PUBLICATIONS
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"The Effects of Sun Exposure during Pregnancy and Early Life on Child Obesity", 2022, with Christian Dustmann and Malte Sandner. Forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources.
Selected Media Coverage: The Telegraph
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"The Role of Schools in Transmission of SARS-CoV2 Virus: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Germany", 2022, with Clara von Bismarck-Osten and Kirill Borusyak. Economic Policy, 37(109), 87-130.
Selected Media Coverage: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Berliner Zeitung The European
A short movie about the paper (UCL Econ Research Digest)
Link to VoxEU article
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"Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Germany", 2022, with Christian Dustmann, Attila Lindner, Matthias Umkehrer and Philipp vom Berge. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137 (1), 267-328.
Selected Media Coverage: Financial Times Le Figaro Larazon Süddeutsche Zeitung
Link to VoxEU article
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“Do Place-Based Tax Incentives Create Jobs?”, 2020, with Hyejin Ku and Ragnhild Schreiner. Journal of Public Economics, 191, 104105.
Link to VoxEU article
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"Spillover Effects of Mass Layoffs", 2020, with Christina Gathmann and Ines Helm. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18, 427-468.
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“Productivity Growth, Wage Growth, and Unions", 2018, with Alice Kügler and Ragnhild Schreiner. In: "Price and Wage-Setting in Advanced Economies", European Central Bank Conference Proceedings.
Link to VoxEU article
Selected Media coverage: New York Times
Presentation, ECB Forum, Sintra, June 2018
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"Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance", 2018, with Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann and Anna Raute. Journal of Political Economy, 126, 2356-2409.
Presented at invited sessions at the EALE/SOLE in Montreal and the EEA in Mannheim.
Link to VoxEU article
Link to Makronom article
Link to Okonomenstimme article
Selected Media Coverage: Spiegel, FAZ, iNews, Liberation
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“The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice”, 2017, with Christian Dustmann and Patrick Puhani. Economic Journal, 127, 1348-1380.
Link to VoxEU article
Selected Media Coverage: FAZ (4.3.2014; edotrial), Suddeutsche Zeitung (4.3.2014),
Stuttgarter Zeitung (6.3.2014), Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
(4.3.2014), Wirtschaftwoche
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"On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration", 2017, with Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, and Luigi Minale. Economic Policy, Special Issue on Refugee Migration, 32, 497-550.
Link to VoxEU article
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"Peer Effects in the Workplace", 2017, with Thomas Cornelissen and Christian Dustmann. American Economic Review, 107, 425-456.
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"Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment", 2017, with Christian Dustmann and Jan Stuhler. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132, 435-483.
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"The Impact of Migration: Why Do Studies Find Such Different Results", 2016, with Christian Dustmann and Jan Stuhler. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30, 31-56.
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"From LATE to MTE: Alternative Methods for the Evaluation of Policy Interventions", 2016, with Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann and Anna Raute. Labour Economics, 41, 47-60.
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"Referral-Based Job Search Networks", 2016, with Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz and Herbert Brücker. Review of Economic Studies, 83, 514-546.
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"From the `Sick Man of Europe’ to the `Economic Superstar’: Germany's Resurgent Economy”, 2014, with Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger and Alexandra Spitz-Oener. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28, 167-188.
Link to Harvard Business Review arrticle, written by my co-author Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Reprinted in: Explaining Germany's exceptional recovery: A new eBook, Vox eBook.
Selected Media Coverage: Spiegel online (2.4.2014), Die Welt (3.2.2014), FT blogs
(4.2.2014), BBC News (13.2.2014),
Alternatives Economiques (6.3.2014), Der Bund (26.5.2014),
Die Welt (29.6.2014), Panorama (8.2.2018)
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"Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage and Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes after Childbirth", 2014, with Johannes Ludsteck. Journal of Labor Economics, 32, 469-505 .
Selected Media Coverage: Zeit online
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"The Effect of Expansions in Leave Coverage on Children's Long-Term Outcomes", 2012, with Christian Dustmann. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4, 190-224.
Selected Media Coverage: Handelsblatt (29.10.2007), Spiegel online (19.7.2008), N24
(19.7.2008, reprinted in e.g. Suddeutsche Zeitung, Financial
Times, Welt online)
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"What Makes Firm-Based Vocational Training Schemes Successful? The Role of Commitment", 2012, with Christian Dustmann. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4, 36-61.
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"Ethnicity and Educational Achievement in Compulsory Schooling", 2010, with Christian Dustmann and Steve Machin. Economic Journal Features, 120, F272-F292.
Online Appendix (includes findings for Mathematics test scores).
Media Coverage: Daily Mail
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"How General is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach", 2010, with Christina Gathmann. Journal of Labor Economics, 28, 1-49. (Lead article).
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"Revisiting the German Wage Structure ", 2009, with Christian Dustmann and Johannes Ludsteck. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124, 843-881.
Online Appendix (compares inequality trends in the German Socio-Economic Panel and the
IAB Employment Sample).
Selected Media Coverage: Financial Times Deutschland (28.6.2007), wiisen.de (28.6.2007),
Handelsblatt (29.7.2007), Stuttgarter Zeitung (29.1.2007), Focus
online (29.6.2007), Frankfurter Rundschau (25.9.2007)
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"Training and Union Wages", 2009, jointly with Christian Dustmann. Review of Economics and Statistics, 91, 363-376.
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"Does the IAB Employment Sample Reliably Identify Maternity Leave Taking? A Data Report", 2009, Journal for Labor Market Research, 42, 49-70.
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"Testing for Asymmetric Employer Learning", 2007, Journal of Labor Economics, 25, 651-692.
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"Wage Growth due to Human Capital Accumulation and Job Search: A Comparison between the United States and Germany", 2007, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 60, 562-586.