Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap, in: Labour Economics 83 (2023), 102396
with Teresa Backhaus and Annekatrin Schrenker
Crowded-out? Changes in informal childcare during the expansion of formal services in Germany, Social Policy & Administration (2024), (online first): 1–16
with Ludovica Gambarro and C. Katharina Spieß
Does increased legal infrastructure empower victims to leave abusive relationships? I study Germany’s 2002 Act on Protection against Violence, which temporarily grants victims sole use of the shared dwelling (“the aggressor goes, the victim stays”). Linking county-level divorce records (1998–2005) to a hand-collected history of shelter and counselling centre openings (1970–2023), I estimate changes in divorces after the reform relative to before. Divorces rise sharply for three years and decline in the fourth; the increase is driven by female-initiated filings, concentrated in West Germany, and more persistent among non-German filers. Heterogeneity by pre-reform help infrastructure availability shows muted changes where services already existed and the strongest increases where they were absent. These patterns are consistent with a static two-stage model in which pre-existing support had already led abusive marriages to dissolve (and deterred their formation), leaving a smaller post-reform stock of detectable abusive marriages.
This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from France. We study the impact of a change in income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find that aid eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students’ applications but varied by gender and academic performance. Highperforming male students shifted their First-Ranked application from non-selective to selective long-term programs. Yet, female students did not show a systematic response. We suggest that female students were more certain in their application choices, while male students faced stronger financial constraints than females when attending long-term selective programs.
Short-time Work and Unemployment: Differences in Labour-market Outcomes, with Katharina Wrohlich and Sabine Zinn
We quantify and compare the differences in career trajectories after a period in short-time work (STW) or sudden unemployment (UE) (incl. employment, work hours, wage, switching firms and unpaid care work) with a special interest in the role of gender differences in these trajectories. We use the SOEP, as well as the newly-available SOEP-CMI-ADIAB.