Publications
Work in progress:
Dong, Sarah, Satyadini, Agung and Sinning, Mathias. 2025. Location Matters: Insights from a Natural Field Experiment to Enhance Small Business Tax Compliance in Indonesia, IZA Discussion Paper No. 18108.
Published peer-reviewed journal articles:
Hoy, Christopher, McKenzie, Luke and Sinning, Mathias. 2023. Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea, Economic Development and Cultural Change 72, 691–723. (IF = 2.0; ABDC journal rating = A)
Sinning, Mathias and Zhang, Yinjunjie. 2023. Traffic and Parking Fine Collection: Are Social Norms More Effective Than Enforcement? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 210, 43–60. (IF = 2.2; ABDC journal rating = A*)
Dong, Sarah and Sinning, Mathias. 2022. Trying to Make a First Good Impression: A Natural Field Experiment to Engage New Entrants to the Tax System, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 100, 101900. (IF = 1.6; ABDC journal rating = A)
Gillitzer, Christian and Sinning, Mathias. 2020. Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 169, 284–300. (IF = 2.2; ABDC journal rating = A*)
Hasan, Syed and Sinning, Mathias. 2018. GST Reform in Australia: Implications of Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Food, The Economic Record 94, 239–254. (IF = 1.2; ABDC journal rating = A)
Haisken-DeNew, John, Hasan, Syed, Jha, Nikhil, and Sinning, Mathias. 2018. Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 145, 449–464. (IF = 2.2; ABDC journal rating = A*)
Biddle, Nicholas, Fels, Katja and Sinning, Mathias. 2018. Behavioral Insights on Business Taxation: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 18, 30–49. (IF = 6.6; ABDC journal rating = A)
Bachmann, Ronald and Sinning, Mathias. 2016. Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 78, 853-876. (IF = 2.5; ABDC journal rating = A)
Cobb-Clark, Deborah, Kassenboehmer, Sonja and Sinning, Mathias. 2016. Locus of Control and Savings, Journal of Banking and Finance 73, 113–130. (IF = 3.7; ABDC journal rating = A*)
Chapman, Bruce and Sinning, Mathias. 2014. Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees, Education Economics 22, 569–588. (IF = 1.2; ABDC journal rating = B)
Kassenboehmer, Sonja and Sinning, Mathias. 2014. Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 67, 335–361. (IF = 2.8; ABDC journal rating = A*)
Higgins, Tim and Sinning, Mathias. 2013. Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent Student Loans, Economics of Education Review 37, 273–285. (IF = 2.2; ABDC journal rating = A)
Bauer, Thomas, Flake, Regina and Sinning, Mathias. 2013. Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data, Review of International Economics 21, 370–385. (IF = 1.0; ABDC journal rating = A)
Cobb-Clark, Deborah, Stillman, Steven and Sinning, Mathias. 2012. Migrant Youths’ Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 643, 18–45. (IF = 2.8)
Choi, Kate, Tienda, Marta, Cobb-Clark, Deborah and Sinning, Mathias. 2012. Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 30, 49–62. (IF = 5.0)
Bauer, Thomas, Cobb-Clark, Deborah, Hildebrand, Vincent and Sinning, Mathias. 2011. A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap, Economic Inquiry 49, 989–1007. (IF = 1.8; ABDC journal rating = A)
Cobb-Clark, Deborah and Sinning, Mathias. 2011. Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes, Regional Science and Urban Economics 41, 214–226. (IF = 3.1; ABDC journal rating = A)
Sinning, Mathias. 2011. Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany, Review of Economics of the Household 9, 45–67. (IF = 5.1; ABDC journal rating = A)
Bauer, Thomas and Sinning, Mathias. 2011. The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, Journal of Population Economics 24, 421–449. (IF = 6.1; ABDC journal rating = A)
Sinning, Mathias. 2010. Homeownership and Economic Performance of Immigrants in Germany, Urban Studies 47, 387–409. (IF = 4.7; ABDC journal rating = A*)
Haisken-DeNew, John and Sinning, Mathias. 2010. Social Deprivation of Immigrants in Germany, Review of Income and Wealth 56, 715–733. (IF = 2.0; ABDC journal rating = A)
Bauer, Thomas and Sinning, Mathias. 2010. Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models, Applied Economics 42, 1569–1575. (IF = 2.2; ABDC journal rating = A)
Fertig, Michael, Christoph M. Schmidt, and Sinning, Mathias. 2009. The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation, Labour Economics 16, 659–668. (IF = 2.4; ABDC journal rating = A)
Basilio, Leilanie, Bauer, Thomas and Sinning, Mathias. 2009. Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany, Labour Economics 16, 510–520 (IF = 2.4; ABDC journal rating = A)
Bauer, Thomas and Sinning, Mathias. 2009. The Purpose of Remittances: Evidence from Germany, Journal of Economics and Statistics 229, 730–742. (ABDC journal rating = B)
Sinning, Mathias, Hahn, Markus and Bauer, Thomas. 2008. The Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Nonlinear Regression Models, The Stata Journal 8, 480–492. (IF = 4.8)
Bauer, Thomas and Sinning, Mathias. 2008. An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to Non-linear Models, Advances in Statistical Analysis 92, 197–206. (IF = 1.4; ABDC journal rating = C)
Bauer, Thomas, Goehlmann, Silja and Sinning, Mathias. 2007. Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior, Health Economics 16, 895–909. (IF = 2.1; ABDC journal rating = A*)
IF = 2022 Impact Factor from Clarivate Journal Citation Reports. Citation numbers are from Google Scholar. Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) 2022 Journal Quality List.
