Research

Work in progress 

Health Implications of Building Retrofits: Evidence from a Population-Wide Weatherization Program. IZA Discussion Paper 15986 (with J. Palacios)

Study programme information and student enrollment (with B. de Koning and A. Künn-Nelen)

Trading off different life domains? The returns to migration (with M. Brüning)

Selected publications 

(a full list of publications as well as work in progress can be found on my CV)

The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility (2023), IZA Discussion Paper 15011 forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics (with M. Caliendo and R. Mahlstedt)

Indoor Air Quality and Strategic Decision Making (2023), Management Science , 69(9), 5354-5377 (with J. Palacios and N. Pestel). --> Watch this video summarizing our results or listen to this podcast.

Cognitive Performance in Remote Work - Evidence from Professional Chess (2021), Economic Journal, 132(643), 1218–1232 (with Christian Seel and Dainis Zegners)

Catching up or Lagging Behind? The Long-term Business and Innovation Potential of Subsidized Start-ups out of Unemployment (2020), Research Policy, 49 (10) (with M. Caliendo and M. Weissenberger)

The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed (2017),  Journal of Public Economics, 148, 136-151 (with M. Caliendo and R. Mahlstedt)

Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality (2016), Labour Economics, 42, 177-193 (with M. Caliendo and A. Uhlendorff)

Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-up Subsidies (2016), European Economic Review , 86, 87-108 (with M. Caliendo and M. Weißenberger)

Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females (2015), Journal of Population Economics, 28 (4), 1005-1043 (with M. Caliendo)

Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups (2015), Small Business Economics, 45(1), 165-190 (with M. Caliendo, J. Hogenacker and F. Wießner)

The challenges of linking survey and administrative data (2015), IZA World of Labor, 2015:214.

The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File (2014), IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 3:6 (with P. Arni, M. Caliendo and K. F. Zimmermann)

Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed (2014), Regional Studies, 48 (6), 1108-1134 (with M. Caliendo)

Start-up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity (2011), Journal of Public Economics, 95, 311-331 (with M. Caliendo)