Publications
2019 and Forthcoming
An Economic Theory of Depression and its Impact on Health Behavior and Longevity, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, Vol. 158, 269-287. [paper]
Myopic Misery: Maternal Depression, Child Investments, and the Neurobiological Poverty Trap, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019, Vol. 23(2), 522-534. [paper]
Limited Self-Control and Longevity, Health Economics, 2019, Vol. 28, 57-64. [paper] [appendix]
I Shouldn’t Eat this Donut: Self-Control, Body Weight, and Health in a Life Cycle Model, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, forthcoming [paper]
Long-Run Improvements in Human Health: Steady But Unequal (with Ana Abeliansky), Journal of the Economics of Ageing, forthcoming [paper]
Natural Disasters and Macroeconomic Performance (with Timo Trimborn), Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming. [paper]
Desire and Development, Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming. [paper]
Optimal Social Insurance and Health Inequality (with Volker Grossmann), German Economic Review, forthcoming. [paper]
2018
Smoking Kills: An Economic Theory of Addiction, Health Deficit Accumulation, and Longevity, Journal of Health Economics, 2018, Vol. 62, 1-12. [paper]
Hyperbolic Discounting Can Be Good For Your Health (with Timo Trimborn), Journal of Economic Psychology, 2018, Vol. 69, 44-57. [paper]
How We Fall Apart: Similarities of Human Aging in 10 European Countries (with Ana Abeliansky), Demography, 2018, Vol. 55, 341–359. [paper]
Hungry Children Age Faster (with Ana Abeliansky), Economics and Human Biology, 2018, Vol. 29, 211-22. [paper]
The Return to Education in Terms of Wealth and Health, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2018, Vol. 12, 1-14. [paper]
Trade and Productivity: The Family Connection Redux (with Klaus Prettner), Journal of Macroeconomics, 2018, Vol. 56, Pages 276-291. [paper]
2017
Life Expectancy and Education: Evidence from the Cardiovascular Revolution (with Casper Worm Hansen), Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, Vol. 22, 421-450. [paper]
The Gender Gap in Mortality: How Much Is Explained by Behavior? (with Johannes Schuenemann and Timo Trimborn), Journal of Health Economics, 2017, Vol. 54, 79-90. [paper]
The Genesis of the Golden Age - Accounting for the Rise in Health and Leisure (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, Vol. 24, 132–151. [paper]
Going from Bad to Worse: Adaptation to Poor Health, Health Spending, Longevity, and the Value of Life (with Johannes Schuenemann and Timo Trimborn), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, Vol. 140, 130–146. [paper]
It's a Sin - Contraceptive Use, Religious Beliefs, and Long-Run Economic Development (with Klaus Prettner), Review of Development Economics, 2017, Vol. 21, 543-566. [paper]
Contraception and Development: A Unified Growth Theory, International Economic Review 2017, Vol. 58, 561–584 [paper]
The Health Hump, Journal of Demographic Economics, 2017, Vol. 83, 245-258 [paper]
Gender Equity and the Escape from Poverty (with Klaus Prettner), Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, Vol. 69, 55-74. [paper]
Religiosity and Income: A Panel Cointegration and Causality Analysis (with Dierk Herzer), Applied Economics, 2017, Vol. 49(30), 2922-2938. [paper]
The Spending Multiplier in the Medium Run (with Timo Trimborn), German Economic Review, 2017, Vol. 8, 154-181 [paper]
The Rest
Physiology and Development: Why the West is Taller than the Rest (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Economic Journal, 2016, Vol. 126, 2292–2323 . [paper]
An Economic Theory of Religious Belief, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, Vol. 128, 35–46. [paper]
50 is the New 30 – Long-run Trends of Schooling and Retirement Explained by Human Aging (with Katharina Werner), Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, Vol. 21, 165-187. [paper]
Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth, Economic Inquiry, 2016, Vol. 54, 177-200. [paper]
Technology, Trade, and Growth: The Role of Education (with Klaus Prettner), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2016; Vol. 20, 1381-1394. [paper]
Limited Self-Control and Long-Run Growth, Mathematical Social Sciences, 2016, Vol. 83, 1-8. [paper]
How Status Concerns Can Make Us Rich and Happy, Economica, 2015, Vol. 82, 1217–1240. [paper]
