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The MILE department is engaged in policy-relevant research, to tackle current economic challenges related to inequality dynamics, technology and economic growth, resilience and climate change, expectations, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, with a special focus on emerging markets and Europe.

The department is involved in the following research projects:

Collaborations

The department collaborates with the following institutes:

Key publications

Ashwin, J., & Scott, A. (2025). A Bayesian model of later life mortality trends and implications for longevity. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, qnaf026.

Lieb, L., Jassem, A., Almeida, R. J., Bastürk, N., & Smeekes, S. (2025). Min(d)ing the President: A Text Analytic Approach to Measuring Tax News. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 17(2), 285-314.

Moatsos, M. (2025). Global poverty: A review of measurement, levels, and trends in a historical perspective. Journal of Economic Surveys, 39(2), 706-766.

Caliendo, M., Künn, S., & Mahlstedt, R. (2024). The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility. Review of Economics and Statistics.

Lars Goertzen, Trudie Schils, Sylvia Heeneman (2023) Co-designing formative assessment practices: A collaboration between elementary school teachers and researchers to conceptualize and implement formative assessment as a unified practice. Teaching and Teacher Education, volume 134, 104306.

Karmakar, S., & Lima, D. (2023). Global capital flows and the role of macroprudential policy. Journal of Financial Stability, 67, Article 101137.

Künn, S., Palacios, J., & Pestel, N. (2023). Indoor air quality and strategic decision making. Management Science, 69(9), 5354-5377.

t'Serstevens, F., Piccillo, G., & Grigoriev, A. (2022). Fake news zealots: Effect of perception of news on online sharing behavior. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 859534.

Campbell, D. L., & Mau, K. (2021). On “Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT, and Productivity”. Review of Economic Studies, 88(5), 2555–2559

Golsteyn, B., Non, A., & Zölitz, U. (2021). The Impact of Peer Personality on Academic Achievement. Journal of Political Economy, 129(4), 1052-1099.

Lamperti, F., Bosetti, V., Roventini, A., Tavoni, M., & Treibich, T. (2021). Three green financial policies to address climate risks. Journal of Financial Stability, 54, 100875.

Bluhm, R., & Thomsson, K. (2020). Holding on? Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of economic declines. Journal of Development Economics, 144, 102457.

Botzen, W. W., Deschenes, O., & Sanders, M. (2019). The economic impacts of natural disasters: A review of models and empirical studies. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy.

Bijlsma, M., Kool, C., & Non, M. (2018). The effect of financial development on economic growth: a meta-analysis. Applied Economics, 50(57), 6128-6148.

Bosma, N., Content, J., Sanders, M., & Stam, E. (2018). Institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in Europe. Small Business Economics, 51(2), 483-499.

Falk, A., Becker, A., Dohmen, T., Enke, B., Huffman, D., & Sunde, U. (2018). Global evidence on economic preferences. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(4), 1645-1692.

Borghans, L., Heckman, J. J., Golsteyn, B. H., & Meijers, H. (2009). Gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(2-3), 649-658.

 

See the rest of our research in PURE.

Policy reports

Netherlands

Germany

  • Steffen Kuenn, Thomas Dohmen, Eva Kleifgen and Gesine Stephan (2024) " “New Plan“, berufliche Weiterentwicklung und die Rolle von Informationen", IAB Research Report 1/24
  • Steffen Kuenn, Thomas Dohmen, Eva Kleifgen and Gesine Stephan (2022) "Geförderte Umschulungen für Personen ohne Berufsabschluss im Rechtskreis SGB III:Kenntnis, Teilnahmebereitschaft und Attraktivitätskriterien", IAB Research Report 18/22 

France

Europe

Other

  • Sanders, M., (2022) Resilience Is the New Competitive, in The COVID-19 Crisis and Entrepreneurship: Perspectives and Experiences of Researchers, Thought Leaders, and Policymakers. Audretsch, D. B. & Kunadt, I. A. M. (eds.). International Studies in Entrepreneurship Vol. 54. p. 11-24.