CV

Research interests:

Social policy, empirical public economics, applied microeconometrics

Teaching

Selected publications & research projects

• Expectation management of policy leaders: Evidence from COVID-19 (with Andreas Peichl, Annekatrin Schrenker, Georg Weizsäcker und Joachim Winter) forthcoming Journal of Public Economics 
• Regression with Selectively Missing Covariates (2021), Journal of Econometrics, vol. 223(1), pages 28-52 (with Christoph Breunig)
• Long run expectations of households (2021), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 31(with Christoph Breunig and Iuliia Grabova, Felix Weinhardt and Georg Weizsäcker)
• Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-cycle model of Family Labor Supply and Savings (with Victoria Prowse), CRC-190 Discussion Paper 189, 2019, revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
• Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income (with Daniel Kemptner and Victoria Prowse),  CRC-190 Discussion Paper 188, 2019, revise and resubmit, Quantitative Economics.
• Wind electricity subsidies – Windfall for land owners? Evidence from a feed-in tariff in Germany (with Martin Simmler), Journal of Public Economics, 159, pp 16-32, 2018.
• Pension incentives and early retirement (with Barbara Engels and Johannes Geyer), Labour Economics, 47, pp. 216-231, 2017.

• The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply: Combining evidence from a structural model and a quasi‐experimental approach (with Johannes Geyer und Katharina Wrohlich), Labour Economics, 36, pp. 84-98, 2015.

• Longevity, Life-cycle Behavior and Pension Reform (with Victoria Prowse), Journal of Econometrics, 178, (3), pp. 582-601, 2014.

• Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-cycle model of Family Labor Supply and Savings (with Victoria Prowse), IZA Discussion Papers, No. 8980, 2014.