4 papers
A missed opportunity? Labor demand and workforce diversity
Anna Bindler, Barbara Boelmann, Lena Janys +1
How do labor demand shocks affect workforce diversity in the absence of targeted diversity policies? A conceptual framework illustrates the potential trade-off between the demograp…
Testing the Presence of Implicit Hiring Quotas with Application to German Universities
Lena Janys
It is widely accepted that women are underrepresented in academia in general and economics in particular. This paper introduces a test to detect an under-researched form of hiring…
Mental Health and Abortions among Young Women: Time-varying Unobserved Heterogeneity, Health Behaviors, and Risky Decisions
Lena Janys, Bettina Siflinger
In this paper, we provide causal evidence on abortions and risky health behaviors as determinants of mental health development among young women. Using administrative in- and outpa…
Structural models for policy-making: Coping with parametric uncertainty
Philipp Eisenhauer, Janoś Gabler, Lena Janys +1
The ex-ante evaluation of policies using structural econometric models is based on estimated parameters as a stand-in for the true parameters. This practice ignores uncertainty in…