Publications
in reverse chronological order. Go here for publications ordered by areas of interest.Automation and the Fall and Rise of the Servant Economy (with Astrid Krenz), European Economic Review, 2025, Vol. 172, 104926. [paper]
Long-Run Economic Growth Despite Population Decline, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2024, Vol. 168, 104943 [paper]
Inequality and the Industrial Revolution (with Jakob Madsen), European Economic Review, 2024, Vol. 164, 104724. [paper]
Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Aging (with Volker Grossmann and Johannes Schuenemann), Economic Journal, 2024, Vol. 134, 2835-2875 [paper]
Higher Education and the Income--Fertility Nexus, Journal of Population Economics, 2024, Vol. 37 [open access article]
The Economics of Aging with Infectious and Chronic Diseases (with Volker Grossmann), Economics and Human Biology, 2024, Vol. 52, 101319. [paper]
Measuring Ageing, Chapter 25 in: The Routledge Handbook on the Economics of Ageing, 2023, pp. 455-473. [paper]
Life-Cycle Labor Supply and Physiological Aging across Countries (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Casper Hansen), PLOS ONE, 2023, Vol. 18(11): e0294952. [open access article]
Corona and the Cross: Religious Affiliation, Church Bans, and Covid Infections (with Slava Yakubenko), German Economic Review, 2023, Vol. 24(3), 271-304. [paper]
Renewable Resource Use with Imperfect Self-Control (with Katharina Werner), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, Vol. 212, 778-795. [paper]
Anticipation of Deteriorating Health and Information Avoidance (with Johannes Schuenemann and Timo Trimborn), Journal of Health Economics, 2023, Vol. 89, 102755. [paper]
Physiological Aging in India: The Role of the Epidemiological Transition (with Astrid Krenz), PLOS ONE, 2023, Vol. 18(7): e0287259. [open access article]
Health and Aging before and after Retirement (with Ana Abeliansky), Journal of Population Economics, 2023, Vol. 36, 2825–2855. [open access article]
Hooked on Weight Control: An Economic Theory of Anorexia Nervosa and its Impact on Health and Longevity, Journal of Health Economics, 2023, Vol. 88, 102725. [paper]
Testing Unified Growth Theory: Technological Progress and the Child Quantity–Quality Trade-off (with Jakob Madsen), Quantitative Economics, 2023, Vol. 14, 235-275. [paper]
Medical Progress and Life Cycle Choices, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 100415. [paper]
Optimal Demand for Medical and Long-Term Care (with Johannes Schuenemann and Timo Trimborn), Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, Vol. 23, 100400. [paper]
Physiological Aging Around the World (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Casper Worm Hansen), PLOS ONE, 2022, Vol. 17(6): e0268276. [open access article]
A Health Economic Theory of Occupational Choice, Aging, and Longevity, Journal of Health Economics, 2022, Vol. 82, 102599. [paper]
Physiological Constraints and the Transition to Growth: Implications for Comparative Development (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Jakob Madsen), Journal of Economic Growth, 2021, Vol. 26(3), 241-289. [open access article]
The Impact of Menstruation Hygiene Management on Work Absenteeism of Women in Burkina Faso (with Astrid Krenz), Economics and Human Biology, 2021, Vol. 43, 101067. [paper]
Robots, Reshoring, and the Lot of Low-Skilled Workers (with Astrid Krenz and Klaus Prettner), European Economic Review, 2021, Vol. 136, 103744. [paper]
Quantifying Reshoring at the Macro-Level - Measurement and Applications (with Astrid Krenz), Growth and Change, 2021, Vol. 52(3), 1200-1229. [open access article]
Social Vulnerability and Aging of Elderly People in the United States (with Ana Abeliansky and Devin Erel), Social Science and Medicine: Population Health, 2021, Vol. 16, 100924. [open access article]
Time-Inconsistent Health Behavior and its Impact on Aging and Longevity (with Katharina Werner), Journal of Health Economics, 2021, Vol. 76, 102440. [paper]
Intertemporal Choice with Health-Dependent Discounting, Mathematical Social Sciences, 2021, Vol. 111, 19-25. [paper]
Fetal Origins – A Life Cycle Model of Health and Aging from Conception to Death (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Casper Worm Hansen), Health Economics, 2021, Vol. 30(6), 1276-1290. [open access article]
