Tim Mensinger (he/him)
Hey, I'm Tim, a PhD student at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics, University of Bonn.
My research focuses on structural life-cycle models, computational econometrics, and simulation-based estimation, with applications to labour supply. I work on numerical optimisation and GPU computing, alongside statistical methods for functional data.
From 2025 to 2026, I worked on applied AI research and training at the appliedAI Institute for Europe, a non-profit institute, where I developed agentic engineering practices and researched the labour-market effects of AI.
I enjoy teaching (from math on a blackboard to programming on a screen) and developing open-source tools for economic research. I'm a co-author of PyLCM and a maintainer of optimagic.
Research
- How Gender Role Attitudes Shape Maternal Labor Supply
CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper No. 513Combines German Family Panel (pairfam) evidence with a dynamic maternal labour-supply model incorporating attitude heterogeneity and human-capital accumulation to study childcare-policy responses.
- Life-Cycle Models as Linked Regimes
Manuscript in preparationFramework for representing life-cycle models as linked local decision problems whose states, actions, and constraints can differ across situations and life stages.
- Tranquilo: An Optimizer for the Method of Simulated Moments
CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper No. 522Trust-region optimisation for simulated-moments estimation, exploiting least-squares structure, parallel evaluation and adaptive treatment of simulation noise.
- Adaptive Simultaneous Prediction Bands in Concurrent Functional Linear Regression
Manuscript submitted to Journal of Machine Learning ResearchSimultaneous prediction and confidence bands with time-adaptive critical values for functional regression.
- A wavelet method for panel models with jump discontinuities in the parameters
Journal of Econometrics, 226(2), 399-422