Research

Publications in journals

More dads at home, more girls in maths-intensive studies? Evidence from a parental leave reform. Economica (2024), Vol. 91(364): 1201-1221. (with Sara Mikkelsen). Policy citationsUK Parliament Select Committee Publications 

As member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration: Reproducibility in Management Science. Management Science (2024), Vol. 70 (Issue: 3): 1343–1356. Authors: Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali I. Ozkes, and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. 

Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution. Experimental Economics (2022), Vol. 25: 1299–1326. (with Thomas Buser and Stefan Wolter). Press: Der Bund, Tages-Anzeiger, Berner Zeitung, WOZ; Policy: OECD Career Readiness Review

The effect of a sibling’s gender on earnings and family formation. Labour Economics (2018), Vol. 54: 61-78. (with Petter Lundborg, Sara Mikkelsen and Dinand Webbink). Press: ASAC, Policy: WP US Treasury Office of Economic Policy  

Gender, competitiveness and study choices in high school - evidence from Switzerland. American Economic Review (2017), Vol. 107 (Issue: 5): 125-130. (with Thomas Buser and Stefan Wolter) Winner of the Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education Best Paper Award in the given year. Press: DIW Economic Bulletin, FEB Research Magazine, Policy: European Commission EENEE Analytical Report No.41 

Multitasking. Experimental Economics (2012), Vol. 15 (Issue: 4): 641-655. (with Thomas Buser) Winner of the Editors’ Award for Best Paper Published in Experimental Economics in the given year. Press: Clearthinking, DailyHerald, BrainBlogger, StraightDope, ESB, Medical News Today, Resume.io

Publications in books

Randomization in field experiments. (with Adriaan Soetevent). In: Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics, 2019, Eds: Schram, A. and Ule, A

Current projects

Information preferences, reference points and hedonic editing: experimental evidence (with Mark van Oldeniel). Available on SSRN

Endogenous cool-off periods (with Mark van Oldeniel). Available on SSRN

Experiments on policies that aim to close gender gaps in labor markets (with Loukas Balafoutas). Draft chapter for the Handbook of Gender and Experimental Economics, edited by Maria Cubel and Christiane Schwieren, Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Women at the top, quotas, and the valuation of expertise: good news from an information experiment

Field experiments on competition and gender (with Subhasish Modak Chowdhury). Draft chapter for the Handbook on Behavioural Field Experiments, edited by Ralitza Dimova, Edward Elgar Publishing 

Long-term intergenerational effects of the daddy month reform (with Gerard van den Berg and Jan Sauermann)

Willingness to Compete: (Survey) Measures and Behavior (with Lauri Sääksvuori)

Unpacking Prize Winning: Patterns, Biases, and Recognition (with Marlène Koffi)

More women in economics material, more women in economics? Evidence from a field experiment

Refereeing and gender bias: let’s open the black box (with Marlène Koffi)

Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioral sciences (with the SCORE reproducibility team)

Family background and children’s study choices (with Lauri Sääksvuori)