The Benefits of Remoteness - Digital Mobility Data, Regional Road Infrastructure, and COVID-19 Infections (with Astrid Krenz), German Economic Review, 2021, Vol. 22(3), 257-288. [paper]
Illicit Drugs and the Decline of the Middle Class (with Volker Grossmann), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, Vol. 183, 718-743. [paper]
From Pain Patient to Junkie: An Economic Theory of Painkiller Consumption and its Impact on Wellbeing and Longevity, Journal of Health Economics, 2021, Vol. 76, 102432. [paper]
Nepotism, Schooling Outcomes and Economic Development (with Marcello Perez-Alvarez), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, Vol. 181, 211-240. [paper]
Hyperbolic Discounting and the Time-Consistent Solution of Three Canonical Environmental Problems, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2021; Vol. 23(3), 462-486. [open access article]
R&D-Driven Medical Progress, Health Care Costs, and the Future of Human Longevity (with Sebastian Boehm and Volker Grossmann), Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2021, Vol. 18, 100286. [open access article]
Innovation, Automation, and Inequality: Policy Challenges in the Race against the Machine (with Klaus Prettner), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2020, Vol. 116, 249-265. [open access article]
Technological Change and Inequality in the Very Long Run (with Jakob Madsen), European Economic Review, 2020, Vol. 129, 103532. [paper]
Religiosity and Long-Run Productivity Growth (with Dierk Herzer), Journal of Economics, Management and Religion, 2020, Vol. 1(1), 2050001. [paper]
Aging in the USA: Similarities and Disparities Across Time and Space (with Ana Abeliansky and Devin Erel), Nature Scientific Reports, 2020 Vol. 10:14309. [open access article]
Innovation and Inequality in a Small World (with Ines Lindner), International Economic Review, 2020, Vol 61(2), 683-719. [open access article]
Negligible Senescence: An Economic Life Cycle Model for the Future (with Davide Dragone), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, Vol. 171, 264-285. [paper]
Opioid Epidemics, Economics and Human Biology, 2020, Vol. 37, 100835. [paper]
The Marriage Gap: Optimal Aging and Death in Partnerships (with Johannes Schuenemann and Timo Trimborn), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2020, Vol. 36, 158-176. [paper]
Season of Birth, Health, and Aging (with Ana Abeliansky), Economics and Human Biology, 2020, Vol. 36, 100812. [paper]
An Economic Theory of Depression and its Impact on Health Behavior and Longevity, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, Vol. 158, 269-287. [paper]
Myopic Misery: Maternal Depression, Child Investments, and the Neurobiological Poverty Trap, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019, Vol. 23(2), 522-534. [paper]
Limited Self-Control and Longevity, Health Economics, 2019, Vol. 28, 57-64. [paper] [appendix]
I Shouldn’t Eat this Donut: Self-Control, Body Weight, and Health in a Life Cycle Model, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, Vol. 14, 100175. [paper]
Long-Run Improvements in Human Health: Steady But Unequal (with Ana Abeliansky), Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, Vol. 14, 100189. [paper]
Natural Disasters and Macroeconomic Performance (with Timo Trimborn), Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019, Vol. 72(4), 1069-1098 [paper]
Desire and Development, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019, Vol. 23, 2717-2747. [paper]
Optimal Social Insurance and Health Inequality (with Volker Grossmann), German Economic Review, 2019, Vol. 20(4), e913-e948. [paper]
Smoking Kills: An Economic Theory of Addiction, Health Deficit Accumulation, and Longevity, Journal of Health Economics, 2018, Vol. 62, 1-12. [paper]
Hyperbolic Discounting Can Be Good For Your Health (with Timo Trimborn), Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, Vol. 69, 44-57. [paper]
How We Fall Apart: Similarities of Human Aging in 10 European Countries (with Ana Abeliansky), Demography, 2018, Vol. 55, 341–359. [paper] [open access jstor]
Hungry Children Age Faster (with Ana Abeliansky), Economics and Human Biology, 2018, Vol. 29, 211-22. [paper]
The Return to Education in Terms of Wealth and Health, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2018, Vol. 12, 1-14. [paper]
