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Marco Caliendo is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and has a research focus grounded primarily in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their body of work includes a total of 27 publications in this field, with subfields spanning Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research covers several themes, prominently including labor market dynamics and wage inequality, entrepreneurship studies and influences, employment and welfare studies, private equity and venture capital, advanced causal inference techniques, family business performance and succession, and firm innovation and growth. These topics are reflected across their published research, illustrating a broad engagement with economic policies, entrepreneurial outcomes, and labor market effects.

Recent papers by Marco Caliendo include the following:

  • The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance, 2023, Small Business Economics
  • Design and effectiveness of start-up subsidies: Evidence from a policy reform in Germany, 2021, Economic Analysis and Policy
  • Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups, 2023, Small Business Economics
  • Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies, 2020, Evaluation Review

Marco Caliendo has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (21 publications)
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials (4 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)
  • Small Business Economics (2 publications)
  • Empirical Economics (2 publications)

The scientist frequently collaborates with co-authors such as Alexander S. Kritikos, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Arne Uhlendorff, Robert Mahlstedt, and Claudia Stier, each having contributed to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • SOME PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING

    Marco Caliendo;Sabine Kopeinig

  • Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs–new evidence from an experimentally validated survey

    Marco Caliendo;Frank M. Fossen;Alexander S. Kritikos

  • Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects

    Sascha O. Becker;Marco Caliendo;Marco Caliendo

  • Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed

    Marco Caliendo;Frank M. Fossen;Alexander S. Kritikos;Alexander S. Kritikos

  • Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

    Marco Caliendo;Deborah A. Cobb-Clark;Arne Uhlendorff

  • Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects

    Marco Caliendo;Alexander S. Kritikos

  • The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation

    Marco Caliendo;Reinhard Hujer;Stephan L. Thomsen

  • The impact of risk attitudes on entrepreneurial survival

    Marco Caliendo;Frank M. Fossen;Alexander S. Kritikos

  • BENEFIT DURATION, UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION AND JOB MATCH QUALITY: A REGRESSION‐DISCONTINUITY APPROACH

    Marco Caliendo;Konstantinos Tatsiramos;Konstantinos Tatsiramos;Arne Uhlendorff

  • Start-up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

    Marco Caliendo;Steffen Künn

  • Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe

    Marco Caliendo;Ricarda Schmidl

  • Microeconometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

    Marco Caliendo

  • New evidence on the effects of job creation schemes in Germany—a matching approach with threefold heterogeneity

    Reinhard Hujer;Marco Caliendo;Stephan L. Thomsen

  • The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects — An Overview

    Marco Caliendo;Reinhard Hujer

  • Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

    Marco Caliendo;Frank M. Fossen;Alexander S. Kritikos

  • The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not just a Matter of Personality

    Marco Caliendo;Frank M. Fossen;Alexander Kritikos;Miriam Wetter

  • Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

    Marco Caliendo;Alexander S. Kritikos

  • The short-run employment effects of the German minimum wage reform

    Marco Caliendo;Alexandra Fedorets;Malte Preuss;Carsten Schröder

  • Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research *

    Marco Caliendo;Alexander S. Kritikos

  • Mhbounds - sensitivity analysis for average treatment effects

    Sascha O. Becker;Marco Caliendo

  • Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness of Two Start-Up Programmes*

    Hans J. Baumgartner;Marco Caliendo

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark University of Sydney
Viktor Steiner
Viktor Steiner Freie Universität Berlin
Gerard J. van den Berg
Gerard J. van den Berg University of Groningen
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann Maastricht University
Olivier Bargain
Olivier Bargain University of Bordeaux
Armin Falk
Armin Falk University of Bonn
Sascha O. Becker
Sascha O. Becker University of Warwick
Jürgen Schupp
Jürgen Schupp German Institute for Economic Research
Rainer Winkelmann
Rainer Winkelmann University of Zurich
Jörg Breitung
Jörg Breitung University of Cologne

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