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CURRICULUM VITAE (pdf) Updated 30 June 2022 1. Papers in Refereed Journals 1. Papers in Refereed JournalsECONOMICS
Open access: Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance
Open access: Forced displacement in history: Some recent research,
Open access: More choice for men? Marriage patterns after World War II in Italy
Open access: The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn
Jesus speaks Korean: Christianity and Literacy in Colonial Korea
Open access: The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-class Franchise
Open access: Multiplex Network Ties and the Spatial Diffusion of Radical Innovations: Martin Luther's Leadership in the Early Reformation
Open access: Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers
Open access: The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
Open access: Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Open access: Consequences of forced migration: A survey of recent findings
Religion, Division of Labor and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in Germany over 600 Years
Open access: Who Voted for Brexit? Individual and Regional Data Combined
Open access: Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide
Open access: Effects of EU Regional Policy: 1989-2013
Open access: Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis
Open access: Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930
Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation
The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
Not the Opium of the People -- Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Absorptive Capacity and the Growth Effects of Regional Transfers: A Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills
A Gift is not Always a Gift: Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment
Does Women's Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia
Endogenous Product versus Process Innovation and a Firm's Propensity to Export
How low business tax rates attract MNE activity: Municipality-level evidence from Germany
Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy
The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia
Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance
Education versus Fertility: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
Equity Fund Ownership and the Cross-Regional Diversification of Household Risk
The Effect of Protestantism on Education before the Industrialization:
Evidence from 1816 Prussia
Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Common political culture: Evidence on regional corruption contagion
Beschäftigungseffekte von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen bei Exporteuren und Nicht-Exporteuren,
Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
The Effect of FDI on Job Security
Income Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach
Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects,
Intra-and International Risk-Sharing in the Short Run and the Long Run
Introducing Time-to-Educate in a Job Search Model, 2006,
Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals
How Large is the "Brain Drain" from Italy?
Estimation of average treatment effects based on propensity scores
Stata updates/extensions reported in The Stata Journal 4(2): 224-225, Software updates. DATA AND STATISTICS Using Instrumental Variables to establish causality, 2016, IZA World of Labor Article 250.
iPEHD - The ifo Prussian Economic History Database,
Micro Data at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research : The "Ifo Business Survey", Usage and Access
Mikrodaten im ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung: Bestand, Verwendung und Zugang,
80 Jahre Millssche Verhältniszahl (Mills' ratio), 1926-2006, 2006, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WiSt) 35(1): 43-45. MISCELLANEOUS
Clouds at sunset in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, US, 2007, 2. Recent Working PapersFreedom of the Press? Catholic Censorship during the Counter-Reformation (with Francisco J. Pino and Jordi Vidal-Robert), CEPR Discussion Paper 16092.Scholars At Risk: Academic Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany, former title Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany (with Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand and Fabian Waldinger), CEPR Discussion Paper 15820. Wars, Taxation and Representation: Evidence from Five Centuries of German History (with Andreas Ferrara, Eric Melander and Luigi Pascali), CEPR Discussion Paper 15601. Why an EU Referendum? Why in 2016? (with Thiemo Fetzer), CAGE Working Paper 366/2018.
Does Migration Cause Extreme Voting?
OLD working papers (on demand)
Schooling Infrastructure, Educational Attainment and Earnings