Trade and Productivity: The Family Connection Redux (with Klaus Prettner), Journal of Macroeconomics, 2018, Vol. 56, Pages 276-291. [paper]
Life Expectancy and Education: Evidence from the Cardiovascular Revolution (with Casper Worm Hansen), Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, Vol. 22, 421-450. [paper]
The Gender Gap in Mortality: How Much Is Explained by Behavior? (with Johannes Schuenemann and Timo Trimborn), Journal of Health Economics, 2017, Vol. 54, 79-90. [paper]
The Genesis of the Golden Age - Accounting for the Rise in Health and Leisure (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, Vol. 24, 132–151. [paper]
Going from Bad to Worse: Adaptation to Poor Health, Health Spending, Longevity, and the Value of Life (with Johannes Schuenemann and Timo Trimborn), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, Vol. 140, 130–146. [paper]
It's a Sin - Contraceptive Use, Religious Beliefs, and Long-Run Economic Development (with Klaus Prettner), Review of Development Economics, 2017, Vol. 21, 543-566. [paper]
Contraception and Development: A Unified Growth Theory, International Economic Review 2017, Vol. 58, 561–584 [paper]
The Health Hump, Journal of Demographic Economics, 2017, Vol. 83, 245-258 [paper]
Gender Equity and the Escape from Poverty (with Klaus Prettner), Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, Vol. 69, 55-74. [paper]
Religiosity and Income: A Panel Cointegration and Causality Analysis (with Dierk Herzer), Applied Economics, 2017, Vol. 49(30), 2922-2938. [paper]
The Spending Multiplier in the Medium Run (with Timo Trimborn), German Economic Review, 2017, Vol. 8, 154-181 [paper]
Human Physiological Development and Economic Growth (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), in: Cervellati, M., & Sunde, U. (Eds.). (2017). Demographic Change and Long-run Development. MIT Press. [paper]
Physiology and Development: Why the West is Taller than the Rest (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Economic Journal, 2016, Vol. 126, 2292–2323 . [paper]
An Economic Theory of Religious Belief, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, Vol. 128, 35–46. [paper]
50 is the New 30 – Long-run Trends of Schooling and Retirement Explained by Human Aging (with Katharina Werner), Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, Vol. 21, 165-187. [paper]
Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth, Economic Inquiry, 2016, Vol. 54, 177-200. [paper]
Technology, Trade, and Growth: The Role of Education (with Klaus Prettner), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2016; Vol. 20, 1381-1394. [paper]
Limited Self-Control and Long-Run Growth, Mathematical Social Sciences, 2016, Vol. 83, 1-8. [paper]
How Status Concerns Can Make Us Rich and Happy, Economica, 2015, Vol. 82, 1217–1240. [paper]
A Closed-form Solution for the Health Capital Model, Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, Vol. 81(3), 301-316. [paper (long version) ]
The Physiological Foundations of the Wealth of Nations (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Journal of Economic Growth, 2015, Vol. 20, 37-73. [paper]
Frailty, Mortality, and the Demand for Medical Care, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2015, Vol. 6, 5-12 . [paper]
A Note on Variable Capital Utilization in Growth and Business Cycle Theory (with Timo Trimborn), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, Vol. 19, 1622-1632. [paper]
Hyperbolical Discounting and Endogenous Growth, Economics Letters, 2015, Vol. 126, 131-134. [paper (extended version)]
Preferences, Income, and Life Satisfaction: An Equivalence Result, Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, Vol. 75, 20-26. [paper]
From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World (with Ines Lindner), Journal of Development Economics, 2015, Vol. 109, 17-29. [paper] [Appendix B]
The Fertility Transition Around the World 1950-2005 (with Sebastian Vollmer), Journal of Population Economics, 2015, Vol. 28, 31-44. [paper]
Optimal Aging and Death: Understanding the Preston Curve (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, Vol. 12, 672–701. [paper]
Knowledge and Growth in the Very Long-Run, International Economic Review, 2014, Vol. 55, 443-458. [paper][2009 Version][Online Appendix]
