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Recent publications, presentations, conferences, and academic activities.
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Updates on recent publications, working papers, conference presentations, seminars and public engagement activities.
Current news
A new Policy Essay on "Germany Does Not Need to Guess the Next Big Industry - How Existing Capabilities Can Become the Comparative Advantages of Tomorrow " is available online.
Our new working paper on “ Is a Scalar Health State Sufficient for Health Dynamics? Evidence from Health Deficit Accumulation ” is available online.
Our new working paper on “Same Age, Different Health: Heterogeneity and Inequality in Biological Age in India ” is available online.
Our new working paper on “Healthy Life Expectancy for Individuals” is available online.
Our new working paper on “MICHELE: The Computation of Healthy Life Expectancy from Mortality Schedules” is available online.
You can read my blog article in the LSE Business Review on “Technological change means women in India are now increasingly outliving men”. It is based on our publication “ Male Excess Mortality during the Epidemiological Transition: Theory and Evidence from India” in the Journal of Population Economics.
I presented my paper “Digital Infrastructure, Regional Disparities, and Firm Location Decisions in the German Economy” at the annual conference of the Scottish Economic Society in Glasgow.
My paper “Digital Infrastructure, Regional Disparities, and Firm Location Decisions in the German Economy” is accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society in Newcastle.
Earlier news
At the Regional Futures Conference of the Regional Studies Association, I presented our research on “Detecting Industrial Clusters in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Sustainability in Germany” which is joint with J. Laaguidi and X. Zhang.
My new working paper on “Digital infrastructure, Regional Disparities, and Firm Location Decisions in the German Economy” is available online.
New publication in the Journal of Population Economics.
You can read my blog article in the LSE Business Review on “The return of domestic servants – thanks to AI and automation”. It is based on our recent publication “Automation and the Fall and Rise of the Servant Economy” in the European Economic Review.
I presented my paper “Digital Infrastructure, Regional Disparities, and Firm Location Decisions in the German Economy” at the University of Reading.
I presented my paper “Digital Infrastructure, Regional Disparities, and Firm Location Decisions in the German Economy” at the Kiel Institute.
I presented my paper “Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India” at the LSE.
We attended the ruhrSUMMIT 2025 in Bochum, networking with entrepreneurs and BochumWirtschaftsentwicklung, among others.
We hosted a Data Science in Economics and Programming Workshop for young female pupils at my Chair. You can find further information about it on the Chair’s website and on LinkedIn.
I presented my research on “Energy Costs and Location Choices of European Firms” at the Canada Blanch Centre at the LSE.
New publication in the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
I presented my paper “Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India” at Imperial College London.
New publication in the European Economic Review.