Research

Publications

Cortisol meets GARP: The Effects of Stress on Economic Rationality  with Patricio Dalton, Wijo Kop and Wanqing Zhang. Experimental Economics,  Volume 23,  Issue 2, May 2020.

Revealed Preferences under Uncertainty: Incomplete Preferences and Preferences for Randomization with Arno Riedl.  Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 181,  May 2019. 

Giving in the Face of Risk with Arno Riedl and Giang Tran.  Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Volume 55, Issue 2–3, December 2017. 

Return on Trust is Lower for Immigrants with Sigrid Suetens.  The Economic Journal.  Volume 129, Issue 621, July 2019.   Featured in VOX.

Justice Under Uncertainty with Arno Riedl.  Management Science, Volume  63, Issue 11, September 2016.

Risk Taking and Risk Sharing: Does Responsibility Matter?  with Franziska Tausch. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Volume 50, Issue 3, June 2015.

Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods  with Arno Riedl.  In Coercion and Social Welfare in Public Finance: Economic and Political Dimensions,  Stan Winer and Jorge Martinez (eds.), Cambridge University Press, October 2014.

Working papers

Improving Workers’ Performance in Small Firms: A Randomized Experiment on Goal Setting in Ghana with Patricio Dalton and Kym Cole. R&R, Review of Economics and Statistics.

The effect of exposure to ethnic minorities on ethnic preferences , with Pascal Achard, Sabina Albrecht, Riccardo Ghidoni and Sigrid Suetens.  Conditionally accepted, The Economic Journal. 

Work in progress

Fairness Ideals in Heterogeneous Societies, with Alexander Cappelen,  Sueda Evirgen, Sigrid Suetens and Bertil Tungodden. 

The Effects of Similarity on Preferences and Beliefs, with Boris van Leeuwen and Sigrid Suetens. 

Delegation of Punishment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods, with Arno Riedl.

Identifying what is Tempting, with Alexander Groves.