Books:
Sinning, Mathias. 2008. The Savings Behavior of Immigrants in Germany, doctoral thesis, University of Bochum, ISBN 978-3-86788-039-8.
Book chapters:
Sinning, Mathias. 2016. The Financial Capacity of German University Graduates to Repay Student Loans, In: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Martin Guzman (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics, Palgrave MacMillan.
Grave, Barbara and Sinning, Mathias. 2014. Why Don’t We Just Give Them the Money? Financing Living Expenses of Students in Germany, In: Bruce Chapman, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Tim Higgins (eds.), Income Contingent Loans: Theory, Practice and Prospects, Palgrave MacMillan, 109–124.
Book reviews:
Sinning, Mathias. 2017. The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled, by Marcel Gerard and Silke Uebelmesser (The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachussets, 2014), Economic Record 93, 181–183.
Sinning, Mathias. 2013. Migration and the Welfare State, by Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Benjarong Suwankiri (The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011), Economic Record 89, 437–439.
Encyclopedia entries:
Sinning, Mathias and Tani, Massimiliano. 2015. Labor Migration, In: Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Migration, Springer, Dordrecht.
Sinning, Mathias. 2015. Reservation Wages and Immigrants, In: Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Migration, Springer, Dordrecht.
Commissioned reports:
Rose, Trevor, Sinning, Mathias and Breunig, Robert. 2021. How Do Statutory and Effective Corporate Tax Rates Affect Location Decisions of Firms and a Country's Industry Structure? Business Council of Australia, Melbourne, Australia.
Steinhauser, Ralf, Sinning, Mathias and Sobeck, Kristen. 2018. Report: State Tax Elasticities of Revenue Bases, Commonwealth Grants Commission, Canberra, Australia.
Hasan, Syed and Sinning, Mathias. 2017. Scoping Study: State Tax Elasticities of Revenue Bases, Commonwealth Grants Commission, Canberra, Australia.
Sinning, Mathias. 2014. How Much is it Worth? New Estimates of Private Returns to University Education in Australia, Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Canberra, Australia.
Chesters, Jenny, Ryan, Chris and Sinning, Mathias. 2013. Senior Australians and the Take-Up of New Technologies, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide
Chesters, Jenny, Ryan, Chris and Sinning, Mathias. 2013. The Returns to Skill Accumulation, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide
Sinning, Mathias and Stillman, Steven. 2012. Where should I live? The Locational Choices of Australians and New Zealanders, Research Report, Department of Labour, Wellington, New Zealand
Ryan, Chris and Sinning, Mathias. 2012. Training Requirements of Foreign-Born Workers in Different Countries, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide
Ryan, Chris and Sinning, Mathias. 2011. Differing Skill Requirements Across Countries and Over Time, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide.
Ryan, Chris and Sinning, Mathias. 2011. Skill (Mis-)Matches and Over-Education of Younger Workers, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide.
Ryan, Chris and Sinning, Mathias. 2010. The Growth of Literacy Skills over the Working Life – Pattern and Determinants, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), Canberra, Australia.
Ryan, Chris and Sinning, Mathias. 2010. Who Works Beyond the ’Standard’ Retirement Age and Why?, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide.
Ryan, Chris and Sinning, Mathias. 2009. Skill Matches to Job Requirements, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide.
Ryan, Chris and Sinning, Mathias. 2009. Job Requirements and Lifelong Learning for Older Workers, Research Report, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide.
Publications in German:
Fels, Katja, Schmidt, Christoph M. and Sinning, Mathias. 2015. BaföG Plus: Deutschlands Hochschulfinanzierung neu denken – Nachgelagerte Studiengebühren können die soziale Schieflage in der Bildungsfinanzierung auflösen (reform proposal for financing higher education in Germany), RWI Position No. 66.