PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

The role of conflict in sex discrimination: The case of missing girls.
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023. (with Astghik Mavisakalyan)

Affirmative action and intersectionality at the top: Evidence from South Africa.
Industrial Relations, 2021. (with Stephan Klasen)

Educational gender gaps and economic growth: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis.
World Development, 2019. (with Juliane Zenker, Stephan Klasen and Sebastian Vollmer)

US aid, US educated leaders and economic ideology.
European Journal of Political Economy, 2018.

Does aid effectiveness depend on the quality of donors?
World Development, 2017. (with Peter Nunnenkamp and Katharina Richert)

Your development or mine? The effects of donor-recipient cultural differences on the aid-growth nexus.
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016.

Remittances and the effectiveness of foreign aid.
Review of Development Economics, 2016. (with Peter Nunnenkamp)

Government ideology in donor and recipient countries: Does ideological proximity matter for the effectiveness of aid?
European Economic Review, 2015. (with Axel Dreher and Peter Nunnenkamp)



CURRENT RESEARCH

Women's Rights and Global Development Policy.
Under review. (with Gabriella Montinola)

Mining and Mistrust in Government.
Third round of revisions at European Economic Review. (with Astghik Mavisakalyan)

Health aid, women's empowerment and infant mortality.
(with Gabriella Montinola and Kentaro Hirose)

Revolution, War and Trust.
(with Astghik Mavisakalyan)



POLICY PAPERS

Gender inequality and growth in Europe.
Intereconomics, 2017. (with Stephan Klasen)

Evidence-based allocation in global health: Lessons learned for Germany.
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, 2018.