Working Papers

“Women in Management and the Gender Pay Gap, with Katharina Wrohlich”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 16323, July 2023.

“The Women in Economics Index - Monitoring Women Economists’ Representation in Leadership Positions”, with Jana Schuetz and Insa Weilage, Discussion Paper 2076, March 2024. [data]

Work in progress

“Gender Differences and Stereotypes in Media Coverage of Company Board Members”, draft available upon request.

“Meet my Family: The Effect of Female CEOs’ Newspaper Coverage on Financial Decision Making”, with Lavinia Kinne.

“Gender and the Gendered Language on German #EconTwitter”, with Clara Schäper.

“Gender-inclusive language in German companies: a sign of active gender equality efforts or pinkwashing?”, with Samira Ochs, Carolin Müller-Spitzer and Katharina Wrohlich, pre-registered in OSF registries.

Data Publications

“DIW Women Executives Barometer: Method Report and Codebook for the Waves 2015-2024”, with Katharina Wrohlich, DIW Data Documentation 107, 2024.

Policy publications and other writings

“Women’s Representation on Corporate Boards Increases – But Further Efforts Needed”, Wirtschaftsdienst, 2/2024: 136-138.

“DIW Women Executives Barometer 2024: Share of women on the executive boards of large companies has increased, but generally is at most one woman”, with Katharina Wrohlich, Anja Kirsch, DIW Weekly Report 3/2024. Featured in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Tagesspiegel.

“Beste Bedingungen für junge Ökonominnen und Ökonomen? Neue Daten und Empfehlungen der Arbeitsgruppe Nachwuchs im Verein für Socialpolitik”, with Christian Bayer, Florian Englmaier, Regina Riphahn, Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, Caren Sureth-Sloane, Jonas v. Wangenheim and Georg Weizsäcker, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 24.1 (2023): 63-84.

“DIW Women Executives Barometer 2023: Number of women on boards of large companies keeps growing: Momentum from inclusion requirement, however, is waning”, with Katharina Wrohlich, Anja Kirsch, DIW Weekly Report 3/2023. Featured in Deutschlandfunk.

“Corporate reporting provides insight into companies’ commitment to gender equality”, with Katharina Wrohlich, Philipp Thompson and Anja Kirsch, DIW Weekly Report 4/2023.

“DIW Women Executives Barometer 2022: Markedly more women on executive boards of large companies; inclusion requirement seemingly already having an effect”, with Katharina Wrohlich and Anja Kirsch, DIW Weekly Report 3/2022. Featured in Tagesspiegel and Frankfurter Rundschau.

“Mindestbeteiligung von Frauen in Vorständen: Einige Unternehmen sind dem neuen Gesetz bereits zuvorgekommen”, with Katharina Wrohlich, DIW Aktuell 65/2021. Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung.

“Few top positions in economics are held by women”, with Jess Palka and Philip Hanspach, VoxEU Column, February 2021.