PUBLICATIONS
Social media promotion improves job market outcomes (with Yan Chen, Alvin Roth and Jingyi Qiu) forthcoming at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Beyond Attention: Methylphenidate Reduces Dishonesty in Healthy Adults (with Andreas Kappes, Michel Maréchal, Ann-Marie Nussberger, Julian Savulescu, Philip Cowen, Michael Browning and Molly Crockett) forthcoming at Psychopharmacology.
Disinformation for Hire: A Field Experiment on Unethical Jobs in Online Labor Markets (with Jan Stoop). European Economic Review 172 (2025): 104936.
Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution: Cross-country Evidence (with Raymond Fisman, Michel Maréchal, and Jeffrey Yusof). Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics 3, no. 1 (2025): 1-24.
What Do Cross-country Surveys Tell Us About Social Capital? (with David Tannenbaum, Christian Lukas Zünd and Michel Maréchal) The Review of Economics and Statistics, 107, no. 1 (2025): 142-151.
Motivated Optimism and Workplace Risk (with Yesim Orhun and Collin Raymond). Economic Journal 134, no. 663 (2024): 2951-2981.
A Closer Look at Civic Honesty in Collectivist Cultures (with David Tannenbaum and Michel Maréchal). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, no. 49 (2023): e2313586120.
Wealthy Americans and Redistribution: The Role of Fairness Preferences (with Lasse Jessen, Marko Klasnja and Paul Smeets). Journal of Public Economics, 225 (2023): 104977.
Honesty in the Digital Age (with Tobias Gesche and Michel Maréchal), Management Science, 68, no. 2 (2022): 827-845.
Frequent Job Changes can Signal Poor Work Attitude and Reduce Employability (with Michel Maréchal, Frédéric Schneider and Roberto Weber) Journal of the European Economic Association, 19, no. 1 (2021): 475-508.
Selective Participation may Undermine Replication Attempts (with Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal) Nature, 575, no. 7782 (2019): E1-E2.
Civic Honesty Around The Globe [free access] (with Michel Maréchal, David Tannenbaum and Christian Zünd) Science, 365, no. 6448 (2019): 70-73.
Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts School Misconduct (with Michel Maréchal) Economic Journal, 128, no. 615 (2018): 2743-2754.
Increasing Honesty in Humans with Electrical Brain Stimulation (with Michel Maréchal, Christian Ruff and Giuseppe Ugazio) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, no. 17 (2017): 4360-4364.
Do Professional Norms in the Banking Industry Favor Risk-Taking? (with Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal) Review of Financial Studies, 30, no. 11 (2017): 3801-3823.
Priming in Economics (with Michel Maréchal), Current Opinion in Psychology, 12 (2016): 17-21.
Bad Boys: How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation (with Michel Maréchal and Thomas Noll), Review of Economic Studies, 82, no. 4 (2015): 1289-1308.
Evidence for Countercyclical Risk Aversion: An Experiment with Financial Professionals (with Jan Engelmann, Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal), American Economic Review, 105, no. 2 (2015): 860-885.
Fair Wages and Effort Provision: Combining Evidence from a Choice Experiment and a Field Experiment (with Ernst Fehr and Lorenz Götte), Management Science, 61, no. 8 (2015): 1777-1794.
Business Culture and Dishonesty in the Banking Industry (with Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal), Nature, 516, no. 7529 (2014): 86-89.
Social Comparison and Effort Provision: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Ernst Fehr, Benedikt Herrmann and Frédéric Schneider), Journal of the European Economic Association, 12, no. 4 (2014): 877-898.
Note there is a typo on p.894; it should read: "22.4 x €5 – 3 x €12 = €88, and an HLcut worker (109% – 34.2%) x 22.4 x €5 - 3 x €9 = €57, yielding a group profit of €145. "
WORKING PAPERS
coming soon
WORK IN PROGRESS
Using a Reflective AI Chatbot to reduce Polarization (with Nikola Banovic, Branden Bohrnsen, and Cesi Cruz)
Reducing Parental Phone Use When Their Children Are Around: A Field Experiment (with Yu Gao)
Legal Access to Cannabis: Evidence from large-scale RCTs (with Andreas Beerli, Aljosha Henkel, and Michel Maréchal)
Can Stereotype Corrections Bridge Partisan Divides? Evidence from an Information Provision Experiment (with Qingyi Wang)
Hey @Grok Is This True? (with Karthik Srinivasan and Willy Wang)
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