Publications

• Schooling and Self-Control. 2025. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 237, 107147. With Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch.
  Working paper | Replication package

• Sophistication about Self-Control. 2024. Journal of Public Economics,  238, 105196.  With Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch.
  Online Appendix | Working paper | Replication package

• Surveillance and Self-Control. 2024. The Economic Journal 134(660):1666-1682.  With Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch.
  University of Melbourne Media Release | Online Appendix | Older working paper | Replication package

• Self-Control and Unhealthy Body Weight: The Role of Impulsivity and Restraint. 2023. Economics & Human Biology, 50, 101263. With Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch.
  Online Appendix | Working paper

• The Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden. 2023. The Economic Journal, 133(650):888-903. With Sarah Cattan, Martin Karlsson, and Therese Nilsson.
  Policy Brief (in German) | Online Appendix | Working paper | Replication package

• Marginal College Wage Premiums Under Selection Into Employment. 2022. The Economic Journal, 132(646):2231-2272. With Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal.
  Online Appendix | Working paper | Replication package

• The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes. 2022. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 197, 725-744. With Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch.
  Policy Brief (in German) | Online Appendix | Working paper

• Economic Downturns and Mental Health in Germany. 2021. European Economic Review, 140, 103915. With Daniel Avdic, Sonja de New.
  Online Appendix | Working paper | Policy report (in German) | Blog summary (by Daniel Graeber)

• Heterogeneity in Marginal Non-Monetary Returns to Higher Education. 2019. Journal of the European Economic Association 17(1):205-244. With Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal.
  Online Appendix | Older working paper

• Reanalyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany. 2016. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 31(5):865-872. With Hendrik Schmitz.
  Online Appendix | Longer working paper | Replication package

Discussion papers

• The Right Timing Matters: Sensitive Periods in the Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills. 2025. IZA Discussion Paper 17974. With Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, and Matthias Sutter.

• More Education Does Make You Happier – Unless You Are Unemployed. 2023. IZA Discussion Paper 16454. With Alexander Bertermann and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch.

• Fertility Effects of College Education – Evidence from the German Educational Expansion. 2019. DICE Discussion Paper 316. With Matthias Westphal.
  Policy report (German) | (slightly embarrassing) YouTube video (in German)

Work in progress

• The Effects of a Large-Scale Social and Emotional Learning Program on Students' Educational Attainment. With Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, and Matthias Sutter.

• Language Training in Preschool and the Formation of Grammar Skills.

Outdated working papers

• Self-Control: Determinants, Life Outcomes and Intergenerational Implications. 2019. IZA Discussion Paper 12488. / The Determinants of Population Self-Control. 2022. IZA Discussion Paper 15175. With Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch.
  The `life outcomes and intergenerational implications' part has been published in JEBO (The Predictive Power of Self-Control),  and the `determinants' parts  as have been published in the EJ (Surveillance and Self-Control) and JEBO (Schooling and Self-Control).

Policy papers

• Von der wirtschaftlichen Rezession in die psychische Depression?, DICE Policy Brief 19 (2021).

• Schulschließungen und ihre Folgen, DICE Forschung kompakt (2020).

• Kind und Karriere: Haben es Akademikerinnen schwerer? , DICE Policy Brief 15 (2019).

• Baby Gap: Does More Education Make for Less Children?, RWI Impact Note. With Matthias Westphal (2019).

• Die Geburtenlücke: Wie das Studium die Familienplanung beeinflusst, RWI Impact Note. With Matthias Westphal (2018).