This paper brings individual level evidence to the hypothesis that women holding political offices affects mass mobilization. With a regression discontinuity design, I analyze the effect of close victories of directly elected female candidates in mixed-gender races at the federal elections in...

Recent evidence suggests that anti-competitive behavior of firms negatively affects workers' real wages. Typically, policy actions relate to antitrust regulation and rarely to measures that curb employers' monopsony power. We show that policymakers who want to raise workers' real wages should...

The advent of artificial intelligence is changing the task allocation of workers and machines in firms' production processes with potentially wide ranging effects on workers and firms. We develop an agent-based simulation framework to investigate the consequences of different types of automation...

This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia’s assault on February 24, 2022, and some did so just afterwards, thus...

Enrollment rates to higher education reveal quite large variation over time which cannot be explained by productivity shocks alone. We develop a human capital investment model in an overlapping generations framework that features endogenous fluctuations in the demand for education. Agents are...

This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia's assault on February 24, 2022, and some did so just afterwards, thus...