A Closed-form Solution for the Health Capital Model, Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, Vol. 81(3), 301-316. [paper (long version) ]
The Physiological Foundations of the Wealth of Nations (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Journal of Economic Growth, 2015, Vol. 20, 37-73. [paper]
Frailty, Mortality, and the Demand for Medical Care, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2015, Vol. 6, 5-12 . [paper]
A Note on Variable Capital Utilization in Growth and Business Cycle Theory (with Timo Trimborn), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, Vol. 19, 1622-1632. [paper]
Hyperbolical Discounting and Endogenous Growth, Economics Letters, 2015, Vol. 126, 131-134. [paper (extended version)]
Preferences, Income, and Life Satisfaction: An Equivalence Result, Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, Vol. 75, 20-26. [paper]
From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World (with Ines Lindner), Journal of Development Economics, 2015, Vol. 109, 17-29. [paper] [Appendix B]
The Fertility Transition Around the World 1950-2005 (with Sebastian Vollmer), Journal of Population Economics, 2015, Vol. 28, 31-44. [paper]
Optimal Aging and Death: Understanding the Preston Curve (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, Vol. 12, 672–701. [paper]
Knowledge and Growth in the Very Long-Run, International Economic Review, 2014, Vol. 55, 443-458. [paper][2009 Version][Online Appendix]
A Mass Phenomenon: The Social Evolution of Obesity, Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 33, 113-125. [paper]
How Child Costs and Survival Shaped the Industrial Revolution and the Demographic Transition (with Jacob Weisdorf), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2014, 18, 114-144. [Paper]
The Past and Future of Knowledge-based Growth (with Klaus Prettner and Alexia Prskawetz), Journal of Economic Growth, 2013, Vol. 18, 411-437. [paper]
The History Augmented Solow Model (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), European Economic Review, 2013, Vol. 63, 134-149. [paper]
Patterns of Frailty in Older Adults (with Ken Harttgen, Somnath Chatterji, Paul Kowal, and Sebastian Vollmer), PLOS ONE, 2013, Vol. 8 (10). [Open Access Article]
Long-Run Trends of Human Aging and Longevity (with Sebastian Vollmer), Journal of Population Economics, 2013, Vol. 26, 1303-1323. [Open Access Article]
Declining Fertility and Economic Well-being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue? (with Klaus Prettner and David Bloom), Labour Economics, 2013, Vol. 22, 70-79. [paper]
School Attendance and Child Labor - A Model of Collective Behavior, Journal of the European Economic Asssociation, 2013, Vol. 11, 246-277. [Online Appendix B and C] [paper]
Riding High - Success in Sports and the Rise of Doping Cultures, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2012, Vol. 114, 539-574. [paper]
The Long-run Determinants of Fertility: One Century of Demographic Change 1900-1999 (with Dierk Herzer and Sebastian Vollmer), Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, Vol. 17, 357-385. [Open Access Article]
The Voracity Effect Revisited, Mathematical Social Sciences, 2012, Vol. 64, 272-276. [paper]
Laffer Strikes Again: Dynamic Scoring of Capital Taxes (with Timo Trimborn), European Economic Review, 2012, Vol. 56 ,1180-1199. [paper]
Patience and Prosperity, Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, Vol. 147, 336-352.[paper]
The Determinants of Income in a Malthusian Equilibrium (with Jacob Weisdorf and Paul Sharp), Journal of Development Economics, 2012, Vol 97, 112-117. [paper]
Poverty, Voracity,and Growth, Journal of Development Economics, 2012, Vol. 97, 396-403. [paper]
Energy Distribution and Economic Growth (with Carl Johan Dalgaard), Resource and Energy Economics, 2011, Vol. 33, 782-797. [paper]
A Physiological Foundation for the Nutrition-based Efficiency Wage Model (with Carl Johan Dalgaard), Oxford Economic papers, 2011, Vol. 63, 232-253. [paper]
A Note on Economic Growth with Subsistence Consumption, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010, Vol. 14, 763-771. [paper]
Anticipated Tax Reforms and Temporary Tax Cuts: A General Equilibrium Analysis (with Timo Trimborn), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, Vol. 34, 2141-2158. [paper].
Should Continued Family Firms Face Lower Taxes Than Other Estates? (with Volker Grossmann), Journal of Public Economics, 2010, Vol. 94, 81-101.[paper].
