My research spans four areas: economic preferences, language and education economics, culture and migration economics, and communication and cooperation. Many projects sit at the intersection of these fields.
Economic Preferences
Risikoscheue Frauen und wettbewerbsorientierte Männer – wie relevant sind Geschlechterdifferenzen in Neigungsmaßen? Antworten aus der Meta-Forschung (2026)
(with M Beblo)
In: Bothfeld, Hohendanner, Schütt, Yollu-Tok (eds.): Geschlechtergerecht gestalten. Campus.
Gender and Performance Under Competitive Pressure: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies (2025)
(with C Gardiner)
CEPA Discussion Paper No. 94. Under review.
When do we observe a gender gap in competition entry? A meta-analysis of the experimental literature (2022)
(with M Beblo)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 198, 139–163.
It's education, not gender: A research note on the determinants of an anchoring bias in experimental WTA elicitations (2017)
(with M Beblo, D Beninger)
The Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 1(2), 51–55.
Depressed entitlement and the reproduction of the gender pay gap in an experiment with couples (2019)
(with M Beblo, D Beninger)
Jahrbuch Normative und institutionelle Grundfragen der Ökonomik 17, 137–160.
PRIMA – Primary Data Meta-Analyses on Mechanisms of Efficient Competition
(with M Beblo, C Gardiner)
We build a harmonised individual-level dataset from experimental studies on competitive entry to analyse the efficiency of self-selection into competition and the causal effect of competitive pressure on performance, separately by gender.
The Language of Competition: Does the Language of Instruction Shape Competitive Preferences of Women and Men?
(with H Fornwagner, M Beblo)
Using the PRIMA data infrastructure, we investigate whether gender differences in competitive entry vary with the language and gendered framing of experimental instructions.
Language and Education Economics
The Grammar of Economic Behaviour: Future-Time Reference in Bilingual Speakers (2026)
(with E Sprenger)
CEPA Discussion Paper No. 105.
Gender matters in language and economic behaviour – Can we measure a causal cognition effect of speaking? (2020)
(with M Beblo, L Görges)
Labour Economics, 65, 101850.
Mehrsprachige Schriftsprachkompetenzen und Arbeitsmarkterfolg (2023)
(with L Heilmann)
Edition ZfE, Vol 14, Springer.
Macht es einen Unterschied? Ein ökonomischer Blick auf die Geschlechtlichkeit von Sprache (2015)
(with M Beblo)
Wirtschaftsdienst, 1(96), 60–63.
Employer Demand for Immigrant Languages in the German Labour Market
Do German employers demand immigrant language skills? Combining web-scraped job postings from the Federal Employment Agency with European online vacancy data to map the demand side of heritage language returns.
Culture and Migration Economics
Immigrant bilingualism in the German labour market – Between human capital, social networks, and ethnic marginalization (2022)
(with F Wolf, M Schäfer)
UHH WiSo Working Paper Series, No. 68.
Gender equality as a confounder in the epidemiological approach (2020)
(with M Beblo, L Görges)
Economics Bulletin, 40(2), 1292–1299.