Gregor Pfeifer
I am an Applied Microeconomist at the University of Sydney's School of Economics. My research focus is on Health, Education, and Public Economics, with a particular interest in the toolkit of Applied Microeconometrics and its application to Policy Evaluations.
Before joining the University of Sydney, I held a position as Senior Research Officer in the Department of Economics at University College London, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM).
I am also affiliated with CESifo, IZA, and RFBerlin, and currently serve as an Associate Editor at Empirical Economics.
Publications
Does Unfairness Hurt Women? The Effects of Losing Unfair Competitions
with Stefano Piasenti, Marica Valente, and Roel van Veldhuizen
The Economic Journal, 2026 (conditionally accepted).
with Mirjam Stockburger
Journal of Health Economics, 91, 102775, 2023.
with Ashok Kaul, Stefan Klößner, and Manuel Schieler
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 40:3, 1362–1376, 2022.
with Stephanie Briel, Aderonke Osikominu, Mirjam Reutter, and Sascha Satlukal
Empirical Economics, 62, 187–212, 2022.
with Maike Becker and Karsten Schweikert
Energy Economics, 97, 105207, 2021.
with Mirjam Reutter and Kristina Strohmaier
The Journal of Human Resources, 55:3, 1068–1104, 2020.
with Stefan Klößner
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 121:2, 578–605, 2019.
with Fabian Wahl and Martyna Marczak
Journal of Regional Science, 58:5, 887–920, 2018.
with Stefan Klößner, Ashok Kaul, and Manuel Schieler
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 154:11, 2018.
with Ashok Kaul and Stefan Witte
International Tax and Public Finance, 23:6, 1093–1125, 2016.
Working Papers
A Simple Approach to Staggered Difference-in-Differences in the Presence of Spillovers
with Mario Fiorini and Wooyong Lee
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Applied Econometrics
Perceived Wages and the Gender Gap in STEM Fields
with Aderonke Osikominu and Sascha Satlukal
Revise & Resubmit, PLOS One
Characterizing the Returns to STEM: Marginal and Policy-Relevant Treatment Effects
with Aderonke Osikominu and Tim Ruberg
When Parents Get to Decide: Choice of Secondary School Track and Student Outcomes
with Aderonke Osikominu and Kristina Strohmaier
Fiscal Stimulus and Consumption Spending: Evidence from a €5 Billion Experiment
with Davud Rostam-Afschar, Tim Ruberg, and Lukas Treber
Synthesizing Cash for Clunkers: Stabilizing the Car Market, Hurting the Environment?
with Stefan Klößner
Work in Progress
Abortion Access and Long-Run Household Outcomes: Evidence from Population-Wide, Linked Administrative Data
with Rebecca McKibbin
School Smoking Bans, Educational Performance, and Wages
with Mirjam Stockburger and Kristina Strohmaier
Abortion Policies and Heterogeneity across Europe
with Mirjam Stockburger
Infrastructure and Business Taxes
with Daniel Heuermann and Tim Ruberg
STEM-Education and Early Labor Market Outcomes in Germany
with Thomas Cornelissen, Aderonke Osikominu, and Tim Ruberg
The Evolution of the Gender Aspiration Gap
with Lusine Ivanov-Davtyan and Christian Ochsner