Population, Food, and Knowledge: A Simple Unified Growth Theory, (with Jacob Weisdorf), Journal of Economic Growth, 2008, Vol.13, 169-194. [paper] The benchmark model solved in a spreadsheet [strulik_weisdorf_2008.xls]
The Credit Channel of Capital Tax Policy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2008, Vol. 10, 717-742. [paper]
Social Composition, Social Conflict, and Economic Development, Economic Journal, 2008, Vol. 118, 1145-1170. [paper]
Geography, Health, and the Pace of Demo-Economic Development, Journal of Development Economics, 2008, Vol. 86, 61-75. [paper]
Social Fractionalization, Endogenous Appropriation Norms, and Economic Development (with Ines Lindner), Economica, 2008, Vol. 75, 244-258. [paper]
Steht auf wenn ihr Deutsche seid! Sozio-ökonomische Erklärungsansätze der neuen Patriotismuswelle anläßlich der Fußball-WM, Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 2007, Vol. 58, 151-163. [paper]
A Distributional Theory of Government Growth, Public Choice, 2007, Vol. 132, 305-318. [paper]
Too Much of a Good Thing? The Quantitative Economics of R&D-driven Growth Revisited, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, Vol. 109, 369-386. [paper]
Taxation, Growth, and Welfare: Dynamic Effects of Estonia´s 2000 Income Tax Act (with Michael Funke), Finish Economic papers, 2006, Vol. 19, 25-38.
Growth and Convergence in a Two-Region Model: The Hypothetical Case of Korean Unification (with Michael Funke), Journal of Asian Economics, 2005,Vol.16, 255-279. [paper]
The Role of Human Capital and Population Growth in R &D-Based Models of Economic Growth, Review of International Economics, 2005, Vol. 13, 129-145.
Economic Growth and Stagnation with Endogenous Health and Fertility, Journal of Population Economics, 2004, Vol. 17, 433-453.
Child Labor, Child Mortality, and Economic Development, Economic Journal, 2004, Vol. 114, 547-568.
A Simple and Intuitive Method to Solve Small Rational Expectations Models (with Martin Brunner), Journal of Economics, 2004, Vol. 82, 71-88.
Solving Rational Expectations Models Using Excel, Journal of Economic Education, 2004, Vol. 35, 269-283. [paper]
Why Not Africa? -- Growth and Welfare Effects of Secure Property Rights (with Ines Lindner), Public Choice, 2004, Vol. 120, 143-167, 2004.
Distributive Politics and Economic Growth: The Markovian Stackelberg Solution (with Ines Lindner), Economic Theory, 2004, Vol. 23(2), 439-444.
Capital Tax Reform, Corporate Finance, and Economic Growth and Welfare, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2003, Vol. 28, 595-615.
Mortality, the Trade-off Between Child Quality and Quantity, and Demoeconomic Development, Metroeconomica, 2003, Vol. 54, 499-520.
Supply Side Economics of Germany´s Year 2000 Tax Reform: A Quantitative Assessment, German Economic Review, 2003, Vol. 4, 183-203.
Tracing the Income-Fertility Nexus: Nonparametric Estimates for a Panel of Countries (with Sikandar Siddiqui), Economics Bulletin, 2002, Vol. 15(1), 1-9.
Solution of Perfect Foresight Saddlepoint Problems: A Simple Method and Applications (with Martin Brunner), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2002, Vol. 26, 737-753.
Fiscal Policy Reforms in a Global Economy, International Tax and Public Finance, 2002, Vol. 9, 71-89.
Growth and Convergence in a Two-Region Model of Unified Germany (with Michael Funke), German Economic Review, 2000, Vol. 1, 363-384.
On Demographic Transition, Structural Change, and Economic Growth and Stagnation, Mathematical Population Studies, 2000, Vol. 8, 333-356.
On Endogenous Growth with Physical Capital, Human Capital and Product Variety (with Michael Funke), European Economic Review, 2000, Vol. 44, 491-515. [Addendum]
Demographic Transition, Stagnation, and Demoeconomic Cycles in a Model for the Less Developed Economy, Journal of Macroeconomics, 1999, Vol. 21, 397-413.
Capital Structure and Labour Demand: Investigations Using German Micro Data (with Michael Funke and Wolf Maurer), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1999, Vol. 61, 199-215.
Regional Growth in West Germany: Convergence or Divergence?(with Michael Funke), Economic Modelling, 1999, Vol. 16, 489-502.
The Employment - Financing Nexus: Evidence From a Panel of West German Firms (with Michael Funke, Wolf Maurer and Sikandar Siddiqui), Journal of Small Business Economics, 1998, Vol. 11, 225-235.
Investment Under Financial Constraints: Theory and Tests with West German Micro Data (with Michael Funke, Wolf Maurer and Sikandar Siddiqui), Ifo Studien, 1998, Vol. 44, 291-306.
Learning-by-Doing, Population Pressure, and the Theory of Demographic Transition, Journal of Population Economics, 1997, Vol. 10, 285-298.
Book
Repetitorium Mikroökonomik [Refresher Course Microeconomics](with Thomas Gries and Gernot Sieg), Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1996.
