXiv] [IZA DP 14316] [Code]
Testing the Presence of Implicit Hiring Quotas with Application to German Universities. Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(3), 2024, 627–637. [Journal] [FAZ coverage]
Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations, with Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Bettina M. Siflinger and Christian Zimpelmann. Labour Economics, 73, 2021. [Journal] [IZA DP 13158]
A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models, with Gerard van den Berg, Enno Mammen and Jens Perch Nielsen. Journal of Econometrics, 221, 2021, 43–67. [Journal] [IZA DP 8339]
Bandwidth Selection in Marker Dependent Kernel Hazard Estimation, with María Luz Gámiz Pérez, María Dolores Martínez Miranda and Jens Perch Nielsen. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 68, 2013, 155–169. [Journal]
A Missed Opportunity? Labor Demand and Workforce Diversity, with Anna Bindler, Barbara Boelmann and Luisa Santiago Wolf. [IZA DP 18756]
Selecting Relevant Outcomes using the Sparse-Group Lasso in a Multiple Outcome Setting, with Christopher Walsh. [Paper]
Daycare Attendance, Childhood Mental Health Conditions and Education, with Bettina Siflinger.
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Group Fixed Effects Models, with Xavier D'Haultfœuille and Martin Mugnier.
2026 – AFF Research Fund (€24,000)
2024 – Leverhulme Trust Mid-Career Research Fellowship (£48,000): Childcare, Mental Health, and Education: Addressing Inequality through Policy Counterfactuals
2024 – British Academy Small Grant (£3,537): Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Grouped Fixed Effects Models and Revisiting the Child Penalty
2023 – ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (€7,500), with Bettina Siflinger: Childcare, Mental Health and Education: Evidence from Childcare Subsidy Changes in the Netherlands
2021–2024 – German Research Foundation (DFG), PI (own share €136,300), with Jan Hasenauer, Michael Hölscher and Eleftheria Zeggini: SEPAN
2021–2022 – TRA-1 Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems, University of Bonn, PI (€80,000), with Jan Hasenauer, Philipp Eisenhauer and Daniel Oeltz: Uncertainty Quantification and Robust Decisions: Initiating a Transdisciplinary Research Program
2021–2022 – Volkswagen Foundation, PI (€119,000), with Jan Hasenauer and Philipp Eisenhauer: E²-Modeling
2020–2021 – German Research Foundation (DFG), Research Fellowship (€62,400): High-Dimensional Methods in Microeconometrics