Publikationen
2022
Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development (with Melanie Krause). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 157, 102880.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102880
Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s COVID-19 economic shut-down (with Jennifer Burney, Susanne Benz, Kyle Hemes, Morgan Levy, Pascal Polonik, Katharine Ricke and Luke Sanford). Nature Sustainability.
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00856-1
What can we learn from nighttime lights for small geographies? Measurementerrors and heterogeneous elasticities (with G. McCord). Remote Sensing, Vol.14(5), 1190.
DOI: 10.3390/rs14051190
2021
The spread of COVID-19 and the BCG vaccine: A natural experiment in reunified Germany (with Maxim Pinkovskiy). Econometrics Journal, Vol. 24(3). “Editor’s choice”/Lead article.
DOI: 10.1093/ectj/utab006
Democracy and Aid Donorship (with Andreas Fuchs), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(4): 217-238
DOI: 10.1257/pol.20180582
2020
Holding on? Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of economicdeclines (with Kaj Thomsson). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 144.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102457
Fueling conflict? (De)Escalation and bilateral aid (with Martin Gassebner, PaulSchaudt and Sarah Langlotz). Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 32(2). “Top cited” and “Top downloaded” article.
DOI: 10.1002/jae.2797
Do weak institutions prolong crises? On the identification, characteristics, andduration of declines during economic slumps (with Denis de Crombruggheand Adam Szirmai). World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 34(3).
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhz015
2019
Broken Promises - Evaluating an Incomplete Cash Transfer Program (with Utz Pape
and Laura Ralston) R&R at the Journal of Public Economics
DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9016
2018
Poverty accounting (with Denis de Crombrugghe and Adam Szirmai) EuropeanEconomic Review, Vol. 104.
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.03.003
2016
The dynamics of stagnation (with Denis de Crombrugghe and Adam Szirmai). Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 20(8).
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2556840
Local majorities: How administrative divisions shape comparative development(with R. Hodler and P. Schaudt). Economics Working Paper Series, No 2021-10, University of St. Gallen.
Gerrymandering in Africa, 1960–today (with R. Hodler and P. Schaudt).
Redlining and pollution disparities in U.S. cities (with J. Wichert).
Using CNNs to study the effects of settlement schemes on housing conditionsin Kenya (with L. Sanford)
The Emergency: The long-term effects of British labor camps in Kenya (withG. Asmus and T. Korn).[18]Triggering unrest? Ethnic inequality and droughts in Africa (with M. H. L.Wong).
Move on up - Electrification and Internal Migration
Perceived Relative Wealth and Contributions to an Environmental Public Good (with Anca Balietti, and Tillman Eymess)
Perceived Control and Beliefs about Health Impacts of Pollution – Evidence from an Online Experiment in India (with Anca Balietti, Tillman Eymess, and Alice Solda)
The Political Economy of Emerging Donor Aid) (with Axel Dreher)
2022-2024
Volkswagen Stiftung, Forschungskooperation Niedersachsen – Israel for “Economicand ideological causes of political violence” (total 300,000 EUR, co-PI, with Raphaël Franck and Andreas Fuchs)
2019
RTG 1723 – Globalization and Development, Universities of Göttingen and Hannover, internal pool funds, 4800 EUR (with Tobias Korn and Gerda Asmus)
2017-2021
German Research Foundation (DFG) grant for “Shining (New) Light on Regional Inequality, Convergence and Development” (share 186,400 EUR, total 569,000 EUR,co-PI, with Melanie Krause and Christian Lessmann)
2015
EC (DG DEVCO) grant (share about 25,000 EUR, total 50,000 EUR, 6 months, with Denis de Crombrugghe and Augustin Fosu)
2014
International Association of Applied Econometrics (IAAE) travel grant