WORK IN PROGRESS

• Mental health during COVID-19 pandemic: Worldwide Evidence from Crisis Helplines, with Marius Brülhart, and Rafael Lalive, Valentin Klotzbücher

• Inequality-Led Migration and Endogenous Economic Growth with Annie Tubadji, Peter Nijkamp, Joachim Moeller and Corrado Benassi

• Risk, Uncertainty and Insurance under Climate Change, with Stefan Baumgärtner

WORKING PAPERS

• Informed by wet feet: How do floods affect property prices? with Beat Hintermann and Andreas Zischg, WWZ Working Paper, 2020 (18). University of Basel

• Distress and Anxiety during the COVID-19 Pandemic as Revealed through Helpline Calls with Marius Brülhart, and Rafael Lalive, Valentin Klotzbücher

• The fair-minded rich and healthy? (Youth) unemployment, inequality and fairness concerns in preferences for redistribution, Working papers 2020/02, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel

PUBLISHED WORK

• Brülhart, M., Klotzbücher, V., Lalive, R. and Stephanie K. Reich. Mental health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic as revealed by helpline calls. Nature (2021). Media Coverage:

  • 1. 1. 1. 1. • UNIL video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVS3kcwSUSo&t=3s

                • Behind the paper: https://go.nature.com/3oqy3CS

                • Nature News and Views: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03038-9

                • AP: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-lebanon-pandemics-8ea2608c917308b26615408e876caaf0

                • New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2297998-calls-to-mental-health-helplines-rose-by-a-third-in-covid-19-lockdowns/

                • ORF: https://science.orf.at/stories/3209871/; https://oe1.orf.at/player/20211118/657397/1637240104013

                • https://www.24heures.ch/le-covid-a-fait-exploser-les-appels-sur-les-lignes-de-detresse-878047794463

                • https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/appels-aux-associations-dentraide-renseignent-craintes-population-face-pandemie

                • https://www.lematin.ch/story/etude-le-covid-na-pas-trop-aggrave-les-problemes-mentaux-731877643989

                • https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-11-17/las-ayudas-economicas-mitigaron-las-ideas-suicidas-en-lo-peor-de-la-pandemia.html

  • Lost in lockdown? COVID-19, social distancing and mental health in Germany, with Valentin Klotzbuecher, Covid Economics, CEPR: Vetted and Real Time Papers Review (2020), 22: 117-153. Media Coverage: ZEIT ONLINE, May 2020; Uni Freiburg Online-Magazin, June 2020.

• Decentralization with porous borders: Public production in a federation with tax competition and spillovers, with Beat Hintermann, International Tax and Public Finance (2019): 1-37.