糖心TV

Departmental Responsibilities

Impact Director, Monash-糖心TV Alliance activities e.g. Monash-Paris-糖心TV-Zurich-CEPR "Text as Data" Workshops, Monash-糖心TV Applied Young Economist Webinar (AYEW), and 糖心TV-Monash Economics Student Papers (WM-ESP), joint degree programs.

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Research Interests

• Economic History
• Political Economy
• Labour Economics

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Recent Working Papers

Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner's Guide and a Stata Package (with P. David Boll, Hans-Joachim Voth), The 糖心TV Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1541 (2025), University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics.

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Recent Publications

(with Andreas Ferrara, Eric Melander and Luigi Pascali), forthcoming at the Journal of the European Economic Association.

(with Yuan Hsiao, Jared Rubin, and Steven Pfaff), forthcoming at Social Forces.

">Competing Social Influence in Contested Diffusion: Luther, Erasmus and the Spread of the Protestant Reformation (with Yuan Hsiao, Jared Rubin, and Steven Pfaff), forthcoming at Social Forces.

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(with Cheongyeon Won), 2024, Labour Economics 91, article 102618

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(with Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann), 2024, Journal of Economic Literature 62(3): 1094–1142.

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(with Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand and Fabian Waldinger), 2024 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 16(3): 1-45. Lead article.

Open access: , (with Sharun Mukand and Ivan Yotzov), 2022, 86, article 101471. Lead article.

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(with Hans K. Hvide), 26(1): 163-185.

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62(1): 2-25. Lead article.

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(with Erich Battistin and Luca Nunziata), 2022, 88(3): 447-472.

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(with Stephan Heblich and Daniel Sturm), 2021, 122, article 103291.

(with Cheongyeon Won), , 37(1), 7-32, special issue in memory of Carlo Cipolla's (1969) "Literacy and Development"

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(with Erik Hornung), , 80(4): 1143-1188.

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(with Yuan Hsiao, Steven Pfaff, and Jared Rubin), , 85(5): 857-894.

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(with Francesco Cinnirella) , 86(3): 259-290.

(with Irena Grosfeld, Pauline Grosjean, Nico Voigtlaender, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya), , 110(5): 1430-1463.

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(with Lukas Mergele and Ludger Woessmann), , 34(2): 143-171.

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(with Andreas Ferrara), , 59, 1-16.

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(with Ana Fernandes and Doris Weichselbaumer), , 59, 139-152.

(with Luigi Pascali), , 109(5): 1764-1804.

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(with Eleonora Alabrese, Thiemo Fetzer and Dennis Novy), 2019, , 56: 132-150.

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(with Ludger Woessmann), 2018, 100(3): 377-391. Lead article.

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(with Peter H. Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich), 2018 , 69: 143-152.

Open access:
(with Thiemo Fetzer and Dennis Novy), 2017, 32(92): 601-650. Editor's Choice.

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(with Markus Nagler and Ludger Woessmann), 2017, 22(3): 273-311.

(with Jared C. Rubin and Steve Pfaff), 2016, 62: 1-25.
Lead article

The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy (with Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz and Ludger Woessmann), 2016, Economic Journal 126(590): 40-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12220

Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany (with Marc-Andreas Muendler), 2015, Economic Policy 30(84): 589-641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiv014

Absorptive Capacity and the Growth Effects of Regional Transfers: A Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects (with Peter H. Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich), 2013, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5(4): 29-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.5.4.29

Not the Opium of the People -- Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties (with Ludger Woessmann), 2013, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 103(3), 539-544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.3.539

Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills (with Karolina Ekholm and Marc-Andreas Muendler), 2013, Journal of International Economics 90(1), 91-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.10.005

A Gift is not Always a Gift: Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment (with Dolores Messer and Stefan C. Wolter), 2013, Economica 80(318), 345-371. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12004

Does Women's Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia (with Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann), 2013, European Review of Economic History 17(1), 24-44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hes017

Endogenous Product versus Process Innovation and a Firm's Propensity to Export (with Peter H. Egger), 2013, Empirical Economics 44(1), 329-354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00181-009-0322-6

How low business tax rates attract MNE activity: Municipality-level evidence from Germany (with Peter H. Egger, and Valeria Merlo), 2012, Journal of Public Economics 96(9-10), 698-711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2012.05.006

Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy (with Peter H. Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich), 2012, European Economic Review 56(4), 648-668. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2012.03.001

The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia (with Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann), 2012, Cliometrica 6(1), 29-44.

Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution (with Erik Hornung and Ludger Woessmann), 2011, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 3(3), 92-126.

Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution (with Marc-Andreas Muendler), 2010, American Economic Review 100(5), 1999-2030.

Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance (with Peter H. Egger, Max von Ehrlich), 2010, Journal of Public Economics 94(9-10), 578-590.

Education versus Fertility: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition (with Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann), 2010, Journal of Economic Growth 15(3), 177-204. Lead article

Equity Fund Ownership and the Cross-Regional Diversification of Household Risk (with Mathias Hoffmann), 2010, Journal of Banking and Finance 34(1), 90-102.

The Effect of Protestantism on Education before the Industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia (with Ludger Woessmann), 2010, Economics Letters 107(2), 224-228.

Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children (with Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino), 2010, Journal of Population Economics 23(3), 1047-1071 (corrected page number).

Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History (with Ludger Woessmann), 2009, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(2), 531-596. Awarded the year 2010 'Prize for Academic Research' by the Friends of the Ifo Institute

Common political culture: Evidence on regional corruption contagion (with Peter H. Egger and Tobias Seidel), 2009, European Journal of Political Economy 24(3), 300-310.

Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia (with Ludger Woessmann), 2008, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 110(4), 777-805.

The Effect of FDI on Job Separation (with Marc-Andreas Muendler), 2008, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 8(1) (Advances), Article 8.

Income Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach (with Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino), 2008, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 8(1) (Contributions), Article 19.