Research

 Peer-reviewed Publications

Trust we lost: The impact of the Treuhand experience on political alienation in East Germany (read)
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2024, 52(1)

Contagious populists: The impact of election information shocks on populist party preferences in Germany (read)

with Lena GerlingEuropean Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 72

Immigration and anti-immigrant voting in the 2017 German parliamentary election (read)

with Simon WinterGerman Economic Review, 2022, 23(3)

Political inequality, political participation, and support for populist parties (read)

Constitutional Political Economy, 2022, 33

 Working Papers

Administrative areas and regional identity formation: The case of East Germany

with Stefanie Gaebler

Social media attention and politicians’ voting behavior: Evidence from the European Parliament 

with Jonas Klärchen, Lukas Möller & Felix Hochmedia coverage: WirtschaftsWoche

The effect of gender segregation on voting behavior: Evidence from the Weimar Republic

with Remo Nitschke & Felix Rösel

Peer effects, threshold models and social contagion (book chapter)

with Thomas Apolte

Youth approval for democratic values. Evidence for German first-time voters

with Manuel Santos Silva

Work in Progress

Does value transmission affect the efficiency of social policy? Evidence from Germany

with Lena Gerling

The long-term effects of female mayors

with Lena Gerling & Tommy Krieger

Regional Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative 

with Alexander Bareis, Thushyanthan Baskaran & Patrick Hufschmidt

Health effects of the East German de-industrialization

with Matthias Brachert & Felix Rösel