Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Young versus Old Politicians and Public Spending Priorities
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2024), 225, 88-106.
with Thushyanthan Baskaran and Zohal Hessami
[Paper]
Managing Migration: Female Mayors and the Intake of Refugees
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2025), 240, 107306.
[Link][Paper][Code]
Asylum seekers, new businesses, and job creation
Journal of Population Economics (2025), 38, 87.
with Zohal Hessami and Clara Wobbe
[Paper][Deutschlandfunk][Handelsblatt][Zeit]
Working papers
Immigration Shocks and Shifting Social Group Boundaries
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17343 (2024). Revise and Resubmit at Economic Journal.
with Zohal Hessami
[Working Paper]
Selected work in progress
Beyond Residency: Variations in Local Ties and Electoral Success of Mayoral Candidates
with Klara Lehmann
[AEARCTR-0019103]
Policies to Incentivize Ukrainian Refugees to Return
with Lasha Chargaziia, Yvonne Giesing, Gabriele Gurrieri, Yuliya Kosyakova, Panu Poutvaara, Kerstin Tanis, Hannah Vakhitova, Volodymyr Vakhitov, Nataliia Zaika, and Sabine Zinn
[AEARCTR-0018178]
Policy papers (in German)
ifo Migrationsmonitor - Migrantische Unternehmensgründungen
ifo Schnelldienst (2025), 78, No. 12.
with Clara Albrecht, Ahmet Erdem Bayram, Zohal Hessami, and Clara Wobbe
[Bericht]
Modellrechnungen für den Sechsten Tragfähigkeitsbericht des BMF
FiFo-Berichte (2024), No. 33.
with Martin Werding and Benjamin Läpple
[Bericht]
Fachkräfteengpässe in Unternehmen – Fachkräftemangel und Nachwuchsqualifizierung im Handwerk
KOFA-Studie (2021), No. 1/2021, Köln.
with Helen Hickmann, Lydia Malin, and Dirk Werner
[Bericht]
Die Messung des Fachkräftemangels
IW-Report (2020), No. 59/2020, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW), Köln.
with Alexander Burstedde, Regina Flake, Anika Jansen, Lydia Malin, Paula Risius, Susanne Seyda, and Dirk Werner
[Bericht]
Digitalisierung und die Zukunft von Berufen
IW-Kurzbericht (2019), No. 48/2019, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW), Köln.
with Alexander Burstedde
[Kurzbericht]