Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...

Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...

In the second Chapter "Grandmothers' Labor Supply and the Role of the Extended Family", which is joint work with Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, we examine the labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother. This topic has been only sparsely covered in the literature,...