About
I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the ifo Institute and LMU Munich, where I am part of the ifo Center for Public Finance. I expect to complete my PhD in 2027.
My research is in public and labor economics. I study how inequality is transmitted across generations, what shapes people’s views about fairness and redistribution, and how institutions affect the careers people end up in. I work primarily with large-scale administrative and survey data.
Before starting my PhD I earned an M.Sc. in Econometrics and Empirical Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics and a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Mannheim. During my PhD have visited the University of California, San Diego and the Aix-Marseille School of Economics.
Job market paper
This paper examines how exposure to specific occupations at a formative moment affects individuals’ subsequent occupational choice. I leverage the 2011 abolition of German military service and its social service equivalent to estimate this effect, using a difference-in-discontinuities design based on school entry cutoffs. Graduating in time to be exposed to military or social service increases young men’s likelihood of working in occupations related to the social alternative service, particularly social work, and in occupations with a higher female share. Broad tertiary educational outcomes are not significantly affected, nor are wages and working days at age 28.
Research interests
- Labor economics
- Public economics
- Occupational choice
- Inequality
- Intergenerational mobility
- Redistribution preferences
- Managers