Forthcoming and Published Papers

Detecting and Preventing Cheating in Exams: Evidence from a Field Experiment, 2021.
with Tobias Cagala and Johannes Rincke.
Accepted at Journal of Human Resources.
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How Effective Are Social Distancing Policies? Evidence on the Fight Against COVID-19 from Germany, 2021.
with Emanuel Hansen and Simeon Schächtele.
PLoS ONE, 16(9):e0257363.
| Abstract | | Paper | | Replication Package |

Behavioral Responses to Inheritance and Gift Taxation: Evidence from Germany, 2021.
Journal of Public Economics, 193.
Awarded the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award, CESifo Public Sector Economics.
Awarded the Reinhard Selten Award, German Economic Association.
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Rent Extraction and Prosocial Behavior, 2019.
with Tobias Cagala, Amanda Tuset Cueva, Veronika Grimm, and Johannes Rincke.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 166, 709-723.
| Abstract | | Paper | | Previous Version |

Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators, 2019,
with Tobias Cagala, Veronika Grimm, and Johannes Rincke,
The Economic Journal, 129(620), 1593-1617.
Awarded the Hermann Gutmann Award, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
| Abstract | | Paper | | Online Appendix | | Stata-Module (XTVAR) to estimate PVAR-Models |

A Field Experiment on Intertemporal Enforcement Spillovers, 2014,
with Tobias Cagala and Johannes Rincke,
Economics Letters, 125(2), 171-174.
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Discussion Papers

Optimal Targeting in Fundraising: A Machine-Learning Approach, 2021.
with Tobias Cagala, Johannes Rincke, and Anthony Strittmatter.
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Content Matters: The Effects of Commitment Requests on Truth-Telling, 2019.
with Tobias Cagala and Johannes Rincke.
Revised and Resubmitted to Games and Economic Behavior.
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Leverage, Corporate Taxes and Debt Shifting of Multinationals: The Impact of Firm-specific Risk, 2010.
with Matthias Dischinger and Marcus Strobel.
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Work in Progress

Child Penalties, Family Policies, and Gender Norms in Germany,
with Timm Bönke, Emanuel Hansen, Holger Lüthen, Dominik Sachs.
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Racial Discrimination in Seeking Advice,
with Vojta Bartoš and Johannes Rincke.

More Bad News for Mothers: The Child Penalty in Mental Health,
with Alexander Ahammer, Martin Halla, and Timo Hener.

Son Preferences and Mental Health of Fathers,
with Martin Halla and Johanna Reuter.

Income Taxation and Workplace Absenteeism,
with Alexander Ahammer, Michael Brottrager, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer.

Human Capital Accumulation, Earnings Elasticities, and the Efficiency Cost of Taxation,
with David Gstrein, Lea Fricke, and Dominik Sacks.

Online Newspapers and Political Polarization: A Series of Field Experiments,
with Matthias Fahn.