Discussion papers C01

Personality and Life-Cycle Labour Earnings

752/2026, C01, Teresa Backhaus, Mattis Beckmannshagen

Navigating Motherhood: Endogenous Penalties and Career Choice

722/2025, A03, C01, C02, Sen Coskun, Husnu Dalgic, Yasemin Ozdemir

Experience Effects on Wall Street vs. Main Street: Field and Lab Evidence of Context Dependence

684/2025, C01, Benjamin Christoffersen, Arvid Hoffmann, Zwetelina Iliewa, Lena Jaroszek

Local Unemployment, Worker Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Germany

662/2025, C01, Johannes Weber

Can Work from Home Help Balance the Parental Division of Labor?

661/2025, C01, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lenard Simon, Christian Pugnaghi-Zimpelmann. (First Version: March 2025)

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano?

660/2025, C01, Janoś Gabler, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Jürgen Maurer, Mariam Petrosyan

Corporate Actions as Moral Issues

649/2025, C01, Zwetelina Iliewa, Elisabeth Kempf, Oliver Spalt. First version: February 2025. Forthcomin in Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives

Privatizing Disability Insurance

640/2025, C01, Arthur Seibold, Sebastian Seitz, Sebastian Siegloch

Social Pensions and Intimate Partner Violence Against Older Women

602/2024, C01, Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Giulia La Mattina, Han Ye. First version: October 2024

Job Amenities and the Gender Pension Gap

600/2024, C01, Iris Kesternich, Marjolein Van Damme, Han Y. First version: October 2024

Nonstandard Educational Careers and Inequality

592/2024, C01, Moritz Mendel

Sequential Choices, Option Values, and the Returns to Education

575/2024, C01, Manudeep Bhuller, Philipp Eisenhauer, Moritz Mendel

Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data

553/2024, C01, Katja M. Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir, Michaela Paffenholz

The Long-Run Effects of STEM-Hours in High School: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data

536/2024, C01, Katja Kaufmann, Mark Spils

Adolescents’ Mental Health and Human Capital: The Role of Socioeconomic Rank

526/2024, C01, Michaela Paffenholz

Tranquilo: An Optimizer for the Method of Simulated Moments

522/2024, C01, Janoś Gabler, Sebastian Gsell, Tim Mensinger, Mariam Petrosyan

Beliefs About Maternal Labor Supply

517/2024, C01, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Katja Kaufmann, Christopher Rauh. Forthcoming in Economic Journal

Live Longer and Healthier: Impact of Pension Income for Low-Income Retirees

514/2024, C01, Chiara Malavasi, Han Ye

How Gender Role Attitudes Shape Maternal Labor Supply

513/2024, C01, Tim Mensinger, Christian Zimpelmann

Socioemotional Development during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock

506/2024, C01, Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir

Structural Models for Policy-Making

484/2023, C01, Philipp Eisenhauer, Lena Janys, Christopher Walsh, Janós Gabler

When Institutions Interact: How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies

481/2023, A05, C01, Matthew Gudgeon, Pablo Guzman-Pinto, Johannes F. Schmieder, Simon Trenkle, Han Ye. First version : December 2023

The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence

450/2023, C01, Daniel Reck, Arthur Seibold

The Effect of Removing Early Retirement on Mortality

410/2023, A02, C01, Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, Han Ye. First version: April 2023

Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations: Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes

403/2023, C01, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir, Han Ye. First version: March 2023

Training in Late Careers: A Structural Approach

382/2022, C01, Teresa Backhaus

Proud to Not Own Stocks: How Identity Shapes Financial Decisions

380/2022, A01, C01, Luca Henkel, Christian Zimpelmann

Individual Strategy Choice in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

341/2022, C01, Teresa Backhaus, Yves Breitmoser. First version: March 2022

Skewness Expectations and Portfolio Choice

333/2022, C01, Tilman H. Drerup, Matthias Wibral, Christian Zimpelmann. Published in Experimental Economics 26 (2022), 107-144

Job Search During a Pandemic Recession - Survey Evidence from the Netherlands

320/2021, C01, Maria Balgova, Simon Trenkle, Christian Zimpelmann, Nico Pestel. Published in Labour Economics 75 (2022), 102142

The Effectiveness of Strategies to Contain SARS-CoV-2: Testing, Vaccinations, and NPIs

302/2021, A02, C01, Janos Gabler, Tobias Raabe, Klara Röhrl, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker. Published in Scientific Reports 12 (2022), 8048

Fragile Boys (and Girls)? Determinants and Long-Term Consequences of Socioemotional Development

299/2021, C01, Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir

Rational vs. Irrational Beliefs in a Complex World

287/2021, C01, Gregor Boehl, Cars Hommes

Dynamic Inconsistency in Risky Choice: Evidence from the Lab and Field

274/2021, C01, Rawley Heimer, Zwetelina Iliewa, Alex Imas, Martin Weber. Published in American Economic Review 115 (2025), 330-363

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

273/2021, C01, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Andreas Hackethal, Johannes Koenen, Christine Laudenbach

The Distribution of Ambiguity Attitudes

272/2021, C01, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Axel Wogrolly, Christian Zimpelmann. First version: April 2021. Second version: February 2022

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health: Disentangling Crucial Channels

271/2021, C01, Bettina Siflinger, Michaela Paffenholz, Sebastian Seitz, Moritz Mendel, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

Elite Higher Education, the Marriage Market and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

269/2021, C01, Katja M. Kaufmann, Matthias Messner, Alex Solis

The Hockey Stick Phillips Curve and the Zero Lower Bound

266/2021, C01, Gregor Boehl, Philipp Lieberknecht

People Meet People - A Microlevel Approach to Predicting the Effect of Policies on the Spread of COVID-19

265/2021, A02, C01, Janos Gabler, Tobias Raabe, Klara Röhrl

Stock Market Beliefs and Portfolio Choice in the General Population

258/2021, C01, Christian Zimpelmann

The Effect of Increasing Retirement Age on Households’ Savings and Consumption Expenditure

255/2021, C01, Stefan Etgeton, Björn Fischer, Han Ye. First version: January 2021. Second version: January 2022. Published in Journal of Public Economics 221 (2023), 104845

Efficient Solution and Computation of Models with Occasionally Binding Constraints

253/2021, C01, Gregor Boehl

Unwilling to Train? Firm Responses to the Colombian Apprenticeship Regulation

233/2020, C01, Santiago Caicedo, Miguel Espinosa, Arthur Seibold. Published in Econometrica 90 (2022), 507-550

Gender Peer Effects, Non-Cognitive Skills and Marriage Market Outcomes: Evidence from Single-Sex Schools in the UK

231/2020, C01, Lina Cardona, Katja M. Kaufmann

Reference Points for Retirement Behavior: Evidence from German Pension Discontinuities

226/2020, C01, Arthur Seibold. Published in American Economic Review, 111(4): 1126-1165, 2021

Monetary Policy and Speculative Asset Markets

224/2020, C01, Gregor Boehl. Published in European Economic Review 148 (2022), 104250

Parental Investment and Peer Effects in Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

213/2020, C01, Yasemin Özdemir

Labour Supply During Lockdown and a “New Normal”: The Case of the Netherlands

211/2020, C01, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys, Bettina Siflinger, Christian Zimpelmann

The Fall of the Aspirations Wall: Educational Aspirations, Achievement and Societal Change

207/2020, C01, Ghazala Azmat, Katja M. Kaufmann

Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria

194/2020, A03, C01, Andreas Gulyas, Sebastian Seitz, Sourav Sinha. Published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (2): 236-55. First version: July 2020