Radost Holler
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at the Bonn Graduate School School of Economics in the field of Applied Microeconomics. I am a research fellow at the EPoS Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224, briq student fellow, and member of the Young Economist Program at ECONtribute
My main research areas are labor, education and social economics.
Contact Information
Email: holler@uni-bonn.de
Twitter: @RadostHoller
Office: Niehbuhrstr. 5, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Research
Publications
Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands (with C. Zimpelmann, H.-M. von Gaudecker, L. Janys, B. Siflinger) Labour Economics, 2021
Using customized panel data spanning the entire year of 2020, we analyze the dynamics of working hours and household income across different stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Similar to many other countries, during this period the Netherlands experienced a quick spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, adopted a set of fairly strict social distancing measures, gradually reopened, and imposed another lockdown to contain the second wave. We show that socio-economic status is strongly related to changes in working hours, especially when strict economic restrictions are in place. In contrast, household income is equally unaffected for all socio-economic groups. Examining the drivers of these observations, we find that pandemic-specific job characteristics (the ability to work from home and essential worker status) help explain the socio-economic gradient in total working hours. Household income is largely decoupled from shocks to working hours for employees. We provide suggestive evidence that large-scale labor hoarding schemes have helped insure employees against shocks to their employees.
Data Sets
CoViD-19 Impact Lab Questionnaire Documentation
(with Hans-Martin von Gaudecker; Christian Zimpelmann; Moritz Mendel; Bettina Siflinger; Lena Janys; Jürgen Maurer; Egbert Jongen; Renata Abikeyeva; Felipe Augusto Azuero Mutis; Annica Gehlen; Eva Lucia Kleifgen )
DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4576205
Work in Progress
The Effect of Education on Patience -- Global Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms (with Thomas Dohmen and Uwe Sunde) submitted
We provide evidence for the effect of education on patience based on schooling reforms in 48 countries around the globe. The analysis combines data on patience from the Global Preferences Survey (GPS) with newly constructed data on changes in compulsory schooling laws between 1947 and 2003 in the countries covered by the GPS. Using within-country variation in compulsory years of schooling, we find that respondents who were affected by a schooling reform exhibit a significantly higher level of patience than respondents who were not subject to the same reform. The effect is sizable but exhibits substantial heterogeneity and is mainly driven by reforms that target secondary education.
Norm Prevalence and Interdependence: Evidence from a Large-Scale Historical Survey of German speaking Villages (with Paul Schäfer)
We use large-scale survey data of German speaking villages from the 1930's to investigate drivers of cooperation, gender, and religious norms. Through geographic cluster analysis, we show that inter-regional variation explains only little heterogeneity in norms. Villages in the same physical and institutional environment still maintain different norms. We argue that local differences in the structure of social relationships can explain intra-regional heterogeneity in norms. We focus on a community's ability to transmit and enforce norms to derive theoretical links between correlates of community social relationships and the number of norms it maintains (norm prevalence). Empirically we find that: (1) norm prevalence is positively related to three correlates of community social relationships: religiously homogeneous villages, villages that border on other villages with a different majority religion, and villages with more within-village social gatherings; (2) villages with stronger community-level social relationships are also less likely to segment their reference group for the cooperation norm to smaller social units; (3) cooperation norms make other norms more likely.
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
Ongelijkedheid in arbeidsuren en inkomen gedurende het eerste jaar van de coronapandemie
(with Bettina Siflinger, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Lena Janys, Christian Zimpelmann)
In: Preadviezen 2021: Een drieluik over migratie, onderwijs, en de corona coronacrisis, Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staathuishoudkunde, Netherlands.
Other projects
The shift to remote work & parental division of Labor
(with Lenard Simon, Christian Zimpelmann, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Lena Janys)
presentations at: 5th IZA Workshop on Gender and Family; CRC TR224 Young Researcher Workshop; Econtribute YEP Seminar
Gender Occupational Segregation in Germany and the Timing of Decision Making (with Yana Radeva)
Other
Grants & Prices
Exploratory Data and Travel Grant, 2020, Economic History Association
Argelander Grant, 2020, University of Bonn
Teaching Award, Department of Economics, University of Bonn, 2019
Teaching
Public Finance and Social Policy (Bachelor), Teaching Assistant, 2020
Econometrics (Bachelor), Teaching Assistant, 2018/19
Mathematics for Economists (Bachelor), Teaching Assistant, 2011 - 2013
Referee Service
Labour Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Applied Economic Letters, Journal of Labour Market Research