Research

Publications

New Publication (2024): "Exposure to large-scale farms increases smallholders’ competitive behavior and closes the gender gap", World Development, 176, 106519, 2024. (w/ Kacana Sipangule and Rainer Thiele)

"Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of 45 crowd-sourced experimental designs", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (23) e2215572120, 2023. (with Christoph Huber et al.)

"Collective Honesty? Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Honesty Nudging for Teams", Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 684755, 2021. (with Yuri Dunaiev)

"Social Capital and Large Scale Agricultural Investments: An Experimental Investigation", Economic Journal, vol. 131, pp. 420-449, 2021. (with Kacana Sipangule & Rainer Thiele)

"Professional identity and the gender gap in risk-taking. Evidence from field experiments with scientists", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 170, pp. 418-432, 2020. (with Moritz Drupp et al.)

"Präferenzen", in Heidbrink, L., Lorch, A. and Rauen, V. (eds.), Praktische Wirtschaftsphilosophie, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2020. (with Mira Fischer)

"Truth-Telling and the Regulator. Experimental Evidence from Commercial Fishermen", European Economic Review, vol. 120, 103310, 2019. (with Moritz Drupp & Martin Quaas)

"Adaptation to Climate Change in Afghanistan: Evidence on the Impact of External Interventions", Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 64, pp. 64-82, 2019. (with Asadullah Jawid)

"Setting the Bar – An Experimental Investigation of Immigration Requirements", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 165, pp. 160-169, 2018. (with Jasper Tjaden)

"Ride with Me - Ethnic Discrimination, Social Markets and the Sharing Economy", European Sociological Review, vol. 34, pp. 418-432, 2018. (with Carsten Schwemmer & Jasper Tjaden)

"Parents’ Ambitions and Children’s Competitiveness", Journal of Economic Psychology, vol. 67, pp. 87-102, 2018. (joint with Andreas Nicklisch)

"Deterrence Works for Criminals", European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 46, pp. 165-178, 2018.

"Akzeptanz und Effektivität kognitiver und moralischer Nudges", DIW Vierteljahresheft, vol. 1/2018, pp. 105-117, 2018. (with Lena Detlefsen)

"Indirect Reciprocity and Charitable Giving – Evidence from a Field Experiment", Management Science, vol. 63, pp. 3708-3717, 2017.

"How Transparency May Corrupt - Experimental Evidence from Asymmetric Public Goods Games", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 142, pp. 468-481, 2017. (with Andreas Lange and Andreas Nicklisch)

"Jumping the Queue - An Experiment on Procedural Preferences", Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 102, pp. 127-137, 2017. (with Malte Dold)

"Prisoner's Dilemma", in Moghaddam, F. (ed.), SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior, London & Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2017.

"Doing Good or Doing Harm – Experimental Evidence on Giving and Taking in Public Good Games", Experimental Economics, vol. 18, pp. 432-441, 2015. (with Andreas Lange)

"On the Interaction of Deterrence and Emotions", Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, vol. 31, pp. 287-319, 2015.

Prisoners and their Dilemma”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 92, pp. 163-175, 2013. (with Andreas Lange)

No Money Left for Climate Protection? Climate Policy after the Crisis”. In: Klodt, Henning and Harmen Lehment (eds.): The Crisis and Beyond. Kiel: Institute for the World Economy, 2009. (with Sonja Peterson, Sebastian Petrick and Wilfried Rickels)

Working Papers & Work in Progress

Market Exposure Makes Smallholders More Competitive and Closes the Gender Gap (joint with Kacana Sipangule and Rainer Thiele)

Exposure to Climate-change-related Extremes and Endogenous Risk Preferences: Evidence from Farmers in Afghanistan (joint with Asadullah Jawid)

Retroactive Rebates (joint with Philipp Schliffke)

Social Aspirations (joint with Marcela Ibanez and Christina Martini)

Incentives in Health Care (joint with Benjamin Chibuye)