Working Papers
Tied Movers' Gender Gaps: Wage Rates, Earnings, and Satisfaction (with Christian Schluter and Carsten Schröder)
We study the labor market consequences of job-related relocations within couples. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine how couples’ relocation impact hourly wages, working hours, earnings, and subjective income and job satisfaction. Our empirical strategy combines a matched comparison group of non-moving couples with a dynamic event-study design that accounts for life-cycle earnings dynamics. Job-related relocations generate pronounced gender asymmetries: male partners experience substantial gains across these outcomes, while female partners’ outcomes remain largely unchanged. By contrast, untied females experience gains similar to those of males. Hence, household relocation decisions represent an important mechanism contributing to persistent gender gaps.
Income-Based Family Typology and Child Development: Evidence from the UK (with Elena Claudia Meroni)
This paper examines how parental employment and earnings arrangements affect children's cognitive and socio-emotional development. Using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK), we classify families into six types based on parental employment status and relative earnings and estimate their association with outcomes for children aged 7 and 11. Exploiting the panel structure of the data, we implement a cumulative value-added specification. We find that children in households where at least one parent is not employed face worse socio-emotional outcomes relative to male-breadwinner families, while children in dual-breadwinner, equal-earner, or female-breadwinner arrangements show no meaningful differences in either cognitive or socio-emotional outcomes. Parental employment matters for children's development, but conditional on both parents working, the identity of the main earner does not.
Work in Progress
Household Relocation and Fertility Choices (with Riccardo Franceschin)
Relaxing the Constraints: Working from Home and Labor Supply Preferences (with Ludgero Glorias and Federico Pilla)
Economic Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence: Definitions, Attitudes, and Underreporting (with Müge Süer and Lea Naemi Weigand)