PUBLICATIONS
The Impact of Higher Education on Employer Perceptions (with. L. Ehrmantraut, M. Siemers and R. Stans), forthcoming at The Economic Journal. Paper
Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence (with Armin Falk and Fabian Kosse), forthcoming at Journal of Political Economy. IZA Discussion Paper HCEO Research Spotlight Final Paper Version
Gender Differences in Wage Expectations and Negotiation (with Jan Bergerhoff, Lukas Kießling and Philipp Seegers), Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102505. Paper
Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences (with Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch), Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9): 2504–2545. Paper HCEO Research Spotlight
Re-Revisiting the Marshmallow Test: A Direct Comparison of Studies by Shoda, Mischel, and Peake (1990) and Watts, Duncan, and Quan (2018) (with Armin Falk and Fabian Kosse), Psychological Science, 2020, 31 (1): 100–104. Paper
The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment (with Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch), Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (2): 434–467. Paper HCEO Research Spotlight
Paternal Grandfather’s Access to Food Predicts All-cause and Cancer Mortality in Grandsons (with Vanda Aronsson, Gerard van den Berg, and Denny Vågerö), Nature Communications, 2018, 9: 5124. Paper
Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices (with Heiner Schumacher and Sebastian Schäfer), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75: 66–75. Paper Appendix
Predicting Experimental Choice Behavior and Life Outcomes from Survey Measures of Present Bias, Economics Bulletin, 2017, 37 (3), 2162-2172. Paper
Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life (with Gerard van den Berg and Johannes Schoch), The Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (3): 465–506. Paper
Early-Onset Paternal Smoking and Offspring Adiposity: Further Investigation of a Potential Intergenerational Effect Using the HUNT Study (with David Carslake, George Davey Smith and Pål Romundstad), PLoS ONE, 2016, 11(12): e0166952. Paper
Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Data Combination for the Identification and Inference of Factor Structure Models (with Rémi Piatek), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3): 734-755. Paper Online Appendix
Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on Third Generation Health and Education Outcomes (with Gerard van den Berg), Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23: 103-120. Paper
The Compromise Effect in Action: Lessons from a restaurant’s menu (with Isabel Ruhmer-Krell and Heiner Schumacher), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 128: 14-34. Paper Online Appendix
Come Back or Stay? Spend Here or There?, International Migration, 2010, 48 (5): 142–173. Paper
WORKING PAPERS
The Perceived (Signaling) Value of Higher Education (with Laura Ehrmantraut and Renske Stans). Paper Reject & Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
How to Attract Talents? Field-Experimental Evidence on Emphasizing Flexibility and Career Opportunities in Job Advertisements (with L. Fuchs, M. Heinz, and M. Thon), Paper
Relative Grades and Gender Differences in STEM Enrollment (with L. Fuchs and P. Seegers), Paper
Understanding the Mechanisms behind Intergenerational Effects of Economic Distress. Paper Appendix
NON-REFEREED
Contexts, Compliance and Imperfect Recall - Using Two-sample IV to Estimate Average Causal Effects of Child Human Capital Investments, Bonn Journal of Economics, 2014, 3, (2): 119-128. Paper
Context, Skills and Social Progress: Evidence from Germany (with D. Blomeyer, M. Laucht, F. Pfeiffer and K. Reuß), Report commissioned by the OECD, 2014.
Patterns and Trends of Migration and Remittances in Moldova (with M. Luecke and T. O. Mahmoud). International Organization for Migration, 2007.
WORK IN PROGRESS
The development of life satisfaction: Causal evidence on the role of the social environment (with A. Falk, F. Kosse and K. Röhrl)
Intrahousehold Inequality in Parental Investment (with X. Lin and K. Kaufmann)
Mental models of high school success (with T. Hübsch, R. Mahlstedt, S. Settele, and H. Willadsen)