Research

Peer-reviewed publications

• “Young people’s mental and social distress in times of international crisis: evidence from helpline calls, 2019-2022”, with Marius Brülhart and Rafael Lalive. Scientific Reports 13, 11858 (2023). Stata code | PNAS News Feature

• “Mental health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic as revealed by helpline calls”, with Marius Brülhart, Rafael Lalive and Stephanie Reich. Nature 600: 121-126 (2021). PDF | Stata code | Behind the paper | Coronapod | Nature News&Views

• “Class warfare: Political exclusion of the poor and the roots of social-revolutionary terrorism, 1860-1950”, with Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks. Defence and Peace Economics 32(6): 681-697 (2021). Also in: On Terrorist Groups (Routledge, 2023). Replication files

Book chapters

• “Tourism”, with Günther Schulze. In The Cambridge Handbook on the Economics of Terrorism (eds. Basuchoudary & Schulze): 442–456 (2025)

Working papers

• “The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics”, with Nick Huntington-Klein, Claus Pörtner, Ian McCarthy & The Many Economists Collaborative. NBER Working Paper 33729

• “Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility”, with Abel Brodeur, David Valenta, Alexandru Marcoci, et al. I4R Discussion Paper 195

• “Lost in Lockdown? COVID-19, Social Distancing, and Mental Health in Germany”, with Stephanie Reich. Covid Economics 22: 117-153 (2020)