Research

• Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations, with Friederike Mengel and Jan Sauermann,
  Journal of the European Economic Association  (forthcoming)

→ The Economist     → Online Appendix
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• «High» Achievers? – Cannabis Access and Academic Performance, with Olivier Marie,
  Review of Economic Studies 84(3), 2017

→ The Guardian             → The Washington Post              → IZA newsroom article             → Interview with BYUradio
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• Understanding Peer Effects – On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects, with Jan Feld,
  Journal of Labor Economics 35(2), 2017

→ Supplementary simulation files
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• Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics, with Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn,
  The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions) 15(1), 2015_

• School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six, with Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn,
  PLoS One 10(7), 2015

 

Selected Work in Progress

• Are Professors Worth It? The Value-added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors, with Jan Feld and Nicolás Salamanca, revise and resubmit Journal of Human Resources

 

• The Impact of Peer Personality on Academic Achievement,  with Bart Golsteyn and Arjan Non, University of Zurich Working Paper

         → Times Higher Education          → BOLD blog Video Summary

 

• Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation, with Anne Ardila Brenøe, University of Zurich Working Paper

   

• The Effect of Peer Gender on Major Choice, with Jan Feld, University of Zurich Working Paper

 

• Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College, with Benjamin Elsner and Ingo Isphording_