Refereed Journals

  1. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Learning When to Quit: An Empirical Model of Experimentation in Standards Development

    Using data from the Internet Engineering Task Force, a vol- untary organization that develops protocols for managing Inter- net infrastructure, we estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of the decision to…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities

    This  paper  analyzes  whether  technological  change  improves  equality  of  labormarket opportunities by increasing the returns to skills relative to the returns toparental background.  We find that in…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2025

    Birth Cohort Size Variation and the Estimation of Class Size Effects

    We show that in school systems with grade retention or redshirting birth cohort size is negatively related to the grade-level share of students who are too old for their grade. This compositional effect gives…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Public goods and diversity in democracies and non-democracies

    This paper analyzes how ethnic diversity affects the provision of public goods in democratic and non-democratic societies when political parties compete for voter support by offering a mix of private and public…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Diagnosis Related Payment for Inpatient Mental Health Care: Hospital Selection and Effects on Length of Stay

    We study a policy introducing diagnosis related payment for inpatient mental health care in Germany with rates decreasing over length of stay. Using data on all hospital cases, we first examine which hospitals…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2024

    Analyse der Einkommens- und Beschäftigungswirkungen einer Einführung des CDU-Konzepts der „Aktiv-Rente“

    Im September 2023 stellte die CDU das Konzept der „Aktiv-Rente“ vor. Die Idee dahinter ist, den Arbeitsverdienst von Rentnerinnen und Rentnern, die neben dem Bezug einer gesetzlichen Rente eine bezahlte…