Research

Peer-reviewed Articles 

Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution - with Frank M Fossen, Carsten Schroeder  - Empirical Economics

Bias in Tax Progressivity Estimates - National Tax Journal 

Hours Risk and Wage Risk: Repercussions over the Life-Cycle - with Robin Jessen - Scandinavian Journal of Economics 

The Personality Traits of Self-Made and Inherited Millionaires - with Marius Leckelt, David Richter, Mitja Back, Carsten Schroeder - HSSCOMMS 

A Novel Sampling Strategy for Surveying High Net‐Worth Individuals—A Pretest Application Using the Socio‐Economic Panel  - with Carsten Schröder, Charlotte Bartels, Markus M. Grabka, Martin Kroh, Rainer Siegers - Review of Income and Wealth 

Wealth Inequalities  - with Carsten Schröder, Ed Wolff - Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics 

The economic research potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel study - with Carsten Schroeder,  Alexandra Fedorets, Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Holger Lüthen, Maria Metzing, Felicitas Schikora, Stefan Liebig  - German Economic Review

Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts: Evidence from Germany  - with Giacomo Corneo, Carsten Schroeder -  Public Finance Analysis

Inequality-Minimization with a Given Public Budget - with Carsten Schroeder -  Journal of Economic Inequality 

Public health insurance, individual health, and entry into self-employment  - with Frank M. Fossen - Small Business Economics 

Work in Progress

The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns  - with Max Longmuir, Johannes Seebauer, Matteo Targa 

Born in the Land of Milk and Honey: The Impact of Hometown Growth on Individual Wealth - with Charlotte Bartels, Carsten Schroeder  (under review)

Out For Good: Labor Market Effects of Transitory and Persistent Health Shocks  - with Mattis Beckmannshagen (under review)

Artificial Intelligence and Work Satisfaction - with Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella (under review)

Routes to the Top - with Christian Schluter, Carsten Schroeder  (under review)

Inequality of Opportunity in Wealth : Levels, Trends, and Drivers - with Viola Hilbert, Daniel Graeber 

Wage Risk and Portfolio Choice: The Role of Correlated Returns - with Maximilian Longmuir 

Investment Losses and Inequality - with Maximilian Longmuir 

Early Stage

An Estimated Model of Employer and Non-employer Entrepreneurship  - with MD Mobarak Hossain, Frank M. Fossen, Robin Jessen,  Sankar Mukhopadyay

Transitory and Persistent Health Shocks in a Structural Life-Cycle Model  - with Ulrich Schneider

How to Spend It  - with Robin Jessen,  Mark Andor

Other Publications

Expertise for the 2023 Report of the German Minimum Wage Commission - with Carsten Schröder, Markus Grabka, Lars Handrich, Johannes König, Octavio Morales,Maximilian Priem, Christian Schluter, Johannes Seebauer, Anne Winkler (in German)  

SOEP-Core - 2019: Sampling, nonresponse, and weighting in Sample P  - with Rainer Siegers and Hans Walter Steinhauer- SOEP Survey Papers

Improving the coverage of the top-wealth population in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)  - with Carsten Schroeder, Charlotte Bartels, Markus M. Grabka, Konstantin Göbler, Rainer Siegers, Sabine Zinn - SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 

Personelle Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland  - with Markus M. Grabka and Carsten Schroeder - APuZ (in German)

Millionaires under the Microscope - with Carsten Schroeder, Charlotte Bartels, Markus M. Grabka, Konstantin Göbler - DIW Weekly Report

Cui Prodest? The Distributional Impact of Riester Pensions - with Giacomo Corneo and Carsten Schroeder - FNA Policy Report (in German)

Personal Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship  - with Frank M. Fossen - CESifo DICE Report