Head of Department of the
Public Economics Department
Head of department of Public Economics at DIW Berlin and Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. Ph.D in Economics with distinction (Supervisors: Prof. Viktor Steiner and Prof. Richard Blundell). Studies in Economics and Political Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Humboldt-University Berlin and University of Toronto (degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Visiting Fellow at Paris School of Economics, Institute for Fiscal Studies und UCL London. Recent publications in Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics and Econometrics Journal.
Selected Publikations/Working Papers:
Regression with Selectively Missing Covariates (joint with Christoph Breunig), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 206, 2019
Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-cycle model of Family Labor Supply and Savings (with Victoria Prowse), submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 189, 2019
Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income (with Daniel Kemptner and Victoria Prowse), submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 188, 2019
Working Life and Human Capital Investment: Causal Evidence from Pension Reform (with Niklas Gohl, Elisabeth Kurz and Felix Weinhardt), submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 212, 2019
The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings – Distributional implications for the pension system (2019), The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 14 (with Daniel Kemptner and Holger Lüthen)
Wind electricity subsidies – Windfall for land owners? Evidence from a feed-in tariff in Germany (2018), Journal of Public Economics (with Martin Simmler), 159, pp 16 -32
Pension incentives and early retirement (2017), Labour Economics, 47, pp. 216-231 (with Barbara Engels and Johannes Geyer)
Longevity, Life-cycle Behavior and Pension Reform, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 178, No. 3, pp. 582-601, 2014 (with Victoria Prowse).
Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment, Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 1116-1125, 2009 (with Michal Myck).
Optimal income taxation of lone mothers: an empirical comparison for Britain and Germany, Economic Journal, Vol. 119, No. 535, pp. 101-121, 2009 (with Richard Blundell, Mike Brewer and Andrew Shephard).