Research

Frames, Incentives, and Education: Effectiveness of Interventions to Delay Public Pension Claiming (with Franca Glenzer and Pierre-Carl Michaud), revise & resubmit, Journal of Public Economics, 2024.

The Long-Run and Distributional Impacts of Public Pensions (with Qiongda Zhao), 2024

Measuring the Value of Disability Insurance from Take-Up Decisions (with Andreas Haller), 2024

The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies (with Sencer Karademir and Jean-William Laliberté), Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming. [NBER Digest Summary, Canadian Atlas of Child Penalties - please cite Karademir, Laliberté, and Staubli (2024) if you use these data]

Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits? (with Andreas Haller and Josef Zweimüller), Econometrica, 92(1), 79-110, 2024. 

How Social Security Reform Affects Retirement and Pension Claiming (with Rafael Lalive and Arvind Magesan), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 15(3), 115-50, 2023  [Vox EU Summary]

The Accident Externality from Trucking (with Lucija Muehlenbachs and Ziyan Chu), Regional Science and Urban Economics, May, 2021

Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality (with Andreas Kuhn, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich and Josef Zweimüller), Journal of Public Economics, 191, 1-19, 2020  [IZA Newsroom Summary]

Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design (with Philippe Ruh), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy,  11(2), 269-300, 2019  [AEA Research Highlights]

How Much Do Means-Tested Benefits Reduce the Demand for Annuities? (with Monika Bütler and Kim Peijnenburg), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 16(4), 419-449, 2017

Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal (with Kathleen Mullen), Journal of Public Economics, 143, 49-63, 2016

Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution (with Lukas Inderbitzin and Josef Zweimüller), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8(1), 253-88, 2016  [IZA Newsroom Summary]

The Effect of Inspector Group Size on Enforcement and Deterrence (with Lucija Muehlenbachs and Mark A. Cohen), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 3(1), 159-204, 2016

Financial work incentives for disability benefit recipients: Lessons from a randomized field experiment (with Monika Bütler, Eva Deuchert, Michael Lechner, and Petra Thiemann), IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 4:18, 2015

Does Raising the Early Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers? (with Josef Zweimüller), Journal of Public Economics, 108, 17-32, 2013

How Much Does Annuity Demand React to a Large Price Change? (with Monika Bütler and Graziella Zito), The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 115 (3), 808–824, 2013

The Impact of Stricter Criteria for Disability Insurance on Labor Force Participation, Journal of Public Economics, 95 (9-10), 1223–1235, 2011

Payouts in Switzerland: Explaining Developments in Annuitization (with Monika Bütler) in Olivia S. Mitchell, John Piggott, and Noriyuki Takayama, eds., Securing Lifelong Retirement Income: Global Annuity Retirement Payouts, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 2011

Hausser l’âge d’admissibilité aux prestations du Régime de rente du Québec? (with Pierre-Carl Michaud, Yann Décarie, Franca Glenzer, François Laliberté-Auger), Étude IRPP, 2020

Evaluation von IP Neu (with Andreas Haller und Josef Zweimüller), Report for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, and Consumer Protection, 2019.

Die Auswirkungen bedarfsabhängiger Leistungen: Ergänzungsleistungen in der Schweiz (with Monika Bütler, Lukas Inderbitzin, and Jonathan Schulz), Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 13 (3), 137–265, 2012

Pilotprojekt "Startkapital", (with Monika Bütler, Michael Lechner, Eva Deuchert, and Petra Thiemann), Report for the Federal Social Insurance Office, Switzerland, 2012.

Wege in die Frühpension, (with Josef Zweimüller), Report for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, and Consumer Protection, 2012.

Ergänzungsleistungen in der Schweiz, (with Monika Bütler, Lukas Inderbitzin, Jonathan Schulz, and Samuel Zwicky), Avenir Suisse, 2009.

Trends in Time Use Outside Market Work: A Cross-Country Analysis (with Monika Engler), 2011