The Costs of Displacement in Germany - A Study Based on the German Socioeconomic Panel Why Don't Italians Finish University? - Explaining University Enrollment Behavior in Italy and Germany 3. Books, Book Chapters and CommentsBookProduktionen flyttar utomlands: Om offshoring och arbetsmarknaden (with Karolina Ekholm and Katariina Nilsson Hakkala), 2011, SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 107 pages. Book Chapters How Luther's Quest for Education Changed German Economic History: 9+5 Theses on the Effects of the Protestant Reformation (with Ludger Woessmann), in: Carvalho, Jean-Paul, Iyer, Sriya, Rubin, Jared (eds.) Advances in the Economics of Religion, Palgrave, International Economic Association Series. Education and Human Capital, in: Matthias Blum and Christopher L. Colvin (eds.) An Economist's Guide to Economic History, MacMillan Publishers. Institutions and convergence in Europe: The case of Structural Funds (with Peter H. Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich), in: Nauro Campos and Jan-Egbert Sturm (eds.) Bretton Woods, Brussels, and Beyond -- Redesigning the Institutions of Europe, VoxEU eBook, CEPR, 2018, Chapter 8. EU Regional Policy and the UK (with Peter H. Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich), in: Nauro Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli (eds.) The Economics of UK-EU Relations - From the Treaty of Rome to the Vote for Brexit, Springer, 2017. Is the Brexit vote disconnected from the European Union?" (with Thiemo Fetzer and Dennis Novy), in: Thorsten Beck and Geoffrey Underhill (eds.) Quo Vadis? Identity, policy and the future of the European Union, VoxEU eBook, CEPR, 2017, Chapter 6. The Protestant Reformation's impact in Europe (with Jared Rubin), in: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou (eds.), The Long Economic and Political Shadow of History, VoxEU eBook, CEPR, 2017, Volume 3, Chapter 8. Economics has nothing to do with religion, in: Bruno Frey and David Iselin (eds.). Economic Ideas You Should Forget , Springer, 2017. EU Regional Policy (with Peter H. Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich), in: Harald Badinger and Volker Nitsch (eds.). Handbook of the Economics of European Integration, Chapter 17, Routledge, 2016. Zurueck zu den Wurzeln: Deutschland als Weltmarktfuehrer in Sachen Bildung (with Ludger Woessmann), in: Kai A. Konrad, Ronnie Schoeb, Marcel Thum, Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.) Die Zukunft der Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft: Festschrift fuer Hans-Werner Sinn, Campus Verlag, 2013. The Effects of the Protestant Reformation on Human Capital (with Ludger Woessmann) in: Rachel McCleary (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion , 2011. Job Creation Abroad and Worker Retention at Home (with Marc-Andreas Muendler) in: Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson and Till von Wachter (eds.) The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER, University of Chicago Press, 2008. Comments Discussion of Pierre Regibeau and Katharine E. Rockett: Research assessment and recognized excellence: simple bibliometrics for more efficient academic research evaluations, in: Economic Policy 31(88), 2016. Discussion of Adriana Di Liberto, Fabiano Schivardi and Giovanni Sulis: Managerial practices and student performance, in: Economic Policy 30(84), 2015. Discussion of Martin Brown and Helmut Stix: The euroization of bank deposits in Eastern Europe, in: Economic Policy 30(81), 2015. Discussion of Herbert Bruecker, Simone Bertoli, Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, and Giovanni Peri: Understanding Highly Skilled Migration in Developed Countries: The Upcoming Battle for Brains, in: Tito Boeri, Herbert Bruecker, Frederic Docquier, and Hillel Rapoport (eds.) Brain Drain and Brain Gain - The Global Competition to Attract High-Skilled Migrants, Oxford University Press, 2012. Discussion of Ramón Gómez-Salvador, Julian Messina and Giovanna Vallanti, Gross Job Flows and Institutions in Europe: a Sectoral Approach/Perspective, Julián Messina, Claudio Michelacci, Jarkko Turunen and Gylfi Zoega (eds.) Labour Market Adjustments in Europe, London: Edward Elgar, 2006: 184-186. Comment on Ben J. Heijdra, Christian Keuschnigg, and Wilhelm Kohler, Eastern Enlargement of the EU: Jobs, Investment and Welfare in Present Member Countries in Helge Berger and Thomas Moutos (eds.) Managing EU Enlargement, p. 211-215. Cambridge, MA; MIT Press, 2004. 4. Policy Papers
In EnglishThe Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results (with Jaeger, David A., Jaime Arellano-Bover, Krzysztof Karbownik, Marta Martinez-Matute, John Nunley, R. Alan Seals, Miguel Almunia, Mackenzie Alston, Sascha O. Becker, Pilar Beneito, Rene Böheim, Jose E. Bosca, Jessica H. Brown, Simon Chang, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Shooshan Danagoulian, Sandra Donnally, Marissa Eckrote-Nordland, Lidia Farre Javier Ferri, Margherita Fort, Jane Cooley Fruewirth, Rebecca Gelding, Allen C. Goodman, Melanie Guldi, Simone Häckl, Janet Hankin, Scott Imberman, Joanna Lahey, Joan Llull, Hani Mansour, Isaac McFarlin, Jaakko Meriläinen, Tove Mortlund, Martin Nybom, Stephen D. OConnell, Rupert Sausgruber, Amy Ellen Schwarz, Jan Stuhler, Petra Thiemann, Roel van Veldhuizen, Marianne Wannamaker, and Maria Zhu), Covid Economics 79: 152-217. Long-Term Consequences of Forced Displacement: Three Salient Themes (inaugural) Quarterly Digest on Forced Displacement. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. EU Structural Funds: Do They Generate More Growth?, The CAGE-Chatham House Series, 2012, No. 3. Home Labor Market Effects of Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2005. Employment Pacts in Italy 1992-2002, DICE Report - Journal for Institutional Comparisons, Vol. 2, no.1, 2004.
In German
Was sind die tiefliegenden Faktoren hinter dem Brexit-Referendum?,
Wie das Habsburger Reich heute in den osteuropäischen Verwaltungen sichtbar ist,
Gerechtigkeit und Effizienz nachgelagerter Studiengebühren,
Kehren deutsche Firmen ihrer Heimat den Rücken? - Ein Bericht über Ausländische Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen,
In Spanish
Fragmentación Internacional de la Producción. Cuáles son sus Efectos en el Mercado Laboral ?,
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