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Hi! You have reached the homepage of Helmut Rainer. I am a Reader in the School of Economics and Finance at the University of St Andrews. I have joined the University of St Andrews in 2005, having previously obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex.

Please use the links on the top to navigate this webpage and to learn about me and my research. The details of the courses I teach are also here on my website.

Publications...

• "Should We Write Prenuptial Contracts". European Economic Review, February 2007, 51(2): 337 -363.

• "Gender Discrimination and Efficiency in Marriage: the Bargaining Family under Scrutiny". Journal of Population Economics, April 2008, 21(2): 305-329.

• "Subjective Income and Employment Expectations and Preferences for Redistribution" (with Thomas Siedler). Economics Letters, June 2008, 99(3): 449-453.

• "The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence" (with Marco Francesconi and Wilbert van der Klaauw). Economic Journal, February 2009, 119(535): F66-F100.

• "Does Democracy foster Trust" (with Thomas Siedler). Journal of Comparative Economics, June 2009, 37(2): 251-269.

• "O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effect of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes" (with Thomas Siedler). Economica, July 2009, 76(303): 528-556.

• "The Role of Social Networks in Determining Migration and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from German Reunification" (with Thomas Siedler). Economics of Transition, October 2009, 17(4): 739-767.

• "Staying Together for the Sake of the Home? House Price Shocks and Partnership Dissolution in the UK" (with Ian Smith).  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, forthcoming.

Working Papers...

• "Meet the Parents? The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents", joint with Helena Holmlund and Thomas Siedler.

• "Social Welfare versus Inequality Aversion in an Incomplete Contract Experiment", joint with Marco Faravelli and Oliver Kirchkamp.

• "Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents", joint with Marco Francesconi and Wilbert van der Klaauw.

• "Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) in a Model of Fertility Choice", joint with Geethanjali Selvaretnam and David Ulph.