Bastian Schulz
Welcome to my website!
I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University. I am also affiliated with IZA Institute of Labor Economics and CESifo.
Research interests: macro, labor, and family economics.
You can reach me by email: bastian.schulz@econ.au.dk.
My CV is available here: Download CV
I post recent news, paper updates, and upcoming presentations at the bottom of this page. For information on my research, teaching, and workshops, please use the sidebar.
Upcoming and recent presentations of my work:
BSE Summer Forum, Income Dynamics and the Family (Barcelona, June 13-14): Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality
SOLE 2024 (Portland, OR, May 3-4): Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality
Third DC Search and Matching Workshop (Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C, April 4-6): Joint Labor Search and the Taxation of Couples (poster).
AEA/ASSA (San Antonio, TX, January 5-7) Sessions: Intra-Household Allocation Decisions, Marriage Markets, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility, and New Advances in the Economics of Gender.
News:
March 2024: Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality is now R&R at the Journal of Labor Economics.
February 2024: Media coverage of our article Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality in the New York Times: When It Comes to Dating, Ambition Might Matter More Than Politics.
January 2024: A new and substantially extended version of your paper on career ambition and marriage market sorting is available. New title: Educational Ambition, Marital Sorting, and Inequality. Previously: Marital Sorting and Inequality: How Educational Categorization Matters".
January 2024: Media coverage of several of my papers in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung: Weniger Scheidungen dank Hartz-Reformen (12/1/2014, in German). The article covers the papers "Marriage and Divorce under Labor Market Uncertainty", "Marriage and Divorce: The Role of Unemployment Insurance", and "Marital Sorting and Inequality: How Educational Categorization Matters".
December 2023: "Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures", joint with Frederik Almar, is available online at Economics Letters (open access).
December 2023: My paper "Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting", joint with Ben Lochner, is available online at the Journal of Labor Economics.
November 2023: My paper "Labor Market Dynamics with Sorting" is available online at the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (open access).
September 2023: Media coverage of our paper "Marriage and Divorce: The Role of Unemployment Insurance" in Der Standard, Ökonomieblog (12/9/2023, in German).
July 2023: "Marriage and Divorce: The Role of Unemployment Insurance", joint work with Fabian Siuda, is available online at the Journal of Population Economics (open access).
June 2023: Revised versison of "Marital Sorting and Inequality: How Educational Categorization Matters" is available.
May 2023: I joined IZA Institute of Labor Economics as a Research Affiliate.
Research Agenda:
My research combines data with insights from economic theory to better understand how heterogenous agents, such as workers and firms or men and women, match with each other (sorting).
I study how sorting affects labor market dynamics and inequality, and how it interacts with economic policy. I use Danish register data, German social security data, and household surveys.
Currently, I focus on interactions between labor and marriage markets (joint equilibrium):
I show that the labor market affects marriage market sorting (who marries whom) and marital stability through endogenous divorces that are associated with labor market transitions. This can improve our understanding of important demographic trends (see the chart on the right).
I study how households' choices (marriage, divorce, labor supply) interact with economic policy, e.g., labor market policy, tax policy, and policies that aim to improve gender equality.
For more details, please take a look at my Research Statement.
