Fabian Waldinger
Working Papers
Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
(with Sascha Becker, Volker Lindenthal, and Sharun Mukand)
Conditionally accepted American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Gender Gaps in Academia: Global Evidence over the Twentieth Century
(with Alessandro Iaria and Carlo Schwarz)
revise and resubmit Econometrica
Publications
Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany
(with Kilian Huber and Volker Lindenthal)
Journal of Political Economy, vol. 129, no. 9, pp. 2455-2503, 2021
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Frontier Knowledge and Scientific Production: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science
(with Alessandro Iaria and Carlo Schwarz)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 133, no. 2, pp. 927-991, 2018
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The Selection of High-Skilled Emigrants (with Matthias Parey, Jens Ruhose and Nicolai Netz)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 99, no. 5, pp. 776-792, 2017
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The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 98, no. 5, pp. 811-831, 2016
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German-Jewish Émigrés and U.S. Invention (with Petra Moser and Alessandra Voena)
American Economic Review, vol. 104, no. 10, pp. 3222-3255, 2014
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Peer Effects in Science – Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany
The Review of Economic Studies, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 838-861, 2012
Studying Abroad and the Effect on International Labour Market Mobility – Evidence from the Introduction of ERASMUS (with Matthias Parey)
The Economic Journal, vol. 121, no. 551, pp. 194-222, 2011
Journal of Political Economy, vol. 118, no. 4, pp. 787-831, 2010
Older Working Paper
Does Ability Tracking Exacerbate the Role of Family Background for Student's Test Scores?
This study investigates whether ability tracking exacerbates the role of parental background for students educational test scores. Using microdata from different educational studies, PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS, this paper exploits the cross-country variation in tracking policies to identify the effect of tracking. Controlling for unobserved country level variables using difference-in-differences, I find that family background is more important in early tracking countries but that the importance of family background does not increase after actual tracking has taken place. This suggests that tracking does not augment the role of family background for students' test scores. Factors other than tracking are more likely to be responsible for the fact that family background is more important in early tracking countries. This result runs contrary to the findings of the current literature. In support of my findings, I show that the results of the current literature are not robust to slight changes in specification.
(Note: I am no longer working on this paper, but I hope you still enjoy reading it)
