Research
Refereed journal articles
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• Traffic and Parking Fine Collection: Are Social Norms More Effective Than Enforcement?, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 210, 43-60, 2023 (with Yinjunjie Zhang)
• Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022 (with Christopher Hoy and Luke McKenzie)
• 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, 2022 (with Sarah Dong)
• Nudging Businesses to Pay Their Taxes: Does Timing Matter?, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 169, 284-300, 2020 (with Christian Gillitzer)
• GST Reform in Australia: Implications of Estimating Price Elasticities of Demand for Food, The Economic Record 94, 239-254, 2018 (with Syed Hasan)
• Behavioral Insights on Business Taxation: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 18, 30-49, 2018 (with Nick Biddle and Katja Fels)
• Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 145, 449-464, 2018 (with John Haisken-DeNew, Syed Hasan and Nikhil Jha)
• Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 78, 853-876, 2016 (with Ronald Bachmann)
• Locus of Control and Savings, Journal of Banking and Finance 73, 113-130, 2016 (with Deborah Cobb-Clark and Sonja Kassenboehmer)
• Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees, Education Economics 22, 569-588, 2014 (with Bruce Chapman)
• Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 67, 335-361, 2014 (with Sonja Kassenboehmer)
• Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent Student Loans, Economics of Education Review 37, 273-285, 2013 (with Tim Higgins)
• Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data, Review of International Economics 21, 370-385, 2013 (with Thomas Bauer and Regina Flake)
• Migrant Youths’ Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 643, 18-45, 2012 (with Deborah Cobb-Clark and Steven Stillman)
• Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 30, 49-62, 2012 (with Kate Choi, Marta Tienda and Deborah Cobb-Clark)
• A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap, Economic Inquiry 49, 989-1007, 2011 (with Thomas Bauer, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Vincent Hildebrand)
• Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes, Regional Science and Urban Economics 41, 214-226, 2011 (with Deborah Cobb-Clark)
• Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany, Review of Economics of the Household 9, 45-67, 2011
• The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany, Journal of Population Economics 24, 421-449, 2011 (with Thomas Bauer)
Social Deprivation of Immigrants in Germany, Review of Income and Wealth 56, 715-733, 2010 (with John Haisken-DeNew)
• Home-ownership and Economic Performance of Immigrants in Germany, Urban Studies 47, 387-409, 2010
• Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models, Applied Economics 42, 1569-1575, 2010 (with Thomas Bauer)
• The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation, Labour Economics 16, 659-668, 2009 (with Michael Fertig and Christoph M. Schmidt)
• Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany, Labour Economics 16, 510-520, 2009 (with Leilanie Basilio and Thomas Bauer)
• The Purpose of Remittances: Evidence from Germany, Journal of Economics and Statistics 229, 730-742, 2009 (with Thomas Bauer)
• The Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Nonlinear Regression Models, The Stata Journal 8, 480-492, 2008 (with Thomas Bauer and Markus Hahn)
• An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to Non-linear Models, Advances in Statistical Analysis 92, 197-206, 2008 (with Thomas Bauer)
• Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior, Health Economics 16, 895-909, 2007 (with Thomas Bauer and Silja Goehlmann)