Jonas Jessen

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Jonas Jessen joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in September 2022 and became a Research Associate in April 2023.

Jonas Jessen is member of the Berlin School of Economics and a guest researcher at DIW Berlin. He obtained his PhD at the DIW Berlin and Free University Berlin. During his PhD he visited Haas Business School at UC Berkeley for a research stay.

Jonas research interests are in labour economics, gender economics and political economy. In his work he analyses effects of contemporary and historical family policies on labour market outcomes and on gender inequality in non-market work. Jonas is also working on better understanding individual and aggregate labour market effects of unemployment insurance. Another strand of his research in political economy concerns determinants of political resistance in the German Democratic Republic.

His research has been, among others, been published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, Labour Economics and World Development.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16155
Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15978
The Micro and Macro Effects of Changes in the Potential Benefit Duration
Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jochen Kluve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15606
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany
Luis R. Martinez, Jonas Jessen, Guo Xu
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 68-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15571
Culture, Children and Couple Gender Inequality
Jonas Jessen
revised version published in: European Economic Review 2022, 150, 104310
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14851
Center-Based Care and Parenting Activities
Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights
revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1356 - 1379
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14478
A Firm-Side Perspective on Parental Leave
Mathias Huebener, Jonas Jessen, Daniel Kühnle, Michael Oberfichtner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14457
Sharing the Caring? The Gender Division of Care Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany
Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich
revised version published as 'The gender division of unpaid care work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany' in: German Economic Review, 2022, 23(4), 641-667
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14340
The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-Offs and a Policy Reform
Ewa Galecka-Burdziak, Marek Góra, Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Jochen Kluve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14296
Downstream Effects of Voting on Turnout and Political Preferences: Long-Run Evidence from the UK
Jonas Jessen, Daniel Kühnle, Markus Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12487
The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries
Jonas Jessen, Jochen Kluve
revised version published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105256
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