Job Market Candidates 2024/25
Ph.D. Program in Economics

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt, GSEFM program, 2025 (expected)

M.Sc., Quantitative Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt, GSEFM program, 2022

M.Sc., International Economics and Public Policy, Johannes Gutenberg University, 2015

BBA, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2009

Fields of Specialization

Primary Field: Household Economics, Household Finance, Labor economics
Secondary Field: Climate change (macro and micro implications)

Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant: Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair of Finance)

Tutorials: Forwards and Futures Pricing 2021 - Present
Supervision: Bachelors/Master Thesis 2020 - Present

Curriculum Vitae

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References

Job Market Paper

Preparing for the worst: Post-divorce instability risk and economic behaviour of Households

Who thrives when alimony payments change? Restrictions on spousal alimony influence intra-family economic decisions by altering bargaining positions and raising concerns about post-divorce financial instability. Existing findings on restricted regimes are contradictory and need more clarity on the differential impact across heterogeneous households. This paper explores behavioural adaptations in labour supply and saving decisions of married partners in response to amendments in alimony reform in Germany.  Using a difference-in-difference framework and longitudinal and retrospective datasets, I show that policy led to increased labour market participation of married women. However, behavioural responses vary significantly depending on the age cohort, family composition, duration of relationship, and income levels.

Forthcoming ECB Working Paper: with Miles Parker (ECB) and Guzman Gonzalez-Torres (ECB)
Going NUTS: how regional economies respond over the medium term to extreme climate events

Existing short-run estimates of the national macroeconomic consequences of extreme climate events can mask deeper effects across time and across regions. We employ a local projections, difference in difference framework to understand the dynamic, medium-run effects of heatwaves, droughts and floods in 1160 EU regions. Heatwaves and droughts lower medium-term output, but the impact from floods is less certain. The impacts on the main components of potential output – capital stock, labour supply and total factor productivity – also differ by event. Moreover, impacts vary by season and by regional characteristics such as historic climatic conditions, income and sectoral composition.

Working Paper: with Prof. Raimond Maurer (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Dynamics of life course family transitions in Germany: exploring patterns, process and relationships

This paper explores the dynamics of family transitions using discrete-time event history analysis based on German Socioeconomic Panel data. We aim to predict the likelihood of key life events among diverse individuals based on their observed characteristics. Higher educational attainment, better income level, and marriage emerge as salient protective factors mitigating the risk of mortality; better education delays early marriage, whereas lower educational attainment, protracted relationships, and the presence of children act as protective factors against divorce. Our key finding shows that the disparity in mean life expectancy between individuals from low-income and high-income brackets is 9 years among males and 6 years among females, thereby illustrating the mortality inequality attributed to income disparities. Our estimates show that compared to East Germans, the West Germans have a lower risk of mortality, lesser likelihood of early first marriage, higher risk of divorce and higher probability of remarriage.

Work-in-Progress: with Prof. Zainab Iftikhar (University of Bonn)
Economic well-being of children: The influence of intra-household bargaining power distribution

Work-in-Progress: with Miles Parker (ECB) and Guzman Gonzalez-Torres (ECB)
Impact of extreme climate events on the productivity of European firms

Work-in-Progress: with Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Wealth mobility over the lifecycle