1. Discussion and Working Paper // forthcoming

    Strategies under distributional and strategic uncertaint

    I investigate the decision problem which arises in a game of incomplete information under two different types of uncertainty - uncertainty about other players’ type distributions and about other players’…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2023

    Child Penalty Estimation and Mothers' Age at First Birth

    Motherhood continues to pose significant challenges to women’s careers, and a correct assessment of its effects is crucial for understanding the persistent gender inequality in the labor market. We show that the…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2023

    Favoritism by the Governing Elite

    In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are
    the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just
    focusing on the primary…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2023

    Bureaucratic Frictions and Innovation Procurement

    Is work overload a friction to public agencies? Using data on R&D procurements, patents, and contracting units from a US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement…

  5. Discussion and Working Paper // 2023

    Inequality of Opportunity and Intergenerational Persistence in Latin America

    How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of…

  6. Discussion and Working Paper // 2023

    Households' probabilistic inflation expectations in high-inflation regimes

    Central bank surveys frequently elicit households’ probabilistic beliefs about future inflation. The responses provide only a coarse picture of inflation beliefs further away from zero. Using data from the…