John Snow and causal inference -- RStudio and R -- Regression and simulation -- Potential outcomes -- Causal graphs -- Experiments -- Matching -- Instrumental Variables -- Regression Discontinuity Design -- Panel Data and fixed effects -- Difference-in-Differences -- Integrating and generalizing...

By constructing a unique international database on generalized trust covering 142 countries worldwide for the 41 years from 1980 to 2020, this paper finds a pronounced intertemporal variation of generalized trust over time in a majority of countries across the globe. 3 When analyzing the time...

Using Bayesian Markov chain clustering analysis we investigate career paths of Austrian women after their first birth. This data-driven method allows characterizing long-term career paths of mothers over up to 19 years by transitions between parental leave, non-employment and different forms of...

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature, our results suggest that...