A Mass Phenomenon: The Social Evolution of Obesity, Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 33, 113-125. [paper]
How Child Costs and Survival Shaped the Industrial Revolution and the Demographic Transition (with Jacob Weisdorf), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2014, 18, 114-144. [Paper]
The Past and Future of Knowledge-based Growth (with Klaus Prettner and Alexia Prskawetz), Journal of Economic Growth, 2013, Vol. 18, 411-437. [paper]
The History Augmented Solow Model (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), European Economic Review, 2013, Vol. 63, 134-149. [paper]
Patterns of Frailty in Older Adults (with Ken Harttgen, Somnath Chatterji, Paul Kowal, and Sebastian Vollmer), PLOS ONE, 2013, Vol. 8 (10). [Open Access Article]
Long-Run Trends of Human Aging and Longevity (with Sebastian Vollmer), Journal of Population Economics, 2013, Vol. 26, 1303-1323. [Open Access Article]
Declining Fertility and Economic Well-being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue? (with Klaus Prettner and David Bloom), Labour Economics, 2013, Vol. 22, 70-79. [paper]
School Attendance and Child Labor - A Model of Collective Behavior, Journal of the European Economic Asssociation, 2013, Vol. 11, 246-277. [Online Appendix B and C] [paper]
Riding High - Success in Sports and the Rise of Doping Cultures, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2012, Vol. 114, 539-574. [paper]
The Long-run Determinants of Fertility: One Century of Demographic Change 1900-1999 (with Dierk Herzer and Sebastian Vollmer), Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, Vol. 17, 357-385. [Open Access Article]
The Voracity Effect Revisited, Mathematical Social Sciences, 2012, Vol. 64, 272-276. [paper]
Laffer Strikes Again: Dynamic Scoring of Capital Taxes (with Timo Trimborn), European Economic Review, 2012, Vol. 56 ,1180-1199. [paper]
Patience and Prosperity, Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, Vol. 147, 336-352.[paper]
The Determinants of Income in a Malthusian Equilibrium (with Jacob Weisdorf and Paul Sharp), Journal of Development Economics, 2012, Vol 97, 112-117. [paper]
Poverty, Voracity,and Growth, Journal of Development Economics, 2012, Vol. 97, 396-403. [paper]
Energy Distribution and Economic Growth (with Carl Johan Dalgaard), Resource and Energy Economics, 2011, Vol. 33, 782-797. [paper]
A Physiological Foundation for the Nutrition-based Efficiency Wage Model (with Carl Johan Dalgaard), Oxford Economic papers, 2011, Vol. 63, 232-253. [paper]
A Note on Economic Growth with Subsistence Consumption, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010, Vol. 14, 763-771. [paper]
Anticipated Tax Reforms and Temporary Tax Cuts: A General Equilibrium Analysis (with Timo Trimborn), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, Vol. 34, 2141-2158. [paper].
Should Continued Family Firms Face Lower Taxes Than Other Estates? (with Volker Grossmann), Journal of Public Economics, 2010, Vol. 94, 81-101.[paper].
Population, Food, and Knowledge: A Simple Unified Growth Theory, (with Jacob Weisdorf), Journal of Economic Growth, 2008, Vol.13, 169-194. [paper] The benchmark model solved in a spreadsheet [strulik_weisdorf_2008.xls]
The Credit Channel of Capital Tax Policy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2008, Vol. 10, 717-742. [paper]
Social Composition, Social Conflict, and Economic Development, Economic Journal, 2008, Vol. 118, 1145-1170. [paper]
Geography, Health, and the Pace of Demo-Economic Development, Journal of Development Economics, 2008, Vol. 86, 61-75. [paper]
Social Fractionalization, Endogenous Appropriation Norms, and Economic Development (with Ines Lindner), Economica, 2008, Vol. 75, 244-258. [paper]
Steht auf wenn ihr Deutsche seid! Sozio-ökonomische Erklärungsansätze der neuen Patriotismuswelle anläßlich der Fußball-WM, Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 2007, Vol. 58, 151-163. [paper]
A Distributional Theory of Government Growth, Public Choice, 2007, Vol. 132, 305-318. [paper]
Too Much of a Good Thing? The Quantitative Economics of R&D-driven Growth Revisited, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, Vol. 109, 369-386. [paper]
Taxation, Growth, and Welfare: Dynamic Effects of Estonia´s 2000 Income Tax Act (with Michael Funke), Finish Economic papers, 2006, Vol. 19, 25-38.
