There is growing recognition of regional inequality in poverty calculations. However, incorporating such adjustments in multi-tier segmented programs is difficult: cross-selection + fiscal externalities. My #JMP considers whether or not it makes sense to do so in health insurance programs!

Peer Effects in Old-Age Employment Among Women

1/4 Two new IAB discussion papers! (adjusted for visually impaired readers)
I study a reform that raised the age at which women could claim pensions by 3 years in Germany.

1/4 I wish Edward Lazear received the Novel prize. Lazear’s pioneering work laid the foundation for personnel economics—the systematic study of incentives, compensation, promotions, and productivity within firms using economic and empirical tools.

1/3.🧵
New working paper!
"Peer Effects in Old-Age Employment Among Women"
WP: cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp800...
This paper exploits a unique norm-shifting setting—a German pension reform that equalized retirement ages across genders—to examine how old-age employment propagates through workplace network

Incredible feeling to finally see it published 🤩

What are the macro effects of making UI more generous?

In this paper we seek to answer this contentious question 📝

We find increases in aggregate unemployment, driven by both longer UI durations & increased inflows 💡

Männer erhalten im Schnitt 52 Prozent mehr Rente. Unsere exklusiven Daten zeigen, in welchen Landkreisen die Rentenlücke noch größer ist. Vergleichen Sie Ihre Region.

One day left to apply for the "Workshop on Urban Labor Markets and Local Income Inequality", organized by the Regio department at IAB. Deadline: June 30 (tomorrow!) Great committee, keynote, and networking opportunity.
iab.de/en/iab-veran...

@rfberlin.bsky.social Meet me on June 5, at “RFBerlin Workshop on the Economics of Aging”!
I am presenting my paper about firm perspective on raising women’s retirement age in Germany, worker substitutability, and direct and spillover effects of raised retirement ages on the workforce.

New working paper "Retirement Age Reforms and Worker
Substitutability: Implications
for Employment of Older Workers"! Paper link: cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp794...
How do firms respond when early retirement options vanish? I study a German reform that raised the early retirement age for women.

I am presenting my paper "Firm Responses to Raising Women's Retirement Age" at the 21st International Conference on Pensions, Insurance and Savings on Thursday, May 29, 2025- stop by if you are around Lisbon!

I am presenting my paper "Firm Responses to Raising Women's Retirement Age" at the "IZA/Leiden University/OECD Workshop: Recent Advances in Labor Economics Using Linked Employer-Employee Data" this Friday, May 23, 2025.
conference.iza.org/IZA_OECD_202...
#izaOECD @iza.org

Intl. PhD students in the EU often need separate visas for UK/US/Canada—unlike their EU peers. Even early visa applications can fail due to 300+ day wait times.

We need structural fixes. Talent is everywhere—mobility should be too.

#AcademicMobility #VisaInequality #PhDLife #ECRvoices

Please apply!

The Call for Papers for the ArmEA's Annual Meetings 2025 in Yerevan on June 30-July 2 has been released!
Deadline: Feb 15!

aea.am/annual-meeti...

I am presenting my JMP at the European Winter Meeting of Econometric Society on Tuesday Dec 17, at 13:30! The paper examines how raising women’s retirement age impacts younger coworkers' career opportunities in firms and confirms that coworkers’ careers are interdependent. #EWMES

I am honored and grateful to have received the 2nd prize of The Young Economist of 2024 in the Czech Republic Award (issued by the Czech Economic Society) for my paper "Firm Responses to Raising Women's Retirement Age." [1/3]