Not the Opium of the People -- Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties (with Ludger Woessmann), American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2013, 103(3): 539–544.

Absorptive Capacity and the Growth Effects of Regional Transfers: A Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects (with Peter H. Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich), accepted at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills Updated 8/2012 (with Karolina Ekholm and Marc-Andreas Muendler), Journal of International Economics, 2013, Vol. 90(1), 91-106.

A Gift is not Always a Gift: Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment Updated 12/2012 (with Dolores Messer and Stefan C. Wolter), Economica, 2013, Vol. 80(318), 345-371.

Does Women's Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia (with Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann), European Review of Economic History, 2013, Vol. 17(1), 24-44.

Endogenous Product versus Process Innovation and a Firm's Propensity to Export (with Peter H. Egger), Empirical Economics, 2013, Vol. 44(1): 329-354.

How low business tax rates attract MNE activity: Municipality-level evidence from Germany (with Peter H. Egger, and Valeria Merlo), Journal of Public Economics, 2012, Vol. 96(9-10), 698-711.

Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU's regional policy (with Peter H. Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich), 2012, European Economic Review, Vol. 56(4), 648-668.

The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia (with Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann), 2012, Cliometrica, Vol. 6(1), 29-44.

Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution (with Erik Hornung and Ludger Woessmann), 2011, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 3(3), 92-126.

Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution (with Marc-Andreas Muendler), 2010, American Economic Review, Vol. 100(5), 1999-2030.

Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance (with Peter H. Egger, Max von Ehrlich), Journal of Public Economics, 2010, vol. 94(9-10), 578-590.

Education versus Fertility: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition (with Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann), 2010, Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 15(3), 177-204. Lead article

Equity Fund Ownership and the Cross-Regional Diversification of Household Risk (with Mathias Hoffmann), Journal of Banking and Finance, 2010, vol. 34(1), 90-102.

The Effect of Protestantism on Education before the Industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia (with Ludger Woessmann), 2010, Economics Letters, Vol. 107(2), 224-228.

Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children (with Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino), Journal of Population Economics, 2010, vol. 23(3), 1047-1071 (corrected page number).

Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History (with Ludger Woessmann), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 124(2), 531-596. Awarded the year 2010 'Prize for Academic Research' by the Friends of the Ifo Institute

Common political culture: Evidence on regional corruption contagion (with Peter H. Egger and Tobias Seidel), European Journal of Political Economy, 2009, vol. 24(3), 300-310.

Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia (with Ludger Woessmann), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, vol. 110(4), 777-805.

The Effect of FDI on Job Separation (with Marc-Andreas Muendler), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Advances), Article 8. (2008), Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap.

Income Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach (with Samuel Bentolila, Ana Fernandes and Andrea Ichino), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 19. (2008), Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap.