I am an applied microeconometrician with main research interests in family, labor and health. I am also interested in various aspects of political economy and regularly work on tax evasion. Recently, I have become interested in using historical data from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 

On this personal website you will find information about my research, teaching, and knowledge transfer activities. 

Here is a link to my Curriculum vitae.

Currently, my main affiliations are:

• Professor of Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in Austria.

• Permanent Scientific Consultant at the  Austrian National Public Health Institute (GÖG) in Vienna.

• Associate at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) in Vienna.

• Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn.

Other research related affiliations: 

•  I am member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP).

• I am a member of three Standing Field Committees of of the Verein für Socialpolitik:

  • Standing Committee for Population Economics

  • Standing Committee for Health Economics 

  • Standing Committee for Social Policy 

Editorial work: 

•  I am Co-Editor of Empirica. This is the official journal of the Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft (Austrian Economic Association).  Please not that we solicit descriptive papers on current or unexplored topics. Better a good descriptive paper than a bad causal analysis!

Current funded research project:  

• OeNB Project „Are the Alps a Land of Opportunity?”