Research Interests
Applied Microeconometrics, Human Capital, Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics
Short Bio
- Since 2019 Principal Investigator and co-speaker (since 2023), cluster of excellence ECONtribute
- Since 2019 Full Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne, Germany
- Since 2018 Principal Investigator, collaborative research center (SFB) TR 224
- Since 2018 CESifo Affiliate
- Since 2017 briq Research Associate
- Since 2017 Reinhard Selten Institute Affiliate 2017 and board member (since 2023)
- Since 2015 IZA Research Fellow
- Since 2017 Elected Member of the "Ausschuss für Bildungsökonomie"
- 2015 Prize for the best dissertation in education economics (Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss)
- 2014 HCEO Emerging Scholar
- 2014 Karin Islinger dissertation award
- 2014 Dissertation prize "The Future of Labor" (ZEW/Volksbank Weinheim Foundation)
- 2013-2019 Assistant Professor, University of Bonn
- 2013 Dr. rer. pol, University of Mannheim
- 2009-2013 Researcher, University of Mannheim
- 2008-2013 Researcher, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)
- 2008 and 2011 Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago
- 2006-2007 Advanced Studies Program, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
- 2006 Master in International Economic Studies, Maastricht University
- 2004-2005 Exchange student, Sciences Po, Paris
Working Papers
Selected Publications
- Gender differences in wage expectations and negotiation (with L. Kiessling, P. Seegers, and J. Bergerhoff), Labour Economics, 2024: 87, 102505
- Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences (with Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch), Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
- Revisiting the Marshmellow Test: On the Interpretation of Replication Results (with Armin Falk and Fabian Kosse), Psychological Science, forthcoming.
- The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment (with Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch), Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
- Paternal Grandfather’s Access to Food Predicts All-cause and Cancer Mortality in Grandsons (with Vanda Aronsson, Gerard van den Berg, and Denny Vågerö), Nature Communications, 2018, 9: 5124.
- Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life (with Gerard van den Berg and Johannes Schoch), The Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (3): 465–506.
- Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Data Combination for the Identification and Inference of Factor Structure Models (with Rémi Piatek), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3): 734-755.