Ongoing projects:
Losing Capital Status: Does it Matter for a City’s Development?
Draft - October 2025
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Presented at: Department of Economics at SciencesPo, ICES Brown Bag Lecture, George Mason University, EUI Microeconometrics Working Group, EUI Alumni Conference, IMD Days in Warsaw, City St George’s University of London (upcoming)
The Political Risks of Separating News from Entertainment
Draft - January 2026
Presented at: Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP) 2024 conference, IX Hurwicz Workshop on Mechanism Design Theory in Warsaw, UniCatt Political Economy Research Day in Milan
Is Your Faculty All Male Because of Tenure Requirements?
Experimental Evidence From Economics Job Market Candidates
with Maria Cubel and Christina Sarah Hauser
We investigate the effect of tenure requirements on the supply of female candidates for academic positions in Economics. Economic research is known for having a “leaky pipeline”: Despite high early-stage academic achievements, only few women reach tenured positions. Within a hypothetical choice experiment, we aim to quantify the willingness of PhD candidates in economics to give up salary, low teaching loads, or prestigious positions for jobs with less stringent tenure requirements. We hypothesize that high publication requirements for tenure deter female economists from pursuing a career in academia. Our findings aim to inform policies to retain female talent in academia.
Presented at: Women in Behavioral & Experimental Economics Workshop at City St George’s University of London
Quasi-total Abortion Ban in Poland and Health of Women and Infants
with Alessandro Tarozzi
What happens when reproductive laws in a developed country become one of the most restrictive in the world? We study the impact of the 2021 quasi-total abortion ban in Poland, which prohibited terminations on the grounds of fetal anomaly, previously accounting for the vast majority of legal abortions. Using monthly administrative records from all Polish hospitals between 2017 and 2023, we document an immediate and near-complete collapse of legal abortions following the ruling. In an event-study framework that exploits regional variation in pre-ban access, we find no significant changes in the number of births or miscarriages; however, we detect increases in neonatal and infant mortality. Overall, our results do not reveal robust or lasting impacts on maternal or infant health outcomes, beyond the sharp reduction in abortion availability.
Presented at: Health Econonomics of Risky Health Behavior workshop at University of Bologna, 7th Dondena Workshop on Public Policy at Bocconi University
An evaluation of integration policies for Ukrainian refugee children in Poland
with Agnieszka Kozakoszczak, Urszula Markowska-Manista, Mikołaj Pawlak, Zuzanna Samson and Alessandro Tarozzi
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Presented at: Research Seminar: Evaluation of integration policies for Ukrainian refugees at University of Warsaw, Identity and Conflict Lab at Yale Conference on Immigration (upcoming)