Publications

• Sophistication about Self-Control (with Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch). Journal of Public Economics, conditionally accepted. Previous version: IZA Discussion Paper 14609.

• Surveillance and Self-Control (with Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch). The Economic Journal, forthcoming.
  Online Appendix | Older working paper | Replication package

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discussion papers

• Schooling and Self-Control (with Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch). IZA Discussion Paper 16864.

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

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

Work in progress

• The Right Timing Matters: Sensitive Periods in the Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills (with Laura Breitkopf, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, and Matthias Sutter).

• 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 (with Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch). IZA Discussion Paper 12488.
  The `life outcomes and intergenerational implications' part has been published in JEBO, and the `determinants' part as IZA Discussion Paper 15175.

• The Determinants of Population Self-Control, 2022 (with Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah Dahmann, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch). IZA Discussion Paper 15175.
  Parts have been published in the EJ (Surveillance and Self-Control), we're working on the education part.

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).