Christina Gathmann - Selected Publications#

“The Role of Electoral Incentives for Policy Innovation: Evidence from the U.S. Welfare Reform” (with Andreas Bernecker and Pierre Boyer), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13, 2 (2021): 26-57.

“Free Childcare and its Effects on Children and their Families” (with Anna Busse), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 179 (2020): 240-260.

“Spillover Effects of Mass Layoffs” (with Ines Helm and Uta Schönberg), Journal of the European Economic Association, 18, 1 (2020): 427-468.

“Access to Citizenship and the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants” (with Nicolas Keller), Economic Journal, 128, 616 (2018): 3141-3181.

“Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children” (with Björn Saß), Journal of Labor Economics, 36, 3 (2018): 665-709.

“Compulsory Schooling and Mortality in 20th Century Europe” (with Hendrik Jürges and Steffen Reinhold), Social Science and Medicine, 127 (2015): 74-82.

“How do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from Cantonal Parliaments, 1890-2000” (with Patricia Funk), Journal of the European Economic Association, 11, 5 (2013): 1178-1203.

“Gorbachev’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia’s Mortality Crisis” (with Grant Miller and Jay Bhattacharya), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5, 2 (2013): 232-60.

“Does Direct Democracy Reduce the Size of Government? New Evidence from Historical Data, 1890-2000” (with Patricia Funk), Economic Journal, 121, 557 (2011): 1252-1280.

“How General is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach” (with Uta Schönberg), Journal of Labor Economics, 28, 1 (2010): 1-50 (lead article).