Publications

The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany

(with Matthias Blum, Erik Hornung, and Christoph Koenig)

Explorations in Economic History, 2025, 96, 101648. [Link] [pre-print]

Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety

(with Ramona Rekers)

Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 210, 104663. [Link] [pre-print]

Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking

(with Alexander Ahammer, Martin Halla, and Hannah Lachenmaier)

Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102571. [Free access link]

Bismarck’s Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline

(with Anastasia Driva and Erik Hornung)

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(5), 2561-2607. [Free access link]

When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution and Health

(with Timo Hener and Helmut Rainer)

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9(1), 1-37. [Free access link] (Video)

Children of a (Policy) Revolution: The Introduction of Universal Child Care and its Effect on Fertility

(with Timo Hener and Helmut Rainer)

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016, 14(4), 975-1005. [Link] [pre-print] [appendix]

Formal Child Care and Family Structure: Theory and Evidence

(with Rainald Borck)

CESifo Economic Studies, 2016, 62(4), 699-724. [Link] [pre-print]

Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

(with Martin Schlotter)

Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 123, 1-16. [Link] [pre-print] [appendix]

Culture, Spatial Diffusion of Ideas and their Long-Lasting Imprints – Evidence from Froebel’s Kindergarten Movement,

(with Oliver Falck)

Journal of Economic Geography, 2015, 15 (3), 601-630. [Link] [pre-print]

Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake

(with Oliver Falck and Ludger Wößmann)

Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 73-89. [Link] [pre-print] [appendix]

Why Are Educated and Risk-loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?

(with Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Jens Südekum, and Alfred Lameli)

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 56-69. [Link] [pre-print]

When Trustors Compete for the Favour of a Trustee - A Laboratory Experiment

(with Oliver Falck and Niels Große)

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 34 (1), 133-147. [Link] [pre-print]

Dismissal Protection and Small Firms' Hirings: Evidence from a Policy Reform

Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (2), 293-307. [Link] [pre-print]

Political Regimes and the Family: How Sex Role Attitudes Continue to Differ in Reunified Germany

(with Helmut Rainer)

Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (1), 5-27. [Link] [pre-print]

The Shadows of the Socialist Past: Lack of Self-Reliance Hinders Entrepreneurship

(with Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, and Robert Gold)

European Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 28 (4), 485-497. [Link] [pre-print]

Mandatory Sick Pay Provisions: A Labor Market Experiment

(with Peter Dürsch, Jörg Oechssler, and Radovan Vadovic)

Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (11-12), 870-877. [Link] [pre-print]

Social Capital Access and Entrepreneurship

(with Oliver Falck and Stephan Heblich)

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (3), 821-833. [Link] [pre-print]