Growth and Convergence in a Two-Region Model: The Hypothetical Case of Korean Unification (with Michael Funke), Journal of Asian Economics, 2005,Vol.16, 255-279. [paper]
The Role of Human Capital and Population Growth in R &D-Based Models of Economic Growth, Review of International Economics, 2005, Vol. 13, 129-145. [open access article]
Economic Growth and Stagnation with Endogenous Health and Fertility, Journal of Population Economics, 2004, Vol. 17, 433-453. [open access article]
Child Labor, Child Mortality, and Economic Development, Economic Journal, 2004, Vol. 114, 547-568.
A Simple and Intuitive Method to Solve Small Rational Expectations Models (with Martin Brunner), Journal of Economics, 2004, Vol. 82, 71-88. [open access article]
Solving Rational Expectations Models Using Excel, Journal of Economic Education, 2004, Vol. 35, 269-283. [paper]
Why Not Africa? -- Growth and Welfare Effects of Secure Property Rights (with Ines Lindner), Public Choice, 2004, Vol. 120, 143-167, 2004. [open access article]
Distributive Politics and Economic Growth: The Markovian Stackelberg Solution (with Ines Lindner), Economic Theory, 2004, Vol. 23(2), 439-444. [open access article]
Capital Tax Reform, Corporate Finance, and Economic Growth and Welfare, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2003, Vol. 28, 595-615.
Mortality, the Trade-off Between Child Quality and Quantity, and Demoeconomic Development, Metroeconomica, 2003, Vol. 54, 499-520. [open access article]
Supply Side Economics of Germany´s Year 2000 Tax Reform: A Quantitative Assessment, German Economic Review, 2003, Vol. 4, 183-203. [open access article]
Tracing the Income-Fertility Nexus: Nonparametric Estimates for a Panel of Countries (with Sikandar Siddiqui), Economics Bulletin, 2002, Vol. 15(1), 1-9. [open access article]
Solution of Perfect Foresight Saddlepoint Problems: A Simple Method and Applications (with Martin Brunner), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2002, Vol. 26, 737-753.
Fiscal Policy Reforms in a Global Economy, International Tax and Public Finance, 2002, Vol. 9, 71-89. [open access article]
Growth and Convergence in a Two-Region Model of Unified Germany (with Michael Funke), German Economic Review, 2000, Vol. 1, 363-384. [open access article]
On Demographic Transition, Structural Change, and Economic Growth and Stagnation, Mathematical Population Studies, 2000, Vol. 8, 333-356.
On Endogenous Growth with Physical Capital, Human Capital and Product Variety (with Michael Funke), European Economic Review, 2000, Vol. 44, 491-515. [Addendum]
Demographic Transition, Stagnation, and Demoeconomic Cycles in a Model for the Less Developed Economy, Journal of Macroeconomics, 1999, Vol. 21, 397-413.
Capital Structure and Labour Demand: Investigations Using German Micro Data (with Michael Funke and Wolf Maurer), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1999, Vol. 61, 199-215. [open access article]
Regional Growth in West Germany: Convergence or Divergence?(with Michael Funke), Economic Modelling, 1999, Vol. 16, 489-502.
The Employment - Financing Nexus: Evidence From a Panel of West German Firms (with Michael Funke, Wolf Maurer and Sikandar Siddiqui), Journal of Small Business Economics, 1998, Vol. 11, 225-235.
Investment Under Financial Constraints: Theory and Tests with West German Micro Data (with Michael Funke, Wolf Maurer and Sikandar Siddiqui), Ifo Studien, 1998, Vol. 44, 291-306.
Learning-by-Doing, Population Pressure, and the Theory of Demographic Transition, Journal of Population Economics, 1997, Vol. 10, 285-298. [open access article]
Book
Repetitorium Mikroökonomik [Refresher Course Microeconomics](with Thomas Gries and Gernot Sieg), Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1996.