From Sweetheart to Scapegoat: Brand Selfie-Taking Shapes Consumer Behavior Increasingly, consumers are taking self-photos and marketers, eager to capitalize on this trend, have been asking consumers t

Into the Mind of the Machine: Perceptual and Behavioral Consequences of Pre-Programmed and Adaptive Algorithms The backbone of today’s digital technologies are algorithms. For consumers, however, the

Switzerland as a land of opportunity? Intergenerational mobility in Basel since the Middle Ages. Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We measure the long-run educational mobilit

Welfare Consequences of Fiscal Consolidation Plans: The Role of Publicly Provided Goods This paper analyzes the welfare effects caused by fiscal consolidation plans carried out through a cut in govern

Ideology, divided governments, and fiscal policy We study how preferences for redistribution and political alignment affect tax policy. For the purpose, we leverage over-time variation in incentives t

The Effect of Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance. Evidence from Brain Training Exercises We estimate the effect of air pollution on contemporaneous cognitive performance and learning. Our analysis

Fiscal effects of immigration to Switzerland We assess the the net impact of immigration on the Swiss fiscal position between 2003 and 2017 thus focusing on the period since the introduction of the fr

Targeting Charity Fundraising Letters: An Efficient Policy Learning Approach I estimate policy rules for the allocation of solicitation letters with tree-based efficient policy learning methods. The p

Locked-in vs. locked-out: The heterogeneous effects of a detracking reform Does prolonged comprehensive schooling affect students of different socio-economic backgrounds differently? I address this qu

Supermajority Requirements and Voter Preferences in U.S. School Capital Investments (joint work with Barbara Biasi and Julien Lafortune) Abstract: Political institutions determine how preferences tran